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lose faith
verb as in despair
Example Sentences
The victim's mother told the AFP news agency that people would lose faith in India's legal system if Roy was not handed the death penalty.
Such decisions promote an irrational fear of chemicals and cause consumers to lose faith in the safety of the U.S. food supply, they wrote.
But Nandy said she had spoken to survivors who had given evidence to the Jay inquiry and had begun to lose faith in the process leading to concrete action.
She explicitly said "Violence is never the answer," but argued it was inevitable when people "lose faith in the ability of their government to make change."
“This is a warning that if you push people hard enough, they lose faith in the ability of their government to make change, lose faith in the ability of the people who are providing the health care to make change, and start to take matters into their own hands in ways that will ultimately be a threat to everyone.”
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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