Usually, they die out because a few too many hitless days cause a crisis of belief.

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Mr Salinas used the opportunity to repeat his well-worn insistence that the economic crisis was not his fault, despite the belief of most Mexicans that it was.

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One of the victims of the prolonged financial crisis has been my comfort with my belief system.

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What both groups share is the belief that Angela Merkel is the villain of the crisis whose inflexibility risks dooming entire nations to a never-ending cycle of misery.

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In a BBC interview immediately before the visit he stressed his belief that free trade was the best way out of the current economic crisis.

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Some will be lucky enough to carry this belief with them for the rest of their days as they will never face the crisis of becoming uninsurable due to a pre-existing condition.

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