Sentence examples for unfounded beliefs from inspiring English sources

However, a return to old-style religion is also an inferior solution, for that would represent a withdrawal into the obsolete and unfounded beliefs of the past.

As they swirled around my feet I moved forward, and with every step I felt the coil of unfounded beliefs, ungrounded frustrations, and unending despair tightening around my chest and arms".

We hear stories about home-schooled, unvaccinated friends being disinvited from birthday parties because it's simply ceased to be socially acceptable for someone to let their unfounded beliefs endanger their neighbors and their kids.

We tend to give priority to our own interactions with and feelings for the person we are called upon to judge, and since people are usually consistent in their behavior toward us, we form unfounded beliefs in the stability of their dispositions.

According to the 9/11 Commission report and presidential briefings at the time, Wolfowitz also invoked those same unfounded beliefs before 9/11, when he insisted that C.I.A. intelligence about a coming Qaeda attack was a deception engineered by Saddam Hussein and could be ignored.

This can "fix beliefs" or "generate false or unfounded beliefs" (Fogelin and Duggan [1987]).

Perhaps that misreading led to the otherwise unfounded belief that Habakkuk is the work's subject.

And as Mrs. Bachmann's comments show, some still adhere to the scientifically unfounded belief that vaccinations are linked to mental disorders.

As Canadians alone remember, the province of Quebec, in two referendums, did, or came close to doing, the same thing with the same unfounded belief.

From then on, any effect that unfounded belief in the effectiveness of the technique had in terms of increasing disclosures is likely to disappear.

Re "Pocket of Opposition to Vaccine Threatens Polio Eradication" (Dec. 9): The unfounded belief that polio vaccine can cause infertility has limited acceptance in the Islamic regions of Nigeria.