Sentence examples for belief asserts from inspiring English sources

A widely held belief asserts that during these years a band of rigorous, cutting-edge composers, mostly based in prestigious East Coast universities, seized the intellectual high ground and bullied their colleagues and students into accepting serial procedures as the only valid form of modernism.

The data appear to contradict the common belief — asserted most recently by Mayor Gavin Newsom during a visit to The Bay Citizen newsroom — that few public employees can afford to live in notoriously expensive San Francisco.

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 in order to state the sort of evidentialism characteristic of Enlightenment thought, it is stipulated that no beliefs asserting the content of religious or mystical experiences count as evidence.

Some people do not recommend saying anything to the effect of abiding by your beliefs, asserting that your beliefs are a personal decision and that your host and other guests might feel insulted because by saying that you're trying to do the right thing by not drinking, you're implying that they are doing the wrong thing by consuming alcohol.

In the 1840s, Lincoln subscribed to the Doctrine of Necessity, a belief that asserted the human mind was controlled by some higher power.

At first he believed that she just didn't like him, but he decided to challenge his limiting belief and assert his desires.

Suppose for whatever reason that Mary sincerely believes that snow is green, has good evidence for this belief, and on the basis of this belief and evidence asserts that snow is green.

A key message to come out of the event was the difference between MPs expressing beliefs versus asserting evidence.

But when we consider the dual roles of nature and nurture, the values we hold and beliefs we assert do not appear to be a matter of choice.

Although this policy would be continually debated, the argument was persuasive - the women only nature of the peace camp gave women space to express their beliefs and assert their politics in their own names and traditions without the customary dominance of men.