Sentence examples for in the face of belief from inspiring English sources

Besides, this counterfactual flies in the face of belief, rubbing against the grain of every "to hell in a handcart" Mail wail, where the young are always worse than their parents in culture, education and, above all, their frightening sexual habits.

The point here is that the science and the medical guidelines became irrelevant in the face of belief systems that rejected them as inhuman and unconscionable.

The ambiguous upshot of the work can be taken to be the impotence of rational criticism in the face of religious belief, rather than the illegitimacy of religious belief in the face of rational criticism.

The irony of it is almost Shakespearean: the hyper-conservative man of the church, secretly wrestling with fluidity of gender, a truth that flew in the face of those beliefs.

This new "experimentation" theory flies in the face of older beliefs that a great war among the humans cleared a path that allowed ape species to come to pre-eminence.

And this is where the good science and medicine began to melt in the face of hope, beliefs, and value sets that disagreed substantively and vehemently with the very principle of allowing a living human being to be removed from any extant form of life support and allowed to die.

That would explain why historical philosophical attempts to reconstruct the arguments by which such beliefs either arose or were justified were such notorious failures failures in the face of which ordinary belief nonetheless proceeded happily and helplessly onward.

The Women's Health Initiative findings surprised many people in medicine because they flew in the face of the entrenched belief that estrogen protected postmenopausal women from heart disease.

The two drug companies were told to stop paying doctors for overprescribing, but that flew in the face of our cultural belief: if a little of something is good, then a lot must be better.

It flies in the face of radical conservative belief that the "private sector" always does things better.

And nearly everyone agreed that Goyder's Line flew in the face of a popular belief that the "rain follows the plow".