What is "believes"

Usage examples of "believes".

First and foremost, Saddam apparently believes that it was a mistake to have invaded Kuwait before he had acquired nuclear weapons because he believes if he had, it would have deterred the United States from intervening.

If you have every organization in Iraq penetrated, if you have every Iraqi citizen so terrified that he or she believes that every word he or she utters is heard by the security services, and if you are willing to kill or torture every member of Iraqi society to find the information you seek, you can be just as effective as if you had brilliant agents, outstanding tradecraft, and ultrasophisticated technology.

Sunni elites, and Tehran periodically reminds the world that it believes Bahrain should again be a part of Iran, as it was at the height of the Persian Empire.

When a natural instinct makes her love for the first time, she believes the object of her love worthy of her confidence, and she thinks that to be loved herself she must shew the most boundless trust.

There is no one who believes that the Iraqis have anything close to that many missiles, and that still does not account for the airfields, garrisons, and other transshipment facilities we would be using.

As best we understand his thinking, he does appear to construct means-ends chains by which he believes his actions will achieve his goals.

If Saddam believes his regime is threatened, of course, all bets are off.

Once he has acquired a nuclear weapon, he believes that he will be able to deter the United States and Israel under all circumstances except if he were to launch his own nuclear strike against them.

Saddam believes himself destined to be the new leader of the Arabs, and he makes it apparent that this role will be a political-military role, meaning that he will achieve this position through some combination of conquest and acclaim.

Lebel conceived this plan that he might have his mind at rest on the supposed force of blood, in which he declares he believes no more than I do.

The young man looks only to the present, believes that the sky will always smile upon him, and laughs at philosophy as it vainly preaches of old age, misery, repentance, and, worst of all, abhorred death.

Paris believes her to be suffering from a cancer, and she has consultation upon consultation.

He would like to be in hell, if he believes in it, for the sake of the company.

Everybody believes in judicial astrology now, and Valenglard triumphs.

I beg that you will tell me sincerely whether you know the young person who is with you, for no one believes that she is your niece.