believe in someone

Examples of believed

believed

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.

Progressives believed that dirt and disorder created chaos and made it difficult for citizens to lift themselves out of poverty.
On the other hand, the economic recovery is believed to be one factor that will speed up the process of combating the corruption problem.
Most musicians believed that it had resolved the harmonic problems of musical theory in the best possible way.
During the mid 1980s, it gradually became apparent that this cost was far greater than had been believed.
Between these two components, social networks are believed to produce norms of reciprocity and trust, even though, such social norms may help build social networks.
Its members, who were born with the caul, believed that four times a year their souls would leave their bodies to battle witches.
However, this shock was largely the result of ignorance of who exactly ' evangelicals ' were and what they believed.
They believed, with justice, that he would return heavy industry to the former owners.
Editors would be glad to co-operate if they believed that this might enhance the reputation and increase the readership of their papers.
The traditional, married, male breadwinner model family was long believed by policy-makers to offer protection against risk, particularly for women and children.
Despite the sparse crowd, this observer believed that the rite did not lack merit.
It also includes checking and resolving potential con-icts with previously believed (or extracted) knowledge. 10.
On the contrary, they were believed to have a physiological problem, which could be solved with certain medications.
From the beginning, however, it was believed that increasing the transparency of the programmes was an essential first step.
It is believed to be of dog origin.
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