Sentence examples for be believed on from inspiring English sources

The writer's task is not to make the reader believe in a world: Gass has argued that "one of the most petty of human desires is the desire to be believed, on the one hand, and the will to belief, on the other". The writer's task, as he sees it, is to stimulate disbelief, to tickle the reader's alienation.

Each one wishes to be believed on the basis of its own authority and threatens unbelievers.

But if we let our values dance to the tune of xenophobia, we will not be believed on anything.

IF THE posters of the anti-UN campaign were to be believed, on March 3rd the people of Switzerland wantonly drove an axe through centuries of their country's prized neutrality by voting in a referendum to join the United Nations.

If the 25 designers are to be believed on the subject of their ages (and this gets as tricky as dating French furniture), the median age of participants this year is 44, an astonishing low for the rarefied fraternity of Kips Bay.

Visitors trot by in Marco Polo T-shirts – 'I have not told half of what I saw for I knew I would not be believed!' On the sea front the Dubrovnik ferry is docking, dwarfing the town.

Mr Hussein was believed, on good grounds, to be both dangerous and a liar.

He added: "If we try and blame the Tories for everything there is a risk we are believed on nothing".

French troops are believed on the verge of pulling out of the area, which was particularly dangerous when they arrived three years ago.

Still, he is believed to be on at least one watch list.

The suspect is believed to be on the run.