Sentence examples for reducing faith from inspiring English sources

Intrigued by the apparent suggestion that Peaky Blinders is reducing faith in law and order (presumably by raising fears of being slashed by a razor in Birmingham in 1919), I read the 105-page report, which left me feeling that the reporter may have used inappropriate force to get that story out of it.

On this understanding, reducing faith to a kind of hope (Section 9 above) would eradicate an important relation between the two namely that people of faith take reality to be such that their hope (for salvation, the triumph of the good) is well founded, and not merely an attractive fantasy or inspiring ideal.

Too often, though, American politicians and moralists have reduced faith in Providence to a religious sanction for raw power.

Laurance S. Rockefeller, one of Nelson's brothers, has cautioned that "overly harsh laws and punishments have reduced faith in government".

Having reduced faith to the private realm, modernity has no room for the public embrace of religion at all.

The collapse undercut the Democrats' popularity at the same time as it reduced faith in Keynesian ideas that had, for decades, guided U.S. economic policy.

There was no official inquiry into the attacks, despite demand from some sections of the media, as there was concern that an inquiry would lead to defeatism and reduce faith in John Curtin's government, particularly after the damaging inquiry into Australian defences that had followed the Japanese aerial attack on Darwin three months earlier.

Finally, distrust towards (new) vaccines had also hampered uptake: small-scale vaccination projects are often confused with trials, but also bad experiences during previous vaccination programs had reduced faith.

Faith without reason, he argues, has led to dispirting fragmentation, reducing religion to a kind of private prejudice or fanatical hobby, while "reason" without faith has led to despair that is disguised as progress.

"It can reduce your faith".

Each also reduces whatever faith India still has in General Musharraf as a worthwhile negotiating partner.