Word: belief
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...belief is there's a huge void of common sense, level headed thinking" Maher told the Cambridge Chronicle. "I can provide that same type of stability and leadership on the council...
...council believes this policy creates "an environment in which homophobia is seen as an acceptable belief which should be accommodated." Now, some first-years who request room changes may indeed be homophobes: they may bear an irrational fear or hate of gays. Some, one guesses, neither hate nor fear gays but would feel uncomfortable living with a gay student nonetheless. And some are probably devout Christians whose faith grounds their opposition to homosexuality, promiscuity, and the like. But the council bills, which fairly represent recent campus dialogue on this issue, classify all under the genus "homophobia," in effect equating Christians...
...University to force students with deep-seated moral qualms about homosexuality to attempt to live with a gay roommate is to disregard what, for many, is a core religious belief. Students whose faith leads them to this belief have become unwitting targets of campus angst...
...belief that there was not only a great character to portray but also a fortune to be made from her universal charms that interested Lee in V.I.P. "I took a lower salary on this show because I felt the back end could really be meaningful," says the woman famous for adding meaning to her front end. "I know a lot about syndication and what appeals to the international market. I make sure there are a lot of physical gags and comedy, explosions and beautiful scenery...
...However, Kirshner doesn't think this argument will persuade many horoscope readers. "It doesn't matter to them," he says. "It's a system of belief, not a scientific thing... It's outside organized religion, but it has all the trappings of it. It has ceremony, it has ritual, it has books of authority that are not unquestionable...