A common misunderstanding is that x and y represent actual length and height.

There is a common misunderstanding that Kitemarks are necessary to prove compliance with any BS standard, but in general it is neither desirable nor possible that every standard be ' policed ' in this way.

A common misunderstanding is that ( a ) the quanta of the fields act in the same manner as ( b ) the charged particles that generate the fields.

He supposed that the main reason for the hate and prejudice lay in the mutual misunderstanding caused by the lack of one common language.

Although a true oxymoron is " something that is surprisingly true, a paradox ," Garry Wills has argued that modern usage has brought a common misunderstanding that oxymoron is nearly synonymous with contradiction.

The church is committed to " engage in bilateral and multilateral dialogues with other churches and traditions in order to remove barriers of misunderstanding and establish common affirmations.

A common misunderstanding of the phrase " reduced instruction set computer " is the mistaken idea that instructions are simply eliminated, resulting in a smaller set of instructions.

Because of the complexity of the system, misunderstanding is common.

Juries should weigh up conflicting and corroborative evidence, using their own common sense and not by using mathematical formulae, such as Bayes ' theorem, so as to avoid " confusion, misunderstanding and misjudgment ".

One common misunderstanding is that pharmaceutical companies patent the plants they collect.

A common misunderstanding is that Tromsø's Sámi name is Romssa with a double " s ".

The phrase qui pro quo ( from medieval Latin: literally " qui instead of quid "), is common in languages such as Italian, Portuguese, Spanish and French, where it means a misunderstanding.

The background for the motif is a common misunderstanding of the name as røyken the definite form of røyk meaning " smoke ".

A common misunderstanding is that the name Florø is the Danish word ø (“ island ”) suffixed to Flora.

A common misunderstanding is that Tromsø's Sámi name is Romssa with a double " s ".

Hedges is sharing in a common misunderstanding however: notions of permanent happiness ( like those, allegedly, of the corporations ), or the law of attraction in the popular media are not taken seriously by psychologists.

The belief that hopples are used to create this gait is a common misunderstanding.

A third common misunderstanding of legalism is the word law.

Sometimes the embarrassed person will try to mask embarrassment with smiles or nervous laughter, especially in etiquette situations ; such a response is more common in certain cultures, which may lead to misunderstanding.

Another common misunderstanding is that radical means any component of a character.

A common misunderstanding is the " upper arm drive ".

When one considers its definition or the nature of " mysticism ," a common misunderstanding exists that if one is to become a mystic they are required to seclude themselves physically from the outside world to have this kind of experience.

This usage may derive from misunderstanding the common expression describing a dog as " growling and snarling ".

The director of this movie, Jamie Uys, had also directed Lost in the Desert in 1969, in which a small boy, stranded in the desert, encounters a group of wandering Bushmen, who help him and then abandon him as a result of a misunderstanding created by the lack of a common language and culture.

Poetry in Persian life is far more than a common ground on which -- in a society deeply fissured by antagonisms -- all may stand.

Before merging them into a common profile it is well to remember that their separate careers were extraordinary.

This almost trivial example is nevertheless suggestive, for there are some elements in common between the antique fear that the days would get shorter and shorter and our present fear of war.

Harold Clurman is right to say that `` Waiting For Godot '' is a reflection ( he calls it a distorted reflection ) `` of the impasse and disarray of Europe's present politics, ethic, and common way of life ''.

However, it is important to trace the philosophy of the French Revolution to its sources to understand the common democratic origin of individualism and socialism and the influence of the latter on the former.

But it is the need to undertake these testaments that I would submit here as symptom of the common man's malaise.

As symptomatic of the common man's malaise, he is most significant: a liberal and a Catholic, elected by the skin of his teeth.

What is the common man's complaint??

But what a super-Herculean task it is to winnow anything of value from the mud-beplastered arguments used so freely, particularly since such common use is made of cliches and stereotypes, in themselves declarations of intellectual bankruptcy.

The men who speculate on these institutions have, for the most part, come to at least one common conclusion: that many of the great enterprises and associations around which our democracy is formed are in themselves autocratic in nature, and possessed of power which can be used to frustrate the citizen who is trying to assert his individuality in the modern world ''.

They all have this in common: the earth is situated near the center of the deferent.

But that one should superimpose all these charts, run a pin through the common point, and then scale each planetary deferent larger and smaller ( to keep the epicycles from ' bumping ' ), this is contrary to any intention Ptolemy ever expresses.

Now this concern for the freedom of other peoples is the intellectual and spiritual cement which has allied us with more than forty other nations in a common defense effort.

A common meeting ground is desirable for those nations which are prepared to assist in the development effort.

Conventional images of Jews have this in common with all perceptions of a configuration in which one feature is held constant: images can be both true and false.

If art is to release us from these postulated things ( things we must think symbolically about ) and bring us back to the ineffable beauty and richness of the aesthetic component of reality in its immediacy, it must sever its connection with these common sense entities ''.

In the wide range of experiences common to our earth-bound race none is more difficult to manage, more troublesome, and more enduring in its effects than the control of love and hate.

`` History has this in common with every other science: that the historian is not allowed to claim any single piece of knowledge, except where he can justify his claim by exhibiting to himself in the first place, and secondly to any one else who is both able and willing to follow his demonstration, the grounds upon which it is based.

To obey the moral law is just ordinary common sense, applied to a neglected field.

British common sense is proverbial.