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The conventional wisdom of the time was that the proper daily observance of the Divine Office of prayer required a minimum of twelve professed religious, but by the 1530s only a minority of religious houses in England could provide this ; and accordingly most observers were agreed that a systematic reform of the English church must necessarily involve the drastic concentration of monks and nuns into many fewer, larger, houses ; potentially making much monastic income available for more productive religious, educational and social purposes.
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Labor relations have been transformed, income security has become a standardized feature of political platforms, and all the many facets of the American version of the welfare state have become part of the conventional wisdom.
They can explain why chemistry is so prevalent in the interstellar medium, where many different polyatomic species have been detected ( by radio astronomy ), but where temperatures are so low that conventional wisdom might suggest that chemical reactions do not occur.
Evidence quality can be assessed based on the source type ( from meta-analyses and systematic reviews of triple-blind randomized placebo-controlled clinical trials with concealment of allocation and no attrition at the top end, down to conventional wisdom at the bottom ), as well as other factors including statistical validity, clinical relevance, currency, and peer-review acceptance.
He did not subscribe to conventional wisdom and was quick to question the opinions of his professors and his peers.
While most of his proposals-" to abandon the gold standard, let international exchange rates float, use federal surpluses and deficits as macroeconomic policy tools that could counter cyclical trends, and establish bureaus of economic statistics ( including a consumer price index ) in order to facilitate this effort "-are now conventional practice, his critique of fractional-reserve banking still " remains outside the bounds of conventional wisdom ".
Thus, freethinkers strive to build their opinions on the basis of facts, scientific inquiry, and logical principles, independent of any logical fallacies or intellectually limiting effects of authority, confirmation bias, cognitive bias, conventional wisdom, popular culture, prejudice, sectarianism, tradition, urban legend, and all other dogmas.
The conventional wisdom was that Fassel needed to have a strong year and a playoff appearance to save his job.
This perspective lends credence to the complex argument that Newfoundlanders resemble what conventional wisdom posits as a discrete and unique " ethnic group " quite separate from the ethnicity of the larger population.
This gave rise to the term Seinfeld curse: the failure of a sitcom starring one of the three, despite the conventional wisdom that each person's Seinfeld popularity should almost guarantee a strong, built-in audience for the actor's new show.
For instance, they doubt that batting average is as useful as conventional wisdom says it is because team batting average provides a relatively poor fit for team runs scored.
These tests are used in determining what outcomes of an experiment would lead to a rejection of the null hypothesis for a pre-specified level of significance ; helping to decide whether experimental results contain enough information to cast doubt on conventional wisdom.
This notion, however, has come under extreme criticism and is no longer the conventional wisdom among Sinologists, who have concluded that Imperial China had an elaborate system of both criminal and civil law which was comparable to anything found in Europe.
Nevertheless, according to conventional wisdom since 1301 the Prince of Wales has usually been the eldest living son of the King or Queen Regnant of England ( subsequently of Great Britain, 1707, and of the United Kingdom, 1801 ).
They included people ranging from academics like Chien Mu, reputed to be the last prominent Chinese intellectual opposing the conventional wisdom take on the May Fourth Movement, politicians like Lien Chan, from a family with a long history of active pan-Chinese patriotism despite being native Taiwanese, to gang mobsters like Chang An-le, a leader of the notorious United Bamboo Gang.
Though conventional wisdom often understood it to be Zerubbabel and Joshua, Boda argues that, because of the important role that prophets were said to play in the reconstruction of the Temple in Zech 8. 9, Haggai and Zechariah are the sons of oil.
Although the conventional wisdom of the day was that Canada would fall quickly in the event of an invasion, Brock pursued these strategies to give the colony a fighting chance.
The conventional wisdom is that such players may achieve some of the insight of a pro, though perhaps not the detailed knowledge.
Gradually, in the 15 years after the war ended, a figure of 700, 000 began to reflect conventional wisdom, although estimates ranged between 350, 000 – 800, 000.
The origin of the town name excites considerable speculation, but conventional wisdom holds that Ellijay is an Anglicized form of a Cherokee word, perhaps meaning " place of green things " or " many waters.
As a teacher of undergraduates, he was well known, and rejected the conventional wisdom that the Renaissance represented an abrupt cultural change, stressing the continuities between the Middle Ages and the Renaissance.
During Hale's period as a barrister and judge, the general conclusion in England was that the repository of the law and conventional wisdom was not politics, as in Renaissance Europe, but the common law.
According to a meta-analysis and contrary to conventional wisdom, the pooled response rate in the placebo group was 19. 6 %, even lower than in some other medical conditions.
It is also the conventional wisdom of feng shui in Chinese architecture that a threshold (), a piece of wood approximately 15 cm ( 6 in ) high, be installed along the width of the door at the bottom to prevent a jiangshi from entering the household.
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The `` conventional '' image of a particular time and place is not necessarily congruent with the image of the facts as established over the years by scholarly and scientific research.
The request for lower rates originated with the Southern railway, which has spent a good deal of time and money developing a 100-ton hopper car with which it says it can move grain at about half what it costs in the conventional, smaller car.
For the first time in history the entire world is dominated by two large, powerful nations armed with murderous nuclear weapons that make conventional warfare of the past a nullity.
In making his argument, the speaker uses the conventional, text book approved order of argument from Swift ’ s time ( which was derived from the Latin rhetorician Quintilian ).
However, this was significantly less successful than conventional regulation in the European Union, which saw a decrease of over 70 % in SO < sub > 2 </ sub > emissions during the same time period.
During the Constitutional conventional of 1988, the subject came back to the quarrel and one more time it was filed.
The area's traditional ' brick ' pavements were replaced at this time by the more modern and conventional paving slabs.
Between 2 and 4 September 2011 on labor day weekend, the Blue Angels flew for the first time with a 50 – 50 blend of conventional JP-5 jet fuel and a camelina-based biofuel at Naval Air Station Patuxent River airshow at Patuxent River, Maryland.
This war paradigm reflected the view of most of the modernized world at the beginning of the 21st century, as verified by examination of the conventional armies of the time: large, high maintenance, technologically advanced armies designed to compete against similarly designed forces.
This could, for instance, be " side effects " ( above conventional flags ), such as the setting of a register or memory location that was perhaps seldom used ; if this was done via ordinary ( non duplicated ) internal buses, or even the external bus, it would demand extra cycles every time, and thus be quite inefficient.
Unlike conventional therapies, Hubbard said, Dianetics would work every time if applied properly and " will invariably cure all psychosomatic ills and human aberrations.
However, usage altered over time and during the 18th century, dragoons evolved into conventional light cavalry units and personnel.
The conventional SI system of units is based on seven basic dimensional quantities, namely distance, mass, time, electric current, thermodynamic temperature, amount of substance, and luminous intensity.
From this perspective, the speed of light is only accidentally a property of light, and is rather a property of spacetime, a conversion factor between conventional time units ( such as seconds ) and length units ( such as meters ).
The weapon's disadvantage was the long time it took to reload a launcher, in contrast to conventional guns which could sustain a continuous low rate of fire.
But the artillery branch was not fond of the Katyusha, because it took up to 50 minutes to load and fire 24 rounds, while a conventional howitzer could fire 95 to 150 rounds in the same time.
Thus a 3D display must display twice as many images in the same period of time as a conventional display, and consequently the response time of the LCD is more important.
In 1963, the Military Committee of the Syrian Regional Command of the Arab Socialist Ba ' ath Party spent most of its time plannining to take power through a conventional military coup.
Less frequently used types of materials include stag antler, buffalo horn and bone, as the time and effort needed to create one is often too much when conventional slides are available.
At this time, conventional job-opportunities for females did not include becoming a manga artist.
In Tesla's time, the efficiency of conventional turbines was low because the aerodynamic theory needed for effective blade design did not exist and the low quality of materials available to construct those blades put severe limitations on operating speeds and temperatures.
It offered the promise of accurate conventional strikes with little warning and flight time.
This " Visconti-Sforza " deck, which has been widely reproduced, reflects conventional iconography of the time to a significant degree.
In William Shakespeare's play King Lear ( c. 1600 ), when the King learns that his daughter Regan has publicly dishonoured him, he says They could not, would not do't ; ' tis worse than murder: a conventional attitude at that time.
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