Sentence examples for prevailing faith from inspiring English sources

But the transcribed conversation in The Atlantic, starting with that headline, is rather the opposite of measured, taking the measure of prevailing sentiment, and apparently concluding that prevailing faith in nutrient supplements warranted some additional throttling.

This Easter season, a set of 59 medieval English alabaster panels on loan from London's Victoria and Albert Museum allows those residing in the United States to relive this narrative central to some of the world's most prevailing faith traditions.

The public's prevailing faith in power was shown by the reader-comments at Yahoo News, on 6 February 2012, headlining from The New York Times, "Deal Is Closer for a U.S. Plan on Mortgage Relief," in which was reported that the principal amounts on some past-due underwater mortgages might be lowered via a deal that Obama was reaching with the banks.

The Christian Apologists, Christian writers of the 2nd century who provided a defense of the faith against prevailing Greco-Roman culture, were at home in this thought-world, and many of them used its ideas and assumptions both in propagating the Gospel and in defending it as a coherent and intellectually tenable system of belief.

The gap in respect between charity and taxation also reflects prevailing social attitudes: Americans' faith in the government's ability to solve society's most pressing problems is languishing in a decades-long trough; according to a recent Gallup poll, trust that the federal government will "do what is right" is near an all-time low.

Then September's terrorist attacks turned prevailing ideas about people's faith in their political institutions upside down, along with so much else.

But secularisation emerged at a time when Europe was beginning to colonise the New World, and it would come to exert considerable influence on the way the west viewed those it had colonised – much as in our own time, the prevailing secular ideology perceives Muslim societies that seem incapable of separating faith from politics to be irredeemably flawed.

Sacks is one of many religious leaders to have lamented the marginalisation of faith in public life, arguing that Britain will be weakened by the prevailing liberal, secular culture.

"I believe nothing of any beauty or truth comes of a piece of writing without the author's thinking he has sinned against something – propriety, custom, faith, privacy, tradition, political orthodoxy, historical fact, literary convention, or indeed, all the prevailing standards together".

We were trying to find a physical location we could go to that would speak to the themes of losing your faith and the choice between letting the Empire win, or evil win, and good prevailing.

Another factor was that, since prevailing Russian medical culture relies heavily on pharmacologic therapy, both providers and patients might place more "faith" in, and therefore favor, pharmacologic over behavioral interventions.