An obvious explanation is the power of conventional thinking.

But, as the Great Moderation metastasized into the Great Recession, fatal flaws in conventional thinking came to light.

NEW YORK The conventional wisdom that sub Saharan Africa has moved beyond military coups may be wishful thinking.

DAVOS Is there an Asian way to resolving global challenges? The conventional answer is no.

This failure reflects the dominance of conventional economics, which has produced closed minded group thinking within the global central banking community.

These challenges petroleum scarcity, growing instability in the Middle East, and climate change require clear thinking.

That is no surprise, as European central bankers are the most conventional in their thinking and have been the most obsessed with inflation.

The conventional thinking is that as traders buy and sell corporate stocks more often, they induce corporate managers to plan for shorter and shorter horizons.

Such a world upends traditions and challenges old thinking, forcing us to choose consciously to embrace it. Or not.

Israel made a similar mistake in thinking that it could use its enormous margin of conventional military power to destroy Hezbollah in last summer s Lebanon War.

Conventional thinking in the Middle East has largely been built on Israel s overwhelming military strength, together with the disunity and lack of purpose of Arab leaders.

Standard international relations thinking does not even entertain the question, and those conventional ways of seeing the world have blinded us to looking at this crucial question.

We're now thinking that, in fact, this is probably the start of a new way of regulating and addressing international challenges.

On challenges ranging from election monitoring to the Conventional Forces in Europe (CFE) Treaty, there is no common ground among the 56 member states.

This flies in the face of conventional thinking, which continues to claim that mandating carbon reductions through cap and trade or a carbon tax is the only way to combat climate change.

The two of you also went against conventional Israeli thinking by breaking away from your Likud party, greatly weakening the ideological stranglehold that Likud s far right central committee held on Israeli politics.

Until the dust settles on the new Middle East, the old roadmaps seem dated, and conventional wisdom holds that progress toward a peace agreement in the face of regional upheaval is wishful thinking.

Stability, equity, and sustainability challenges have become crucially important, and the role of the state in relation to markets may need re thinking as a result.

But such a world requires that mutual respect replace mutual suspicion. Such a world upends traditions and challenges old thinking, forcing us to choose consciously to embrace it.

(b) Conventional arms

Thinking and learning skills critical thinking When students develop and use a graphic organizer their higher order thinking and critical thinking skills are enhanced.

However, the high seas focus must not mislead us into thinking that the greatest challenges related to resource management and conservation are to be found on the high seas.

Going Against Conventional Wisdom

For, while the simplified pre crisis conventional wisdom appeared to provide a complete set of answers resting on a unified intellectual system and methodology, really good economic thinking must provide multiple partial insights, based on varied analytical approaches.

It's also used in more conventional settings and can be used more consciously in conventional settings.

Block Thinking

(d) Improving procedures for detecting smuggled persons at conventional and non conventional points of entry and exit and

At the same time, challenges and threats to peace, security and stability are multiplying, stemming from a range of non conventional sources, whether related to frail States, severe poverty, organized crime, terrorism or other factors.

LONDON The conventional view in mainstream economics today is that governments have little capacity to spark innovation. The state should play as limited a role in the economy as possible, the thinking goes, intervening only in cases of market failure.

It is sad to note that European leaders sometimes adopt such narrow positions, too, responding to the short term demands of electoral politics instead of facing the challenges of long term strategic thinking.

Sami is thinking.

on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe

Underlining the challenges posed to law enforcement authorities in affected countries in regulating possession of conventional weapons and access to their ammunition and preventing illicit trafficking accordingly, and the consequences that may result from inadequate control over them,

Underlining the challenges posed to law enforcement authorities in affected countries in regulating possession of conventional weapons and access to their ammunition and preventing illicit trafficking accordingly, and the consequences that may result from inadequate control over them.

But is this conventional wisdom always right?

This theory went strongly against conventional wisdom.

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Security and disarmament thinking

These guidelines remain relevant in the present day for the promotion of regional disarmament in both the conventional and non conventional fields.