Voters rejected Labour because they perceived the party as anti-austerity lite".
Some were nervous because they perceived that the United States had been a cheerleader for the Tunisia protesters.
"The short sale was attractive because they perceived it to be a great value," Ms. Petkanas said.
I don't think critics were mixed on Enron because they perceived anything anti-American in its depiction of stock-market hucksters Jeffrey Skilling, Andy Fastow and others.
However, some Jewish activists protested Mr. Sestak's speech, because they perceived CAIR as having terrorist ties, and he himself said the speech would be risky.
Greece's international lenders froze aid in June because they perceived the government in Athens to be dragging its heels on fulfilling the terms of its bailout program.
Researchers who looked at results from the 2004 Olympics say sprinters who were closest to the gun took off faster, probably because they perceived the shot as louder than their competitors did.
The officials said they agreed to be interviewed because they felt the amnesty issue needed to be faced, or because they perceived themselves as safe from prosecution and possibly benefiting from the downfall of some in the inner circle.
But farmers stopped contributing because "they perceived that while Got Milk? was really visible, they didn't believe it was moving the needle on milk," Gary Wheelock, the C.E.O. of the New England Dairy Promotion Board, told me.
Although one survey from the Food Marketing Institute found that as many as 91% of consumers had at some point thrown away food because they perceived it to be a safety risk, most date labels aren't designed to indicate safety.
"Self-made people... may have believed that Williams had a special ability to work with them because they perceived Williams as self-made," he wrote in a 1992 U.C.L.A. dissertation on Williams.
