The Latter-day Saint Endowment prayer circle once included use of the words " Pay Lay Ale ", which some adherents believed were Adamic words meaning " Oh God, hear the words of my mouth ".

In the late 1980s, he refused a National Medal from the National Endowment for the Arts because he believed the NEA had become too politicized.

Reverend Donald E. Wildmon, the president of the American Family Association, opposed PBS and the National Endowment for the Arts for airing Tongues Untied but hoped that the film would be widely released, because he believed most Americans would find it offensive.

This is the only reliable manifestation of polyembryony in the class Mammalia, and only exists within the genus Dasypus and not in all armadillos, as is commonly believed.

Qi is believed to be part of every living thing that exists, as a kind of " life force " or " spiritual energy ".

While recent evidence suggesting that American Ivory-billed Woodpeckers may still exist in the wild has caused excitement in the Ornithology community, no similar evidence exists for the Cuban Ivory-billed bird, believed to be extinct since the last sighting in the late 1980s.

He believed that society was formed from a state of nature to protect people from the state of war between mankind that exists otherwise.

In addition, a new regional constitution was drafted and later passed on 15 June 2009, which is believed to represent a significant step toward the eventual introduction of a multi-party political system to the region for the first time ; such a system already exists in the adjacent Somaliland region.

Minimal concrete information exists on oceanic manta movements, but they are generally believed to be more transient and migratory than the smaller reef mantas, which tend to be resident to shallower coastal habitats.

The untransmitted pilot episode, " Adam Adamant Lives ", now no longer exists in the BBC Archives, and is believed to be lost forever.

Warren believed that it was almost certainly built for some other purpose, and was only adapted into a cistern at a later date ; he suggested that it might have been part of a general vault supporting the northern side of the platform, in which case substantially more of the chamber exists than is used for a cistern.

The passageway for each is vaulted, and has two aisles ( in the case of the triple gate, a third aisle exists for a brief distance beyond the gate ); the eastern aisle of the double gates and western of the triple gates reach the surface, the other aisles terminating some way before the steps – Warren believed that one aisle of each original passage was extended when the al-Aqsa Mosque blocked the original surface exits.

The Cappadocian Fathers of the 4th century said that they believed in God, but they did not believe that God exists in the same sense that everything else exists.

They believed in a prisca theologia, the doctrine that a single, true theology exists, which threads through all religions, and which was given by God to man in antiquity and passed through a series of prophets, which included Zoroaster and Plato.

The Pharisees believed that in addition to the written Torah recognized by both the Sadducees and Pharisees and believed to have been written by Moses, there exists another Torah, consisting of the corpus of oral laws and traditions transmitted by God to Moses orally, and then memorized and passed down by Moses and his successors over the generations.

Both before and after life, it is believed that this spirit-child exists in the Dreaming and is only initiated into life by being born through a mother.

It is also believed that a lake monster exists within one of the hundreds of caves.

Some might equate any form of antitheism to an overt opposition to God, since these beliefs run contrary to the idea of making devotion to God the highest priority in life, although those ideas would imply that God exists, and that he wishes to be worshiped, or to be believed in.

A bunting flag that exists, in the white and red configuration with 13 blue stars, is not believed to be Alabama-associated, but rather to be tied to Rucker's Brigade, as well.

Controversy exists over the ancestry of the Godolphin Arabian ; some writers referred to him as a Barb, because of his believed country of origin, Tunisia, on the Barbary Coast, but portraits, showing a horse with a high-carried tail and dished profile, features that differentiate Arabians from Barbs, lead experts to believe he was more likely an Arabian.

He believed that the truths about these objects also exists independently of the human mind, but is discovered by humans.

The quotation is believed by most modern scholars to be taken from 1 Enoch 1: 9 which exists in Greek, in Ethiopic, as part of the Ethiopian Orthodox canon, and also in Aramaic among the Dead Sea Scrolls.

They believed in a prisca theologia, the doctrine that a single, true, theology exists, which threads through all religions, and which was given by god to man in antiquity.

Franklin Township in Somerset County, New Jersey, site of the Revolutionary War Battle of Middlebush, was believed by many to also have been named for William, but no document exists to prove that.

This confusion also exists regarding the Lara Jonggrang temple at the Prambanan complex, which was believed that it was erected by the victor Rakai Pikatan as the Sanjaya dynasty's reply to Borobudur, but others suggest that there was a climate of peaceful coexistence where Sailendra involvement exists in Lara Jonggrang.

In Germany, the Nazis used social Darwinism to promote their racialist concept of the German nation as part of the Aryan race and the need for the Aryan race to be victorious in what the Nazis believed was a race struggle — an ongoing competition and conflict between races.

Newly acquired declarative memory traces are believed to be reactivated during NonREM sleep to promote their hippocampo-neocortical transfer for long-term storage.

He was convinced to leave Rome and travel up to join Lothair, in hopes that his intervention would promote peace, but in practice this action annoyed the Frankish bishops who followed Louis, who believed that Gregory was actively supporting Lothair.

It is believed that Urban's pontificate was during a peaceful time for Christians in the Empire as Severus did not promote the persecution of Christianity.

For example, since the wood phase was believed to promote the fire phase, medicinal ingredients associated with the wood phase could be used to heal an organ associated with the fire phase.

Hence, dreaming is believed to promote competition and the reproductive success of those best suited to the environment.

Wheeler believed strongly that archaeology needed public support, and was assiduous in appearing on radio and television to promote it.

Miró's oft-quoted interest in the assassination of painting is derived from a dislike of bourgeois art, which he believed was used as a way to promote propaganda and cultural identity among the wealthy.

Small distillers believed Hamilton deliberately designed the tax to ruin them and promote big business, a view endorsed by some historians.

But the organizers believed the 1952 Games could be an opportunity to promote national unity and to show the world that Norway had recovered from the war.

Now comfortable speaking in front of groups, she routinely spoke to promote issues she believed in and became famous for expressing a sense of humor and self-deprecating wit.

DeLorean believed there was an undue amount of infighting at GM between divisional heads, and several of Pontiac's advertising campaign themes met with internal resistance, such as the " Tiger " campaign used to promote the GTO and other Pontiac models in 1965 and 1966.

He believed that the growth of a commercial society through the pursuit of individual self-interest could promote a self-sustaining progress.

" He believed that Home Rule would promote friendship between Ireland and her neighbour to the east.

Fasting is believed to help promote chastity and humility and prevent sin, the outburst of uncontrolled lusts and desires and far-fetched hopes.

In 2005, the American Civil Liberties Union sued the U. S. Department of Health and Human Services because it believed SRT used tax dollars to promote Christianity.

Fabre d ’ Eglantine believed that he could fashion a place for theater in revolutionary culture and redeem French drama by developing a new form of theater that would promote the new social order of equality and fraternity.

Henry believed that Becket would promote the king's agenda but was dismayed to see Becket adhere to his own conscience.

It is widely believed in many East Asian societies that this custom helps heal injuries to the perineum, promote the contraction of the uterus, and promote lactation.

Specifically, factors promoting secure attachment are believed to promote humility ( cf.

Advocates of the philosophy believed that such beautification could thus promote a harmonious social order that would increase the quality of life.

These were provided free of charge by a number of progressive Melbourne music teachers who believed that radio would help promote both them and their students.

" In December 2009, I made a film to be aired during the Academy Awards that I believed was to promote the Heart and Stroke Foundation.