(n.) Assent to a proposition or affirmation, or the acceptance of a fact, opinion, or assertion as real or true, without immediate personal knowledge; reliance upon word or testimony; partial or full assurance without positive knowledge or absolute certainty; persuasion; conviction; confidence; as, belief of a witness; the belief of our senses.
(n.) A persuasion of the truths of religion; faith.
(n.) The thing believed; the object of belief.
(n.) A tenet, or the body of tenets, held by the advocates of any class of views; doctrine; creed.
Example Sentences:
(1) You can see where the religious meme sprung from: when the world was an inexplicable and scary place, a belief in the supernatural was both comforting and socially adhesive.
(2) Our parents had no religious beliefs and there will be no funeral."
(3) The sexual attitudes and beliefs of 20 children who have been present at the labor and delivery of sibs and have observed the birth process are compared with 20 children who have not been present at delivery.
(4) Responding to a “We the People” petition, launched after Snowden’s initial leaks were published in the Guardian two years ago, the Obama administration on Tuesday reiterated its belief that he should face criminal charges for his actions.
(5) The spirit is great here, the players work very hard, we kept the belief when we were in third place and now we are here.
(6) The Hindu belief system accommodates this by prescribing use in such a way that this effect becomes beneficial.
(7) Despite tthree resignations and his reputation as a tribal operator in the Blair-Brown wars, however, his belief in the party he joined on his 15th birthday is undimmed.
(8) There can’t be something, someone that could fix this and chooses not to.” Years of agnosticism and an open attitude to religious beliefs thrust under the bus, acknowledging the shame that comes from sitting down with those the world forgot.
(9) It's not egotism, it's something else, a weird unshakeable belief.
(10) He restated his belief that it was in the national interest to remain in the EU, and said he was "confident" he could secure a successful renegotiation of Britain's relationship that could be put to the public.
(11) One view of these results stems from the belief that contraception is a necessary evil and the pill is the closest to a 'natural' sex act.
(12) What emerges strongly is the expressed belief of many that Isis can be persuasive, liberating and empowering.
(13) Following the cognitive orientation theory, we hypothesized that beliefs concerning goals, norms, oneself, and general beliefs would predict the extent of improvement following acupuncture.
(14) Curriculum writers and instructors of preservice elementary teachers could be more effective if they were aware of this group's beliefs about school-related AIDS issues.
(15) It is our belief that the reproductive and maternal capabilities of the colony-born females were adversely affected by the practice of removing neonates from their mothers at weaning and raising them with age-mates.
(16) But whether it arose from religious belief, from a noblesse oblige or from a sense of solidarity, duty in Britain has been, to most people, the foundation of rights rather than their consequence.
(17) The definition of midwife is given as midwives trained in a community setting to assist in delivery within the confines of accepted cultural beliefs.
(18) It has arisen from semantic errors, and a belief in ischaemia for which there is no scientific evidence.
(19) Many well-meaning female leadership development programmes share this belief, teaching women to negotiate, network and make decisions “like a man”.
(20) Hillary Clinton said that people who are pro-life have to change our religious beliefs,” said Louisiana governor Bobby Jindal in a statement released by the American Future project , which is backing his undeclared presidential campaign.
Ism
Definition:
(n.) A doctrine or theory; especially, a wild or visionary theory.
Example Sentences:
(1) Enhancer sequences analysed using the informational spectrum method (ISM) show a characteristic frequency at .0488.
(2) Today, Britain is broke and broken, everyone's on the scam and excessive right on-ism is forcing ordinary Britons into retreat.
(3) "The ISM noted that some of the recent strength is due to the effects of the accelerated investment depreciation tax allowance, which expired at the end of last year.
(4) A single application of ouabain (10 microM) to CA3 by local pressure ejection caused a slow rise in local [K+]o measured with K-ISMs.
(5) In conclusion, a single oral dose of 60 mg of sustained-release ISM-R seems to be an effective drug in the treatment of effort angina, its effectiveness lasting more than 10 hours without side effects.
(6) A retrospective autopsy study of 627 patients with systemic cancer disclosed 153 patients with metastasis to the central nervous system (CNS) and 13 patients with intramedullary spinal cord metastasis (ISM).
(7) The purpose of these studies was to examine metastatic potentials of a human colon tumor xenograft (T6) and three different human tumor cell lines (LS174T, HT29 and A549) using the intrasplenic-nude mouse model system (ISMS model system).
(8) Both the ISM and Markit found that factory growth picked up last month.
(9) Of 104 patients, 10 developed ISM, with a 1-year actuarial risk of 25%.
(10) The case described suggests that this method of radiologic investigation can provide a prompt identification of ISM from other noncompressive complications of systemic cancers.
(11) One system that has proven to be very amenable for the study of PCD is the intersegmental muscle (ISM) of the tobacco hawkmoth Manduca sexta.
(12) This paper reports a study of the recall and precision of the source selection elements in the prototype version of the ISM.
(13) Intramedullary spinal cord metastasis (ISM) is an unusual cause of myelopathy, in comparison to the common problem of extramedullary metastasis.
(14) In the superfusate at 20 microns above the inner limiting membrane (ILM), current-evoked delta[K+] was a function of current polarity and strength; its amplitude decreased as the K-ISM was moved higher above the ILM.
(15) The Irish term for this is 'mé féin-ism', or 'myself-ism', a play on Sinn Féin, or 'we ourselves'.
(16) This is very important for radiation treatment which can be effective in the early stages of ISM.
(17) One of the upregulated presumptive cell-death genes encodes polyubiquitin, which appears to play a critical role in the rapid proteolysis that accompanies ISM death.
(18) Dietrologia” – which translates, roughly, to “behind-ism” – refers to the belief that the official explanation for any set of events is almost invariably the wrong one.
(19) This ISM-based technique also may be useful in measuring K+ turnover in other cell types.
(20) When patients with ISM are diagnosed premorbidly, they usually have a previously known or concurrently diagnosable primary neoplasm.