During his time, a dominant idea was that bad air quality caused disease.

"This is now a dominant idea in Chinese politics."

The dominant idea of Morgan's thought is that of progress.

Columbus discovering the Americas is the dominant idea and therefore do not challenge it.

But still the dominant idea was of silence.

The movie is a collection of random sketches in the service of no dominant idea.

The dominant idea was to put as much distance between our group and the campsite as possible.

Dissent has occurred at times among university students in attempts to radicalise dominant ideas.

The account draws strongly on dominant ideas about gender.

The dominant idea was not conformity but mutual accommodation.

Creational design patterns are composed of two dominant ideas.

"So," resumed the poet, returning to his dominant ideas, "you never saw any printing done?"

Marx refers to the dominant ideas of each epoch as 'ruling class ideology'.

Until this point, substitutional and ring methods were the dominant ideas for diffusional motion.

Later this representation was adopted as the dominant idea of what labour is, since such a concept makes the exploitation of people in capitalism possible.

The developing conviction that nature is ruled more by flux and disturbance is "becoming the dominant idea," he said.

These dominant ideas become reflected in the concrete features of the social structure, giving them legitimacy and reproducing them.

Indeed, Braid actually defines hypnotism as focused (conscious) attention upon a dominant idea (or suggestion).

It was the dominant idea of a unification of all the inhabitants of Brazil under a single "national spirit".

Canada's educational philosophy emphasizes accountability and testing, and in that way it is similar to the dominant idea in public education today.

Predestination was not the dominant idea in Calvin's works, but it would seemingly become so for many of his Reformed successors.

At and before that time expansion was the dominant idea of the three Great Powers of Central Europe.

Indeed, they come from the same source: the dominant ideas, which are the ideas of the dominant class, even if they take an antagonistic form.

However from the position of an outsider, Chirac criticized Balladur as representing "dominant ideas", and the difference between the two decreased quickly.

The unquestioned stock (of dominant ideas, concepts, theories, research practices) bestows personal identity and sustains the community as a community.