Perhaps these changes signal not only the economic strains of our time, but a diminishing belief in the value of contemporary classical music.
But just because of the nature of that defeat, it hasn't diminished our belief that we can be Six Nations champions.
On June 27 , 2007 at the start of a two-day meeting, Bill Dudley, who then ran the markets desk at the New York Fed (today, he is the institution's president), reported that "market participants generally believe that the downside risks to growth have diminished" — a belief he did little to question.
Reality, Arendt suggested, never modifies totalitarian ideas; events do not prove those ideas wrong or diminish belief.
His loss of 40 states that year to George H.W. Bush was rough, but did not diminish his belief in the value of canvassing.
"Security in society seems to diminish religious belief," Zuckerman says.
However, Lei — one of China's most successful technology entrepreneurs — said that the situation doesn't diminish his belief in his business.
This internal conversation is further supported by self-sabotage, self-deception and self-corruption that further diminishes your belief in your potential to take action and get the results you desire.
"I wouldn't have any idea, I don't know… I figured that it would have to be of some importance, it's something to do with iron or something like that?" (Female, 18) Although most donors had limited understanding about the role of haemoglobin in the body, it did not diminish their belief that there were justifiable reasons for their deferral, indicating high levels of trust in the organisation.
If self-control is enhanced by the belief that what one does matters (i.e., an internal locus of control) and is diminished by the belief that what happens is a matter of luck (i.e., an external locus of control), then self-control may be another pathway linking locus of control to many of life's outcomes.
