Changing times do tend to challenge our traditional political assumptions and question our conventional wisdom about left and right.

BBC: England

All of which calls into question the conventional wisdom of the past year: that the Coalition's influence is declining.

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The investing marketplace discounts the opinion of those of us who question the conventional wisdom that the marketplace has already discounted the darkness.

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Political courage, and a readiness to question conventional military wisdom, will be needed if America's armed forces are to make the switch from fighting yesterday's wars in which one country's heavy armour did battle with another's to the information-age conflicts of tomorrow.

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Conventional wisdom has it that bad reviews hurt restaurants, which seems sort of obvious, but my question is, will this one actually help?

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He follows the long academic tradition of overturning the conventional wisdom on a topic, showing that previously unknown or unanticipated factors contribute to the issue in question.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: It's the ideology, stupid