Sentence examples for instead to believe from inspiring English sources

But the jury of seven women and five men did not believe him, choosing instead to believe the vivid and detailed testimony of his victims.

They may benefit from proactively choosing instead to believe that it's possible to balance their roles or that each role will enhance the other.

Two years into Mr Netanyahu's term, Israeli pundits have given up trying to make sense of the contradictions in policy and have begun, instead, to believe that contradiction is the political strategy.

Not only was nothing done to locate Jean, but the RUC refused to accept that she missing, preferring, instead, to believe the word of an anonymous tip-off that she had absconded with a British soldier.

Instead, to believe that fiscal contraction will lead to higher consumption and investment spending you have to believe that consumers and firms will make major changes in their current behavior based on perceptions about taxes and spending years in the future.

Fortunately, most of the world dismissed these accusations, choosing instead to believe in the honesty of the United States.

In fact, her friends say that she rarely questions whether she is right or wrong, instead choosing to believe in a particular truth with absolute certainty until she doesn't believe it anymore, at which point she moves on.

He does not buy the conventional notion that Germany is the EU's "reluctant" hegemon, instead coming to believe that Berlin is perfectly comfortable in being first among equals.

So the next time your spouse seems preoccupied with his phone during dinner, don't assume he's chatting with his high school sweetheart on Facebook even though he promised he'd stop; instead choose to believe he's browsing Amazon, looking for a nice present to buy you.

He's one of the first people that really could have ignored me and instead chose to believe in me.

Behind a fig-leaf policy called "constructive engagement," they instead seemed to believe that they could sustain the unsustainable, perhaps indefinitely.