Sentence examples for believed rather than from inspiring English sources

Clear majorities of Americans saw Bush as being more likable, more honest and ethical, more likely to say what he believed rather than what people wanted to hear.

There, Mr. Bush and Mr. McCain were seen as equally likely to say what they believed rather than what people wanted to hear; here, Mr. McCain had an advantage on that score.

Mr Robinson fired off a second round of disrespect by asking if the bosses of John Lewis, Standard Life and BP, who weren't sounding financially enamoured by the idea of new Scottish state, should be believed rather than the First Minister.

The foreword, in which the then prime minister said he believed intelligence "established beyond doubt" that Saddam was continuing to produce chemical and biological weapons, and hoped to produce nuclear weapons, was "grounded in what Mr Blair believed, rather than in the judgments which the joint intelligence committee had actually reached in its assessment of the intelligence", Chilcot finds.

Speaking on the eve of a major international drugs conference, Branson said that, if politicians acted on what they really believed rather than following a Daily Mail agenda, they could reduce a "ballooning" prison population exacerbated by excessive numbers of convictions for low-level drugs offences.

1. Throughout this entry, I use 'object of belief' simply to refer to what is believed, rather than to the entity or entities the belief is intuitively about.

Why, we voters plead, can't candidates just say what they believe rather than what they think we want to hear?

The Oscar and critical praise heaped on Leto was basically for backing up what people believe rather than portraying an emotionally real character".

Quoting the American cartoonist and author James Thurber, he wrote: "…most people want to believe rather than to know, to take for granted rather than to find out".

It reflected the willingness of people in ideological echo chambers to believe what they want to believe rather than check or evaluate sources.

Confirmation bias, for another example, inclines humans to look for confirmation of what they already believe rather than for evidence disproving it.