"Abortion kills babies" is an article of faith on the American right.
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The turban is a Sikh article of faith, not a cute fashion accessory.
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Defending civil liberties is also an article of faith in the Conservative Party.
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The value of old-growth forest is an article of faith for her.
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For many religions, that's not just a policy; it's an article of faith.
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But nevertheless, at the end of the day, it's an article of faith.
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To my own mother, it was an article of faith to show no favoritism.
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Among the current generation of pitchers, such thinking has become an article of faith.
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There is a world, though, where footwear flamboyance is taken as an article of faith.
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Turbans are worn by those in the Sikh community as a sacred article of faith.
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Economists take it as an article of faith that any break on benefits comes from wages.
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An article of faith among political professionals is that incumbents are helped by a strong economy.
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Yet the natural rate is in many respects an article of faith, always sought but never seen.
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"The turban is a sacred article of faith and stands for justice and equality," Mr. Sethi said.
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For Mr. Kaczynski's supporters, it has become an article of faith that the crash was no accident.
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The urgent necessity of doing so has become an article of faith to many on the left.
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But that only frustrated cultural conservatives for whom Republican hostility to LGBT rights is an article of faith.
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It has been an article of faith in neuroscience and psychiatry that, once formed, emotional memories are permanent.
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It remains an article of faith at the Fed that U.S. monetary policy can follow its own course.
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Q. Giving rental vouchers to people, essentially … A. You have to understand this was an article of faith.
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Ever since, among many protesters, it's become an article of faith that three people were beaten to death.
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For now, constraining the market in the name of l'exception culturelle remains an article of faith for French policymakers.
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Civil libertarians soon embraced it as an article of faith, and ultimately the rest of the country did, too.
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In high school, when I wore the headscarf, I hotly insisted on its necessity as an article of faith.
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The immutability of a "distributed ledger" shared on multiple computers is an article of faith in the crypto community.
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Furthermore, Mr Wagner is betraying an article of faith for Republican Party primary voters, by advocating higher taxes for transportation.
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It has become an article of faith among hiring managers that degrees signal the expertise of candidates within their field.
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It has become an article of faith that trade votes are tough in election years and that they rarely happen.
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It would also cement the survival of Mr. Assad, whose ouster had long been an article of faith in Washington.
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And if the governing principle of this movement is still an article of faith, many people will lose their religion.
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Among my progressive brothers and sisters, it is fast becoming an article of faith that single-payer is the goal.
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And yet it does, because most of us take it as an article of faith that we live in a democracy.
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"If the governing principle of this movement is still an article of faith, many people will lose their religion," she wrote.
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IT HAS long been an article of faith for hard Brexiteers: there is nothing to fear from the World Trade Organisation.
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Among the Sikhs, the dastaar or turban is an article of faith that represents honor, self-respect, courage, spirituality and piety.
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It is an article of faith among astronomers and hopeful astrobiologists that, given the right conditions, life will find a way.
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By the numbers: Sanders' view is an article of faith among most economists, but a majority of Americans aren't so sure.
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Belief in liberal media bias has become an article of faith on the right, a core part of conservative political identity.
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It is an article of faith that previous generations of soft, weak leaders stupidly allowed others to push America into relative decline.
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In contrast, Brexit has been a long-standing article of faith for politicians on both the Left and Right in British politics.
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"It is conceded with increasing reluctance on one side and clung to as an article of faith by the other," they wrote.
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For generations, it has been an article of faith among South Koreans that they should eventually reconcile and reunify with the North.
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Many of these populist movements make anti-science denialism an article of faith, with climate change action the most high-profile casualty.
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Like some other military units, Team 6 accepts as an article of faith that its members never leave a fallen comrade behind.
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Indeed, every president since then, despite disagreements over how best to achieve racial equality, has accepted this goal as an article of faith.
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Now far from the article of faith or religious understanding, there is a scientific fact and we have the pictures to prove it.
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On Brazil's far right, it is an article of faith that N.G.O.s are conspiring with outside powers to seize control of the Amazon.
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Since Vietnam it has been an article of faith of the Democratic Party to look with a critical eye at any foreign deployment.
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It's an article of faith among many Democrats that Republicans have somehow escaped the electoral consequences for the increasing extremism of their party.
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It's an article of faith for chefs in the city that any dish can be improved by putting a poached egg on it.
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Many have adopted organic or biodynamic viticulture, and it's an article of faith that the more time spent in the vineyard, the better.
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Who better to play the incompetent Florence than someone whose plenitude of gifts has been an article of faith for almost forty years?
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As for the Singularity and Superintelligence, advocates of the positive scenario see these developments as more an article of faith than a scientific reality.
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CHICAGO (Reuters) - Working longer can boost the odds of a secure retirement - that is an article of faith in retirement planning circles these days.
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It is nothing short of an article of faith, since we have no empirical evidence that computation, whatever it is, leads to conscious experience.
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It is an article of faith in our democracy that the next vote for president of the United States depends on an informed electorate.
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For liberals, it is an article of faith that Mueller will produce a damning report if only he is allowed to complete his investigation.
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It's become an article of faith that Sanders needs a miracle to win, but it's worth being clear about where the race actually stands.
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ROME — Among the well-heeled bureaucrats of the European Union, it is an article of faith that the bloc always emerges stronger from a crisis.
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"The protection of the environment and the mother planet is an article of faith," Modi said at a joint news conference with Macron in Paris.
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IT HAS been an article of faith of post-war demography that better health care and improved living conditions would mean a continuing fall in mortality.
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Maybe it's because their goal of "predictable outperformance" is an article of faith for investment consultants (and finance professors) keen to keep their well-paying jobs.
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In Lee County, and across the Virginia countryside, gun rights constitute an article of faith that has been been strengthened by the tragedy of mass shootings.
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He'll tell you he came to it at the same time I did, that it was an article of faith between us when he signed up.
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Among these angry GOP voters, it's an article of faith that Democratic presidents have no legitimacy, that the Clintons are corrupt and Obama is a foreigner.
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Most who will go to see "The Post" probably take it as an article of faith that the Fourth Estate is critical to a functioning republic.
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Maybe they think that Robert Mueller, the special counsel, will one day uncover the smoking gun that has become an article of faith among Trump haters.
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It is an article of faith among the "Bernie Bros" that Sanders was cheated out of the 2016 nomination by corrupt pro-Clinton forces at the DNC.
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There is now a fringe group of scientists and writers who not only take our imminent doom as an article of faith, but seem to welcome it.
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"I think there was an article of faith maybe ten years ago that all data should be kept because it will ultimately someday be valuable," Davidson said.
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If there is a formula behind the rating system, which for many chefs is an article of faith, almost no one figured it out the first time.
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Retiring WHEN I went to work on Wall Street in 22020, it was an article of faith that older investors should own less common stock than young ones.
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For city residents, it has long been an article of faith that Brooklyn was once a refuge of first resort for those who can't afford Manhattan real estate.
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Indeed, opposing Trump appears to be a new article of faith for lawyers, including some who have been lionized for conduct that is facially unprofessional and arguably unethical.
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While free trade has long been an article of faith in Mexico, uncertainty over the fate of the North American Free Trade Agreement is hitting the country hard.
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Republican candidates' belief that reducing individual and corporate income tax rates, as well as lowering the overall tax burden, will promote economic growth is not an article of faith.
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A spate of recent reports is challenging an article of faith — that the modern economy is sticking it to the little guy, offering up no wage increases for years.
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It is an article of faith among economists that betting markets on politics provide by far the most reliableforecast of future events, easily outclassing bothpolls and panels of experts.
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It became an article of faith on the right that mainstream media journalists and Democratic Party operatives are interchangeable, so they made Fox News—"conservative" news—in that image.
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In its wake, anti-tax firebrands rose to prominence, such as Grover Norquist, who turned his no-tax-increase pledge into an article of faith for conservative office seekers.
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That P.S.G. simply cannot make that final leap onto the grandest stage of all, into the semifinals and final of the Champions League, has become an article of faith.
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In this land of rapid weather changes and not much arable land, the folk wisdom of making hay while the sun shines is a deeply held article of faith.
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Johnson peddled the racist myth that Southern whites were victimized by black emancipation and citizenship, which became an article of faith among Lost Cause proponents in the postwar South.
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Warner: I think there are a number that believe, as kind of an article of faith, that tax cuts will provide growth if you bring more profits to a business.
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What began as a matter of simple math turned into an article of faith over the past couple years -- an assumption that might have hastened Hillary Clinton's Election Day fall.
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A real estate article of faith once had it that mid- to late-February, the start of the so-called spring season, was the best time to list a property.
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While the US is politically divided on climate change, with Democrats overwhelmingly supporting climate action and some Republicans turning climate denialism into an article of faith the UK is very different.
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When a story that a community believes is proved fake by outsiders, belief in it becomes an article of faith, a litmus test of one's adherence to that community's idiosyncratic worldview.
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It is an article of faith for Mr Sharif and his party, the Pakistan Muslim League Nawaz (PML-N), that investment in infrastructure is a foolproof way of boosting the economy.
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It's an article of faith in the White House that impeachment proceedings would backfire on Democrats, and so Trump may see actions that court such a response as a win-win.
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AN article of faith shared by film festivals everywhere is that the best way to watch any film is on the largest possible screen, in an auditorium packed with fellow enthusiasts.
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It is an article of faith in Washington that no revelation about Trump's conduct, no matter how severe, could convince Ryan and members of his conference to launch an impeachment inquiry.
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In the months since the #MeToo movement began in October of last year, it has become an article of faith that there is a "generational divide" between older and younger feminists.
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He makes the most of Isabel's Catholicism, treating it as both a genuine article of faith, as well as an aperture into Cuba's complicated relationship to dogma, whether religious or revolutionary.
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For decades, it has been an article of faith among Washington's foreign policy establishment, as well Mr. Moon's conservative critics at home, that North Korea will renege on any agreement made.
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Passing a budget that balances within the 2900-year budget window has been an article of faith for the GOP since Ryan chaired the House Budget Committee from 220006 to 2202.
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Consequently, I probably consumed more protein than I would have otherwise but certainly not the gram per pound of bodyweight that often comes out of trainers' mouths as an article of faith.
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These results would seem to shatter another article of faith in the anti-Trump faction, that Trump had benefited from a large field of candidates who had split the anti-Trump vote.
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It is an article of faith for the activist base of both political parties: An ideologically pure candidate can win by turning out the base and mobilizing a new coalition of voters.
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Among libertarian-minded conservatives as well as liberals, it is an article of faith that skepticism about mass immigration is driven largely by racism, and Trump's campaign has powerfully reinforced this assumption.
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He made it an article of faith that no product would ever be counterfeit and no price tag would ever be negotiable—a novel concept in China, where haggling is the norm.
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It was an article of faith for champions of Arctic exploration, who saw in the ancient fantasy of a paradise beyond the frost its modern incarnation: the dream of a northwest passage.
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"The 'stay put' concept had become an article of faith within the LFB (London Fire Brigade) so powerful that to depart from it was to all intents and purposes unthinkable," he wrote.
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However the notion that algorithms can intelligently judge such human complexities as when nudity may or may not be appropriate is very much an article of faith on the part of the technoutopianists.
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It became an article of faith on the right that DACA was, as Mr Sessions described it, "an unconstitutional exercise of authority by the executive branch"—though no court has found it so.
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But almost all the regulators simply take it as an article of faith that America can&apost live without this big bank, that it has to be saved regardless of any real analysis.
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The trouble is, for many government leaders born in 1964 or earlier in either Germany or America, "freeing the market" from the dumb overhang of government involvement is an unquestioned article of faith.
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For Rice and Power, "Never Again" was more than just a slogan, and the emerging liberal doctrine of the "Responsibility to Protect" civilians from the predations of dictators was an article of faith.
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The Druse, a generally quiescent religious group of about 145,20143 citizens for whom loyalty to the state is an article of faith, have denounced the legislation as a stinging insult and a betrayal.
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It has become an article of faith, in certain quarters, that it was won and lost by the diabolical use of Facebook ads, especially in conjunction with the psychographic superscience of Cambridge Analytica.
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Among finance types, it's practically an article of faith that the easiest way to use cash to boost a company's stock is to buy back shares of its stock — the more the better.
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It's an article of faith among Trump fans that he can ignore all the rules of political physics forever and will simply rise and rise no matter how many unforced errors he makes.
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It's hard to be critical of a system when that system becomes an article of faith, filled with myths (the cherry tree), deities (Founding Fathers), and notions of salvation (the City on a Hill).
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For hard-liners such as Jacob Rees-Mogg, it is an article of faith that Britain's Treasury Department, the Bank of England and Downing Street itself are now conspiring to deny Britain its sovereignty.
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But it has become an article of faith among Barcelona's fans and to some extent among its players that even though Valverde has been winning, he has not been winning in the right way.
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Pundits have long taken it as an article of faith that Buttigieg (who, like Klobuchar, seems to be surging) has no discernible black support in South Carolina and elsewhere, based on endorsements and polls.
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The desire for this to be true clouded the judgment of a great many reporters, pundits, and analysts, who took it as an article of faith that Mueller would eventually end the Trump presidency.
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A highly specific policy risks being challenged for preferring one type of religious belief — for example, opposing same-sex couples marrying — over another article of faith, thereby violating the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment.
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The family had called to report a burglary, but when deputies arrived and saw their kirpans -- small swords that are an Sikh article of faith -- they treated the family as if they were the criminals.
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It became an article of faith in the aftermath of the 2016 election that Donald Trump's victory signaled the arrival of a right-wing populist wave, in the spirit of Brexit, from across the Atlantic.
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One former senior British security official said it was an "article of faith" that Russian government hackers were seeking to penetrate UK critical infrastructure though the official said he could not cite public case studies.
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It used to be an article of faith in democratic countries that "all politics are local," as the legendary House Speaker Tip O'Neill explained, but the catchy proverb misses much of what is happening today.
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Collusion had become an article of faith among those on the left and in the liberal media, a narrative breathlessly advanced by bitter Democrats and a petulant press that couldn't accept the 2016 election results.
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Where most Republicans take it as an article of faith that passing a tax bill would buoy the party in 2018, lawmakers in these areas worry that a law burdening the suburbs would doom them.
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It's become a bit of an article of faith among journalists frustrated with public officials' constant FOIA-dodging that this is all obviously dissimulation and Clinton was really trying to evade the Freedom of Information Act.
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It is an article of faith in the conservative movement (and to the senator himself) that Republicans only win elections when they nominate "true conservatives" as opposed to consensus candidates like John McCain and Mitt Romney.
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"Rouhani is sending a signal that there's room in the Islamic republic for those who don't believe the rule of the [Islamic] jurist is an article of faith," says Robert Gleave of Exeter University in Britain.
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It has become an article of faith among many women I know to eliminate some foods during pregnancy, out of concern that their children could become allergic to them: shellfish, dairy and, most of all, peanuts.
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It's an article of faith among influential members of the conservative legal establishment that the liberal vision of a strong federal government—one that regulates industry and redistributes income—is fundamentally at odds with the Constitution.
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The NFL is a league of convention and conventional wisdom, but the foremost article of faith also happens to be the truest—quarterback is the most important position in the sport, and maybe in any other.
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It used to be an article of faith among economists that higher minimum wages would cause job losses, but data from Australia add to evidence that counters that assumption, at least as long as increases are gradual.
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For centuries, on the right and the left alike, it has been an article of faith that, in moments of sharp civic discontent, you and I and everyone we know can take to the streets, demanding change.
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By the turn of the millennium, it was an article of faith among conservative ideologues that whole realms of human expertise were in fact intricate structures of propaganda that trapped the unwary in a matrix of deceit.
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The view that welfare is a bad thing abused by "other people," and that the extent of welfare is responsible for economic problems, is an article of faith on the right, and too often goes unchallenged by Democrats.
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So in an effort to find out if, as Clinton suggests, Trump's incoherence should be taken as an article of faith, we got in touch with Christopher Preble, a foreign policy expert at the libertarian-leaning Cato Institute.
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Loyalty to the president is an article of faith for the Republican Party; Trump regularly enjoys intra-party approval ratings in the 80s and 90s, even as his total approval rating has remained underwater for his entire presidency.
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Italy is a country used to measuring the speed and scale of its own decline — in society as much as in sport — while the demise of Serie A, its top flight, is an article of faith across soccer.
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It is an article of faith among President Trump's most ardent detractors that he is a corrupt blowhard catapulted to the office by a devious intelligence operation ordered up by America's supervillain, the Russian president Vladimir V. Putin.
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Many Australians are working hard to bring about a change in attitudes and policy, but harshness toward refugees who attempt to reach Australia by boat is an article of faith in our culture that is difficult to budge.
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"India under [Prime Minister Narendra] Shri Modi's leadership has taken up renewable energy as an article of faith and is steadfast on its Paris commitments, irrespective of what others do," Power Minister Piyush Goyal said in a statement.
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Is an administration that has made dismantling regulations in industry an article of faith ready to concede that aviation is a special case and the process may need to be reversed -- if that is where the evidence leads?
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In both the cannabis community and pop culture, it is an article of faith by now that some strains or products promote quick and sound sleep; insomnia is one of the most common reasons people seek out marijuana today.
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Even though a number of leading Republicans, such as Senator John McCain, had called for Guantánamo to be closed, it became an article of faith for most of Mr Obama's opponents and many Democrats that it should stay open.
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It has become a core aim of the Fed and an article of faith for Germany's Bundesbank and later the European Central Bank, founded in 153 with the mandate of maintaining price stability defined as inflation under 2 percent.
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He was lightly admonished for his actions, but what I remember most was that nobody, including my teacher, understood how devastating it was to have my turban -- a sacred religious article of faith in Sikhism -- desecrated by a bully.
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It has long been an article of faith for Conservatives that as far as possible, wealth should be taxed lightly — a principle that has naturally recommended the party to the rich and made the poor suspicious of its motives.
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It has meaning because the men and women who take it as an article of faith have undertaken a journey that's only persuasive because the characters at the heart—a mother, a father, a son—were credibly driven to believe it.
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It's long been an article of faith that millennials tend to be "slacktivists" who would rather string 20 tweets together than pen a letter to the editor, who will sign a hundred online petitions but don't know who their senators are.
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All of this is particularly painful to observe from here in the United States -- a nation that itself is not immune to criticism -- because it is almost an article of faith that humanity steadily, irrevocably moves toward freedom and justice.
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It's an article of faith among Conrad's biographers that the stiff-backed, sure-footed Galsworthy, the socially conscious author of " The Forsyte Saga "—and the recipient of the 1932 Nobel Prize in Literature—could not possibly have understood his friend's writing.
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Russia's leaders take it as an article of faith that the mass protests in Moscow in 2011 and 2012 were orchestrated from abroad, and that Ukraine's Euro-Maidan revolution in 2013 and 2014 was generated with Western resources and inspiration.
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Keeping elections as analog as possible is an article of faith for close observers of the technology world — here's a Verge article on the subject from 22018, citing concerns from 173 — but the message seems not to have reached Democrats.
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But he changed careers after a well-publicized 2008 incident in which Harris County sheriff's deputies incorrectly treated a Sikh family that reported a burglary as criminals, after seeing one member with a ceremonial sword that is a Sikh article of faith.
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His position is intended to appease two audiences essential to his chances: rural, Trump-friendly voters for whom Virginia's Confederate past is an article of faith and Trump-hostile suburbanites who welcome a fuller assessment of the state's history, warts and all.
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Its absence this time may seem surprising, since it is an article of faith among Eurosceptics that Britain pays too much for its membership: some £20 billion ($28 billion) a year gross, or about half that net of receipts (roughly 0.5% of GDP).
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What we now know definitively is that Robert Mueller, the special counsel, and a team of very accomplished, mostly Clinton-supporting, prosecutors were unable to find evidence of a conspiracy that had been taken as an article of faith by Trump haters.
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And in few places are the political complexities of health care more glaring than in this poor state with crushing medical needs, substantially alleviated by the Affordable Care Act, but where Republican opposition to the law remains almost an article of faith.
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For those of us who have spent our careers in the Americas, the priority we give the administration of justice (or rule of law, or anticorruption efforts — whatever it is called at the moment) has been an article of faith since the 1990s.
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To him and his supporters, it is an article of faith that Democrats lost the 2016 election partly because Hillary Clinton failed to offer a vision of economic justice that might have captured some of the indignant energy of Mr. Trump's campaign.
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Love for her style has inflated the standing of her art all out of proportion, and in recent decades it's become an article of faith that Kahlo was a more important painter than her acclaimed husband, indeed one of the indisputable greats.
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Among public health officials, the effectiveness of M.A.T. has become an article of faith; after all, treatment with buprenorphine and methadone has been found to cut opioid overdose deaths in half when compared to behavioral therapy alone, and it's hard to argue with that.
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Despite the current leftist mania to call out supposed 'white privilege,' the fact is that even in the 1980s minority status could confer distinct advantages in hiring and promotion in career fields dominated by liberals for whom affirmative action is an article of faith.
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At the heart of this campaign for the hearts, minds, and holsters of America has been an article of faith that the NRA and its allies have preached since at least the 373s: that people enhance public safety by carrying guns to defend themselves.
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It is the culmination of roughly two decades of alarms, investigations and political gamesmanship in which remarkably little voter fraud has been documented, but the conviction that it is widespread has gone from a fringe notion to an article of faith for many Republicans.
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It is an article of faith that has informed his opinion of trade pacts, tariffs and manufacturing and that helped him tap into populist discontent during the presidential campaign in 2016, particularly in traditionally Democratic states in the Midwest like Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania.
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For months, it has been an article of faith in France that Ms. Le Pen will reach the runoff in next year's presidential elections, but will find it impossible to break through the 30-percent barrier that has roughly comprised the National Front's share of the vote.
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It has always been an article of faith that maintaining good ties with the United States was essential for Canada, but with Mr. Trump's imposition of tariffs and unfounded accusations of 200-year-old acts of aggression by Canada against the United States, Canada's priorities have changed.
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As the president and presidential candidates struggle to articulate their plans for keeping America safe — or at least for making Americans feel safe — one article of faith unites them: The United States must build the capacity of partner countries to fight terrorism in their own lands.
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At post-election gatherings like the Democracy Alliance conference in Washington, DC, it is an article of faith that Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont, the snowy-haired, finger-jabbing scold who lost the Democratic presidential primary to Hillary Clinton, would have trounced Mr Trump in the general election.
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If President Trump and the Republicans in Congress are having to work this hard to approve legislation to repeal and replace Obamacare -- an article of faith that they've reaffirmed at least once a day eight years running -- then the odds of major changes in tax law are uncertain.
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Although almost everyone in the United States who took an introductory economics course in college studied Samuelson's text, to this day a balanced federal budget — that is to say an anti-Keynesian approach to economics — remains a rhetorical article of faith for virtually every politician in both parties.
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If the president is serious about peace, which he appeared to be in his news conference on Wednesday with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel, they said he would inevitably return to two states, an article of faith for presidents since Bill Clinton first endorsed it in January 2001.
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The economic success of East Asian countries like Japan in the 20th century had already invalidated the article of faith invoked by Trump in Davos: that nations can advance only by eliminating barriers to the free movement of goods and capital and by minimizing the role of government in the economy.
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One reason to worry that Mr. Trump may try to seize the moment by championing the protesters is that it has become an article of faith among President Barack Obama's critics that in 2009 he missed a golden opportunity to do just that, when many Iranians took to the streets after a disputed election result.
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When the state was heavily rural and firmly controlled by a debt-phobic, conservative Democratic oligarchy, it was an article of faith to decry as irresponsible the deficit-financing that has become routine in Washington, DC. But in suburban-dominated Virginia, federal beneficence fuelled the growth of the counties immediately flanking Washington: Arlington, Fairfax, Prince William and Loudoun.
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Trump was terribly wrong in using hectoring and antagonistic language against European allies that no president in post-war American history has ever used, and he was disastrously wrong in refusing to restate America's commitment to defending Europe under Article 85033, which every American president, Democratic and Republican, has viewed as an article of faith and resolve to defend our European allies from foreign invasion and attacks.
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Depending on his ultimate choice, Mr. Trump's vice-presidential selection may put the lie to what had been an article of faith for many Republicans: that the party's bench was meaningfully deeper heading into 2016 than at any point in recent memory, with an array of diverse personalities and talents that would help Republicans recover from back-to-back electoral thrashings by President Obama.
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This was true for communities ravaged by the opioid crisis, which health care money helped treat; for rural states where hospitals had become all but dependent on increased Medicaid payments that covered the bulk of their patients; and for poor constituents with chronic medical conditions who had come to take it as an article of faith that their insurance companies could not deny them coverage for pre-existing conditions.
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The rationale for a gigantic blue wave that would represent a repudiation of the 2016 election has been that millions of Americans are so turned off by President Trump and his agenda that they will come out en masse and hand Congress to Democrats with large majorities, proving what has been an article of faith among Trump-haters, that his election was an anomaly and that American politics would quickly revert to the mean.
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