Sentence examples for I believe rather from inspiring English sources

Countering that argument, John R. Bolton, the United States envoy, said, "I believe rather strongly that our leverage in terms of the performance of the new council is greater by the U.S. not running and sending the signal 'this is not business as usual' this year than if we were to run".

As a cancer patient who will die in the relatively near future, I believe rather that instead of reaching for the traditional battle language, [life] is about living as well as possible, coping, acceptance, gentle positivity, setting short-term, achievable goals, and drawing on support from those closest to you.

I believe, rather, in a "growth" mindset,1 that the way to adjust to the unfamiliar and master it is hard work, focus, and perseverance.

For I believe rather that everything is full of animate bodies … and that since matter is endlessly divisible, one cannot fix on a part so small that there are no animate bodies within, or at least bodies endowed with a basic entelechy or … with a vital principle, that is to say corporeal substances, about which it may be said in general of them all that they are living.

I believe, rather, that their conclusion -- that it was impossible for Barack Obama, as president, to have fought and defeated the destructive force relentlessly attacking him and thwarting his efforts -- reflects their fundamental understanding of the how the world works.

I was the prototypical first-born who missed little to nothing, to whom my father was, I believe, rather recalcitrantly obliged to carry on some token verification of happily ever after, for even as a child I knew things were not right at home.

"What does it mean to believe, rather than to know?

As Phyllis Tickle notes, their movement tends to be "belong... behave... believe" rather than "believe... behave... belong".

"I believe that rather than acting alone to protect its interests in northern Iraq, it would be much better for Turkey to act within a coalition".

I believe that, rather than the death knell of a marriage, separate bedrooms can preserve some of the mystique that promptly dissipates when a couple starts cohabiting.

I believe that rather than creating rain rooms and the opportunity to meet the artist, we should be educating all our children to love, appreciate and feel at ease in the presence of the great art of the past.