(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.
Outgrow
Definition:
(v. t.) To surpass in growing; to grow more than.
(v. t.) To grow out of or away from; to grow too large, or too aged, for; as, to outgrow clothing; to outgrow usefulness; to outgrow an infirmity.
Example Sentences:
(1) Further management of the congenital cases was based on the experience that children outgrow this disorder; periodic dilatation may augment the natural process.
(2) Our findings lead us to support a conservative attitude regarding surgery, at least if only mild symptoms are present, If the patients can be satisfactorily treated medically, they seem to outgrow their symptoms in early childhood.
(3) Vegetative cells outgrowing from glycerol-induced myxospores were regularly pleomorphic, a condition that persisted through the first cell division.
(4) Small tumor fragments were transferred into culture flasks and cultured until a confluent monolayer was formed by the outgrowing cells.
(5) Chinese hamster V79 multicell spheroids growing in tissue culture exhibit many of the same properties as solid tumors outgrowing their blood supply, including the spontaneous development of both noncycling and hypoxic cell populations expected to be resistant to many chemotherapeutic agents.
(6) In the long-term experiments, with the lower TNF doses, in situ evidence of regrowth was observed (outgrowing zones in the nodules) on about the 40th day of treatment, and nodule recovery was confirmed by the resumption of DNA synthesis measured on the 50th day of treatment.
(7) Whereas the intramembranous particle number in glial pseudopodia is only slightly lower than in their perikaryal plasmalemma, the number of particles in outgrowing axons increases about eightfold from the periphery towards the perikaryon.
(8) The sequence encoding the most efficient trans-activation-responsive region did not outgrow others.
(9) More efficient glucose uptake enabled a mutant to outgrow its parent and caused a decrease in the steady-state glucose concentration in the chemostat.
(10) The outgrowing serotonergic fibers from the mesencephalic raphe graft showed a hyperinnervation pattern in the cerebellar cortex adjacent to the graft.
(11) Parents were the first to suspect the hearing loss in 48 cases but more often than not were told that the child would outgrow it or was too young to test.
(12) These findings suggest that the plasmalemma of the outgrowing nerve, and especially of the growth cone, is immature and that maturation is accompanied by the insertion of intramembranous particles.
(13) 146:430-432, 1981) we isolated three genes involved in Bacillus subtilis spore outgrowth by screening the library by hybridization with labeled RNA from outgrowing spores in the presence of an excess of unlabeled vegetative RNA.
(14) Spores of the mutant synthesized no DNA when germinated at high temperature, although an outgrowing cell appeared.
(15) Only the inner surface of the vitelline membrane has this growth-promoting potential, which markedly and progressively declines during incubation in ovo because of systemic factors rather than because of a direct influence by the outgrowing yolk sac-serosal membrane.
(16) Fluorescence immunohistochemistry revealed the presence of the integrin beta 1-chain on the outgrowing neurites.
(17) Major contributors to the outgrowing axon's environment are the lumbosacral (LS) somites which give rise to limb muscle cells and the LS somatopleural mesoderm which gives rise to limb connective tissues.
(18) Most children do outgrow their respiratory symptoms but not the susceptibility of their airways to allergens.
(19) In the presence of inhibitors affecting membrane potential, vegetative cells were as sensitive to chloroquine as outgrowing spores.
(20) These results indicate that serotonergic and dopaminergic neurons located within the mesencephalic raphe graft clearly differed from each other in their ability to extend their processes into the host cerebellum, which provides further evidence for the existence of specific interactions between outgrowing serotonergic fibers and their terminal fields (targets).