This means that the opinions of most respondents were based upon beliefs rather than experience.
The ultimate goal of this project is to collect a large, multicenter database, as the substrate for a mathematical model to generate a pretest probability of pulmonary embolism based upon beliefs of many clinicians.
Trust in leadership is based upon the belief of integrity and of another core belief: benevolence.
Proponents base such a morality on the belief that human life has inherent value, a stance that is no more empirically verifiable than one based upon a belief in God, as value itself lies beyond the purview of empiricism.
Finding that a candle would burn and that a mouse would thrive in this gas, he called it "dephlogisticated air," based upon the belief that ordinary air became saturated with phlogiston once it could no longer support combustion and life.
That mindset is based upon the belief that a woman is the underdog, that a woman needs to be given protection, that when there is rape, she will be put to shame and become an object of dishonor.
The modern ecumenical movement is based upon the belief that the church has different cultural expressions that must be honoured and differing confessional or doctrinal traditions designed to express the essential faith.
The decision "was based upon our belief that purely humanitarian support for the young and vulnerable in North Korea should continue," a senior South Korean Unification Ministry official told reporters on Tuesday during a briefing given on the condition of anonymity.
The constitution's guarantee of religious freedom is immediately preceded by an apparently contradictory affirmation that "the state shall be based upon the belief in the one and only God".
We did so based upon the belief that such a center is a humane response to day-laborer hiring practices and that such a center will reduce traffic congestion and provide a safe and clean environment where an orderly hiring process can take place.
The rites were based upon the belief that, because the dead body of the god Osiris had been preserved from decomposition and raised to life again by the gods, the magical assimilation of a dead person to Osiris and the ritual enacting of what the gods had done would achieve a similar miracle of resurrection.
