Sentences with phrase «held convictions»

Each brought to bear both an impressive resume and passionately held convictions on the age - old question about human development: which counts more — nature or nurture?

While amateur traders consider whether the move was a fluke «April Fool» for Bitcoin, analysts are finding it harder to abandon previously held convictions that prices remain in a strong bear market.

What I think is important about the chain of events that led to the hard fork that begat Bitcoin Cash was that two opposing sides of an issue developed very deeply held convictions around «the right way to move forward» and there were irreconcilable differences in doing so.

One thing that has become obvious to me through my discussions with Dr. Meier, is that he is a straight shooter and a scientist with deeply - held convictions.

One of the consequences of a public science controversy is to unsettle previously held convictions and certainties, beliefs which had been assumed but perhaps unexamined for some time.

While presenting only a small fraction of the works Gund has given to MoMA, the presentation aims to prove that our collection would not be what it is today without her deeply held convictions and unparalleled generosity.

Midway through the twentieth century, long - held convictions regarding the spiritual truth or scientific validity of particular colors gave way to an excitement about color as a mass - produced and standardized commercial product.

Midway through the twentieth century, long - held convictions regarding the spiritual truth or scientific validity of particular colours gave way to an excitement about colour as a mass - produced and standardised commercial product.

He did not understand the politics of AIG, and questioned one of Greenberg's deeply held convictions.

Her deeply held convictions include: love conquers all; yoga pants are daywear; and what a woman really wants is a man who cleans.

It is thus possible to ensure funding to a diverse range of educational choices without forcing any taxpayer to support a particular sort of instruction that might violate his or her most deeply held convictions.

Hattie forced me to reconsider previously strongly held convictions, but he requires that we elevate the preponderance of the evidence over personal belief.

They are also anchored by deeply held convictions — be they around behavioral standards, educational models, or religious practices — even as the school changes in other ways.

Taking the time to thoroughly and genuinely look at all sides of an issue, including motivations, alliances, and deeply held convictions of those involved is crucial in any endeavor.

Most likely, personal and political opinion, grounded in deeply held convictions.

While dating sites typically restrict the creation of individual personal home pages, blogs offer a forum for sharing anything from deeply held convictions to random musings.

It is my recommendation to abandon any previously held convictions you might have about food and instead carefully listen to your body as you experiment with different food ratios and including or excluding animal foods.

The contrast with Harriet Harman's abandonment of any deeply held convictions could not be greater.

«And in terms of the referendum and certainly the process of healing that needs to take place after a big debate of that sort, I think it's easier the more space people be given to express their honest deeply held convictions.»

And yet, for a politician who has been too often misunderstood, this is an important portrait of a resolute and patriotic leader whose deeply held convictions helped put our small country back onto the world map.

Such people do appear to create a predicament for other people with strongly held convictions on gender issues, don't they?

If it is not filled with the lively expression of the most deeply held convictions of the people, including their convictions grounded in religion, it will be filled by the quasi-religious beliefs of secularism.

And, despite a probable core of commonly held convictions, each community contains as many variations of its world view as it has members.

Defining the «redemptive quest» and the «maturation» of a community of faith can really be done only in conversation with the tradition, a conversation that tests our assumptions and challenges even our most cherished and deeply held convictions.

In Craven's words again, Lee «chose to yield deeply held convictions regarding immediate concrete issues in order to stand by those intangible, yet more profound values which had to do with honor, with self - respect, and with duty» (p. 115).

Good citizens treat their neighbors» deeply held convictions with respect not because they are necessarily rational, but because they are deeply held.

I share their views, and have argued that these sincerely held convictions ought to be granted legal status — which is basically the perspective set forth recently by the majority of Supreme Court justices.

What this says to me is that it is time to wrestle honestly and openly with this topic of the legal status of deep and sincerely held convictions.

«Today's proposal continues to involve needless government intrusion in the internal governance of religious institutions, and to threaten government coercion of religious people and groups to violate their most deeply held convictions,» the statement said.

Many people sometimes, or for a while, act contrary to sincerely held convictions (by committing a sin), and other people, given time, come to recognise past behaviour as wrong (they may repent and convert).

We can acknowledge genuine differences in society without suppressing or minimizing our firmly held convictions.

Imagine how traditional Christians would be perceived if, say, they advocated for gay marriage on the grounds of democratic fairness, this despite their deeply held convictions that God disapproves of those marriage.

Longtime investors have always held the conviction in recent times that doctors don't want to pay money for stuff.

Only days before his ouster, Bannon reaffirmed, in an interview with a left - leaning political journal, his long - held conviction that the U.S. is locked in an «economic war» with China, and boasted of plotting behind the scenes to take down White House rivals who lacked the courage to join his call to arms.

It's not an overblown ego or purely contrarian mindset that drives their decisions, but rather a deeply held conviction in a higher mission that necessitates truth - seeking to gain better results.

They later abandon their buy - and - hold convictions after lengthy market declines.

But over and beyond my beliefs regarding homosexuality is my most deeply - held conviction that I am called to love my neighbor as myself... even if it costs me something, even if it means walking a second mile.

Holding this conviction, one will always appreciate the past but will never worship it.

The group that held this conviction the most explicitly, and who acted on it in the largest sector of independent higher education — that which belonged to the Liberal Protestants — is well represented by William DeWitt Hyde, elected president of Bowdoin College in 1885 at the age of 26:

Within the mainline form of Christian faith, we hold convictions that beg for clear, impassioned witness and interpretation.

They may hold convictions, just not too strongly or we label them fanatics and that won't do.

In a way, fundamentalism is as much a frame of mind as a set of doctrines, for many Christians hold these convictions without repudiating those who differ.

Because over and beyond my beliefs regarding homosexuality is my most deeply - held conviction that I am called to love my neighbor as myself... even if it costs me something, even if it means walking a second mile.

I convince myself that the people with whom I disagree hold their convictions because they haven't really thought them through or because they're afraid to challenge the status quo.

Those who hold convictions without being dogmatic about them are willing to be challenged.

That is to say, the certainty with which we hold our convictions is eroded when we find ourselves according others equal right to their convictions.

I maintain a clearly held conviction that God is with us.

In holding this conviction, he was not concerned about being right in the sense of being orthodox.

Scientists of Pasteur's time including Claude Bernard, Rudolf Virchow, Rudolf Steiner and Max Pettenkofer held the conviction that the decisive and determining factor in infectious diseases was not the microbe itself but rather the particular condition of the patient's host terrain that favored the growth of a particular microbe.

Unilateralism is a deeply held conviction and his opposition to trident played a part in his victorious leadership campaign.