In France, particularly Burgundy, there is the belief that the role of a winemaker is to bring out the expression of a wine's terroir.

But to go from here to the belief that those more sensitive to metaphor and language will also be more sensitive to personal differences is too great an inferential leap.

An uncompromising belief in the moral law has the advantage of making religion natural, even as physical law is natural.

Most immediately relevant to these episodes in Goa, Katanga and Ghana, as to the Suez-Hungary crisis before them, is the belief that the main theater of the world drama is the underdeveloped region of Asia, Africa and Latin America.

From this belief is derived the practical orientation of our policy on the `` uncommitted '' ( `` neutralist '', `` contested '' ) nations, especially on those whose leaders make the most noise -- Nehru, Tito, Nkrumah, Sukarno, Betancourt, etc..

While it is easy enough to ridicule Hawkins' pronouncement in Pleas Of The Crown from a metaphysical point of view, the concept of the `` oneness '' of a married couple may reflect an abiding belief that the communion between husband and wife is such that their actions are not always to be regarded by the criminal law as if there were no marriage.

There is little enthusiasm for spending money to develop more powerful engines because of the erroneous belief that the aircraft has been made obsolete by the missile.

Now, you probably share the widespread Western belief that the Lord Buddha is the most compassionate of the gods, much more so than Jehovah and Allah and the rest.

Data on the former are scanty, but there can be little doubt that the latter is sometimes born at a length greater than that of any of the others, thereby lending support to the belief that the anaconda does, indeed, attain the greatest length.

Even in the United States, with its freedom of religious belief and worship and its vast denominational differentiation, there is a general consensus regarding the basic Christian values.

It is our belief that this readiness to relinquish some control was evidenced by the Kohnstamm-positive subjects in some of the other experimental situations to be discussed below.

The threadbare notion that belief, unlike behaviour, is not subject to objective analysis, has placed intuitive metaphysics squarely against the sociology of knowledge, since it is precisely the job of the sociology of knowledge to treat beliefs as social facts no less viable than social behaviour.

Again, contrary to popular belief, there is nothing crazy or frantic about Parker either musically or emotionally.

Yes, he believed that the Jews were `` enemies of the Reich '', and such a belief is, of course, typical of `` patriotic '' anti-Semites ; ;

There is a difference in theological belief where there seems little chance of agreement.

It is because each side has sought to implement its distinctive theological belief through legislation and thus indirectly force its belief, or at least the practical consequences thereof, upon others.

The tragic irony of the play is that the very belief in and concern with a devil who could be met in the woods and combatted with formulae set out in books was the very thing that prevented them from detecting the real devil when he came among them.

And his belief is not to his discredit.

Modern Zen presentation to the West insists on the anti-authoritarian, highly pragmatic nature of the Zen belief -- scriptures are burned to make fire, action is based on direct self-confidence, and so on.

It is Field Marshal Montgomery's belief that in most Western countries about 60 per cent of the people do not really care about democracy or Christianity ; ;

Still, the notion of altruism is modified in such a world-view, since the belief is that such a practice promotes our own happiness: " The more we care for the happiness of others, the greater our own sense of well-being becomes " ( Dalai Lama ).

In western Europe Arianism, which had been taught by Ulfilas, the Arian missionary to the Germanic tribes, was dominant among the Goths and Lombards ( and, significantly for the late Empire, the Vandals ); but it ceased to be the mainstream belief by the 8th century.

In that way, both " myth " and " folklore " have become catch-all terms for all figurative narratives which do not correspond with the dominant belief structure.

The belief in a disk remained the dominant one in Indian cosmology until the early centuries AD, such as in the Puranas:

These actions were “ justified by a dominant belief among British colonial officials that land occupied by Native people was not being used efficiently and productively .”

" George Cotkin asserts Kierkegaard was against " the standardization and levelling of belief, both spiritual and political, in the nineteenth century he opposed tendencies in mass culture to reduce the individual to a cipher of conformity and deference to the dominant opinion.

Whereas this belief was only one of many beliefs held about the World to Come in Second Temple Judaism, and was notably rejected by the Sadducees, this belief became dominant within Early Christianity and soon included an insistence on the resurrection of the flesh, against gnostic teachings that flesh was evil.

The dominant religious belief in China during the reign of the Qin, and, in fact, during much of early imperial China, was focused on the shen ( roughly translating to " spirits "), yin (" shadows "), and the realm they were said to live in.

Morality plays are the result of the dominant belief of the time period, that humans had a certain amount of control over their post-death fate while they were on earth.

Although the dominant strain in Judaism is that God is personal, there is an " alternate stream of tradition exemplified by ... Maimonides ," who, along with several other Jewish philosophers, rejected the idea of a personal God, a reflecting of his belief in negative theology, the idea that God can only be described by what God is not.

Marxism criticized the belief in eternal " laws of economics ", which it considered a product of the dominant ideology.

Others argue that belief in the ' absence ' of culture in NZ is a symptom of white privilege, allowing members of a dominant group to see their culture as ' normal ' or ' default ', rather than as a specific position of relative advantage.

A major issue in the study of secularization is the extent to which certain trends such as decreased attendance at places of worship indicate a decrease in religiosity or simply a privatization of religious belief, where religious beliefs no longer play a dominant role in public life or in other aspects of decision-making.

Because pellagra outbreaks occurred in regions where maize was a dominant food crop, the belief for centuries was that the maize either carried a toxic substance or was a carrier of disease.

There are very few, if any, people on the island who still subscribe to this religion, because of the many Westernizing influences on Nauruan lifestyle and the dominant belief of Christianity.

The belief system has absorbed the values of the dominant culture in a functional and creative way so that, in the name of life, complex processes of syncretism and cultural appropriation take place.

The car-free movement is a broad, informal, emergent network of individuals and organizations including social activists, urban planners and others brought together by a shared belief that cars are too dominant in most modern cities.

One of the features of humanity that the show does highlight, and to some degree contrast with the alien civilizations ( with the possible exception of the Narn who are also noted as having an extensive selection of religious beliefs ), is the existence of a large number of religions, none of which can claim to be the dominant belief system.

Ultimately, however, the king accepted Paschasius ' assertion, and the physical presence of Christ in the Eucharist became the dominant belief in the Roman Catholic faith.

* A national champion is a large company that is dominant in its field and favored by the government of the country in which it is based in the belief that it will be in that country's interests if the company is successful in foreign markets.

Montaillou was one of the last bastions of the Albigensian belief also known as Catharism, considered heresy by the dominant Roman Catholic powers.

Colonialism brought Christianity to Igbo people which challenged and sought to change this belief, but still remains a dominant traditional belief in Igbo people.

In Europe, as John Ruskin said, and Sir Kenneth Clark confirmed, landscape painting was the " chief artistic creation of the nineteenth century ", and " the dominant art ", with the result that in the following period people were " apt to assume that the appreciation of natural beauty and the painting of landscape is a normal and enduring part of our spiritual activity " In Clark's analysis, underlying European ways to convert the complexity of landscape to an idea were four fundamental approaches: the acceptance of descriptive symbols, a curiosity about the facts of nature, the creation of fantasy to allay deep-rooted fears of nature, and the belief in a Golden Age of harmony and order, which might be retrieved.