This apparent conflict of beliefs helps shed light on two defining aspects of the American public.
We all hold a number of beliefs about the world that determine our interpretations of people and events.
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Like all great religions, Islam is a complex system of beliefs, and people usually emphasise the features which appeal to them.
Strategy and execution has to be joined by a very strong psychological conversion of beliefs, from the old patterns to the new.
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The passion trap is a destructive pattern of beliefs and behaviors that occur when someone falls in love with a business concept.
To belong, you must subscribe to a particular set of beliefs.
Wherever it goes, the faith retains a Middle Western flavour, with its mixture of social conservatism, philanthropy, worldly shrewdness and devotion to a core set of beliefs.
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Simply put, the new finds have shown, more clearly than before, the diversity and range of beliefs and practices in the Jewish world of 2, 000 years ago.
But the fact that Gore sees Al Jazeera as a good match for his brand of American liberalism speaks volumes about the nature of that set of beliefs.
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Thus the whole package of beliefs, expectations, likes and dislikes that you hold inside are creating change -- or blocking it -- at the level of brain circuitry.
Systems are complex and operate on the basis of beliefs, customs and traditions, public policies and practices, resource allocations and power arrangements that generally have the support of powerful forces in society.
Her campaign is going to be a conversation about a set of beliefs more extreme than those of any American politician of her stature, including Sarah Palin, to whom she is inevitably compared.
As the most influential goddess of the sea in China, Mazu is at the centre of a host of beliefs and customs, including oral traditions, religious ceremonies and folk practices, throughout the country s coastal areas.
Mr Young complained that the Forest Service had begun to manage its lands according to the tenets of a movement called Deep Ecology, which espouses a set of beliefs drawn from various philosophies and eastern religions.
This future value is then adjusted (no, not in any mechanical way, each individual investor is deciding to buy, not buy or sell, not sell, based on their own views of these things, the market reflects the consensus of all such views) by the likelihood of those targets of beliefs beingg reached.
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Each group has a package of values it sees as moral, while viewing many of the beliefs of the other side as immoral.
The Scottish government said it was now going ahead with another consultation to consider what extra measures are needed to guarantee freedom of speech, including the protection of religious beliefs of teachers and parents in schools.
Whatever one thinks about marriage between people of the same sex, surely a man running as a business-friendly candidate would say whether he favors boycotts of privately owned businesses on the basis of the beliefs of their shareholders?
Gathered together, they reveal the tapestry of individual beliefs out of which collective faith is made.
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Their extreme means were matched only by the propensity of their views to be unyielding and intolerant of the beliefs and lives of others.
The fact is, America is a nation of different beliefs and different points of view.
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Moreover, while some of these beliefs reflected a misunderstanding of the law (namely that the district court did not have jurisdiction over him and that it was a commercial court) they do not render Edward incompetent to stand trial.
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"The various religions in China fully enjoy the right of the freedom of religious beliefs under the protection of the constitution and the relevant laws and carry out all kinds of normal religious activities, " he said, adding that religion is experiencing a "golden era" in China.
In a CNBC debate last week, former Labor Secretary Robert Reich presented a set of contradictory beliefs that unfortunately reflect the conventional wisdom of modern economists.
However, professors Olav Sorenson from Yale and David Waguespack from the University of Maryland discovered that, because of their beliefs, film distributors assign a much bigger proportion of their marketing budget to those films.
However, professors Olav Sorenson from Yale and David Waguespack from the University of Maryland discovered that, because of their beliefs, film distributors assign a much bigger proportion of their marketing budget and other resources to those films.
Mr Weber detects a similar reaction in the survival of millennial beliefs into recent times, which he treats as the embers of resistance to science and enlightenment.
We will explore the accuracy (or lack thereof) of our beliefs about our abilities and competence (chapter 1), the effects of our emotions on unrelated decisions (chapter 2), and the consequences of having an (overly) narrow focus when evaluating information and making decisions (chapter 3).
And through that office we've turned the faith-based initiative around to find common ground among people of all beliefs, allowing them to make an impact in a way that's civil and respectful of difference and focused on what matters most.
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Nowadays, politics seems to be more often about policies than values, about the competence of leaders rather than the beliefs of the led.
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