Sentence examples for believes rather from inspiring English sources

It sanctions, by implication, a future judge's deciding a case on what he or she believes rather than on what is perceived from legal authorities.

I've seen funnier Jimmy Porters but Patrick Knowles plays him very well as a displaced romantic who believes, rather like Osborne himself, that life is validated by pain.

It's a milieu that only came into existence in the last half century; a function of history, she believes, rather than class.

It is, in fact, Avigdor Eskin, a millenarian Jew who believes, rather against the evidence, that the United States is conspiring to destroy Israel.

Mr. Giuliani was also viewed more than any of his rivals as a candidate who will say what he believes rather than what he thinks audiences want to hear.

Mr Edwards approached his new brief by asking an unusual question: why is Paris associated with romance and culture, while Luton is not?The answer has little to do with inherent differences, he believes: rather, Paris owes its reputation to literary praise.

He believed, rather, in the innocence of childhood.

He sees no evidence that the Soviets either have or desire nuclear superiority, believing rather that they are striving only for statistical equivalence.

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".

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