Believing Sentence Examples

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  • Believing in it and doing it are two different things.

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  • Jackson stood, hardly believing his eyes.

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  • Pierre listened with swelling heart, gazing into the Mason's face with shining eyes, not interrupting or questioning him, but believing with his whole soul what the stranger said.

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  • It took three tries before we were satisfied our information was in believing hands.

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  • She suddenly felt foolish for believing David Kingsly.

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  • The Parisians received the news of the event with joy, believing that freedom was now at last to be established on a firm basis by the man whose name was the synonym for victory in the field and disinterestedness in civil affairs.

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  • She looked up, as if believing the truth of what her husband was saying for the first time.

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  • Only a complete wanker would be fooled into believing this.

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  • It Simplifi- is possible for Christians to work out natural theology in separate detail; but we cannot wonder if they rarely attempt the task, believing as they do that they have a fuller revelation of religious truth elsewhere.

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  • In 1891, believing that his first duty was to his state, he resigned from the Senate to accept the chairmanship of the newly established state railway commission.

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  • In 1818 General Jackson, believing that the Spanish were aiding the Seminole Indians and inciting them to attack the Americans, again captured Pensacola.

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  • Friends have always held that war is contrary to the precepts and spirit of the Gospel, believing that it springs from the lower impulses of human nature, and not from the seed of divine life with its infinite capacity of response to the Spirit of God.

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  • Who are these men? thought Rostov, scarcely believing his eyes.

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  • Very young children have great difficulty believing that the dream is not real.

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  • Memon had deceived him into believing he didn't have the men to attack!

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  • We have thus grounds for believing that the original nebula will separate into a series of rings all revolving in the same direction with a central nebulous mass in the interior.

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  • When the World War broke out his attitude was favourable to the absolute neutrality of Italy, believing that his country's interests lay in not siding with either group of belligerents, and on the eve of Italian intervention he made an attempt, by using his personal hold over the Parliamentary majority, to upset the Salandra Cabinet, but it was frustrated by an uprising of public opinion in favour of war.

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  • The autocrat and Lucien Bonaparte were almost alone in believing that by dissolving the chambers and declaring himself dictator, he could save France from the armies of the powers now converging on Paris.

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  • And from this it is clear that though, as a theologian, Justin wished to go his own way, as a believing Christian he was.

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  • The unbelieving receive the external sign or sacramentum; but the believing receive in addition, although invisibly, the reality represented by the sign, the res sacramenti.

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  • The existence of these Christian elements in the text misled nearly every scholar for the past four hundred years into believing that the book itself was a Christian apocryph.

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  • But Blair seems right in believing that this number, though probably correct for an earlier period, is much under the truth for the age to which it is assigned.

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  • Salvation is attained not by believing but by the perception of what is right; wisdom is resident in the soul and identical with the thought of man.

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  • Subjects and treatment alike are inspired by the passing fashion of an age which had deceived itself into believing that it was living and moving in the spirit of classical antiquity.

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  • Christianity was to some extent a popularization of Essenism, but there is little reason for believing that Jesus himself was an Essene.

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  • An army of crusaders marched upon the Turkish borders; believing Bayezid to be engaged in the siege of Constantinople, they crossed the Danube without precaution and invested Nicopolis.

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  • He sought the truth from whatever quarter he could get it, believing that all that is good comes from God, wherever it be found.

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  • He gives reasons for believing that in the Church of England, under the first Prayer Book, as in the Lutheran Churches, while chasuble and alb were retained, stole, maniple, amice and girdle were discontinued.

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  • Rowland, believing that the curve would continue to fall in a straight line meeting the horizontal axis, inferred that the induction corresponding to the point B-about 17,500-was the highest I Phil.

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  • There were reasons for believing that no Villari reversal would be found in nickel.

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  • There are strong reasons for believing that magnetism is a phenomenon involving rotation, and as early as 1876 Rowland, carrying out an experiment which had been proposed by Maxwell, showed that a revolving electric charge produced the same magnetic effects as a current.

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  • The question whether a corpuscle actually has a material gravitating nucleus is undecided, but there are strong reasons for believing that its mass is entirely due to the electric charge.

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  • Failing in this, he turned to the rising star of Napoleon, believing that he had found in "the truly great man, the mighty genius which governs the fate of the world," the only force strong enough to save Germany from dissolution.

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  • He lost heart, and actually suggested to White the surrender of Ladysmith, believing this to be inevitable and desiring to cover White's responsibility in that event with his own authority; but White replied that he did not propose to surrender, and the cabinet at home, aware of Buller's despondency, appointed Field Marshal Lord Roberts to the supreme command, with MajorGeneral Lord Kitchener as his chief of staff.

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  • Believing that the pendulum had overshot its swing from conventional classicality towards pictorial realism, he turned from the " fleshy " school towards the Greek, while realizing the artistic necessity for modern feeling.

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  • Heidenhain, on the other hand, rejected entirely the filtration view of lymph-formation, believing that the passage of lymph across the capillary wall is a true secretion brought about by the secretory function of the endothelial plates.

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  • Nor is there any great difficulty in believing that Cicero edited it; the word "emendavit," need not mean more than what we call "preparing for press."

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  • But again the affair blew over, the king believing that the edition of Akakia confiscated in Prussia was the only one.

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  • The strongest reason for believing in a British London is to be found in the name, which is undoubtedly Celtic, adopted with little alteration by the Romans.

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  • Sir William Tite gave reasons for believing that Bishopsgate Street was not a Roman thoroughfare, and in the excavations at Leadenhall the basilica to which allusion has already been made was found apparently crossing the present thoroughfare of Gracechurch Street.

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  • Much stronger are the reasons for believing that there was a bridge in Roman times.

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  • There is then strong reason for believing the tradition that Luke, the companion of the Apostle Paul, was the author of our third Gospel and the Acts.

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  • Taking up the idea of a divine education of the human race, which Lessing and Herder had made so familiar to the modern mind, and firmly believing that to each of the leading nations of antiquity a special task had been providentially assigned, Ewald felt no difficulty about Israel's place in universal history, or about the problem which that race had been called upon to solve.

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  • After thirty years' absence, he returns to his home in Italy; his son Hadubrand, believing his father to be dead, suspects treachery and refuses to accept presents offered by the father in token of good-will.

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  • Immediately after South Carolina's secession, Blair, believing that the southern leaders were planning to carry Missouri into the movement, began active efforts to prevent it and personally organized and equipped a secret body of l000 men to be ready for the emergency.

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  • He favoured abolishing the Federal inheritance tax, believing that the state alone should have jurisdiction over inheritances.

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  • There is good ground for believing that as Grail quester and winner, Gawain preceded alike Perceval and Galahad, and that the solution of the mysterious Grail problem is to be sought rather in the tales connected with the older hero than in those devoted to the glorification of the younger knights.

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  • Charles Emmanuel (1796-1802), believing in Bonaparte's promises, was induced to enter into a confederation with France and give up the citadel of Turin to the French, which meant the end of his country's independence.

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  • St Hubert was carried by a confused mass of some 49 companies, and von Steinmetz, believing the main French position to have been pierced, ordered the 4th cavalry division to cross the ravine by the chaussee and pursue.

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  • The protector, hearing of his "grievous complaint," sent him a writ, and Lenthall was elated at believing he had secured a peerage.

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  • On the 28th of May Rupert and d'Estrees, believing that De Ruyter was too much afraid of their superior numbers to venture to sea, sent in a squadron of light vessels and fire-ships to attack him, but he took the offensive at once, scattering the light squadron, and falling with energy on the restof the fleet, which, not being in expectation of a vigorous assault, was taken at a disadvantage.

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  • He entered public life in 1849 as Liberal member for the county of Sherbrooke, but opposed the chief measure of his party, the Rebellion Losses Bill, and in the same year signed a manifesto in favour of union with the United States, believing that in no other way could Protestant and AngloSaxon ascendancy over the Roman Catholic French majority in his native province be maintained.

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  • Yet we need not run into the opposite extreme, and try to fancy that Machiavelli, who had professed Paganism in his life, proved himself a believing Christian on his deathbed.

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  • But the queen was violently prejudiced against him, believing him among other things to be responsible for the events of the 5th and 6th of October, and he never gained her full confidence.

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  • He agreed with Luther in rejecting transubstantiation, and in believing that works without the grace of God could not make for salvation.

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  • Pyramus, believing that she had been devoured by the lion, stabbed himself.

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  • There is some ground for believing that it was the third-abbot of Monte Cassino who began to spread a knowledge of the Rule beyond the circle of St Benedict's own foundations.

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  • The student will find differences among anthropologists in the interpretation of these marks - some averring that comparative anatomy is worthless as a means of subdividing the American subspecies, others that biological variations point to different Old World origins, a third class believing these structural variations to be of the soil.

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  • Shortly after this successful campaign he was seized with an illness, and believing it mortal appointed as his successor Constantine Ducas, to the exclusion of his own brother John.

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  • There are grounds for believing that an East Saxon conquest of Kent took place in this reign.

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  • North of the river, the Hudson's Bay Company discouraged settlement, believing that the final determination of the boundary controversy would make that stream the dividing line.

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  • Socrates was charged with " not believing in the gods the city believes in."

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  • In his twenty-sixth year, believing himself to be a divinely-commissioned prophet, he began to preach in his native parish and afterwards throughout Norway, calling people to repentance and attacking rationalism.

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  • Rousseau, however, never saw any of the alleged children; and Mrs Macdonald has shown good cause for believing that their existence was a myth, an imposition on Rousseau's credulity, invented by Therese and her mother to make the tie more binding.

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  • Christianity was essentially a proselytizing religion, not content to appeal simply to one class or race of people, and to be one among many faiths, but believing in the falsity or insufficiency of all others and eager to convert the whole world.

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  • He himself was an alchemist; and believing the transmutation of metals to be a possibility, he carried out experiments in the hope of effecting it; and he was instrumental in obtaining the repeal, in 1689, of the statute of Henry IV.

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  • After some time, hearing nothing of Queen Iseult, and believing himself forgotten, he weds the duke's daughter, Iseult of the white hand, but weds her only in name, remaining otherwise faithful to Iseult of Ireland.

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  • Lehmann holds that there are reasons for believing that the engraver, by error, put a stroke too many, and that 2200 should be read instead of 3200.5 The real Biblical date.

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  • The mullahs or priests enjoy very great influence, but the people are very superstitious, believing in witchcraft, omens, spirits and the evil eye.

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  • Yet his first courses of lectures in that department were readings and expositions of the Old and New Testament; and to this, as also to hermeneutics, he always attached special importance, believing that for theology a sound exegesis was the one indispensable requisite.

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  • He was occupied on his Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, which there is some reason for believing he had begun at Toulouse.

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  • As regards priority of publication, Napier has the advantage by six years, and even fully accepting Bramer's statement, there are grounds for believing that Napier's work dates from a still earlier period.

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  • In 1534 Lord Thomas Fitzgerald, better known as Silken Thomas (so called because of a fantastic fringe worn in the helmet of his followers), a young man of rash courage and good abilities, son of the Lord Deputy Kildare, believing his father, who was imprisoned in the Tower of London, to have been beheaded, organized a rebellion against the English Government, and marched with his followers from the mansion of the earls of Kildare in Thomas Court, through Dame's Gate to St Mary's Abbey, where, in the council chamber, he proclaimed himself a rebel.

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  • There is good reason for believing that at least along the southern border of New England a narrow coastal plain was for a time added to the continental border; and that, as in the New Jersey section the plain was here stripped from a significant breadth of inland overlap and worn down so as to form an inner lowland enclosed by a longitudinal upland or cuesta; and that when this stage was reached a submergence, of the kind which has produced the many embayments of the New England coast, drowned the outer part of thy plain and the inner lowland, leaving only the higher parts of the cuesta as islands.

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  • The government endeavoured to bring about an amalgamation of these rival companies, believing that the united energies and financial ability of the whole country were required for so vast an undertaking.

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  • But he followed Jackson rather than Calhoun, and above everything else set his love of the Union, though believing the South to be grievously wronged.

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  • Wellington, freed from pressure on this side, and believing Massena to be thoroughly disabled, considered that the time had come for an advance into Spain.

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  • Upon Dee's departure the mob, believing him a wizard, broke into his house, and' destroyed a quantity of furniture and books and his chemical apparatus.

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  • Moreover, by section 5 of the Money-lenders Act 1900, where any proceedings are taken against the senders of these circulars to infants, if it is proved that the person to whom the document was sent is an infant, the person charged will be deemed to have been cognisant of the fact unless he proves that he had reasonable grounds for believing the infant to be of full age.

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  • He concludes an interesting and important investigation by' giving reasons for believing that the centre of a widened line radiates with smaller energy than the adjacent parts.

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  • Further, holding that, " like every other perception, the perception of a human body immediately involves the existence of that body," and, like Fichte, believing in a " common consciousness," he concludes that the evidence of sense is verined by " common consciousness " of the external world as objective in the Kantian sense of universally valid.

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  • Though, for simplicity and universality of thought, even in science, we must use the abstraction of attributes, and, by the necessity and weakness of language, must signify what are not substances by nouns substantive, we must guard against the over-abstraction of believing that a thing exists as we abstract it.

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  • The distinction between the twelfhynde and sixhynde classes was also in part at least hereditary, but there is good reason for believing that it arose out of the possession of land.

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  • Bows and arrows were certainly in use for sporting purposes, but there is no reason for believing that they were much used in warfare before the Danish invasions.

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  • Caesar, moreover, says that the clans or kindreds to whom the lands were allotted changed their abodes also from year to year - a statement which gives a certain amount of colour to Strabo's description of the Germani as quasi-nomadic. Yet there is good reason for believing that this representation of early Teutonic life was by no means universally true.

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  • Believing protective tariff duties to be unconstitutional, he voted against the "tariff of abominations" in 1828, and also against the tariff of 1832, since the latter measure, though reducing duties, showed no abandonment of the protective principle.

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  • And thus too he explains to himself the phenomena of human life, believing that each man has within him a mannikin or animal which dictates his actions in life.

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  • Bates offered no satisfactory explanation of the resemblance between these two genera and others of the same protected sub-families; but he did not hesitate to ascribe the resemblance to them presented by the Pierine, Dismorphia (Leptalis) orise, to mimicry, believing Dismorphia to be unprotected and noting that it departed widely in the matter of coloration from typical members of the sub-family to which it belongs.

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  • But there are grounds for believing that some of the rudiments of chivalry are to be detected in early Teutonic customs, and that they may have made some advance among the Franks of Gaul.

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  • Professor Delitzsch estimated that i oo,000 Jews had embraced Christianity in the first three quarters of the i 9th century; and Dr Dalman of Leipzig says that " if all those who have entered the Church and their descendants had remained together, instead of losing themselves among the other peoples, there would now be a believing Israel to be counted by millions, and no one would have ventured to speak of the uselessness of preaching the Gospel to the Jews."

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  • The responsibility, if there be any, of believing, rests with the individual told; the responsibility of telling him rests with the Christian Church."

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  • In despair, Lessing determined towards the end of his residence in Hamburg to quit Germany, believing that in Italy he might find congenial labour that would suffice for his wants.

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  • The development is only slightly known, but there is some evidence for believing that the fruit-body is closed in its very early stages.

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  • The system of human sacrifices, practised among the Ashanti until the closing years of the 19th century, was founded on a sentiment of piety towards parents and other connexions - the chiefs believing that the rank of their dead relatives in the future world would be measured by the number of attendants sent after them.

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  • The king also sought as much as possible to remove from the domain of politics every irritating question, believing that a union of the different parties was most for the advantage of the state.

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  • There is reason for believing that there were organized convents for women before there were any for men; for when St Anthony left the world in 270 to embrace the ascetic life, the Vita says he placed his sister in a nunnery (irapOEv6v).

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  • Its chiefs differed on questions of policy, one section believing that the emperor did not intend to proceed to extremities, and for some time no measures were taken to meet the coming peril.

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  • Believing in the perfectibility of the race, that there are no innate principles, and therefore no original propensity to evil, he considered that "our virtues and our vices may be traced to the incidents which make the history of our lives, and if these incidents could be divested of every improper tendency, vice would be extirpated from the world."

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  • Wolf and Wolfer have, however, aimed persistently at securing a definite standard, and there are several reasons for believing that the change of unit has been in the auroral rather than the sun-spot frequency.

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  • None of the results so obtained can be accepted without reserve, but there are several reasons for believing that the average height in Greenland is much below that in lower latitudes.

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  • The ensuing night in Cairo presented a curious spectacle; many of the inhabitants, believing that this envoy would put an end to their miseries, fired off their weapons as they paraded the streets with bands of music. The silhdgr, imagining the noise to be a fray, marched in.

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  • He acknowledged the genius of the astronomer, and had not approved of the action of the Inquisition in 1616; but subsequently, believing himself to have been caricatured in the Dialogo, he permitted the Inquisition to have its way and to compel an abjuration (1633).

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  • There thus seems to be no justification for believing, as Schmitz taught, that a second sexual act occurs in the life-cycle of these Florideae.

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  • In 431 the contemporary Chronica of Prosper of Aquitaine record that Palladius was ordained by Pope Celestine as the first bishop " to the believing Scots," that is, to the Irish.

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  • If there were " believing Scots " in Ireland before the first bishop was ordained, their ecclesiastical constitution cannot have been episcopal.

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  • Accordingly, in April 1752, Heyne journeyed to Dresden, believing that his fortune was made.

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  • Above all Luther had good grounds for believing that at the conference at Memmingen friends of Zwingli had helped to organize a Peasants' War and to link the social revolution to the religious awakening.

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  • It was in these circumstances that he returned to Rome; but most of the clergy, suspecting his orthodoxy, and believing him to have had some share in the removal of his predecessor, shunned his fellowship. He enjoyed, however, the support of Narses, and, after he had publicly purged himself of complicity in Vigilius's death in the church of St Peter, he met with toleration in his own immediate diocese.

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  • Bonafous, however (Histoire naturelle du mais), quotes authorities (Bock, 1532, Ruel and Fuchs) as believing that it came from Asia, and maize was said by Santa Rosa de Viterbo to have been brought by the Arabs into Spain in the 13th century.

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  • Believing,"he wrote," that (excepting the ardent monarchists) all our citizens agreed in ancient whig principles "- or, as he elsewhere expressed it, in" republican forms "-" I thought it advisable to define and declare them, and let them see the ground on which we can rally."This he did in his inaugural, which, though somewhat rhetorical, is a splendid and famous statement of democracy.'

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  • The following year the Venetian brothers Bandiera, acting in concert with Mazzini, landed in Calabria, believing the whole country to be in a state of revolt; they met with little local support and were quickly captured and shot, but their death aroused much sympathy, and the whole episode was highly significant as being the first attempt made by north Italians to promote revolution in the south.

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  • We must, in short, resign ourselves to whatever fate and fortune bring to us, believing, as the first article of our creed, that there is a god, whose thought directs the universe, and that not merely in our acts, but even in our thoughts and plans, we cannot escape his eye.

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  • There are some reasons for believing that the oldest seat, and possibly the original seat, of the Anu cult was in Erech, as it is there where the Ishtar cult that subsequently spread throughout Babylonia and Assyria took its rise.

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  • Nor could a combination of conceptions make a difference so fundamental as that between conceiving and believing.

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  • They overlooked the fact that man thinks long before he speaks, makes judgments which he does not express at all, or expresses them by interjections, names and phrases, before he uses regular propositions, and that he does not begin by conceiving and naming, and then proceed to believing and proposing.

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  • Feeling and sensation, involving believing or judging, come before conception and language.

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  • In reality, the sensation and the belief arc sufficient; when I feel a sensible pressure, I cannot help believing in its reality, and therefore judging that it is real, without any tertium quid - an idea of pressure, or of existence or of pressure existing - intervening between the sensation and the belief.

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  • The view of Herbart and his school is contradicted by our primary judgments of and from sense, in which we cannot help believing existence; and it gives an inadequate account even of our secondary judgments in which we no longer indeed believe existence, but do frequently believe that a nonexistent thing is (or is not) somehow determined unconditionally.

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  • When Bosanquet says that in " Heat is a mode of motion " there is no reference to individual objects, but " a pure hypothetical form which absolutely neglects the existence of objects," he falls far short of expressing the nature of this scientific judgment, for in his Theory of Heat Clerk Maxwell describes it as " believing heat as it exists in a hot body to be in the form of kinetic energy."

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  • C. Jones (1789-1858) of the United States navy, believing that war had broken out between his country and Mexico and that a British force was about to seize California,raised the American flag over Monterey (October 21st), but finding that he had acted on misinformation he lowered the flag next day with due ceremony and warm apology.

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  • Believing that sectarianism was sinful, he separated from the Presbyterian Church in 1843, and was one of the founders of the Church at Peterboro, a non-sectarian institution open to all Christians of whatever shade of belief.

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  • Lacordaire read, and his ardent and believing nature, weary of the theological negations of the Encyclopaedists, was convinced.

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  • In the meantime Lacordaire and Montalembert, believing that, under the charter of 1830, they were entitled to liberty of instruction, opened an independent free school.

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  • For instance, there are good reasons for believing that the island of Reunion has been subject, since 1840 or thereabouts, to outbreaks under the name of " lymphangite infectieuse."

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  • In 1352 the restless man started for Central Africa, passing by the oases of the Sahara (where the houses were built of rock-salt, as Herodotus tells, and roofed with camel skins) to Timbuktu and Gogo on the Niger, a river which he calls the Nile, believing it to flow down into Egypt, an opinion maintained by some up to the date of Lander's discovery.

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  • But there are independent reasons for believing that they were originally gods or demi-gods.

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  • But if we reject it, have we any better reason for believing the parallel assertion in the Platonic Hipparchus?

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  • But the bristle-tails and springtails, which form the modern order Aptera, are all without any trace of wings, and, on account of several remarkable archaic characters which they exhibit, there is reason for believing that they are primitively wingless - that they represent an early offshoot which sprang from the ancestral stock of the Hexapoda before organs of flight had been acquired by the class.

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  • Believing in one God, they contented themselves with the Decalogue and the Paternoster.

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  • He approved the constitution which was decided upon, believing, as he said, "that it was the best constitution which could be obtained at that epoch, and that this or a dissolution awaits our choice, and is the only alternative."

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  • Calhoun, believing that there was a natural tendency in the United States towards the development of manufactures, supported the Tariff Bill of 1816, which laid on certain foreign commodities duties higher than were necessary for the purposes of revenue.

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  • The Paradoxes (Characters of a believing Christian in paradoxes, and seeming contradictions), which was often and justly suspected, has been conclusively proved by Grosart to be the work of another author.

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  • Smarting beneath their grievances and seriously believing that not only the young king's crown but his very life was in danger, they formed a conspiracy, the soul of which was Gustaf Mauritz Armfelt, to overthrow the government, with the aid of a Russian fleet, supported by a rising of the Dalecarlians.

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  • Believing that he had now secured the support of the majority in congress on behalf of any measures he decided to put forward, the new president initiated a policy of heavy expenditure on public works, the building of schools, and the strengthening of the naval and military forces of the republic. Contracts were given out to the value of 6,000,000 for the construction of railways in the southern districts; some 10,000,000 dollars were expended in the erection of schools and colleges; three cruisers and two sea-going torpedo boats were added to the squadron; the construction of the naval port at Talcahuano was actively pushed forward; new armament was purchased for the infantry and artillery branches of the army, and heavy guns were acquired for the purpose of permanently and strongly fortifying the neighbourhoods of Valparaiso, Talcahuano and Iquique.

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  • Frere, believing that the Zulu power was a standing menace to the peace of South Africa, and that delay in dealing with Cetywayo would only increase the danger, sent an ultimatum to the chief in November 1878.

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  • Bagehot seems right in believing that Ricardo himself had no consciousness of the limitations to which his doctrines are subject.

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  • He maintained that there is a rapid variation of density near the surface of a liquid, and he gave very strong reasons, which have been only strengthened by subsequent discoveries, for believing that this is the case.

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  • Woolston, at first to all appearance working earnestly in behalf of an allegorical but believing interpretation of the New Testament miracles, ended by assaulting, with a yet unknown violence of speech, the absurdity of accepting them as actual historical events, and did his best to overthrow the credibility of Christ's principal miracles.

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  • The Romanists had always hated them, believing them not to be in accord with the general custom of the papal church, while the Lutherans and Bohemian Brethren considered their suppression a guarantee of their own liberty of worship.

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  • It may, however, surprise those who have been accustomed to hear him spoken of as "cure de Meudon," and who have read lives of him founded on legend, to find that there is very little ground for believing that he ever officiated or resided there.

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  • Indeed the distinctive characteristics of the language are very marked, and there is good reason for believing that it differed considerably from the various northern and western languages, whereas the differences among the latter at this time were probably comparatively slight (see Teutonic Languages).

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  • There is considerable reason for believing that the Ceratiocaridae, which are found from the Cambrian onwards, were allied to the existing Nebalia, and may possibly include the forerunners of the true Malacostraca, but nothing is definitely known of their appendages.

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  • There is little reason for believing the story that she was his first mistress; it is certain that he was not her first lover.

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  • Loving him, believing in his powers, passionately desiring for him a successful career, but clinging with both hands to the old forms of faith from which he floated away, this solitary, intense woman did as much as any one to form, by action and reaction, the mind and character of the young Emerson.

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  • Among others who had engaged in this search was Pedro de Covilham, who arrived in Abyssinia in 1490, and, believing that he had at length reached the far-famed kingdom, presented geese g g P to the negus, or emperor of the country, a letter from his master the king of Portugal, addressed to Prester John.

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  • Immediately Fulbert, believing that her husband, who aided in the flight, designed to be rid of her, conceived a dire revenge.

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  • If a mare or other female animal is liable to be "infected" by her first or by subsequent mates, telegony will rank as a cause of variation, and breeders will be justified in believing (1) that pure-bred females are liable to be "corrupted" when mated with sires of a different breed; and (2) that inferior or cross-bred females, if first mated with a high-class sire, will thereafter produce superior offspring, however inferior or cross-bred her subsequent mates.

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  • He disliked the psychological school of art, believing it to be essentially morbid and unhealthy.

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  • On the one hand, there were grounds for believing that the Clericals and Conservatives in both countries were acting together; and, on the other, it was expected that President Castro of Venezuela would not be sorry to unite his own countrymen, and to divert their attention from internal affairs, by a war against Colombia.

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  • John of Damascus and the schoolmen, including Albertus Magnus and Thomas Aquinas, held Nemesius in high esteem, believing his book to be the work of Gregory of Nyssa, with whom he has much in common.

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  • Even an unbelieving husband or wife is sanctified by a believing partner.

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  • Aske was invited to come to London and hoodwinked by Henry into believing that the king was really bent on restoration and reform.

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  • He knew that the demand for ministerial responsibility would in the end involve his own responsibility, and, believing as he did that Buckinghams arrangements had been merely unlucky, he declined to sacrifice the minister whom he trusted.

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  • In 1856 the Persian government, believing that England had her hands fully occupied in the Crimea, seized Herat, and, in consequence, a fresh war in which a British army under Sir James Outram rapidly secured a victorybroke out.

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  • There was a lasting intimacy between the two namesakes, and they seem to have been involved together in some important passages of their lives; but we have Edmund Burke's authority for believing that they were probably not kinsmen.

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  • Nothing certain is known of the date or nationality of the writer, but there is some reason for believing that he was an Alexandrian, who wrote in the time of Hadrian (some put him as late as the end of the 3rd century).

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  • The epic reciting his wonderful deed in despatching the monster Tiamat and in establishing law and Order in the world in the place of chaos was recited in his temple at Babylon known as E-Saggila, "the lofty house," and there are some reasons for believing that the recital was accompanied by a dramatical representation of the epic.

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  • I see no reason for believing it, but, on the other hand, I have no means of disproving it.

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  • Give me such evidence as would justify me in believing in anything else, and I will believe that.

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  • The assumption that they were " innate " was enough " to take men off the use of their own reason and judgment, and to put them upon believing and taking upon trust without further examination....

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  • An autograph letter of the emperor Francis (May 29) assured him that no peace would be concluded by which Tirol would again be separated from the Austrian monarchy, and Hofer, believing his work accomplished, returned to his home.

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  • They argue with considerable cogency that determinism is very far from affording any ground for believing in the impotence of will.

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  • For example, it is not reasonable for me to perform my share of a contract, unless I have reason for believing that the other party will perform his; and this I cannot have, except in a society in which he will be punished for non-performance.

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  • Though duty, in his view, excludes regard for private happiness, the summum bonum is not duty alone, but happiness combined with moral worth; the demand for happiness as the reward of duty is so essentially reasonable that we must postulate a universal connexion between the two as the order of the universe; indeed, the practical necessity of this postulate is the only adequate rational ground that we have for believing in the existence of God.

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  • Calvin at first declined, alleging as an excuse his need of securing more time for personal improvement, but ultimately, believing that he was divinely called to this task and that "God had stretched forth His hand upon me from on high to arrest me," he consented to remain at Geneva.

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  • His captor, believing him to be a poor man, allowed him to escape for a small ransom.

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  • He brutally suppressed six great plots, several of which were scandalous, and had more than fifty persons executed; and he identified himself with the king, sincerely believing that he was maintaining the royal authority and not merely his own.

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  • But there is some reason for believing that the part of Holland which lies to the west of the Zuider Zee was at first inhabited by a different people, the Canninefates, a sister tribe to the Batavi.

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  • Believing that he could save France alone, he refused to act with Mirabeau or La Fayette.

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  • In Kent, however, it seems to have soon passed out of use, though there is good reason for believing that the inhabitants of that kingdom were of a different nationality from their neighbours (see Kent, Kingdom Of).

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  • But Brunhild was moody and suspicious, remembering her troth with Sigurd and believing that he alone could have accomplished the quest.

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  • She had no trouble believing that part.

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  • Lisa had no trouble believing she seldom had company.

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  • Where else could we turn without admitting everything we've done, and are still doing?" qqq "It may simply be someone trying to locate Howie, but not intending to harm him or anyone," I said, no truly believing what I said.

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  • She made herself scarce at first, as if believing if she weren't noticed, no one could kick her out.

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  • If he could fool Memon into believing him loyal, and the warlord of Tiyan into giving him her armies, he would have his revenge.

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  • Morris rejects any symbolic meaning to the number of fish caught, believing there is no actual evidence to support the view.

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  • He was almost apologetic in his manner, believing he deserved his fate, whereas I didn't.

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  • I believe that women are conditioned by a patriarchal society into believing in gender stereotypes and gender archetypes.

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  • They vowed perpetual chastity and poverty, believing the poor were the Lord's favorites.

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  • He made a very brief examination of Miss X believing, incorrectly, that she had been given chloral hydrate.

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  • His is an argument contra the prohibition of believing whenever the evidence is silent.

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  • Furthermore, both are monotheistic, believing in only one righteous and transcendent creator God.

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  • There is also a more obvious reason for not believing the doomsayers.

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  • But seeing is believing the paintings of Dali, like vivid dreams, may seem wholly believable to some spectators.

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  • Another respondent talks about fellow students not believing dyslexia existed.

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  • For the previous twenty years the NHS had lost interest in hydrotherapy using natural mineral waters, believing that tap water was equally efficacious.

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  • There is a difference between believing in a beginning of the universe or the eternity of the universe that probably cannot be reconciled.

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  • I have had enough of people believing everything I say is a lie.

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  • He implicitly criticized the structural functionalism of anthropology believing in the importance of personal choice.

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  • The Puritan believed only in congregational baptism and would not necessarily baptize a dying child believing in the efficacy of prevenient grace.

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  • Then, believing he is possessing her, he shares a bed with Mariana of the moated grange.

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  • Believing this as I do, I hope I won't be thought impertinent if I end this lecture with a suggestion.

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  • It finally dawned on me that there was absolutely no rational justification for believing those stories in the Bible.

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  • In the latest in the case believing that Mabel obscures his positionality.

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  • So Brothers started well as a family melodrama, but took a violent turn far too suddenly to keep me believing in it.

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  • They went from believing that Britain could do anything to an almost neurotic belief that Britain could do nothing.

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  • Specifically, S is subjectively justified in believing pecifically, S is subjectively justified in believing p insofar as S is epistemically virtuous in believing p.

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  • They may end up in a state of mind similar to paranoid psychosis, believing that others are plotting against them.

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  • The oecd is remarkably sanguine about the immediate world outlook, believing that there will be recovery after a dip this year.

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  • Anyone who takes the mind seriously in its own terms is often scorned for believing there is " a ghost in the machine.

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  • Believing she had wandered off into the tenement stairwell, Colleen went in search of the errant animal.

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  • The Group deliberately steered clear of detail, believing that this is better covered elsewhere within the appropriate context.

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  • Some resources link to organizations who support therapeutic cloning, believing that it will lead to improvements in treatments and possible cures.

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  • The Sheriff's men, believing a ghost is among them, watch wide-eyed, holding their fire.

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  • In short, believing that this approach will make things simpler is pure wishful thinking.

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  • All our errors in explaining the origin of human society arise from our obstinacy in believing that primitive man was entirely similar to ourselves, who are civilized, i.e.

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  • There is strong reason for believing the story that he first collected the Homeric poems and that his was the text which ultimately prevailed (see Homer).

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  • They pressed Mr. Henderson to use his influence with British Labour to attend this Conference; and he, believing the Conference to be inevitable, came to the conclusion that, provided it were merely consultative, it would be better that British representatives should go, rather than permit Russian representatives to meet German representatives alone.

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  • The function of nitrogenous excretion was not therefore a necessary part of the view - though it may be pointed out that there are grounds for believing that the gonad ducts are to some extent also organs of excretion (see below).

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  • The Hindus also regard the dog as unclean, and submit to various purifications if they accidentally come in contact with it, believing that every dog is animated by a wicked and malignant spirit condemned to do penance in that form for crimes committed in a previous state of existence.

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  • Those in his confidence afterwards denied that Emmet was himself the originator of the plan on which he acted; and several of the ablest of the United Irishmen held aloof, believing the project to be impracticable.

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  • Believing himself secure behind this screen, he advanced from Vitry along the roads leading down the valley of the Marne, with his columns widely separated for convenience of subsistence and shelter - the latter being almost essential in the terrible weather prevailing.

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  • We are justified in believing that both exorcists and readers, whose functions differed essentially from the mechanical employments of the other minor clerics, belonged originally to the " charismatic " ministry, and sank afterwards to a low rank in the " orders" of the church (see Exorcist and Lector).

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  • Jay and Adams disagreed with him on this point, believing that France intended to curtail the territorial aspirations of the Americans for her own benefit and for that of her ally, Spain.

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  • In these particulars, as well as in size and shortness of leg, the dog resembles the weasel; and since there are good reasons for believing that the latter is protected alike by ferocity and stink-glands, it is quite possible that the dog, of unusual coloration and form for the Canidae, is protected from the attacks of pumas, jaguars and ocelots by his likeness to the tayra.

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  • He was also a supporter of the movement for abolishing the recitation of the Athanasian Creed in the public services of the Church of England, believing, as he said, that the "presence" of the damnatory clauses, "as they stand and where they stand, is a real peril to the Church and to Christianity itself," and that those clauses "are no essential part" of the creed.

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  • Nevil Story Maskelyne has shown reason for believing that the stone which Tavernier saw was really the Koh-i-nor and that it is identical with the great diamond of Baber; and that the 280 carats of Tavernier is a misinterpretation on his part of the Indian weights.

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  • Believing that under existing conditions such a step was both detrimental in present policy and unauthorized in law, President Lincoln directed him (2nd September) to modify the order to make it conform to the Confiscation Act of Congress, and on the 11th of September annulled the parts of the order which conflicted with this act.

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  • The minute character of the narrative, the accurate description of the various journeyings, the unimportance of some of the details, especially some of the incidents of the shipwreck, are strong reasons for believing that the narrative is that of an eyewitness.

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  • Believing that the ordinances and apostolic church organization had been lost in the general apostasy, he became convinced that it was presumptuous for any man or company of men to undertake their restoration without a special divine commission.

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  • Eddington, confirmed by Dyson, show that there is better ground for believing that the universe is composed mainl y of two streams of stars, the members of each stream actuated by proper motions of the same sense and magnitude on the average, than that the relative motions of the stars with one another are fortuitous (see Star).

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  • The life of a recluse is held to be the most conducive to that state of sweet serenity at which the more ardent disciples aim; but that of a layman, of a believing householder, is held in high honour; and a believer who does not as yet feel himself able or willing to cast off the ties of home or of business, may yet "enter the paths," and by a life of rectitude and kindness ensure for himself a rebirth under more favourable conditions for his growth in holiness.

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  • Phthalic acid was obtained by Laurent in 1836 by oxidizing naphthalene tetrachloride, and, believing it to be a naphthalene derivative, he named it naphthalenic acid; Marignac determined its formula and showed Laurent's supposition to be incorrect, upon which Laurent gave it its present name.

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  • After that he forced a quarrel on a trivial bit of hearsay (that Hamilton had said he had a " despicable " opinion of Burr); and Hamilton, believing as he explained in a letter he left before going to his death - that a compliance with the duelling prejudices of the time was inseparable from the ability to be in future neither wanted war; and indeed Jefferson, throughout life, was the more peaceful of the two.

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  • Believing their danger past, they sprang from their ambush and, chirruping something in their shrill little voices and holding up their skirts, their bare little sunburned feet scampered merrily and quickly across the meadow grass.

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  • In this past election several million good and decent citizens went to the polls believing in the rapture index.

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  • Notes In times of trouble the alternative response to rash promises to God is believing prayer.

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  • Anyone who takes the mind seriously in its own terms is often scorned for believing there is a ghost in the machine.

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  • I 'm pretty skeptical of conspiracy theories, believing the cock up theory is more likely.

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  • Believing he was snagged on a rock I heaved on the rod and the rock heaved back !

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  • That we can hear slightly muffled, sitting in the sun grinning big stupid grins, not believing our luck?

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  • In chapter 10 he says, You 're treading underfoot the blood of Christ by not believing what you know is true.

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  • Moreover, Americans tend to be uncomfortable with the notion of superiority, believing strongly in egalitarianism.

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  • We do not have to go on believing untrue stories, Bauer said.

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  • Appeals for review of results Appeals are considered where there are well-founded reasons for believing a result to be unfair.

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  • The Sheriff 's men, believing a ghost is among them, watch wide-eyed, holding their fire.

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  • Believing their relationship to be merely a dalliance, I wasn't convinced when she mentioned marriage in their future.

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  • The people of the Northern United States were strong supporters of abolitionism, believing everyone deserved to be free.

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  • Lucy was so talented at escaping punishment, she could beguile her parents into believing anything.

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  • Some misguided but well-intentioned people may even take the kitten home and turn it loose believing they have saved it from a worse fate.

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  • An initial alert is effective for a period of 90 days and requires only that you are able to show cause for believing your personal information has been compromised.

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  • Believing aluminum to be the material of the future, the company manufactured pans, bottles, and other houseware items which rapidly became popular.

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  • Many Americans feel a strong sense of Christian values and heritage, believing the country was founded and built upon these principles.

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  • Many women lament their brown eyes, falsely believing that the eye color is plain or boring.

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  • Executive producer Mike Lazzo, believing that the episode featured too little of the Space Ghost, elected to nix the script for production.

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  • Cliques are also famous for ousting members and then allowing them back in, or for leading a teen into believing he or she is about to gain access into the group.

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  • Cite real life examples of people you know or news clips you have seen that exemplify the harsh reality that yes, you can get pregnant the first time, and believing that virgins are granted a buffer period can lead to trouble.

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  • This is how compulsive liars end up believing their own lies.

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  • Sanity is knowing and believing and acting upon the truth that you cannot successfully smoke cigarettes without grave consequences.

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  • Bloom grew up believing that Harry Saul Bloom was his father, but after Harry Bloom's death, Sonia Bloom revealed to her son that his father was actually family friend Colin Stone.

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  • Kara has also come out in support of Ellen, believing that she will "…bring so much to the show."

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  • Cash was also empathetic to Native Americans, believing he was one of them until later in life.

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  • The Romans considered the stone "the Queen of Gems," believing it to be a symbol of hope, love and purity.

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  • You may not think much of socks, believing, like many do, that one pair is as good as any other, but once you see the attention to detail and technically advanced features of this particular sock, you may be forced to change your opinion.

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  • More and more conscientious consumers are choosing organics, believing the benefits of organic foods outweigh the higher cost.

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  • An old story goes that in the 1950s a small university wanted to discourage female student enrollment believing that good educational opportunities would be wasted on women who would never make good use of them.

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  • This is a term used to describe the process of a company that purposely misleads the consumer into believing that a product is more environmentally friendly than it is.

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  • Writing a will is something many people put off, believing there's always tomorrow.

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  • Some take the pill form of melatonin to help encourage sleep, believing that adding more to the system will just encourage more sleep.

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  • Many people wonder if they should choose colored contacts, believing that they might make them look more striking or attractive.

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  • Parents may have valid reasons for believing that their child may benefit or suffer from retention.

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  • Kennell and Klaus also noted the mothers of these babies were often uncomfortable with them, sometimes not believing that their babies had survived birth.

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  • Single Chinese women often wore a single peony either in their hair or pinned to their clothing, believing the peony was a kind of love potion to potential suitors.

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  • Use caution, and double check all information you find on the site with other sources for accuracy before believing it to be 100 percent true.

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  • It most often results from children believing they must battle for their parents' attention.

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  • But, there have still been cases of parents believing they were having a girl and being greeted by a baby boy in the delivery room.

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  • Taking this acai product probably won't hurt anything but your wallet; however, before believing the fantastic claims of any product that has become a media darling, do your homework instead of wasting your money.

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  • You may want as many antioxidants as possible in your body, believing them to combat aging and ailments.

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  • Not believing what he had seen, he tried another experiment with another type of food the next morning, this time with a co-worker looking on.

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  • Believing that each nonprofit is its own best voice, MCN provides information, training, legislative updates and briefings on the issues of importance to Minnesota nonprofits.

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  • False Security - Believing and trusting everyone, feeling safe without taking obvious precautions.

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  • The mistake is in believing that some time and attention from a man, is better than no time and attention from any man.

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  • But, if I stay I have to fool myself into believing it could last.

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  • Believing the credibility and reliability of zodiac signs is a matter of personal opinion and choice-much like belief in religion.

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  • Believing that your boss' level of interest and attention meant he too felt the same desire as you, you ended your bad relationship.

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  • As a result, some adults find themselves engaging in inappropriate sexual behaviors with teens or supplying them with alcohol believing that these kids will handle these situations maturely.

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  • Medieval knights sometimes wore pearls into battle believing the gems offered protection from harm.

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  • It's easy to read and very enlightening - chances are you've have been going along as a freelance writer believing at least on of these myths!

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  • Or, perhaps, you want to fool the world into believing that your "Yale Alumni" bumper sticker didn't come straight off the rack of a petrol station somewhere in rural Tennessee?

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  • Many people confuse these two dates by often mistaking one for the other or believing both events occur on the same date.

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  • Just don't be lulled into believing you understand this sign because she'll burst free of your mold and shape shift into someone completely different.

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  • Some less reputable sites mislead you into believing you're receiving the full program when a particular portion, the most important part, is withheld in order to force you to pay more money.

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  • Even then, he'll have a difficult time believing it's true.

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  • In truth, she's emotionally one of the strongest women of the zodiac, but her fluid gentleness deceives Virgo into believing she needs his protection.

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  • Being stubborn and believing in the value of his ideas makes a Taurus businessman formidable.

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  • He can fool himself into believing his true love is more than she might be and refuse to acknowledge the truth even when forced to face it.

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  • They often suffer from depression, mistakenly believing that they are the cause of their parents' problems.

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  • Once a child reaches the teen years, however, parents often make the mistake of believing their teen no longer needs them.

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  • Baptism is the symbol of believing that Jesus is the Messiah, the Son of God.

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  • Originally believing that Lycans killed her family, Selene becomes a "Death Dealer" in the film, taking revenge on all Lycans as she believed they were responsible for the execution of her family.

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  • Believing he was dreaming, he ignored it.

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  • For every confirmed ghost caught on film, you'll find one hundred faked images, thus proving that seeing isn't always a good reason for believing.

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  • As the old saying goes, "Seeing is believing", and that is exactly the point with the numerous ghost cams found online.

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  • Believing the marauder to be a large rodent, the pair put out rat poison, and they were quite surprised at the carcass they found.

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  • In these examples, scientists used visual illusions and physical sensations to "trick" the mind into believing that it existed within a body other than its own.

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  • There are many clubs and venues across the country that celebrate these men who can quite often fool onlookers into believing they are women.

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  • Believing Maria to be unfaithful, he disavows her and the child she carries.

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  • To avoid reading, and subsequently believing fake spoilers it's important to visit reputable websites.

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  • To avoid reading, and subsequently believing fake spoilers it's important to visit reputable websites, such as the ones listed above.

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  • Lily could not cope with the reality that the man she loved was actually her uncle and she ran away, believing Holden knew the truth and kept it from her.

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  • Leanna later married Victor after he divorced Nikki, believing she was behind the book.

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  • He thanked Elena for wanting to save him and for believing in him.

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  • Dan shot Keith, believing Keith was responsible for all of Dan's misery and an attempt on Dan's life (Deb is the one who did it).

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  • She gave up the girl for adoption, believing it was the right thing to do.

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  • Believing that crocodiles are the creators of humans, the resulting rituals surround this notion.

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  • Many people get tattoos of their horoscope symbol to pay tribute to their sign, believing to lead to a life filled with bliss and harmony.

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  • Many people enjoy the retro styling, although enthusiasts bemoan the modern materials such as plastic that appear in some of the designs, believing that this detracts from the authenticity of the clocks.

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  • It's easy to trick yourself into believing you have eaten fewer calories than you actually have.

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  • Some artists actively encourage their fans to download their music, believing it to be a promotional tool.

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  • Tim grew up believing that his stepfather was his real father, until he discovered a birth certificate which listed minor league baseball player Tug McGraw as his dad.

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  • Glee Don't Stop Believing remains one of the most popular performances from the show.

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  • Don't Stop Believing was performed by vocal team New Direction in the program.

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  • The original version of Don't Stop Believing was released in 1981 by Journey.

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  • He did not agree until the show writers assured him that Tony was not going to meet his end with Don't Stop Believing as the soundtrack.

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  • Don't Stop Believing is there to download for your iPod.

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  • They signed him up for accordion lessons, believing that playing a unique instrument would give him an edge if he chose to pursue music.

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  • Initially, the Catholic Church frowned on New Year's parties and celebrations, believing that such festivities were actually paganism.

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  • Makeover programs shows have people believing that this - the makeover and after effects - can happen to them too when in reality only a miniscule fraction of the country's population will actually qualify and participate.

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  • Fans of the show rallied around Russell, believing that he had played a much better game.

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  • Since then, they have been staunchly opposed to any method of birth control, believing that the size of their family should be determined by a higher power.

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  • The Army did not send a rescue team, believing all aboard were killed, so Ellison spent a year and a half in the Peruvian jungle with the native tribes before being discovered and returned to civilization.

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  • At one time he was determined to have a child with her, believing that a Q-human hybrid would solve the problems of the Q Continuum.

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  • Tricked into believing that he has killed the captain, Spock loses all desire for the female Vulcan.

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  • Believing that the app was actually tracking their visits rather than interactions, people worried that their every move was being traced on the social networking site.

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  • Edward Dickinson Bullard, a prominent American constructionist, required his workforce to wear hard leather hats when working in an industrial setting, believing that it would promote safety and decrease casualties across the board.

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  • The moment children discovered that simply "believing" in fairies could bring a dying Tinkerbell back to life, in that moment she represented the magic of simply believing in something and making it come true.

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  • How could I go on believing no one would succumb to such temptation?

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  • The chance of anyone believing the story was practically nil.

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  • I was reading them the riot act and they weren't believing it any more than they ever do, except for maybe the first-timers.

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  • Jackson lay back with his hands behind his head, replaying the night, still hardly believing it was real.

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  • Believing in her ability to make a sound judgment and willing to accept her decision.

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  • Taran accepted, never believing anything could make him ally with the devil he meant to kill.

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  • On the other hand the better party among the priests, believing the ritual to be necessary, might undertake to moralize it; of such a movement, begun by Deuteronomy, Ezekiel is the most eminent representative.

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  • There are, however, independent grounds for believing that i Chron.

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  • The depot was abandoned; the men in charge had quitted the place the same day, believing that Burke and those with him were lost.

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  • The inspection of the liver for purposes of divination led to the study of the anatomy of the liver, and there are indeed good reasons for believing that hepatoscopy represents the startingpoint for the study of animal anatomy in general.

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  • In Modena Duke Francis, ambitious of enlarging his territories, coquetted with the Carbonari of Paris, and opened indirect negotiations with Menotti, the revolutionary leader in his state, believing that he might assist him in his plans.

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  • Anu is so prominently associated with the city of Erech in southern Babylonia that there are good reasons for believing this place to have been the original seat of the Anu cult.

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  • As a theologian, in fact, Origen is not merely an orthodox traditionalist and believing exegete, but a speculative philosopher of Neo-Platonic tendencies.

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  • Believing that his work with the romantic Arthurian epics was concluded, Tennyson now turned his attention to a department of poetry which had long attracted him, but which he had never seriously attempted - the drama.

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  • He had the unfortunate capacity many men, especially Russians, have of seeing and believing in the possibility of goodness and truth, but of seeing the evil and falsehood of life too clearly to be able to take a serious part in it.

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  • Why were thousands of inhabitants deceived into believing that Moscow would not be given up--and thereby ruined?

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  • I don't have a radio or a TV, and I have no trouble believing he is a private type of person.

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  • There are thus substantial reasons for believing that the nephridium grows backwards from a funnel as does the coelomoduct.

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  • The poet was at that moment in the bath, and seeing the sacks, and believing that they contained the expected gold, received them with great satisfaction, but finding only silver he complained to Ayaz that he had not executed the sultan's order.

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  • Junot, believing the allied August21, left to be weakly held, attacked it without reconnoitring, but Wellesley's regiments, marched thither behind the heights, sprang up in line; and under their volleys and bayonet charge, supported by artillery fire, Junot's deep columns were driven off the direct road to Lisbon.

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  • As a proof of the seriousness with which he regarded the literary vocation, it may be mentioned that he used to write out his poems in printed characters, believing that that process best enabled him to understand his own peculiarities and faults, and probably unconscious that Coleridge had recommended some such method of criticism when he said he thought "print settles it."

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  • The reasons for believing that this roll was substantially identical with the book of Deuteronomy were already appreciated by Jerome, Chrysostom, Theodoret and others,' and a careful examination shows that the character of the reformation which followed agrees in all its essential features with the prescriptions and exhortations of that book.

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  • Believing implicitly in the rumours of a descent on Boulogne and of risings in France which also reached him, and knowing the destitution he had left behind him in his movement to Ulm, when he heard of the westward march of French columns from the Lech he told his army, apparently in all good faith, that the French were in full march for their own coun try.

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  • It has been usually supposed that John Napier was buried in St Giles's church, Edinburgh, which was certainly the burialplace of some of the family, but Mark Napier (Memoirs, p. 426) quotes Professor William Wallace, who, writing in 1832, gives strong reasons for believing that he was buried in the old church of St Cuthbert.

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  • Admiral de Rigny left for a cruise in the Levant, and Sir Edward Codrington, hearing that an Egyptian armament was on its way from Alexandria, and believing that it was bound for Hydra, steered for that island, which he reached on the 3rd of September, but on the 12th of September found the Egyptians at anchor with a Turkish squadron at Navarino.

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  • On the 6th of December he protested with three other peers against the measure sent up from the Commons enforcing the disarming of all convicted recusants and taking bail from them to keep the peace; he was the only peer to dissent from the motion declaring the existence of an Irish plot; and though believing in the guilt and voting for the death of Lord Stafford, he interceded, according to his own account, 3 with the king for him as well as for Langhorne and Plunket.

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