He added his name to a letter from writers asserting a belief "in the possibilities of human rehabilitation and transformation".
But, from the start of his ten-year term at the F.B.I., Comey asserted a belief in the agency's right to chart its own course.
But these last years, devoted to asserting a belief formulated when Asch visited Palestine in 1906 that Christianity is essentially a Jewish phenomenon, "one culture and civilization"—were tragic years.
"A recipient cannot avow the belief dictated" by the government, he wrote, "and then turn around and assert a contrary belief, or claim neutrality, when participating in activities on its own time and dime".
But as Chief Justice Roberts explained, this condition is coercive because a recipient has to take an affirmative position and is not allowed to get funds "and then turn around and assert a contrary belief, or claim neutrality, when participating in activities on its own time and dime".
For example, accepting a doxastic or a causal-doxastic theory of the basing relation would appear to be at odds with the fundamental intuition behind causal theories of justification (e.g., reliabilism), which assert that a belief is justified merely by being caused in an appropriate way.
The film's mysteries are derived from Scott and co's research into myth and ancient civilisations, and he asserts a genuine belief in their possibilities.
The survey was prompted by an intense debate over medical workers who refuse to deliver care that runs contrary to their moral or religious beliefs, asserting a "right of conscience" or "right of refusal". Some pharmacists, for example, refuse to fill prescriptions for birth control and emergency contraceptive "morning-after" pills.
But we have forgotten that when Oasis dreamed these dreams, they were living on the ground, in a context where idealism found expression in a fierce need to assert the belief that life is not, ultimately, about self and escapism, but about discovering paradise in the minds of other people.
