noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
acted in good faith
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The company had acted in good faith .
acting in bad faith
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In order to sue, you have to prove that the company was acting in bad faith .
an act of faith (= when you do something that shows you trust someone completely )
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The signing of the treaty with Britain was an act of faith.
belief/faith in God
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About one-third of the population has no belief in God.
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Her faith in God helped her deal with her illness.
faith community
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In any faith community there are varying levels of commitment.
faith healing
good faith
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The company had acted in good faith .
implicit faith/trust/belief
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They had implicit faith in his powers.
sign/show/gesture etc of good faith
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A ceasefire was declared as a sign of good faith.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
bad
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When we deny autonomy to our 10-year-old, are we too guilty of bad faith ?
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School officials can lose this qualified privilege if they act in bad faith or without regard for whether the statements are true.
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And some councils are acting in bad faith .
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I think a leap of bad faith was made.
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Nevertheless, with the passage of time the Soviet side could begin to accuse us of bad faith .
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No doubt the missio, with its insistence on proving bad faith , had not been a wholly satisfactory remedy.
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They have wanted to use suspicion to root out bad faith without taking responsibility for the implicit grounds of that suspicion.
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But there was more to Jeanson than his bad faith , excesses, cruel humour and disconcerting habit of changing his mind.
blind
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The meme for blind faith secures its own perpetuation by the simple unconscious expedient of discouraging rational inquiry.
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Many organizations see this as a blind leap of faith , and rightly so.
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Memes for blind faith have their own ruthless ways of propagating themselves.
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Then you reposed an absolutely blind faith in the Emperor!
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This is true of patriotic and political as well as religious blind faith .
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It was not blind faith that drove them to change the world, but a belief very well grounded in reality.
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Faith ceases to be laudable when it is blind faith .
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Roof taught me shoulder fakes, which I did on blind faith .
catholic
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There was a deep sense of prayer, an opportunity for reflection and an enjoyment in discovering more about our Catholic faith .
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My brother and I were brought up in the Catholic faith .
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The couple have not turned their back on their Catholic faith .
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Formative influences here were his happy marriage and his staunch commitment to his Catholic faith .
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A fervent supporter of Home Rule, he had converted to the Roman Catholic faith .
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Over the last year many people around the diocese have been exploring the Catholic faith , with a view to becoming Catholics themselves.
good
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We have entered into agreements in good faith .
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Let the voters judge who is negotiating in good faith , and whose plan most squares with their idea of reality.
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Each partner must deal in partnership affairs with the utmost good faith .
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I went down in good faith to the grand jury and testified and obviously the results are not there.
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Like the Metropolitan, the collector made her purchase in good faith , never suspecting that the painting was stolen.
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That regulation requires contractors to make a good faith effort to hire 50 percent of their work force from San Francisco.
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Special offers are quoted in good faith based on information supplied by retailers.
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His wife, Soo, understood and received each beating on good faith .
great
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This was typical of Stuart - he had great faith in his team.
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Without a great faith , we shall lose that war.
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Too often we forget that the great men of faith reached the heights they did only by going through the depths.
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It takes a great patience and faith to rest on the lyrical content and strip the music down to the bones.
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Yet there is a great faith and joy in life among these people.
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At the same time there was that great act of faith , the blazer.
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A fatherless, penniless boy - possessed of great determination, faith , and courage - seeks his fortune.
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I have great faith that I shall receive help from you.
little
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But to realise he had so little faith in her - that really hurt.
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Travelers of little faith , heed my plea.
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He will find that in both Bath and Lancashire the electorate has as little faith in Labour's policies as he has.
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I was showing little faith , he said.
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Work-inhibited students need these messages of acceptance and positive expectation, since they have so little faith in them-selves.
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The only problem is that Christians have too little faith to appropriate what is rightly theirs.
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With a little faith it could be the biggest comeback since Lazarus.
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But unlike other landlords, he had little patience for and little faith in second chances.
religious
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None in religious education. 9 - strong religious faith ?
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If that happens, religious faith is born.
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Walker was baptised a Presbyterian but throughout her life her religious faith grew ever broader in its outlook.
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Latimer is living apart from people, divorced even from religious faith by his visions, when Charles Meunier pays a visit.
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How we see it is affected by our culture and religious faith .
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The effort to inculcate ethical behavior without religious faith seems one of the great fiascoes of the modern age.
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Some would see his agnosticism, his awareness of the limits to thought, as the only true basis for religious faith .
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The daughter loses her religious faith .
true
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Such expressions of piety are written from the highest motives, and are true to the faith in one way.
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It had been filly embraced as the true faith .
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The true relationship of faith and doubt is closer to that of courage and fear.
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All true faith depends on knowledge.
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First, they made a clear distinction between those of the true faith and those not of their fraternity.
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Both are born of rationalism, and both are equally wrong and finally destructive of true faith .
■ NOUN
community
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They understand tongue speaking as a way for individuals within a faith community to pray without the limitations of verbal speech.
healer
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I have faith healers coming in twice a week and somehow she's just carrying on.
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This guy I know really well suffered from it and went to see this faith healer and made a complete recovery.
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So you can see why I was open-minded about the faith healer .
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David's aching back is cured by faith healer called GoodNews, and thereafter his soul also undergoes a transformation.
■ VERB
act
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The Vendor ought to act in good faith and disclose any such matters.
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School officials can lose this qualified privilege if they act in bad faith or without regard for whether the statements are true.
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And some councils are acting in bad faith .
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If you act in good faith you might get out of this with your skin on.
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Such a State should act in good faith so as not to frustrate the objects of the treaty.
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Any person who acts in good faith will not, however, be required to make repayment.
based
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My father failed to comprehend that his explanations were based as much upon faith as mine.
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Much of what we do in teaching is based upon faith in the power of external motivation.
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Most nations' note issues are now entirely fiduciary, i.e. based on faith placed in the issuing authority.
break
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I broke my faith and smoked one.
keep
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Bosses are threatening to axe them - but keeping faith in Eldorado.
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But his people had kept the faith pure.
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In the meantime they must keep their faith .
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He had kept faith with the Old Man and brought them home.
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He was my husband, and I, wretch that I am, could not keep faith with him.
lose
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Exports are lower, household spending is weakening and businesses show signs of losing faith in their investment plans.
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By 1932, millions of people had lost all faith and hope-in the nation, in the capitalist system, in themselves.
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That and the fact that it lost faith in the nearest thing to a charismatic it had had since Rose Fox.
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Carter himself, as one part of his hardening attitude toward the Soviets, lost faith in the treaty.
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I lost my faith when my parents died.
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By the end of May, she had lost faith that it would ever stop.
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No wonder the population lost faith in the national currency.
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But consumers should not lose faith , King said.
place
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It lacked resources, acted without vigour, and placed too much faith in Railtrack.
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Ultimately, Whitman places his faith in sheer being.
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In his vain way, he placed the same faith in jungles that earlier whites had put in cathedrals or steam ships.
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From the start, it has placed its faith in Unix.
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So people have to place great faith in the stories.
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But the underlying tendency is to place faith in the police process.
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The only recovery that the strategists are placing any real faith in at the moment is that of the United States economy.
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Under the circumstances, however, there was not a man who cared to place absolute faith in mere machinery.
put
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He put his faith in the genius of individuals.
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The unfortunate crew of Tai Ki had put their faith in several coats of tung oil, to no effect.
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More importantly, it put paid to public faith in the League.
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Can she put her faith in the people who oversaw her career before?
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Other species put their faith in bribery.
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Nevertheless, we are asked by psychoanalysis to put our faith in reason in place of affects.
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So, like hundreds of others, he put his faith in a franchise.
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All of her deepest, oldest instincts told her it was crazy to put her faith in any man.
restore
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Given the recent events in Orkney and elsewhere, promoting social work as a caring profession must restore faith in its activities.
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But no, here to restore your faith is Sen.
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It was his chief aim to restore the nation's faith in the presidency.
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Along the way, she touched lives, inspired hope and restored faith in public service.
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Your kindness and sincerity really did restore my faith in human nature.
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If we had lost hope, the desert dawn would restore our faith .
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Help restore my faith in women All letters answered Photo appreciated.
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I had to restore my faith in myself.
show
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Exports are lower, household spending is weakening and businesses show signs of losing faith in their investment plans.
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Peter was starting to show faith in me.
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Newark and Sherwood District Council showed their faith with a substantial grant towards the project.
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I was showing little faith , he said.
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And in being part of that process you have to show good faith .
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To show his good faith , White even gives Blue an advance of ten fifty-dollar bills.
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The indications are that shareholders will show faith in Mr Hintz and defeat the resolutions.
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What I try to do in this book is to show that faith is reasonable.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
an article of faith
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But the idea is practically an article of faith among Republicans elected in the 1990s.
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It was an article of faith to Be There, with or without the goods.
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It would be an article of faith with him to believe that.
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One must accept it as an article of faith, sufficient unto itself, for all time.
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That is an article of faith for him.
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When only seeing is believing the unseen reproductive anatomy of the female can not be an article of faith.
blind faith/prejudice/obedience etc
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Faith ceases to be laudable when it is blind faith.
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I followed his commands with blind obedience, never bothering to question what his purpose might have been.
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It was not blind faith that drove them to change the world, but a belief very well grounded in reality.
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Memes for blind faith have their own ruthless ways of propagating themselves.
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Safety is a matter of active attention and alert work practices, not blind obedience to arbitrary rules.
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The meme for blind faith secures its own perpetuation by the simple unconscious expedient of discouraging rational inquiry.
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Then you reposed an absolutely blind faith in the Emperor!
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This is true of patriotic and political as well as religious blind faith.
in bad faith
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In order to sue, you have to prove that the company was acting in bad faith.
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And some councils are acting in bad faith.
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In Anisminic, Lord Reid gave the following examples: It may have given its decision in bad faith.
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School officials can lose this qualified privilege if they act in bad faith or without regard for whether the statements are true.
leap of faith
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For my taste, there are a few too many leaps of faith required.
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For this the Middle East needs a leap of faith.
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If not, some franchise will have to take a leap of faith.
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It encompasses both the art of spin doctoring and also our fragile human need and ability to make huge leaps of faith.
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It would take only a minor leap of faith, a moment of transcendence, to believe that Christine Ashdown stared back.
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Privatization would be an untested leap of faith.
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The change is also so unprecedented that it necessitates a genuine leap of faith.
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These reforms, untested by pilot evaluations, represent a leap of faith.
pin your hopes/faith on sth/sb
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Duregar pinned his hopes on Dwarven determination to keep the army safe.
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He seems to pin his hopes on it.
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Ministers are pinning their hopes on a big spending Christmas this year to give the High Street and struggling businesses a boost.
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Stores, pinning their hopes on a brighter Christmas, were cheerful.
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This year it is pinning its hopes on an 8% uplift in passenger growth to around the 82m mark.
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Those who pin their hopes on highly specified, short range solutions may or may not get it right.
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Treacy is pinning his hopes on Derry again falling victim to a goal famine of crisis proportions.
put your faith/trust/confidence in sb/sth
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Can she put her faith in the people who oversaw her career before?
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Events that happen previously show us that Atticus is a person that we can put our trust in.
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He put his faith in the genius of individuals.
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None the less, geophysicists continue to look, continue to put their faith in ghosts of a sort.
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Others put their faith in camphor.
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She was putting her trust in the wrong people again.
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The Profitboss puts his trust in his people.
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The unfortunate crew of Tai Ki had put their faith in several coats of tung oil, to no effect.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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After what she's been through, I can understand why she's lost faith in the legal system.
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Godparents agree to educate their godchild in the practice of the Christian faith .
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He's a man of deep religious faith .
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He had great faith in her judgement, and consulted her about everything.
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He places a great deal of faith in people's honesty.
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In spite of all that has happened, somehow she has held onto her faith .
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Instead of celebrating their religious faith , they are forced to conceal it for fear of reprisals.
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It was her faith in God that helped her survive the long years in prison.
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Most of the island's population belong to the Islamic faith .
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My mother's total faith in God always amazed me.
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Nothing could shake his faith in God.
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People of all faiths are welcome in this building.
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The center welcomes people from all faiths.
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the Jewish faith
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The judge's decision shook her faith in the legal system.
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The only reason I stayed in my marriage was because my faith in religion sustained me.
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The tensions are growing between members of different faiths.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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By faith they grow in understanding and insight.
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First, it will act as a safeguard against today's widespread and unnecessary breakdown of faith .
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Given their generally bad state of health and care, slaves turned both to faith and to magic for healing.
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He mistrusted the rich, and frequently proclaimed his faith in the people.
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I have not much faith in the League, nor in democracy as an up-to-date technique of government.
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Instead of being human and down-to-earth, faith becomes a fragrant, concentrated essence.
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This shows the important difference between subjectivism in faith and in doubt.