Sentence examples of "notion" in English

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I had no notion that you were coming. Ich hatte keine Ahnung, dass ihr gekommen seid.
His notion is that planes are safer than cars. Er meint, dass Flugzeuge sicherer sind als Autos.
In his essay "Esperanto: European or Asiatic language" Claude Piron has shown the similarities between Esperanto and Chinese, thereby putting to rest the notion that Esperanto is purely eurocentric. In seinem Aufsatz "Esperanto - eine europäische oder asiatische Sprache" hat Claude Piron die Ähnlichkeiten zwischen Esperanto und dem Chinesischen aufgezeigt, und so die Auffassung, Esperanto sei rein eurozentrisch, widerlegt.
There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there always has been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that "my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge." Es gibt in den Vereinigten Staaten von jeher einen Kult der Unwissenheit. Anti-Intellektualismus zieht sich wie ein roter Faden durch unser politisches und kulturelles Leben, genährt von der irrigen Vorstellung, Demokratie bedeute, dass "meine Unwissenheit ebenso viel wert ist wie dein Wissen."
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