Sentence examples for believe beforehand from inspiring English sources

I have one atheist friend who integrated hers quite happily into an atheist and materialist worldview; some Christian friends who will talk about them quietly and realistically: they clearly don't prove the truth of anything you're not disposed to believe beforehand and prepared to work on afterwards.

The FBI's announcement ― especially given how much it is lacking in concrete detail ― seems to be functioning as a kind of political inkblot test, with Americans reading into it whatever they were already inclined to believe beforehand.

If he believes beforehand that the person might not be cooperative, he will sometimes request a search warrant.

Wednesday: we learned that the NSA is capturing much more data, with far less oversight than we had believed beforehand.

But Labour strategists also believe Miliband is succeeding in building his reputation in the country during the current election campaign and is appealing to centre-ground voters who had believed, beforehand, that he was not prime ministerial and was too leftwing.

Certainly, after the fact it would be reasonable to assume he found out about it, but I don't have any reason to believe he knew beforehand.

He said beforehand, "I believe in all my players and in the way we're trying to play," and it showed in confidence and enjoyment.

She has on occasion bought her children toys or taken them out for dinner when they brought home pleasurable report cards, but she does not believe in dangling rewards beforehand.

As these investigators are all well trained on sample taking and sampling techniques were discussed beforehand, we believe the effect of this variation is negligible.

Adebowale suffered from psychotic episodes during his time in custody and, it is believed, heard voices beforehand.

Maybe it's because beforehand you hardly believe anyone will show up--you're prepared to handle a disastrous no-show situation.