Sentence examples for perceived would be from inspiring English sources

Instead they returned to what they perceived would be a friendly court, the United States District Court in Kansas City, Mo.

In other words, GM was desperate for customers for what they perceived would be an unpopular vehicle before one even hit the road.

When I was a child, my father used to joke with me saying, "Nancy, remember, it is just as easy to fall in love with a rich guy as a poor one". There is always some truth in a joke and looking back on this saying as an adult, it is obvious that he was steering me toward what he hoped was a happy life rather than a life of what he perceived would be a struggle.

Much more important than the state of the economy was who voters blamed for it and which nominee they perceived would be able to help the most people navigate it.

"Although the last-minute agreement in Congress to forestall the fiscal cliff avoided what Americans perceived would be a very negative situation for the U.S. as a whole and for themselves personally, the American public is quite restrained in its reaction to the agreement," Gallup's Frank Newport wrote.

On the service level there was a mismatch between the services provided to participants through the U.S. mental health service system and those they perceived would be helpful.

Interestingly, the majority of RNs had difficulty in identifying any strategies that they perceived would have been successful to prevent the violence in their workplaces.

"I got to know new people over Dead Week, which was not how I had perceived it would be but was actually a really exciting thing," Ripp said.

"It is unclear what their perceived benefit would be from causing damage on U.S. soil, especially given the retaliation it would provoke," Mr. Cornelius said.

But to bow to this perceived threat would be to overlook the strong political, social and economic case for tough action on pay.

I certainly perceived it would be a firestorm.