Sentence examples for unreasonably believed from inspiring English sources

MCC, not unreasonably, believed it had a duty to try to reverse the decline in recreational participation.

That could lead to a fallback position for the jury — if allowed by the judge — of a lesser verdict of manslaughter should the jury decide that Mr. Zimmerman sincerely but unreasonably believed that he was appropriately using lethal force to defend himself, which is known as "imperfect self-defense".

Rich had seemed to her such a tower of efficiency and competence, so vigorous and firm a presence that she had always believed, quite unreasonably, that he would survive her.

After years of warning that stocks were unreasonably overpriced, he said he now believed they were below their fair value and had been slowly acquiring holdings in blue-chip companies.

Many Americans believe, not unreasonably, that far from acting always as an instrument that serves their interests, government often acts as if citizens' lives and labour are instruments to the special interests that control government.

Some scientists fear, not unreasonably, that unless people believe mass extinction is imminent, they will not bother to do anything about it.One possible reason why scientists overestimated extinction rates was put forward by Fangliang He and Stephen Hubbell in 2011.

Lots of scientists were "unreasonably pessimistic," says Church, believing that if the government didn't sequence the human genome itself, either Celera Genomics would wind up owning everything or there would be so many gene patents that science would get logjammed by lawsuits.

Kevan Gosper, the press commission head of the IOC, said the IOC and Chinese officials were working toward "unblocking sites that we believe were unreasonably blocked".

However, even if we used a value of 1.67 for D, the upper value of the 95% CI for D in our adjustment for self-selection bias, which we believe is unreasonably high for Norway; the mortality reduction is still 25% in favor of screening.

But the judge blocked Bradley from testifying that Hernandez was "unreasonably suspicious" and would not allow Bradley to use iPhones around him, or that Hernandez believed he was being tailed by police cruisers and helicopters.

Participants in weight-loss programs expect unreasonably large weight losses and believe that such reductions will produce dramatic improvements in their lives.