Sentence examples for believed meant from inspiring English sources

Crossing it, environmentalists believed, meant entering a more perilous phase of "extreme energy".

He hit on a clause in the Criminal Justice Act 1948, which he believed meant that British officials could be prosecuted for not carrying out their duties abroad.

An almost total reliance on taxation for funding and an over-centralised structure, he believed, meant that the NHS staggered from crisis to crisis.

Robert Michels famously identified the "iron law of oligarchy", which he believed meant that all political parties end up in the hands of a small elite of control freaks.

Mr. Parker, a night owl who had awakened before his usual rising time of noon to meet with me, the problem plaguing the venture business represented a "systemic risk" to the country that he believed meant "innovation could gradually grind to a halt or at least become less effective".

Nick Jones argues this implies support for the longer-term objective of achieving NCB break-even by 1988, which MacGregor believed meant closing up to 75 pits.

Ditka's move to the CBS program will not, as believed, mean the dispatch of Jerry Glanville to game analysis.

As the comparative religion scholar Wilfred Cantwell Smith pointed out, when the King James Bible was printed in 1611, "to believe" meant something like "to hold dear".

Genuine adaptation, Jacob believes, means preparing for the inevitable deluge.

Does "I don't believe" mean to be a view of the world as an Inferno?

Staying there, they believe, means they could be next to die.