Sentence examples for the act believed from inspiring English sources

Supporters of the act believed that an increase in the amount of silver purchased would result in inflation, helping to relieve the nation's farmers.

I know that until recently some of the architects of the 1965 Race Relations Act believed that it would be an appropriate next step to protect people of faith communities.

In the New York production the daughter spends the first half of the second act believing that her mother is dead and trying to find her body.

He bitterly opposed the Housing Act, believing it was a cynical vote-buying exercise with no care for the social consequences.

When the amendment was rejected, Bayard voted against the bill (known as the Specie Payment Resumption Act,) believing that it was likely to cause inflation.

Rumor in Washington, D.C., has it that House conservatives bent on dismantling the Violence Against Women Act believe they've succeeded by setting up a heads-I-win-tails-you-lose endgame.

Who makes you want to act?? Believe in yourself.

I am also happy to accept that for many believers the act of believing and its attendant ceremonial genuinely enhances their experience of life.

Savage also pointed out that upwards of 30% of gay men never even have anal sex, the act he believes is responsible for most of the anti-gay hysteria in the country, while upwards of 40% of straight people do.

Preventing Penney's from selling the goods, he said, would result in "harm to J. C. Penney, even if it is the result of its own acts, but the acts, I believe, were spurred on by their former C.E.O".

"I think the act that we believe they've committed certainly underscores what we've said from the outset," Mr. Fitzgerald said.