Example collocations logo

Believing in sentence

559 examples of Believing in a sentence

But Saudi Arabia would welcome a clash between Israel and Hezbollah, believing that it would inevitably lead to a confrontation between Israel and Iran.
They plotted kinship relationships over multiple generations, believing that primates must have a complex family life, just like us.
In 1958, when Imanishi and his students toured the US to report their findings, they were ridiculed for humanizing their subjects and for believing that they could distinguish between all those monkeys.
In believing that Assad would be easily overthrown, the US – not for the first time – was relying on its own propaganda.
They claim that the early British scholars and administrators who documented Indian customs and translated the early sacred texts were bamboozled by the Brahmins--the first Indians to learn English and thus the only available intermediaries--into believing that the Hindu social order was caste-based.
They advocate slashing government spending, naively believing that the private sector will somehow magically fill the void.
Economists and moralists have been united in believing that you should actually spend less than you earn – in order to “save” for the proverbial rainy day or for old age.
Yet, for the most part, limited cooperation has been the world’s chosen course in recent years, with countries believing not only that they must fend for themselves, but also that their debt levels impose a hard constraint on growth-generating investment.
A man like Draghi would not have issued such a statement without believing that he could follow through on it.
Today, the international public has been lulled into believing that Greece’s refugee crisis has abated.
Believing that they have found a way to model how currency traders think, they see no need for intervention because, save for temporary deviations, markets always get currency values right.
The left, by contrast, believes that markets, particularly financial markets, need considerable government regulation and supervision to function well; gives greater weight to public goods (for example, parks, a clean environment, and mass-transit systems); seeks to reduce economic inequality, believing that it undermines democracy and the sense of fairness that is important to well-being; and is more willing to pursue international cooperation as a means to secure peace and provide global public goods, such as climate protection.
Some have even sought to prolong conflicts, believing that to do so serves their national interests.
After initially believing that its economy was so strong that it would not only be unaffected by America's slowdown but also maintain robust growth, Europe has turned to looking to the US recovery to lift it out of its malaise.
Companies face a problem of trust: with 58% of Europeans believing that many companies pretend to be green in order to charge higher prices, industry has a long way to go in helping consumers feel confident when making green choices.
A Flock of Black SwansCAMBRIDGE – Throughout history, major political and economic shocks have often occurred in August, when leaders have gone on vacation believing that world affairs are quiet.
But could Sarkozy be right in believing that currency markets do not automatically drive exchange rates to levels consistent with the fundamentals of international trade?
Believing that they have found a way to model precisely how currency traders should think about the future, they see no need for intervention because, save for temporary deviations, markets always get currency values right.
Almost not believing his good fortune, Nemeth asked the million-dollar question.
The catastrophe was unleashed when Stalin, convinced that the kulaks were hiding grain from the Soviet state, requisitioned the seed grain, believing that this would force the kulaks to use the hidden grain as seed.
The Cubans, Nicaraguans, and Venezuelans will not cut Funes any slack, either, believing that history is on their side, and that now is the time to force every issue in sight.
Some in the EU – mainly in France, Germany, and Austria – seem smugly pleased by the prospect of a clash on this issue, believing it will force Turkey to give up its drive for membership.
But the evidence for believing that euroization can precede sufficient institutional reforms is scant.
Far too many US households made enormous bets on the property bubble, believing that their paper gains were permanent substitutes for stagnant labor income.
Some encourage Greece to exit the eurozone, believing that a more restricted and homogeneous currency union would be stronger and easier to unite.
Indeed, some countries with large dollar reserves – hardly in need of World Bank credit – borrowed from the Bank at far higher interest rates than they were getting from the United States, believing that these procedures would help ensure high-quality projects free of corruption and become standard in other areas.
We know that sooner or later they will stop believing these stories, and we know what will happen when they do.
And too many are easily deluded into believing that there is a simple solution to Europe’s migration crisis.
Each side, believing it will end up at war with the other, makes reasonable military preparations that are read by the other side as confirmation of its worst fears.
A final disclaimer: believing that fundamentals do not always pin down asset prices is not the same as believing they are irrelevant, much less that current US fundamentals are in good shape.
BackNext