Sentence examples for they perceived him from inspiring English sources

They perceived him to be crazy.

They said he was overeager at the Camp David talks in July, when they perceived him to be trying to bully them into a deal.

Nor had they perceived him as so hostile to the government's role in conservation and workplace regulation or so determined to turn key agencies over to administrators hostile to their basic missions.

"I think his mind was made up, but he wanted to hear how they really felt about him and how they perceived him," Erwin said by telephone from his Detroit office early this morning.

They use dramatic narratives like the story of an accomplished pilot who made a seemingly irrational decision that sent 584 passengers (and him) to their deaths or the Washington subway passengers who ignored the performance of a virtuoso violinist because they perceived him as a street musician.

"Do they perceive him as their equal, or as someone they need to coax along and feel safe?

"Do they perceive him as their equal, or as someone they need to coax and make feel safe?

And he has criticised the response of British and American literary critics to his work, saying they perceive him in narrow terms defined by his nationality.

Bruce Buchanan, a professor of political science at the University of Texas, said Mr. Holder attracted "withering fire" from conservatives because "they sense he is vulnerable and because they perceive him as being a source of a lot of what irritates them about the way this administration does business".

Mr. Hart added: "When everything is said and done about George W. Bush, he may be wearing the dunce's hat but the voter senses that he's comfortable with himself and they perceive him to be engaging and likable and straightforward and honest, and those aren't inconsiderable traits".

Many Congolese here are unhappy over the choice because they perceive him as an outsider whose mother is possibly Tutsi, who grew up in Tanzania and eastern Congo, and who is fluent in English and Swahili, but not French or the languages of western Congo.