One widely-held belief is that it marks the repeal of prohibition in 1933.

According to its views, all widely-held spiritual or religious belief systems are merely specific branches of a universal wisdom.

A widely-held belief was that sales of the Osborne 1 fell sharply as customers anticipated those more advanced systems, leading to a sales decline from which Osborne Computer was unable to recover.

Despite his prominence as a member of the fledgling British Marxist movement, no representatives of the Socialist or Labour movements were present at the funeral due to the widely-held belief that he was responsible for Eleanor Marx's suicide.

Echoing a widely-held if erroneous belief about Apocalypse Now, the film features several alternate endings.

This form of audism is a reflection of a widely-held naturalistic belief by people who can hear in their own superiority.

Further, according to a widely-held belief, Blair also agreed that, if he acceded to the position of Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, he would stay in the job for an unspecified but not indefinite period of time.

The most widely-held theory is that the military designation of GP begat the term Jeep and holds that the vehicle bore the designation GP ( for Government Purposes or General Purpose ), which was phonetically slurred into the word jeep, in the same way that the contemporary HMMWV ( for High-Mobility Multi-purpose Wheeled Vehicle ) has become known as the humvee.

According to the most widely-held evolutionary model, the crop was derived directly from Z. m. parviglumis by selection of key mutations ; up to 12 % of its genetic material came from Z. m. mexicana through introgression.

Robert Garner describes the welfarist position as the most widely-held in modern society.

This is perhaps the most obvious and widely-held critique of current national accounting and economic growth reporting systems-the creators of the GNP and GDP measures themselves advise against its use as a single measure of economic growth-but politicians and press typically do so without caveat nor apology.

The most widely-held theory is that the Tanka are the descendants of the native Yue inhabitants of Guangdong before the Han Cantonese moved in.

Bauer is best remembered for his opposition to the widely-held notion that the most effective manner to help developing countries advance is through state-controlled foreign aid.

There is a widely-held expectation that genomic studies will lead to advances in the diagnosis and treatment of diseases, and to new insights in many fields of biology, including human evolution.

A widely-held public corporation is not owned either, as their rights and duties of ownership are either non-existent of ineffectual.

It has been noted by several LDS and non-LDS scholars that the LDS expression of this widely-held Christian doctrine is often misrepresented and misunderstood when applied to Mormon Christians.

It is also a widely-held view that, from mid-1943 onwards, MacArthur confined the Australian Army divisions under his command to tough and largely irrelevant actions, while reserving the more prestigious actions for US troops, resulting in enduring antipathy towards MacArthur in Australia.

Some assert that Sicilian represents the oldest Romance language derived from Vulgar Latin ( Privitera, 2004 ), but this is not a widely-held view amongst linguists, and is sometimes strongly criticized ( 2004, p. 151 ).

Although the histories of Native Hawaiians and Native Americans are significantly different, there is still a widely-held perception that Native Hawaiians have received similar kinds of unfair treatment from the U. S. Government as Native Americans.

It is a widely-held tradition that if Reveille decides to sleep on a cadet's bed, that cadet is required to sleep on the floor.

To some extent, politics unavoidably involves dilemmas about whether to insist on one's own principles ( and risk being isolated ) or to adapt to a more widely-held opinion for the sake of working together.

Some historians have since the 1960s argued against the widely-held view that the battle was a disaster ; arguing that the Battle of the Somme was an Allied victory.

The original meaning of " Chin " remains obscure ; though scholars have proposed various theories, no widely-held consensus has been reached.

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..

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.

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 ; ;

Tylor also theorized about the origins of religious beliefs in human beings, proposing a theory of animism as the earliest stage, and noting that " religion " has many components, of which he believed the most important to be belief in supernatural beings ( as opposed to moral systems, cosmology, etc .).

His comparative studies, most influentially in the numerous editions of The Golden Bough, analyzed similarities in religious belief and symbolism globally.

Being himself without sufficient authority, he appealed in a number of letters, afterward published under the title of Minḥat Ḳenaot ( Jealousy Offering ), to Solomon ben Adret of Barcelona, the most influential rabbi of the time, to use his powerful authority to check the source of evil by hurling his anathema against both the study of philosophy and the allegorical interpretations of the Bible, which did away with all belief in miracles.

Due to a false etymology, a popular belief is that they were most likely Finns – the obsolete name of Nenets people, Samoyed, has a similar meaning in Russian: " self-eater ".

Any difference between the hedged positions represents any remaining risk ( such as basis risk ) plus profit ; the belief is that there remains some difference which, even after hedging most risk, represents pure profit.

The belief that the Historia was the culmination of Bede's works, the aim of all his scholarship, a belief common among historians in the past, is no longer accepted by most scholars.

Diarmaid MacCulloch suggests that Cranmer's own Eucharistic theology in these years approximated most closely to that of Heinrich Bullinger ; but that he intended the Prayer Book to be acceptable to the widest range of Reformed Eucharistic belief, including the high sacramental theology of Bucer and John Calvin.

By far the most visible and obvious power of many modern central banks is to influence market interest rates ; contrary to popular belief, they rarely " set " rates to a fixed number.

* Crank ( person ), a pejorative term used for a person who unshakably holds a belief that most of his or her contemporaries consider to be false.

Not only do most intellectuals within the Chinese government follow this school of thinking, but it is also the common belief held amongst pro-free trade liberals in the West.

For most Christians, it is the stated or " confessed " belief in Jesus as Savior that makes God's grace available to an individual, and salvation can come no other way ( Solus Christus in Protestantism, Extra Ecclesiam nulla salus in Catholicism, see Dual covenant theology for a dissenting view ).

God's existence is a given in Judaism, and not something that most authorities see as a matter of required belief.

Therefore, most Spiritual Deists are more comfortable contemplating the universe as a mystery than they are in filling it with belief systems such as eternal reward, reincarnation, karma, etc.

But belief is the most commonly invoked truth bearer, since Plato's day.

The boldest, most radical notion in the book is [...] the belief that the individual can and should proceed toward truth by means of his own powers of perception and reasoning ; and that he can in this way discover truths previously unknown.

Herodotus in his Histories ridiculed the belief that water encircled the world, yet most classicists agree he still believed the earth to be flat because of his descriptions of literal " ends " or " edges " of the earth.

The notion that hell was below the earth is stated clearly in early Christian tradition by the belief, still recited by most Christians in the Apostolic and Athanasian creeds, that Christ " descended into hell " between his death and resurrection.

Researchers found that positive belief in faith healing was mainly a characteristic of conservative Christians, most especially those with charismatic experience.

Scientists contend that there is no evidence to support this belief, which has only come about because most people do not understand the concept of homeostasis because many non-scientists incorrectly see homeostasis as a process requiring conscious control.

A voracious reader, one of the books that most influenced him at the time was Florence Marryat's There Is No Death ( 1891 ), a discussion of spiritualism, and from which that he gained a firm belief in the existence of an afterlife.

The Gambler's fallacy, also known as the Monte Carlo fallacy ( because its most famous example happened in a Monte Carlo Casino in 1913 ), and also referred to as the fallacy of the maturity of chances, is the belief that if deviations from expected behaviour are observed in repeated independent trials of some random process, future deviations in the opposite direction are then more likely.