Sentence examples for based upon the belief from inspiring English sources

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 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.

Conan Doyle himself viewed his most important efforts to be his campaign in support of spiritualism, the religion and psychic research subject based upon the belief that spirits of the departed continued to exist in the hereafter and can be contacted by those still living.

"The decision to significantly increase capital investment was based upon the common belief at the time that the Internet and data demand would continue at the eight times annual growth factor the industry was experiencing," Mr. Sullivan wrote in the memo.

Last week, in California, two plaintiffs, Rob Stutzman and Jonathan Wheeler, filed a class-action lawsuit against Armstrong, as well as the publishers Penguin and Random House, alleging that, according to the filing, they "were misled by Defendants' statements and purchased Defendant Armstrong's books based upon the false belief that they were true and honest works of nonfiction".

This view is partially a carry-over from laws put into place decades ago to segregate homosexual men from children and is based upon the discredited belief that there is an inherent pedophilia in homosexuality".

As reported by CNN, the lawsuit states that Sutzman and Wheeler bought Armstrong's bestselling books It's Not About the Bike and Every Second Counts "based upon the false belief that they were true and honest works of nonfiction when, in fact, Defendants knew or should have known that these books were works of fiction".

The generative model for pursuit initiation used here is very simple and is based upon the prior belief that the centre of gaze is attracted to the target location.