believe in someone

Examples of believing

believing

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

I can be perfectly rational in believing that my faculty of vision is keener than my companions.
Believing in these worlds resolves moral dilemmas that undermine social cooperation.
Consider, for example, the property of both believing something, and not believing anything, which entails that arithmetic is decidable.
Some artists, of course, are reluctant to explain their practice believing the work to be autonomous and capable of speaking for itself.
The apology induces the victim to risk believing that the transgressor will be a co-operator evermore.
I persist in believing that the original analysis is fundamentally correct, though, and that the theoretical conclusions derived from it are reasonable ones.
However, there are good reasons for believing that these problems are not excessive for our current purposes.
In fact, the classical theist has little justification for believing this.
He gives no comfort to irrationalist fideism - the view that faith requires believing contrary to one's rational assessment of the evidence.
Phillips agreed with this, believing that the idea of ready-made virtues is incoherent.
Since believing at will is impossible, so is overbelieving at will.
But in the case of a forced option suspending judgment is practically equivalent to not believing.
Parents expressed comfort in believing the child will be in a better place after dying.
All these people and organizations helped me develop my confidence: when you set out, you need help in believing you can write.
For the most part, veterans did not participate in national politics, believing that their goals could be achieved within the confines of colonial society.
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