Sentence examples for is firmly believed from inspiring English sources

That there are extraterrestrial civilizations in some state of development is firmly believed by many astronomers, biologists, philosophers, physicists, and other rational people — a conclusion based partly on the vastness of the cosmos, with its billions of stars.

In our personality-cultist age, in which a writer's biography is firmly believed to hold the key to the meaning of his novels, in which the fictionality of fiction is routinely called into question and novels are thought of as real life in disguise, this detail of Houellebecq's life will prompt, has prompted, many a loud "ah-ha!" But, and again but.

A hundred years ago it was firmly believed that it was he who killed Marlowe.

It was firmly believed that you could only hold viewers on their sofas for two hours with a Hollywood hit.

It was not, however, until Dec. 8, 1854, that Pius IX, urged by the majority of Catholic bishops throughout the world, solemnly declared in the bull Ineffabilis Deus that the doctrine was revealed by God and hence was to be firmly believed as such by all Catholics.

For hundreds of years it was firmly believed that only a Sabbath enforced through social legislation would keep society from sliding into a kind of unwitting slavery, protecting the vulnerable from the powerful and quashing the punitive obsessive-compulsive who lurks within us all.

Compared with the Pt/TiO2 catalyst, the XRD patterns for Pt/Ru/TNT/C and Pt/TNT/C exhibit different peaks indicating the H2Ti2O5.H2O (hydrogenotitanate) phase, as the peaks at 2θ = 10.1°, 25°, 30° and 48° were firmly believed to be the TNT phase.

An eyewitness reported: "It was firmly believed that the child in question was doomed to be sacrificed by the Jews.

She wasn't allowed to seek treatment because it was firmly believed that this was something that could be solved by church and by prayer.

Prior to that, it was firmly believed that an author couldn't flood the market with his name, that his or her novels should be meted out in discrete increments.

By the end of the Cold War in the 1990s, it was firmly believed in the West that capitalism was going global; and a global economic infrastructure anchored by the WTO and IMF with the U.S. Navy patrolling the sea lanes would deliver a globalized world economy consistent with the inevitable universalization of Western values.