Sentence examples for strongly held ideas from inspiring English sources

That the belief in question is built on conceptual sand does not mean that it's not strongly held: ideas that have the least evidential basis often prove to be the most tenacious, a phenomenon that makes rationalists (rightly) despair.

Under pressure from her restive military, she was forced to abandon one of the most strongly held ideas she brought to her presidency, an amnesty and reconciliation with a Communist insurgency.

While the governing Communist Party has long sought to portray democracy as unsuitable for the Chinese nation, it also considers Taiwan a part of China — despite a six-decade schism during which the island of 23 million has developed strongly held ideas about free speech and self-determination.

It's probably because Williams and Ceci's findings also question strongly held ideas about gender.

This book should once and for all demolish the myth that Ronald Reagan was a simple man who had only a couple of strongly held ideas.

For all its tininess, Israel is packed with such a diversity of people and their strongly held ideas that it often seems like a living microcosm of the old Jewish joke: How many synagogues does a shipwrecked Jew build on a desert island?

We did not distinguish between ideas generated during data collection and deeply held ideas.

While the idea of the swidden still resonates as a symbol of Dayak identity, an idea strongly held by some traditional leaders and local NGOs (Petebang and Bider 2001), sufficient land for large swidden fields no longer exists.

The ideas you aim to suppress bubble up, often more strongly held than ever.

The ideas in Broadcasting Happiness are real-life applications of my strongly held belief that we all should "give what you need" (a tenet of my own personal manifesto).

Such is the power of strongly held beliefs.