Scouts leaders have been divided over gay rights since at least a 2000 Supreme Court decision that said the Scouts had the right to discriminate against gay members if doing so was a core belief of the group.
Focused on diversity of opinions and guided by respect to freedom of speech, the staff of UNESCO in Brazil has selected a list of relevant personalities from diverse professional backgrounds, with a firm belief that this group of people has something sound and interesting to say.
"The general belief across each group is that the relief and reconstruction programme should have accomplished more, that too much was wasted, and that the lessons derived from the Iraq reconstruction experience should drive improvements to the US approach to stabilisation and reconstruction operations, " Mr Bowen reported.
The almost operatic intensity of the story is balanced by the group's own belief in night dancers.
Our asset class forecast relies on the simple belief that market participants, as a group, will invest in risky asset classes when the return expectation is high enough.
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Investors piled into Fiat shares in the belief it would be easier for the group to sell its loss-making car manufacturer once the founder's grandson was no longer at the helm.
The article points out that ad agencies ignored older consumers for 40 years, focusing instead on selling to young people on the belief that it is best to reach that age group before they settled on brand preference.
Each generation of Americans embraces the belief that no problem is too big for a determined group of people to conquer.
That is how a group of young people with nothing more than some handmade signs and a belief in their own God-given potential can galvanize a nation.
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Such expectation is based on the belief that the FARC may replicate the experience of the M-19, a former guerilla group, which so far has been positive and lasting.
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Still, our belief is one thing -- cold hard proof is another, and it looks like a group of 12 self-professed "audiophiles" recently couldn't tell the difference between Monster 1000 speaker cables and plain old coat hangers.
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The group's board reversed its original rejection of Sebena's bid that was based on the belief that she died as a victim of domestic violence.
The greatest single threat to progress is the entrenched belief that only the handful at the top have ideas and that these must somehow not upset the rest of that group.
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