Conventional in sentence

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And the first of these essays was a relatively conventional pro-environmental essay that invoked the liberal values of care and protection from harm.

It gives us a completely new view of human origins and what it means to be human, all conventional theories of cultural evolution, of the origin of humans, and what makes us so different from other species.

And they look pretty conventional because they've got plastic, they've got metal, they've got motors and gears and so on.

So instead of having batteries, instead of having a conventional power system, it's got one of these.

And when you're in triage, you tend to default to conventional wisdom about what works and what doesn't.

Accidentally, I asked if the conventional wisdom was correct.

And this is notable, because as I mentioned before, in the triage of finding movies to make and making them, there's a lot of relying on conventional wisdom.

And that conventional wisdom, maybe, just maybe, might be wrong to even greater consequence.

That our onscreen heroes have to conform to a very narrow idea about beauty that we consider conventional.

And so as a rule, we tend to default to conventional wisdom.

And I think it's important that we ask ourselves, constantly, how much of that conventional wisdom is all convention and no wisdom?

This is the conventional nuclear fuel cycle.

When "white" occurs, the frequently co-occurring words are "wealthy," "progressive," "conventional," "stubborn," "successful," "educated."

Good intentions and conventional formulas, so often used to appease our conscience, are not enough.

All those years of chasing that conventional image of beauty that we saw earlier was finally beginning to take its toll.

Today, almost 50 percent of Americans choose conventional burial.

Conventional burial begins with embalming, where funeral staff drain bodily fluid and replace it with a mixture designed to preserve the corpse and give it a lifelike glow.

Inside, the homes are fairly conventional.

This is an early-stage prototype of our system that would capture pollution that is being released from a conventional diesel-based car.

And if that's the case, then I think we're stuck with conventional car seats for a long time to come.

There's a chip there, a conventional one.

And the parent of a child with Asperger's disease, the high-intelligence autism, had sent his thing to a conventional company; they didn't do it.

Couldn't do it by conventional genetics, but just scanning it we began to find genes for autism.

And because it's been a false alarm, it's led to a very conventional way of thinking about this.

The conventional wisdom is that to win an election, you have to dumb it down and play to your constituencies' basest, divisive instincts.

It offers employment and income generation opportunities to the most "unskilled" in conventional disciplines.

And whether or not you have conventional treatment, in addition, if you make these changes, it may help reduce the risk of recurrence.

Or what if I focused more on the fact that the book is a classic and used more conventional lettering, making everything look a little more stiff and serious, like in an encyclopedia or old books?

In fact, conventional thinking on corruption and its relationship to development is not only wrong, but it's holding many poor countries backwards.

So you can't use conventional, germicidal, ultraviolet light when there are people are around.

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