competing accounts

He also created the competitive agency system, in which a company's subsidiaries work on competing accounts.

The jury will have to weigh competing accounts.

Several competing accounts about its origin have circulated.

Since the cladograms provide competing accounts of real events, at most one of them is correct.

As part of oral tradition, the details of the story have changed over time and there are several competing accounts of the tale.

Here I have had to engage with competing accounts by different historians who after considering the same evidence have come up with contrasting views.

This began a string of aerial victory claims that, by competing accounts, made him an ace with five confirmed wins and four unconfirmed ones.

I argue that two competing accounts of persistence, three and four dimensionalism, are in fact metaphysically equivalent.

Sequoyah's heroic status has led to several competing accounts of his life that are speculative, contradictory, or fabricated.

Handling competing accounts could be accommodated at Bruno and Blythe since they were "the only firm specializing in aviation publicity".

Cheese puffs were invented in the United States of America in the 1930s; there are two competing accounts.

Competing paradigms are frequently incommensurable; that is, they are competing accounts of reality which cannot be coherently reconciled.

There are various competing accounts about how the different problems of the penal system are related to each other and what the underlying causes of the crisis are.

The jurors must weigh the competing accounts of how many times Mr. Junta punched Mr. Costin.

In another time, he noted, the loss of navigator and crew on a voyage of discovery would have disappeared "in a miasma of competing accounts and statistics."

There are competing accounts of Zenobia's own fate: some versions suggest that she died relatively soon after her arrival in Rome, whether through illness, hunger strike, or beheading.

On the science side, although scientists don't take formal votes to decide what facts will be considered credible, neither do they present their competing accounts to nature and receive from her an immediate and legible verdict.

The truth of their origin has faded into legend, and as a result the story of the space voyage and the scientific theory of evolution have become competing accounts of the genesis of humanity.

Thus, concepts of 'structure' and 'action', for example, may inform a variety of competing accounts of particular social phenomena, but there is no necessary opposition between structural and agential accounts.

There are competing accounts of Li's life that surfaced before and after the suppression of Falun Gong began in July 1999, and there is very little authoritative information on his early life.

Music and Arts has released competing accounts of the Mahler Ninth from Horenstein's later years, one with the London Symphony in 1962 (CD-235) and one with the American Symphony in 1969 (CD-785).

In this case, for instance, it is evident that all the plot's multiple twists and turns cannot be squeezed into a 2-hour 20-minute movie; nor can the movie risk being entirely true to a novel in which talking heads spend a good deal of time debating competing accounts of Christianity.

Lewis's reply is that all things are not equal, and in particular competing accounts of possible worlds themselves postulate more classes of entities, since there must be not only one real "concrete" world (the actual world), but many worlds of a different class altogether ("abstract" in some way or other).

The thesis is called minimalist by way of contrast with the competing accounts, which more or less universally require that true belief is necessary but insufficient for knowledge-that is, that a belief needs to be true in order to count as knowledge, but that truth alone is not enough-that something else is needed.