(n.) To exercise belief in; to credit upon the authority or testimony of another; to be persuaded of the truth of, upon evidence furnished by reasons, arguments, and deductions of the mind, or by circumstances other than personal knowledge; to regard or accept as true; to place confidence in; to think; to consider; as, to believe a person, a statement, or a doctrine.
(v. i.) To have a firm persuasion, esp. of the truths of religion; to have a persuasion approaching to certainty; to exercise belief or faith.
(v. i.) To think; to suppose.
Example Sentences:
(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.
Belive
Definition:
(a.) Forthwith; speedily; quickly.
Example Sentences:
(1) The it was whip Kevin McCarthy's turn: 'We belive people should be treated fairly."
(2) The authors belive that this means of study combines a high level of reliability and specificity with advantage of enabling the use of material that can be stored for a long time without special conditions, does not require biopsy and can supply data of great value for the diagnosis of this condition.
(3) It is belived that priority should currently be given to monitoring occupational exposures, particularly those involving chemicals shown by animals studies to have carcinogenic activity.
(4) We belive this entity should be redefined as a "local reactive process following injection of exogenous lipids into the subcutaneous tissues."
(5) Cooper wrote to the prime minister on Friday, saying she belived the government had made a “strong moral and legal case for the UK joining military airstrikes to defeat the totalitarianism of Isis” but practical questions remained about ground troops, a strategy to stop the Syrian president, Bashar al-Assad, being strengthened and how to safeguard those at risk of becoming refugees.
(6) We belive that there are four criteria for the evaluation of cell transformation in culture: development of transformed colonies, appearance of altered foci when cells sensitive to contact inhibition are used, formation of colonies in agar, and the capacity to induce tumors in animals (tumorigenic potentiality).
(7) The author belives that such treatment of the less affected side as well serves prevention of arthorosis.
(8) We belive the person most qualified to provide such follow-up is the surgeon who performed by bypass procedure.
(9) It is suggested that the deposits may represent immune complexes which are belived to play a central role in the pathogenesis of the glomerulonephritis.
(10) We belive that the acute loss of the calibrator function of the cerebellum accounts for the gain abnormality underlying macrosaccadic oscillation.
(11) We belive that these cases represent a vesicular form of bullous pemphigoid.
(12) Mezeny belives that a modern jury would have taken Ellis's history of abuse and depression into account.
(13) The author belives that the congenital limb defects observed and reported in a previous paper by Janerich and others were due to a secondary relation and not causally related to the use of oral contraceptives.
(14) He belives it would be wrong for the Bank to rule out coal lending.
(15) Although translumbar aortography is the oldest form of aortography, we belive it to be the procedure of choice in studying patients with aortoiliac and more distal peripheral vascular occlusive disease.
(16) It is belived that the modern theory of pain phisiology offers scientific basis to explain its action mechanism.
(17) We belive the technique of needle-catheter jejunostomy is both safe and cost-effective in the administration of defined formula diet in the postoperative period, and we suggest that other surgeons gain experience with the technique to define its role in their own therapeutic armamentarium.
(18) The antibody to hepatitis B core antigen (anti-HBc) is belived to be a marker for natural infection with hepatitis B virus (HBV).
(19) Because of these findings, we belive that mechanical ventilation should be used in the treatment of flail chest injuries only for significant pulmonary dysfunction and not for the purpose of stabilizing the chest wall.
(20) We belive that the changes of the connective tissue and of the epithelium are secundary to the capillary obstruction.