But he insisted that CIA employees had tried their best, all the while believing that another attack was around the corner.
They practiced ceremonial cannibalism, believing the hearts of their victims would imbue them with power.
The marketing for the film was designed to intentionally mislead viewers into believing that it was based on a true story.
The Oculus Rift essentially tricks your brain into believing what it sees is real.
So feminist includes the idea that believing men and women to be equal, believing all people to be people, is not a natural state.
Since He has borne the punishment for me, I, believing on Him, need no longer be punished.
Against all evidence she was holding this man honest, believing her brother the thief.
For the most part I succeeded in believing it, but it is just to add that the neighborhood did not.
If Marion had come of a believing family, she could have brought me back into the fold.
believing themselves to be alone with the sunset, there was no reason to lower their voices.
Old English belyfan "to believe," earlier geleafa (Mercian), gelefa (Northumbrian), gelyfan (West Saxon) "believe," from Proto-Germanic *ga-laubjan "to believe," perhaps literally "hold dear, love" (cf. Old Saxon gilobian "believe," Dutch geloven, Old High German gilouben, German glauben), ultimately a compound based on PIE *leubh- "to care, desire, love" (see belief).
Spelling beleeve is common till 17c.; then altered, perhaps by influence of relieve, etc. To believe on instead of in was more common in 16c. but now is a peculiarity of theology; believe of also sometimes was used in 17c. Related: Believed (formerly occasionally beleft); believing. Expression believe it or not attested by 1874; Robert Ripley's newspaper cartoon of the same name is from 1918. Emphatic you better believe attested from 1854.
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