It is in our collective power to combat beliefs perpetrated by single stories.
But they are also upholding another difficult-to-combat belief: that what goes on within the confines of family life, especially a family life as messy and complex as the Farrow-Allen household's, is essentially unknowable and private.
Partly in order to combat this belief, in 1689 a priest in Breslau in Silesia (now Wroclaw in Poland) collected the ages at which people died.
We must work diligently to appear as professional and informed as any of their employees if we are to combat this belief and become the respected leaders our organizations need.
An experimental psychologist is using a cardigan purported to have been worn by murderer Fred West to argue that scientists' efforts to combat "irrational" beliefs are ultimately futile.
For example, enhanced medical education to recognize and combat ageist beliefs and behaviors may help to reduce the under-treatment of restricting back pain in older adults.
His primary affirmation of Confucianism philosophically sought to combat the foreign belief system by reaffirming an ethical and metaphysical position that was universal, in his view, and yet distinctively East Asian and Japanese.
It looks like men holding the door open for women, the governments banning – er – "protecting" women from combat, and the belief that women are more gentle and kind.
It was the perfect way to combat the impression that Huckabee's religious beliefs, which seem to rule out evolution, are extreme.
Efforts to combat these mistaken beliefs have made one thing clear: it's much easier to scare people than it is to dispel fears, regardless of how dangerous and untrue they are.
They don't know how to combat the Bushies' visceral belief in action over explanation, juice over justification.
