Translation of "Eine vorgefasste meinung" in English

You know, you have all of these random opinions and a bad attitude.

Can you state for the court any preexisting opinion, any at all, that you may hold for the defendant, Frank Castle?

They had preconceived opinions about Gröning and were not prepared to budge.

With no particular reason or preconceived idea, merely on impulse and out of curiosity, he decided to set aside two hours a week at the end of his working day to reflectupon his own attitude towards the mentally disabled.

After I returned to school, after some thinking I calmed down and read Zhuan Falun again, without any preconceived notions.

We have pre-judged that this person is awful and will continue to be awful toward us – that's a preconception.

And I think you will realise that alot of the reason why people are misunderstanding things in the book of Revelation, is just because they have a preconceived idea that they are having trouble letting go of.

Besides the possibility that the attempt is being made to turn the sense of the passage around because it does not fit with a person's preconceived opinion, we see here also a problem that is extremely widespread - namely, that the texts are quite simply being read in isolation and without any regard to the context.

I guess I came here with my own set of preconceptions about you.

They approach history with a preconceived notion and then adjust the evidence accordingly.

This gives the impression that Parliament has a preset attitude as to which countries are most suitable for membership of the European Union, which we consider very unfortunate.

We don't want people coming with any preconceived notions. We want them to see a district attorney.

Teachers must be trained to welcome increased variety and flexibility without preconceived notions as to how the children ought to behave: indeed, it is the children's "behaviour" (in the broadest sense of the word) which ought to determine the teacher's approach.

The draft Council Directive on the charging of heavy goods vehicles for the use of certain infrastructures would point to the existence of pre-conceived ideas as to what the impact of the measures would be.

The device according to the invention, which breaks with a preconceived opinion, presents the advantage that, without increasing the outlay for production and material, both forces and temperatures can be measured with the same strain gauges of a measuring device .

Now I believe we have got to give a categoric yes as an answer to that question.

More precisely, in the present Board's view a member of a Board may be "suspected of partiality" as specified in Article 24(3) EPC if the member in question may have a preconceived or anticipatory judgment as to how the case should be decided.

Anthropology, and specifically the study of man's origins, is an exercise in finding evidence to support a preconceived idea, but on every occasion there is a consistent pattern of deception.

This catastrophic way of considering all matters from the angle of a preconceived opinion kills every possibility of thinking oneself subjectively into a matter which is objectively opposed to one's own doctrine, and finally leads to a total reversal of means and ends.

Such preconceived or anticipatory judgment which could affect the member's approach to the case may result in certain special situations from the participation of said member in a previous decision on the case.

And earthly life itself is also a mere physical function as long as the soul within you still has no understanding of what it was, is and should be.... If the soul does not acquire this understanding during its earthly life it will indeed believe even stronger in the reality of life, it will only regard earthly life as significant and thus strive to live as long and as well as possible on earth; and this desire will only diminish the moment it becomes enlightened, for then it will become conscious of the real life and earthly life will fade to the same extent as real life becomes more valuable.

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