Sentence examples for failed to believe from inspiring English sources

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There were rumors of unfathomable things, and because we could not fathom them we failed to believe them — until we had no choice and it was too late.

It turned out that Melograno Villas was, indeed, up the unlikely looking half-made road we had actually found, but failed to believe, on our own reconnaissance.

She never failed to believe equally in each and every one of them...in their hidden talents and their secret dreams.

One of the first tasks he was given was to spy on his own father, which he did, without question – digging up very little, because, though the Russians failed to believe it, there was nothing to dig up.

"You can't just do a giant parting, with walls of water trembling while people ride between them," said Scott, who said he failed to believe the sight when as a child he watched 1956's The Ten Commandments.

(Asked what he would say if God appeared to him after his death and demanded to know why he had failed to believe, the British philosopher and staunch evidentialist Bertrand Russell replied that he would say, "Not enough evidence, God! Not enough evidence").

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It is easy enough to see why the Democrats would fail to believe Roger Clemens.

And how could they fail to believe it just a little?

Failing to believe that a child could become anything was, in some essential way, to reject the myth of America.

People believe many falsehoods for bad reasons and fail to believe truths in spite of having good reasons to do so.

Readers may also fail to believe that Lewis is up to all the crucial actions the novelist finally requires of him.

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