It is an article of faith among regulators that sunlight is the best disinfectant.
But once a concept becomes an article of faith, important questions and consequences tend to go overlooked.
There is an article of faith in Silicon Valley: Experiment often, fail fast.
In sports it's an article of faith that somebody paints a better Sistine Chapel ceiling about every other weekend.
For decades, it has been an article of faith for parents of young pitchers: Do not let them throw curveballs.
But the thinness of the safety net also reflects a widespread article of faith, recited and reinforced over the years.
Hostility to such hypothecation remains an article of faith in the Treasury, despite recent breaches such as the landfill tax.
It's an article of faith in Italy, despite repeated denials, that the Vatican knows more than it has let on.
The striving of his successors to emulate him in authority could only be emulation, and not an article of faith for posterity.
Unfortunately, there is little historical evidence to support this article of faith.
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For almost all EU countries, European integration is an article of faith.
Even the much-maligned figure of rational economic man, maximising his utility, is less an article of faith than an excuse to use calculus.
Capital controls are now in place in Cyprus, anathema in a region in which free movement of capital has been an article of faith.
Such sentiment has been an article of faith in recent years.
His choice marks him as an apologist for the model itself, and makes his belief in growth (apparently based on sound arguments) something of an article of faith.
It is an article of faith of one side of tax politics that further rewards for those lucky enough to have taxable capital gains are an incentive to invest.
It's an article of faith among French winemakers that the composition of the soil and its mineral components are the most important determinants of the character of the resulting wine.
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Finally, the belief that the United States did not need to plan for a conflict with a peer competitor has been an article of faith for most of the past 20 years.
It is an article of faith among some Democrats that liberals give money to politicians for altruistic reasons, whereas Republicans make campaign contributions as self-serving investments, in order to protect future profits.
It is an article of faith at the White House and among some congressional Republicans that while individual tax reform may be off the table this year, corporate reform remains a reachable goal.
The Labour leader argued the case for the EU was not served by ignoring the institution's "failings", adding that said the case for continued involvement had to be made "in a new way", rather than treating it as an "article of faith".
Most countries would still be happy with such a figure, but it has become an article of faith in China that output needs to grow by at least 8% a year to create enough jobs for the millions of rural Chinese moving to cities.
It is not possible to declare as apostates any group of Muslims who believes in Allah the Mighty and Sublime and His Messenger (may Peace and Blessings be upon him) and the pillars of faith, and respects the pillars of Islam and does not deny any necessary article of religion.
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