Sentence examples for declining belief from inspiring English sources

Relatively peaceful and prosperous societies, we can establish, tend to have a declining belief in a deity.

In any event, according to Judt, since the 1980s, from Reagan to Bush, from Thatcher to Brown, it has been downhill all the way, with growing inequity, a declining belief in the role of the state and a falling away from civic engagement.

Witness "post-Christian Europe," the flight from the mainstream churches, the polls showing declining belief.

Yet decline in belief seems to be occurring across the board, including in places that are still strongly religious, such as Brazil, Jamaica and Ireland.

Reasons people gave for declining included: a belief that the research would be of no direct benefit to them personally, and not feeling comfortable talking about their epilepsy, especially as they feared that it might upset them and bring on a seizure.

Our findings contradict the long-standing belief that declining GH and IGF levels, characterizing individual aging in vertebrate species, result primarily from endocrine deficiency, a viewpoint frequently used to promote the conception of hormonal replacement (Sonntag et al., 2005).

While reported as declining, adherence to local beliefs held by the elders, was reported as contributing to the continuation of these practices: "For ethnic group in Toum Lane, women should deliver their baby in the forest and alone.

There are many different questions about climate change, none of them perfect, but almost all, except Mr. Krosnick's, show a significant decline in belief in climate change.

Chu bemoans the "decline of belief for gay people," with a lot of hand-wringing about those who have abandoned the faith.

But Fox's rather direct question — "Do you believe global warming exists?" — shows the same trend: a 19 percentage point decline in belief in global warming between 2007 and 2009.

The past 30 years has seen a steady decline in belief in politics and politicians, maybe because of a sense that many of the major battles have been won.