Like religion, the nation state myth requires a leap of faith.

All of these entities would be taking a substantial leap of faith.

The authors then make a leap of faith to derive conclusions about the economy as a whole.

The government convinced the Turkish Cypriots to make a leap of faith and vote in favor of the Annan plan in order to reunite the island.

Novelty a leap of creativity

So it s a leap of imagination.

China s Great Leap Backward

A religious decision can be a matter of passionate commitment (as in Kierkegaard s leap of faith ), or, more commonly, an emotionally low intensity consumer option (expressed in the telling American phrase religious preference ).

Your spoil will be gathered as the caterpillar gathers. Men will leap on it as locusts leap.

The ECB s Leap into the Unknown

Another Great Leap Forward for Development

The warrant was no leap forward.

But then Geithner takes a leap.

Steve Truglia A leap from the edge of space

(Mike Davis, Great Leap ForwardThe largest famine of the 20th century, and almost certainly of all time, was the 1958 61 Great Leap Forward famine in China.

Peter Diamandis on our next giant leap

How many days comprise a leap year?

The Arab Spring s Backward Leap for Women

Out of his mouth go burning torches. Sparks of fire leap forth.

The Great Leap ended in catastrophe, resulting in tens of millions of deaths.

Out of his mouth go burning lamps, and sparks of fire leap out.

The Great Leap Forward reversed the downward trend in mortality that had occurred since 1950, though even during the Leap, mortality may not have reached pre 1949 levels.

The Declaration of Commitment adopted in 2001 was a brave and great leap forward.

That constitutes an important leap forward in supporting the implementation of the Hyogo Framework.

Yet despite the rollback of the state, Africa has not made the leap to prosperity.

And of Dan he said, Dan is a lion's whelp he shall leap from Bashan.

The knight is the only piece that can leap over other pieces.

Impact on economy During the Great Leap, the Chinese economy initially grew.

The engine was officially launched as LEAP X on 13 July 2008.

She also appeared in the Quantum Leap episode The Play's The Thing .

And we must make that conceptual leap in our planning and actions.

The agricultural policies of the Great Leap Forward and the associated famine continued until January 1961, when, at the Ninth Plenum of the Eighth Central Committee, the restoration of agricultural production through a reversal of the Great Leap policies was started.

Like the Julian calendar, the sixth epagomenal day which in essence is a leap day is added every four years without exception on 29 August of the Julian calendar, six months before the Julian leap day.

Have you made him to leap as a locust? The glory of his snorting is awesome.

Yet, once again, the Bush administration is preparing to leap into the unknown.

Deaths by violence Not all deaths during the Great Leap were from starvation.

No, what I'm suggesting is that we should leap off, we should increase our velocity so it's high, and we should leap off one side and go the other of course, having calculated our differential equation very carefully.

In his dramatic leap into the future, Sadat taught Arab leaders the realities of a changing world.

For those countries that have already made the leap, the choices are more difficult.

Mao unveiled the Great Leap Forward at a meeting in January 1958 in Nanjing.

It is also a leap year starting on Saturday, in the Proleptic Gregorian calendar.

If we mind the gap, we can make the leap to a better, more inclusive form of globalization.

Proponents of this theory refer to this event as the Great Leap Forward or the Upper Paleolithic Revolution.

During the famines caused by the Great Leap Forward, wife selling occurred in many of the poorer areas.

There are four intercalary days in a regular year, and five in a leap year.