Word: belief
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...Among many Israelis, the latest round of attacks has affirmed the belief that any relief from terror attacks achieved by reoccupying Palestinian cities is, at best, only temporary. But most of those same Israelis believe their government has no alternative to the occupations. Before Tuesday, Israel had gone 26 days without an attack on its civilian population - almost a record. Their limited options for transforming the situation, however, leave few Israelis expecting the record for days of calm - for Israelis if not for Palestinians - to be broken any time soon...
...about which she feels strongly, like the British government's announcement last week that marijuana will be downgraded to a low-risk drug whose use or possession is not an arrestable offense. Greenfield thinks that moves to decriminalize the drug are based on "the greatest myth of all" - the belief that cannabis is essentially harmless. "Having studied the effects of so-called soft drugs on the brain, I'm convinced that pot smokers are literally blowing their minds," she says. "We're starting to live in a drug culture, where instead of having fulfilled and interesting lives, people seek oblivion...
Before returning briefly to his message of public service to end the discussion, Dukakis took some time to explain his belief in the need for government support for a national light-rail system...
Hearing Ferraro’s passionate speech on the first day of my internship really challenged my views about women in politics. How do I reconcile her firm belief in the idea of a female president before the end of the decade with the fact that American women today remain largely underrepresented not only on the presidential level but in the national government as a whole...
...they would vote for a qualified woman president rose from 30 percent in 1945 to over 90 percent in 1999, 51 percent of those asked still believed a man would do a better job than a woman when it came to leading the nation during a crisis, underlining the belief that women lack credibility as commanders-in-chief precisely because they are women...