Sentence examples for theory maintained from inspiring English sources

Another theory maintained that the crush was triggered by a clash between pilgrims and some shopkeepers, followed by a gas cylinder blast that caused panic.

Published in book form in 1979, the theory maintained that a person's development is the product of a constellation of forces -- cultural, social, economic, political -- and not merely psychological ones.

This theory maintained that city-states develop first as despotisms and evolve through periods of monarchy, tyranny, aristocracy, oligarchy, democracy and finally mob rule before the restoration of order in a new despotism.

Some of his fans struggled to accept this; a short-lived conspiracy theory maintained that the new Gucci Mane was a clone engineered by the C.I.A. "Now fashion people want to meet and kick it with me because they can tell [I'm] in a good head space," he told Paper magazine in September, a week before revealing a sneaker collaboration with Reebok.

National wealth, Smith insisted, consists in the sum total of productive activities, such as those which furnish the laborer's house — and not, as earlier economic theory maintained, in the amount of gold and silver hoarded in state treasuries, or the total agricultural output protected by tariffs.

Was poetry an art of imitation (as Aristotle and all of the Neoclassical theorists had maintained), and was its sister art painting; or was poetry (as Romantic theory maintained) an art of expression, and prosody the element that produced (in Coleridge's words) the sense of musical delight originating (in T.S. Eliot's words) in the auditory imagination?

She dislikes theory, maintains she doesn't understand it.

Conventional economic theory maintains that people will always behave in a purely self-interested manner.

An entire body of psychological theory maintains that our earliest relationships lay down patterns that are often replicated throughout life.

Finance theory maintains that the market will always be willing to provide funds for a good investment opportunity.

Supporters of this theory maintain that the test of an economic theory should be its predictive power.