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As a result, we are misled by test scores that reflect only this narrow conception.

Others have assailed the tests as relying on a narrow conception of intelligence.

The last reason to reject a hypothesis is because it defies narrow conceptions of common sense.

It bequeathed to us a narrow conception of state action that we are still struggling to overcome.

Practices in some residential establishments illustrate this narrow conception of provision.

What the bourgeoisie began by historical processes will now be finished off in opposition to its own narrow conception of history.

His narrow conception of honour belonged to another epoch.

The problem with the tests is not their demand for intellectual rigor but their narrow conception of humanity.

Because reading her writings startled me out of my narrow conception of her talent.

A narrow conception of clemency limited to correcting errors in the judicial system helps explain recent trends.

Most troubling, Mr. Bush seems to have a narrow conception of national security, equating it with military spending only.

If their organizations struggled, he believed it was usually because of outdated ideas, a narrow conception of problems, or internal misunderstandings.

The methodology of this area still uses a quite narrow conception of Supply Chain Management.

Mr. Libby's lawyers said in their motion that "the prosecution invoked an extraordinarily narrow conception of its disclosure obligations."

Abbott's original intention was to give a portrait of transcendence, to show how, through our imagination, we might be "lifted" out of narrow conceptions.

However, the explanation for joining a group depends on the narrow conception of 'economic man' maximizing the attainment of his self-interest.

Only a narrow conception of neurodiversity, referring exclusively to high-functioning autists, is reasonable.

The narrow conception of the neurodiversity claim should be accepted but the broader claim should not."

You have a right to hold a narrow conception of solidarity, to sacrifice the notion of universal service lightly to the sacred law of market forces.

It's part of the regulation of aberrant behaviour that doesn't fit in with a narrow conception of what is acceptable leisure.

The fourth point, the idea that science is intrinsically masculine, can be sustained only by clinging to an irredeemably narrow conception of science and scientific thinking.

Such a magnificent idea is too big for their narrow conceptions, which can neither observe the beauty of the work, nor comprehend the grandeur of its author.

Narrower conceptions may be limited to the Northwestern U.S. or to the coastal areas west of the Cascade and Coast mountains.

Such portraits are valuable counter to the narrow conceptions of nineteenth- and early twentieth-century feminism which see it firmly rooted in north-west Europe and North America.

The ball is, admittedly, in Parliament's court, but the option chosen is the result of an extremely narrow conception of property and the weight of the industrial lobbies.