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These beliefs are self-fulfilling prophecies.
At the root of both beliefs is the fear and uncertainty generated by globalization, with citizens concerned for their security and unsure of their place in the world.
In the 2016 election, the personal beliefs that drove millions of voters’ decisions were based not only on each person’s experiences and the information they accessed, but also on how they processed those experiences and that information.
In the election, most mainstream pundits did not seem to “get” millions of Americans’ beliefs or viewpoints, so it is little wonder that those millions of Americans were turned off by the pundits’ incessant chatter.
Relationships are built on trust, which is essential for ensuring that consumers accept information that challenges their closely held beliefs.
Wall street 1929 all over againCAMBRIDGE: Any writer of financial fiction would have an easy time setting the stage-ballooning valuations of stocks founded on exaggerated beliefs about the impact of new technologies on productivity, and gross over-confidence in the American model, are placed side-by-side with an all-pervasive global financial fragility, evidenced in the Asian crises, a moribund Japan, and chaotic Russia.
Millennia-old cultural beliefs in East Asia underpin the view that if government is not part of the solution, no public good can be achieved.
This stance sanctions the use of violence against the Other, whether Christian, Jew, or even other Muslims who do not share their beliefs.
The Open Drains of Latin AmericaNEW YORK – Stories are most believable when they reaffirm our prior beliefs and assumptions.
Driven by these beliefs, a union of “liberals” attempted to bring about a kind of bureaucratic modernization, having convinced themselves that liberal political outcomes could somehow be orchestrated by corrupt bureaucracy through limited democratic institutions.
She feels that, in acting as she did, she was faithful to her most cherished values and beliefs.
Many of these connections take place on un-moderated platforms that expose children to a wide variety of opinions, beliefs, and cultures – not all positive or safe.
The case for exclusion was based on a defense of Enlightenment principles: Jewish culture and beliefs would inevitably undermine Norway’s liberal democracy.
He saw no contradiction between his beliefs and the setting in which he expressed them.
After the event, Beck gave an interview, in which he criticized Obama – not for his tax policies, but for having the wrong religious beliefs.
Dictatorships and other seemingly omnipotent forms of authoritarianism may look like large, top-down structures, but in the final analysis, they are merely the outcome of ordinary individuals’ beliefs and choices.
Individual citizens should be free to live according to their beliefs; but an unaccountable theological vision must not be allowed to shape their behavior as civil servants and bureaucrats.
In today’s interconnected world, individuals and non-state groups motivated by extremist ideologies can use the power of new technologies to shape attitudes and beliefs, and incite violence on a global scale.
Analysts who focused only on those elements of China's or South Korea's experience that fit their beliefs missed the larger story that these countries were undergoing massively heterodox experiments.
As humans, we are well aware of these: the transmission of cultural variations, such as different religious beliefs, is a prime example.
The sources of liquid funds today are in Asia and the Middle East, but why should these countries contribute money to organizations in which their voice is limited and which have often pushed policies that are antithetical to their values and beliefs?
Yet the lesson of recent studies is that beliefs about what the government can and should do are not immutable.
We will pursue our goals regardless of where we find may ourselves - in parliament (supporting the government or in opposition), in the presidential palace, or even in prison for our beliefs (as I found myself not many weeks ago).
Not surprisingly, those who adhere to such beliefs are more averse to redistribution and welfare, and evidence shows that in the US, those who express more "anti-minority" points of view are also more averse to redistribution and more likely to have less sympathy for the poor.
The artificial fusion of the mainly Arab, Muslim north of Sudan and the African south, where Christianity and traditional animist beliefs are predominant, has been an abject failure.
These were judgments made by economists who were familiar with our business leadership – their inspirations, beliefs, subterfuges, and rationalizations.
Such beliefs, of course, have been around for much longer than the modern state of Israel.
Acting on such beliefs in his political career made him a politician of the kind that the contemporary world no longer sees.
No matter how many schoolchildren are gunned down or what the scientific evidence may be for the effects of carbon dioxide emissions, people will not change beliefs that define their identity.
There is too little knowledge about other communities’ beliefs and history, and what little exists has been overwhelmed by sectarian anger and its poisonous rhetoric.
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