Beyond that, the court decision sets in writing the notion that Christianity, as the dominant religious belief, becomes the set point for making value decisions about what is right for all.
So while the city may own the art in writing, the notion that it is held in public trust has a very real monetary basis.
"There is," he writes in "Notions of the Americans" (1828), "a species of second-rate, genteel houses, that abound in New York, into which I have looked when passing with the utmost pleasure.
As Dews writes, "Basic notions of offence and punishment, of transgression and forgiveness, seem to lose their grip in the face of profound, far reaching desecrations of the human".
Elsewhere in Smith's writing, received notions become "deceived notions".
In §100 of the Ontologia, Wolff writes: "The notion of the impossible which is that which involves a contradiction, and the notion of the possible which is that which is free from contradiction is conformable to the practice of the Mathematicians".
Always directly expressive and deceptively simple, his blues writing exploded received notions of form, harmony, and melody; he broke our hearts with the ultimate romantic ballads; he provided vehicle after vehicle for the greatest jazz singers of the age; and, of course, he made us all swing.
Jeff Gordinier writes: "The notion that people have crawled into a bunker stocked with canned beans is a bit of a myth.
John Morley, a columnist at The Daily Utah Chronicle, the university's student paper, wrote: "The notion that students need a weapon capable of administering death at any moment just to feel safe is paranoid and poorly grounded.
In Belgium, they have written this notion into law – their Time Credit system means every citizen is entitled to a total of one year's paid leave across their lifetime.
