Sentences with phrase «held beliefs on»

In some ways, though, the film's real heart and conscience is old Thaddeus Stevens — who must wrestle with reconciling his deeply held beliefs on equality with the need for compromise that will lead to more politically palatable gradual change.

He has strongly held beliefs on how to manage an organization — such as never yelling.

Someone that believes a god or gods does not or can not exist holds a belief on the matter.

But Dr. Alan Greene, a pediatrician at Stanford University, who started a campaign called «White Out,» is out to turn that long - held belief on its head.

It is hard to change deeply held beliefs, and Andy held this belief on the basis of a lot more knowledge than most people.

Not exact matches

Still, when someone believes it, it influences them and, to the extent they don't realize it's a belief, it becomes part of their reality they fight to hold on to.

And contrary to popular belief, if you're wearing a backpack, hold on to it!

That could prove a perilous prospect for the ACA, based on the High Court's recent ruling in Hobby Lobby, which said that closely - held companies can exempt themselves from key parts of their coverage requirements, such as for birth control products and services, based on their religious beliefs.

Trump softened his position on immigration considerably this week, seeming to abandon his long - held belief that it was necessary to deport the millions of people living in the US without permission.

More execs and HR leaders are connecting the dots on how an ecosystem of commonly held values, beliefs, and work behaviors drives engagement, innovation, and performance.

The Republican - led Mississippi Senate voted 31 - 17 to pass House Bill 1523, otherwise known as the «religious liberty» bill, states that public employees, businesses, religious organizations and social workers will not face repercussions for denying services to people based on «sincerely held» religious beliefs.

What else are those beliefs holding us back from, in business, relationships, achievement, and so on?

Any limiting belief will make you feel bad about yourself and / or others — not a characteristic that a successful entrepreneur holds on to.

We're trying to hold on to this belief in creativity and architecture and art.

The new regulations extend the accommodation available to religiously affiliated nonprofit employers to closely held2 for profit corporations that have adopted a resolution establishing that the corporation objects to some or all contraceptive services on account of the owners» sincerely held religious beliefs.3 Starting in the new plan year, Hobby Lobby and other closely held corporations with religious objections will be required to notify their insurer, third party administrator, or HHS so that the insurer or administrator can still provide the contraceptive coverage directly to the employees and their dependents.

Academic research on correcting misinformation has shown that putting a strong image, like a red flag, next to an article may actually entrench deeply held beliefs — the opposite effect to what we intended,»

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«Academic research on correcting misinformation has shown that putting a strong image, like a red flag, next to an article may actually entrench deeply held beliefs — the opposite effect to what we intended,» according to Product Manager Tessa Lyons.

Zakaria wasn't suggesting ceding Western values and beliefs — but rather recognizing that prevailing attitudes on such issues as the environment, human rights, and social affairs are different in many parts of Asia than those that hold sway in the West.

Roy S. Moore, who won a special Republican primary runoff for an Alabama Senate seat on Tuesday, is a staunch evangelical Christian, and his often - inflammatory political beliefs are informed by his strongly held religious views.

At Space Angels, it is our strongly - held belief that, in our generation, the people who carry the mantle of this «answerable courage» are not only the young men and women who are risking their lives to go into space, but also the entrepreneurs who are putting everything they have on the line to build a future in space for all humanity.

The attractive valuation of stocks relative to bonds became a widely held belief after Edgar Lawrence Smith published a book in 1924 on stock market valuation, Common Stocks as Long Term Investments.

Investors who hold on to the GLL during the summer and fall of 2010 may have hung on to the belief that because gold has had such a tremendous move up, that it's bound to crash any day thereafter.

«This stems from our long - held belief that pharmacies can, and should, play an important role in the safe and secure distribution of medical cannabis in Canada,» Neufeld added on a conference call with analysts.

I had in my heart and tongue the Name of Allah when ever I had fears, troubles or depression of any kind but from Jan 05 1995 when had lost my father and second brother in a car accident, it was the time I really felt am alone at age of 33 to face all the challenges my father has left upon me to run and manage among other partners therefore had been investigating the Quran as to understanding every word of it rather than to memorize it, have been did a lot of reciting verses of prayers begging God to look upon me and give me strength... am sure through such difficult times if I had no faith in God I would have perished and lost every thing long ago... Another thing my heart always gave me signs and my mind gave me logic of what to believe although have read many books abroad in my youth of many beliefs out of curiosity but could not belief in other than that God is one and Muhammed is his last prophet in all belief of the Quran he brought upon me / us in all that it says... Should mention at times had experienced dreams seeing signs and warnings long in advance of things going to happen A year or more before losing my father in a car accident I had seen him in my dream good bye wearing white cloth and going to board a tourist ship all crew dressed in white uniform rolling a red carpet on front of him and when was on the top of the stairs weaver smiling good bye... seen in another dream how or wealth will be stolen and what I will hold... so many things like that..

The Church has every right to hold whatever backward belief t wants, but I would think that for an organization that prides itself on love and compasion they would look past some difference to try to be there for it's members when they needed it.

Tiggy and preacherlady, you consistently hold fishon up as a great defender of what he believes, but you are blind to the fact that I generally ignore his beliefs and comment only on his attitude.

If we hold to it, we are just a bunch of zealots, each hammering on our particular belief, unwilling and unable to learn.

Then when Alice and Tiggy come to my defense you state: «Tiggy and preacherlady, you consistently hold fishon up as a great defender of what he believes, but you are blind to the fact that I generally ignore his beliefs and comment only on his attitude.»

I also know people who hold to the same beliefs regarding homosexuals as fishon but who have gone out of their way to educate themselves on both sides of the debate... and even though they still think homosexuality is a sin, they don't resort to the language and comparasions that fishon does... because they know that homosexuality isn't anything comparable to pedophilia or alcoholism.

East Eastern theology, while holding more strictly than western theology on basic dogmas, is tolerant of differences of opinions on finer points Eastern church membership is contingent on commitment and behavior Eastern Christians have no difficulty maintaining definite beliefs while remaining tolerant.

Suppose every single person on Earth held a positive belief in a god or gods.

You fail to see just how ridiculous it is to hold on so tightly to the bible and the belief in god and the bible and yet your easy dismissal of ancient greek paganism, or roman paganism, or scandinavian.

Bill, sad that you have taken the one inspiring message I have read on this belief blog and reminded why I hold organized religion in such contempt.

While holding on to our different beliefs about theology, we can still find common ground in what our sacred texts say about caring for the poor.

Martin, your belief is held in error because you're basing it on a false premise.

Give me a quick reply to both those questions and I'll respond with a description of what you hold as your beliefs based on how you answer.

If Christians compromise on this teaching — which every Christian church held to be essential until 11:58 on the clock of history — the world will ask what other beliefs they will muffle when under duress.

Evelyn — how is proclaiming something one holds to be true (e.g. «Jesus is Lord») the same thing as «forcing» a belief on someone?

To be fair, though, their professed belief system will technically hold that Hell is for the unregenerate and that the gates swing on the hinges of a Christ - centered redemption.

Here you are putting the blame on al Islamic branches for one Islamic branch although the as branches contradict each other and they are always in disputes among them and that's was the reason they became branches rather than one Islam so really it is not fear to hold all at guilt for one misbehave or abuse... nor it is fair to address the whole Islam belief, Quran and Prophet of God for the fault of ones or few that are not in the right track of Islam being the religion of peace and justice to mankind..

Chad «no... A posteriori justification makes reference to experience; but the issue concerns how one knows the proposition or claim in question — what justifies or grounds one's belief in it That that the universe had a beginning is the most common cosmological belief held today, I am clearly on solid ground making that claim.

But gee, so Dorothy Day, the SCLS and Martin Luther King and all those religiously oriented people who restrain their baser impulses, feed the hungry, clothe the naked, take in children no one else wants, seek justice for those society devalues in the name of money, power, or maintaining the hold of the class in power — all based on their beliefs — are dangerous to society and mentally ill?

so, if there is agreement on the nature of morality from most religions, wouldn't that make holding specific, e.g. christian, religious beliefs even more arbitrary?

It amazes me how many people are on here mocking the idea of God, and mocking beliefs that others hold sacred.

I would appreciate atheists not accusing me of being devoid of logic and reason for holding to the beliefs which I believe I have ample for holding on to.

The unreasonableness of those beliefs rests on the complete and utter lack of support for them, but that doesn't mean that you can't hold them.

Sadly, I no longer share my thoughts on religion with anyone that is not an atheist for I have found very few believers can hold an open discussion without resorting to insults when they feel their beliefs are being questioned.

If you doubt the accuracy of the Bible, then how was a man named Job able to say with precision that «the earth hung upon nothing» (Job 26:7) some 3,600 years ago, since the most learned men even a thousand years later held to the belief that the earth was held up by elephants standing on the back of a giant turtle?

Or is the real idolatry to hold on to beliefs without examining them critically in light of Scripture?