It's as if he believes as long as he thinks somebody is levying an accusation of some kind, it's safe for him to repeat it.
Thus in physics, man must proceed "as if " a material world exists independently of perceiving subjects; in behaviour, he must act "as if " ethical certainty were possible; in religion, he must believe "as if " there were a God.
The goal isn't only to close the wound — it's also to leave as little evidence of a surgical scar as possible, to make the patient believe as if the operation never happened.
Even more distressingly, more than one perfectly well-read individual remarked: "Many of them are addressed to a man, I believe," as if the information had only recently come to light through ingenious advances in 21st-century cryptography.
The crowd streamed out into a light rain, and some would stand on the steps of the National Portrait Gallery to chant "We want the Cup!" Before they all left the arena, though, an announcer shouted "Do you believe?" As if he even had to ask.
That is, when the ad network monitors ad request traffic to detect click fraud by counting the number of ad requests from the same device, the bot program can trick the ad network with new Device IDs into believing as if those requests came from different users (or Android devices) individually.
Once an echo chamber is formed, just about anything can be believed as "news" if it disparages a political enemy.
I've always believed, as you know, that if you want to smoke I think you should have a right to do so.
"I do believe, as a ballplayer, if you have no injuries, you should be here.
Not everyone believes, as Julia Ward Howe did, that if mothers could only come together somehow, world peace would ensue.
