Word: belief
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...continual. The cards are partially stacked against the Black and White.But there is always that hope: the hope of the fall, the hope of new beginnings.And with a deeper crew and a renewed focus—stemming from the confidence of the new captains—maybe this belief is more warranted than people think. This hope is always present—and always leading the team forward.“It’s a long winter,” Burkett says. “But we always have to have that end to push...
Cheney: I think the economy is important, and important from the standpoint of public opinion, and public attitude. My belief is that it will have an impact on the election, and that, in fact, for most people things are pretty good. That doesn't mean it's perfect out there by any means. But I think back over all the years I've been involved in elections -- going back I guess, to the mid 60's - running, what, eight times as a candidate myself, and involved in a lot of others as staff capacity and so forth, I'm hard...
...loss. Starting with a crushing loss in double-overtime to then-fifteenth-ranked Penn State, the Crimson is winless in its five games that have run past ninety minutes. “Losing a few tough overtime games against strong opponents didn’t necessarily instill a belief that we could win those games,” Walsh said. “You can’t tell a team that they can win, they have to believe it. I’m not sure that’s inside of us right now.” Harvard...
...fact that the issue in Britain does not seem to be the veil per se, but the more extreme full-face covering known as the niqab, the comments of Blair and Straw seem perfectly reasonable to me. Neither of them asked Muslim women to abandon their belief in hijab, or the custom of veiling, altogether. Both zeroed in on the niqab, a minority practice considered extreme by even mainstream Muslim standards. (The niqab tradition is confined to certain regions of the Muslim world, parts of the Gulf, and Pakistan; a similar covering is known as the burqa in Afghanistan...
...delicate issue than niqabs at the supermarket or the park, for teachers serve as role models to children, and the niqab sends a controversial message that may or may not be appropriate in the classroom. Even more so than the headscarf, the niqab is premised on the traditional Muslim belief that uncovered women are sexually stimulating to men, who are presumed to be incapable of controlling themselves. In a Muslim society where many men hold such an ugly view of their own gender, perhaps a heavily veiled woman connotes no insult. But to a Western man living in a culture...