Sentence examples for we believed ourselves from inspiring English sources

We believed ourselves in a time of our own making.

Further to this, when we began this study, we believed ourselves to be frustrated, disempowered peripheral members of one large CFL academic community, from which our identities felt marginalised.

"We believe ourselves to be at the service of people".

Aren't we by nature superstitious and credulous beings, however rational we believe ourselves to be?

We are tool-making, technological creatures; hypersocial entities; storytellers by nature, protean, grappling with a dream of what we believe ourselves to be.

Day-Lewis gives a performance as towering as Mount Rushmore but so intimate that we believe ourselves to be in the great man's presence.

If this is a crisis, it is one characterized not by winners and losers, but by shifts in what we believe ourselves to be.

A ranger urges caution, but up here, where the trees grow sideways beside benevolent rocks, we believe ourselves untouchable and protected.

So we feel ourselves quite well positioned in commercial aircraft, knowing that there will be an impact on us, but we are preparing for different scenarios and we believe ourselves excellently positioned to go through this crisis.

If we believe ourselves to have a normative reason to φ, then rationally we ought to φ, and in judging that we have normative reason to φ, we will necessarily, insofar as we are rational, be moved to φ.

Good, bad, beautiful, ugly -- we bring forward what we believe ourselves to be.