Likewise, for most people, religious or political convictions or sexual mores are considered private matters.

同样地，对大多数人而言宗教信仰、政治立场及性观念等话题也都属于个人隐私。

But this wasn't for seductive purposes; this was for religious convictions.

但这并非出于性吸引的目的，而是为了宗教信仰。

We applaud individual rights and freedoms. The trouble is, we’ve rather lost the appetite for profound religious convictions.

我们尊重个人的权利和自由。问题是，我们也失去了对宗教信仰深切的渴望。

So better to shy away from, to ignore, the moral and the religious convictions that people bring to civic life.

从而导致偏狭与排异，并相互强加观点给对方，所以最好是避开那些宗教及道义方面的大命题。

Last week, the state legislature passed a bill that would allow businesses to deny service to homosexuals based on religious convictions.

上周，州立法机关通过一项法案，由于宗教信条，企业可以拒绝向同志提供服务。

The 1605 gunpowder plot was all about holding religious convictions deeply, to the point of blowing up Parliament and seizing political power.

1605年的火药阴谋就是因为宗教信仰不同，以至于炸毁议会，夺取政治权利。

They’ve struggled to hold religious convictions deeply, and yet, at the same time, to recognise the right of others to believe differently.

他们努力深刻地保持宗教信仰，然而，同时，要认识到别人有权拥有不同的信仰。

As another result of self-analysis, he had lost all his religious convictions; or such was his belief.

作为自我分析的另一个结果， 他失去了所有的宗教信仰； 或者这就是他的信念。

Throughout the course of history, people have travelled for purposes of trade, religious conviction, economic gain, war, migration and other equally compelling motivations.

纵观历史进程，人们出于贸易、宗教信仰、经济利益、战争、移民和其他同样令人信服的动机而旅行。

If Karl Pearson's notions of the universe were sound, men like Galileo, Descartes, Leibnitz, and Newton should have stopped the progress of science before 1700, supposing them to have been honest in the religious convictions they expressed.

如果卡尔·皮尔逊的宇宙观是正确的，那么像伽利略、笛卡尔、莱布尼茨和牛顿这样的人应该在 1700 年之前就停止了科学的进步，假设他们所表达的宗教信仰是诚实的。