Word: confessionally
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That confession of faith, the shahada, is professed by all Muslims, be they the 700 million Sunnis who dominate the Islamic world from Morocco to Indonesia or the 90 million Shi'ites who rule Iran and form majorities in Lebanon, Bahrain and Iraq. To the shahada, however, the Shi'ites...
I have a confession to make. I believe in God. Yes, we're talking about the Supreme Being, a benevolent force up there in heaven and all that stuff.
To the President's supporters, Poindexter's confession was a turning point in the Iran-contra melodrama, resolving one of the essential issues of the scandal. There would be no evidence directly linking Reagan to the ugly and possibly unlawful use of money garnered by selling weapons to terrorists. While...
Gorbachev needs a respite from all-out competition with the West in order to get on with his program. He wants to transform the Soviet Union from a muscle- bound but backward empire into a modern state able to hold its own in the global marketplace of goods and ideas...
According to his Marine lawyer, Bracy's interrogation and his eventual confession were shams. The lawyer, Lieut. Colonel Michael Powell, says NIS investigators have admitted altering their assessments of portions of Bracy's polygraph results from "nondeceptive" to "deceptive." (The Marine brass say the changes were merely "administrative.") Powell, an...