Word: belief
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...findings, which are slated for publication in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, add evidence to the commonly accepted belief that children are born with intuitive math abilities...
...basic disagreement is with the implicitly held belief...that everything that has happened since 1957 is the result of the EU,” he said...
...needlessly destabilize this harmonious social atmosphere. Never before has a referendum been proposed in Massachusetts that seeks to dissolve the rights of a minority group that had been previously guaranteed. In fact, the Massachusetts state constitution explicitly prohibits referenda concerning religious organizations for precisely this reason: the correct belief that the rights of minorities should not be fodder for public consumption and political hackery, but for well-reasoned debate in a controlled setting...
...speech, George W. Bush blamed Syria for not doing enough to stop terrorists from entering Iraq and for "what they did in Lebanon"--an unsubtle reference to the Administration's belief that Damascus had a hand in the February assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafiq Hariri. The Administration's Syria strategy, says a U.S. official, is to get "the international community to speak with one voice," perhaps via U.N. Security Council sanctions if a U.N. investigation implicates Assad's regime in Hariri's murder. When the U.S. ambassador to Iraq, Zalmay Khalilzad, warned Syria last week that "our patience...
...tube. Forced to cobble together parts bought from competitors, Sharp was little more than an assembler, cranking out sets that were always a little too expensive and a little too poorly engineered to attract many customers. It was a dispiriting struggle, says Machida, but it taught him an ironclad belief that is now axiomatic throughout the company: "If you are in electronics and you are not strong in TVs, your business and your brand will suffer...