Word: trusts
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...historical setting of the Bible became the subject of investigations with the coming of the Reformation. Luther and Calvin believed doctrine should be based on "Scripture alone," not ecclesiastical tradition. Though the Reformers had a complete trust in the Bible's reliability and developed their own creeds to reinforce its teachings, their insistence that each individual read the Bible for himself set the stage for the rise of radical new ideas that they would have abhorred. In the 17th century the Dutch Philosopher Baruch ("Benedict") Spinoza, an excommunicated Jew, used a method that would be widely emulated by rationalist critics...
...reflective, gently steered the conversation to the problems of presidential leadership in an era of pessimism. The scholars picked up the cue. Boorstin told the President that skepticism about political leaders is inherent and healthy in democracy. Diamond noted that the challenge of leadership is to balance skepticism with trust. Wilson observed that the malaise in America had increased since the 1950s particularly because many people felt that the quality of life had not kept pace with technological advance. Ford suggested that perhaps the pendulum had swung too far toward a national "self-destructive impulse" that threatened institutions and savaged...
...silence he maintained for most of his seven years in exile further eroded what sentiment remained for restoring the King to power. During the prereferendum campaign, Constantine emphasized his willingness to accept a purely ceremonial role as constitutional monarch. The voters, however, were not inclined to trust a man whom many still hold responsible for the bitter experience of the past seven years...
...Princess Anne, there is no living down her occasional lapses in horsewomanship. At a charity fund-raising evening sponsored by the Grand Order of Water Rats, an entertainers' organization, Anne and Husband Captain Mark Phillips arrived to accept a check on behalf of the Police Dependents Trust. "Have you fallen off any good horses lately?" cracked Basil Brush, a puppet fox and star of a children's tele vision show. Replied Anne coolly: "You don't fall off good horses...
...present, for example, when Mitchell reported that the cash demands of Burglar E. Howard Hunt "had been taken care of; Haldeman said he did not know what Mitchell had meant by that. Asked Ben-Veniste: "What did you think-Mitchell was going to take Hunt down to the Bankers Trust and co-sign a loan for him?" Repeated Haldeman: "I didn't know...