(1) Unfortunately, due to confidentiality clauses that have been imposed on us by the Department of Immigration and Border Protection, we are unable to provide our full names and … titles … However, we believe the evidence that will be submitted will validate the statements that we are making in this submission.” The submission detailed specific allegations – including names and dates – of sexual abuse of child detainees, violence and bullying of children, suicide attempts by children and medical neglect.
(2) It has been generally believed that the ligand-binding of steroid hormone receptors triggers an allosteric change in receptor structure, manifested by an increased affinity of the receptor for DNA in vitro and nuclear target elements in vivo, as monitored by nuclear translocation.
(3) The sound of the ambulance frightened us, especially us children, and panic gripped the entire community: people believe that whoever is taken into the ambulance to the hospital will die – you so often don’t see them again.
(4) 8.47pm: Cameron says he believes Britain's best days lie ahead and that he believes in public service.
(5) Ryzhkov added: "I believe they want to keep him in prison for another three or four years at least, so he is not released until well after the next presidential elections in 2012."
(6) Of the 622 people interviewed, a large proportion (30.5%) believed that the first deciduous tooth should erupt between the age of 5-7 months; the next commonly mentioned time of tooth eruption was 7-9 months of age; and 50.3% of the respondents claimed to have seen a case of prematurely erupted primary teeth.
(7) Parents believed they should try to normalize their child's experiences, that interactions with health care professionals required negotiation and assertiveness, and that they needed some support person(s) outside of the family.
(8) The so-called literati aren't insular – this from a woman who ran the security service – but we aren't going to apologise for what we believe in either.
(9) They were protecting the sit-in because they believed that, if they left, the police would follow them."
(10) Batson believes there is a “mood” that needs to be seized upon.
(11) There are widespread examples across the US of the police routinely neglecting crimes of sexual violence and refusing to believe victims.
(12) United believe it is more likely the right-back can be bought in the summer but are exploring what would represent the considerable coup of acquiring the 26-year-old immediately.
(13) Does anybody honestly believe the vast majority of migrants don’t want that too?
(14) Although, it did give me the confidence to believe that my voice was valid and important.
(15) That is, he believes, to look at massively difficult, interlocking problems through too narrow a lens.
(16) However the imagery is more complex, because scholars believe it also relates to another cherished pre-Raphaelite Arthurian legend, Sir Degrevaunt who married his mortal enemy's daughter.
(17) After examining the cases reported in literature (Sacks, Barabas, Beighton Sykes), they point out that, contrary to what is generally believed, the syndrome is not rare and cases, sporadic or familial, of recurrent episodes of spontaneous rupture of the intestine and large vessels or peripheral arteries are frequent.
(18) Gordon Brown believes that the fact of the G20 summit has persuaded many tax havens, such as Switzerland and Liechtenstein, to indicate that they will adopt a more open approach.
(19) I believe that truth sets man free.” It was a curious stance for someone who spent many years undercover as a counter-espionage informant, a government propagandist, and unofficial asset of the Central Intelligence Agency.
(20) Whenever you are ill and a medicine is prescribed for you and you take the medicine until balance is achieved in you and then you put that medicine down.” Farrakhan does not dismiss the doctrine of the past, but believes it is no longer appropriate for the present.
Unconvincing
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(1) More problematic for Brown is that he has come to embody a government sufficiently unconvinced of its own case as to risk short-changing the armed forces at the front.
(2) Anthony Wells, director of YouGov’s political and social research team, said: “While there will be speculation about whether this movement is connected to the tragic death of Jo Cox, we do not think that it is... We are now in the final week of the referendum campaign and the swing back towards the status quo appears to be in full force.” EU referendum voters unconvinced by scare tactics: ‘I just want to do what’s right’ Read more Today, both sides will resume their battle to capture the votes of the undecided and to persuade people to switch sides, though both the Leave and Remain camps say that the manner of their campaigning will be more sober and less combative.
(3) David Cameron: smooth, smiley but unconvincing If Liam Byrne could turn back time, I think we all know which four words he wouldn’t write.
(4) Right up until the 79th minute, when the substitute Ramires pinged a 25-yard shot beyond Tim Krul, Chelsea were unconvincing.
(5) While Pochettino was undoubtedly unsettled by the departure of the club’s influential chief executive, Nicola Cortese, in January , he had been unconvinced that the owner, Katharina Liebherr, could match his own ambition with bids having been submitted for a number of key players.
(6) Patients who were placed in the apartment to help them gain insight into their disabilities remained unconvinced--the majority returning home despite advice.
(7) "However, we still need reassurances that GPs are not going to be pressed into acting as an arm of the Border Agency and we remain unconvinced that the proposals will work across the NHS."
(8) Many analysts remain unconvinced by the softer language.
(9) Then you put a TV camera on him and it’s like – boosh!” Mary is unconvinced.
(10) Nice simply asserting that is independent seems unconvincing.
(11) But some remain unconvinced about the affordability of an EE 4G service, which costs £36 a month for 500MB of data, the equivalent of streaming a single one-hour programme on iPlayer or making a two-hour Skype video call.
(12) To read more about the position of Irish churches on gay marriage, read here , this analysis on why that position may be unconvincing, and this piece on the priests who are urging their parishioners to vote yes.
(13) Rather Van Gaal’s outfit were winning how they were previously being defeated – narrowly and unconvincingly.
(14) The commonwealth faces a fight from state governments unconvinced of its income tax sharing plan, too.
(15) Huw Thomas, a director of Foster & Partners, says replacement habitats could be created elsewhere, but the RSPB is unconvinced.
(16) The cover art for the Cranberries' Bury the Hatchet (1999) was an evocation of paranoia – a giant eye bearing down on a crouching figure – that did neither band nor artist many favours; his image for Muse's Black Holes and Revelations (2006) amounted to a thin revival of his work for the Floyd that, if you were being generous, suggested a wry comment on that band's unconvincing attempts to revive the excesses of 1970s progressive rock.
(17) It was a migraine-inducing reminder of this team's fallibility, a position of relative authority having been surrendered wastefully; even attempts to salvage a point were rather unconvincing and laced with panic.
(18) But Khan is unconvinced about the effectiveness of staff mutuals.
(19) Rafa Benítez put it down to bad luck and a little “anxiety” in the final minutes but the truth is that there was also something a little unconvincing about the way Madrid attacked at times, lacking a little subtlety (lacking James Rodríguez most of all?).
(20) Taye Taiwo was allowed to encroach into their penalty box unhindered before his skidding shot went just wide, Yakubu Aiyegbeni's 25-yard pile-driver was fisted unconvincingly by Sergio Romero, and — not long before the end — the substitute Kalu Uche was able to exchange passes with Yakubu before looping his shot over from 12 yards.