For years, the conventional wisdom held that the key to enhancing our security lay in peace diplomacy aimed at producing arms control agreements.
The conventional wisdom held that Al-Jazeera was ready to bombard the Premier League with money in order to swipe the majority of games from Sky.
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The conventional wisdom held that a wounded but potent Rangers would cruise to promotion in successive seasons and by 2015 they would return to the Scottish Premier League.
The conventional wisdom held that many consumers were seeking less-expensive housing alternatives, and manufactured homes, which often can be purchased for less than half the cost of a traditional home, would serve that purpose.
Surprisingly, the company reported same store sales gained only 1.9%, which was far less than expected (estimated gains of 4.3%) as the conventional wisdom held that the consumer spending environment is much healthier now than it was then.
The conventional wisdom at the time held that Americans would go on and on buying 14 million to 16 million automobiles a year.
In some cases, Delta is reducing the number of flights per day but increasing the size of the plane, bucking conventional airline wisdom that held business travelers preferred schedules with very frequent flights.
This runs counter to the conventional wisdom of the past few decades, which held that improvements in telecommunications always lead to more physical travel, rather than less.
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When Mr Clinton's trial began on January 14th, conventional wisdom held that it was the president, not the Republicans, who should fear the calling of witnesses and a long-drawn-out procedure.
And he believes that this is an area where an opportunity exists, an opportunity to disprove the conventional wisdom that nothing can get done in an election year between a White House held by one party and a Congress largely controlled by the other.
He ignored the conventional wisdom about the need to scrap your way out of trouble and stuck to firmly-held principles.
Conventional wisdom long held that home ownership was a route to wealth, and the imputed rent -- in other words, the right to live in your home -- was just part of the value you got from it.
The result: A set of sharp movements that clearly are not consistent with what was widely-held conventional wisdom just yesterday.
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