Sentence examples for grant belief from inspiring English sources

This refusal to grant belief any explanatory power shows purity and toughness on the writer's part, but it also calls to mind what my Catholic ancestors called scrupulosity, an avoidance that comes at the cost of fullness of life.

I'm convinced, for instance, by recent arguments, notably one by writer Paul Elie, that most contemporary novels fail to "grant belief any explanatory power" and thus refuse one sense of "the fullness of life". Arguably the most popular Christian factual writing in recent years, "Heaven Is for Real," recounts a child's round trip to heaven, where Jesus keeps a rainbow horse.

Sources of funding: The research was funded by the following grants: MRC belief in concept grant evaluated and disbursed through the Guy's and St. Thomas Charityy to B.P., A.V., and C.H. and a Department of Biotechnology, Government of India, Ramalingaswamy Fellowship to A.V. The views expressed are those of the author(s) and not necessarily those of the NHS, the NIHR or the Department of Health.

To suppose this is not possible is to beg the question against those who would grant that beliefs are motivationally inert while holding that moral claims express beliefs.

The injustice of this government's grants defies belief: Newham gets £800,000 to help with homelessness, Westminster £8m.

Another type of instrumentalism, which we might call soft instrumentalism, grants that beliefs are real, but only in a less robust sense than is ordinarily thought.

Snowden never actually questions the good will of the people he worked with at the N.S.A.; he grants them (as we might grant Obama) their belief that they are working in the interests of the United States — that there is no ideology of oppression.

Let us grant that this belief is true.

An 18th-century Tibetan document grants freedom of belief; it was soon superseded when Christian missionaries became too zealous and were expelled.

The representationalist may also grant the possibility of implicit belief, or belief without explicit representation, in cases of the following sort (discussed in Dennett 1978; Fodor 1987).

Furthermore, Gellman has added more recently, even if we grant that rock bottom beliefs are at times open to belief assessment, the exclusivist need not engage in such assessment in the face of religious diversity unless she finds that the awareness of such diversity is causing her to lose significant confidence in her own perspective.