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  • adjective Attributive form of leap of faith, noun.

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  • An internalist, personal-enlightenment seeking philosophy, such as Zen Buddhism, requires no rationality-defying “leap-of-faith” and is both intellectually acceptable and spiritually satisfying to me.

    Jesus Christ! - :: gia’s blog :: 2007

  • Ammon explains that the project feels like a leap-of-faith, a cathartic opportunity to do something meaningful for the world while exploring her own attitudes about commitment.

    Subhash Ghimire: Engaging The World: How One Woman Said 'I Do' To Change 2009

  • It's a bit of a start-up, leap-of-faith kind of thing.

    Grappling With Cable's Future 2008

  • Tucker's motives are not in dispute, but this is a leap-of-faith bill that deserves an early burial in one of those committees that gape like open graves between the hopper and the governor's desk.

    unknown title 2009

  • Sherman made a leap-of-faith career move in 2006, leaving his 10-year gig as a digital effects artist for George Lucas 'Industrial Light and Magic to try his hand in comic book writing.

    Starbulletin Headlines 2009

  • Sherman made a leap-of-faith career move in 2006, leaving his 10-year gig as a digital effects artist for George Lucas 'Industrial Light and Magic to try his hand in comic book writing.

    Starbulletin Headlines 2009

  • An accountant can learn to embrace the concept of validity, or leap-of-faith ideas, through the help and guidance of a more creative thinker.

    BusinessWeek.com -- 2009

  • Although he attempted the leap-of-faith beforehand, I could give two ***** about the rest.

    Original Signal - Transmitting Digg 2008

  • PS: I recognize that we submitted this to you and Andrew Sullivan via email a couple of days ago … but we appreciate your clear if distinct views of the problems created by the Bush-led leap-of-faith into Iraq, so we’re trying again here … levitra Says:

    Matthew Yglesias » The Pony Fallback 2007

  • My very first, leap-of-faith, life-saving supplement regimen included fish oil, which—combined with alpha-lipoic acid and milk thistle—not only healed my sick liver food couldn’t do it, as I had already been eating the healthiest way I could but also completely transformed my skin and my moods.

    The Truth About Beauty Kat James 2007

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