Going Against Conventional Wisdom

I never once questioned the conventional wisdom.

Now, the conventional wisdom was that Nigerians don't read literature.

Now that finding flew in the face of conventional wisdom.

Conventional wisdom held that everything was safe up to a point, a threshold.

If the conventional wisdom about nutrition had failed me, was it possible it was failing someone else?

Conventional wisdom suggests that the optimal organizational fine is as much as three times the actual gain from the cartel.

So this goes against the conventional wisdom that we should tell our friends our goals, right so they hold us to it.

SINGAPORE Barack Obama s election comes at a moment when a new bit of conventional wisdom is congealing. It concerns the end of America s global dominance.

So, given the new conventional wisdom in leadership studies that entering the information age means entering a woman s world, why are women not doing better?

SINGAPORE Barack Obama s election comes at a moment when a new bit of conventional wisdom is congealing. It concerns the end of America s global dominance.

It takes the base metal of our conventional wisdom and transforms it through ridicule into a different way of seeing and ultimately being in the world.

It flew in the face of conventional wisdom, which was huge enthusiasm for the cool new technology of that age, which was the X ray machine.

Most scientists assume that the basics of science are known. In terms of big challenges, the conventional wisdom is that few things are left to discover.

Keynes's dictum has become the ruling wisdom of monetary policy (one of his few to survive). Governments, according to the conventional wisdom, should aim for stable prices, with a slight bias toward inflation to stimulate the animal spirits of businessmen and shoppers.

And two, if we're willing to be wrong, if we're willing to challenge the conventional wisdom with the best experiments science can offer, we can solve this problem.

There are institutional deficits in other weapons of mass destruction regimes, but conventional wisdom and empirical evidence suggest that multilateralism offers both longevity and legitimacy of such regimes.

Conventional wisdom says that you need at least four fixed motor propeller pairs in order to fly, because there are four degrees of freedom to control roll, pitch, yaw and acceleration.

However, much of the conventional wisdom on Palestinian reform, especially in the area of trade, development and poverty reduction, implies or insists on rapid liberalization and integration into the world market.

But there is profound skepticism that we can do so. The world looks to the UN as never before, yet the conventional wisdom is that we are not up to the job.

Conventional wisdom claims that incumbent parties and politicians are punished by voters in times of economic distress. Throughout the campaign there was never any doubt about the position or tpopularity of Chancellor Angela Merkel.

NEW YORK The conventional wisdom that sub Saharan Africa has moved beyond military coups may be wishful thinking. In the past two years, Africa has seen successful coups in Niger, Guinea, Madagascar, and Mauritania.

That danger remains with us. In response to China s rapid rise and the assertiveness of its Communist Party leadership, the current conventional wisdom portrays Japan as a country of secondary importance which is equally mistaken.

As the past decade shows, they have served the Scandinavian countries well during a period of extreme internationalization. Instead of giving in to conventional wisdom, we have exploited the possibilities that globalization and technological change offer.

(b) Conventional arms

But some dubious assertions have, through constant repetition in recent, often breathless, accounts about the two economies, become part of conventional wisdom. Much of what really goes on inside these two large countries is often left out.

Most commentators routinely assume that a Yes vote in the May 29 French referendum on the proposed European Union Constitution would be good for Europe and the EU. But there is reason to doubt the conventional wisdom.

It's also used in more conventional settings and can be used more consciously in conventional settings.

Simply put, the conventional wisdom that North Korea s collapse would be disastrous for China is misconceived. Any crisis sparked by North Korean refugees fleeing across the Chinese border would be short lived, and international assistance would be readily available.

(d) Improving procedures for detecting smuggled persons at conventional and non conventional points of entry and exit and

Israel s conventional strategic wisdom was based on an equation of Bushehr versus Yitzhar that is, a readiness to dismantle West Bank settlements if the Iranian centrifuges in Bushehr were dismantled. As far as Netanyahu is concerned, this is not taking place.

Simply put, the conventional wisdom that North Korea s collapse would be disastrous for China is misconceived. 160 Any crisis sparked by North Korean refugees fleeing across the Chinese border would be short lived, and international assistance would be readily available.

Thus, the conventional wisdom that there was a direct correlation between trade openness and poverty reduction must be reassessed, and the critical policy issue appeared to consist in improving the composition of exports by building competitive and dynamic export capabilities.

So that's the conventional approach.

NEW YORK Conventional wisdom rarely survives a good stress test, and few tests have been as stressful as that which the global economy has endured over the past 24 months. A healthy season of reappraisal has dawned, shining a new light on boom time notions like the value of opaque markets, the untouchable status of the American consumer, or the wisdom of deregulation.

According to the conventional wisdom, Britain s social model is based on coexistence between different communities, with each continuing to observe its conventions and customs while respecting the country s laws an informal federation of communities. But that common wisdom is grossly mistaken, because British law grants immigrants from all the Commonwealth countries something extraordinary the right to vote in British elections, even national ones.

That is where conventional ideas stop.

It's implanted with very conventional techniques.

They had no conventional technical background.

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In the world of old, the West s economic malaise already would have pulled the rug from beneath most emerging market countries. Indeed, the conventional wisdom supported by many painful experiences was that when the industrial countries sneezed, the emerging world caught a cold.

Solomon's wisdom excelled the wisdom of all the children of the east, and all the wisdom of Egypt.

Solomon's wisdom excelled the wisdom of all the children of the east, and all the wisdom of Egypt.

These guidelines remain relevant in the present day for the promotion of regional disarmament in both the conventional and non conventional fields.

But it's much faster than conventional farming.