While the other main characters believe there is no rational explanation for the outbreak of plague, Paneloux believes there is.

" ( Acts 28: 14-15 ) While Walton agrees that Luke ’ s main concern is apolitical, he believes that “ there is too much politically sensitive material for this view to be tenable when Luke-Acts is read in its first-century settings, both Jewish and Greco-Roman .”

Confucius believes that there is a duty to family and friends before there is a duty to community.

Searle believes that there are " causal properties " in our neurons that give rise to the mind.

It only applies where proceedings are active, and the Attorney General has issued guidance as to when he believes this to be the case, and there is also statutory guidance.

Glass doors pose the risk of unintentional collision if a person believes the door to be open when it is closed, or is unaware there is a door at all.

Biblical scholar Paul Achtemeier believes that persecution of Christians by Domitian would have been in character, but points out that there is no evidence of official policy targeted specifically at Christians.

Another Nobel winner, Paul Samuelson believes that Hayek was worthy of his award but nevertheless claims that " there were good historical reasons for fading memories of Hayek within the mainstream last half of the twentieth century economist fraternity.

If the individual believes that there were just reasons for the harm inflicted, collective guilt is likely to be reduced.

Bart Ehrman argues that there are differences in the composition of the Greek within the Gospel, such as breaks and inconsistencies in sequence, repetitions in the discourse, as well as passages that he believes clearly do not belong to their context, and believes that these suggest redaction.

Finkelstein believes there to be only one " truly mainstream " holocaust denier — Bernard Lewis, who was convicted in France of denying the Armenian genocide.

That is, the motivational internalist believes that there is an internal, necessary connection between one's conviction that X ought to be done and one's motivation to do X. Conversely, the motivational externalist ( or moral externalist ) claims that there is no necessary, internal connection between moral convictions and moral motives.

At this conference, she stated that she believes that the education system in the United States needs to be improved, as there is a link between the quality of education and the crime rate.

The subject believes that for each wrong answer, the learner was receiving actual electric shocks, though in reality there were no such punishments.

Although people have no doubt misconstrued song lyrics for as long as songs have been sung, without improved communication and the language standardization that accompanies it, he believes there would have been no way to recognize and discuss this shared experience.

Irwin believes there is no clear evidence that there is an unusually high incidence of fraud in this field.

If the pawnshop owner believes that there are " too many used TVs around these days in town ", they may fear that they will only get $ 100 for the TV if they have to unload it to a wholesaler.

Teichman's beliefs have been summarized by Brian Orend as "... A pacifist rejects war and believes there are no moral grounds which can justify resorting to war.

Sikhism believes in one supreme being which is real and immanent and only experienceable in this creation ; technically there is nothing in this creation which is devoid of it and distinct of it.

Several philosophers have argued that just as there exists a problem of evil for theists who believe in an omniscient, omnipotent and omnibenevolent being, so too is there a problem of good for anyone who believes in an omniscient, omnipotent, and omnimalevolent ( or perfectly evil ) being.

If love reflects the nature of man, as Ortega Y Gasset believes, if the person in love betrays decisively what he is by his behavior in love, then the writers of the beat generation are creating a new literary genre.

He catches criminals not merely because he is paid to do so ( frequently he does not receive a fee at all ), but because he enjoys his work, because he firmly believes that murder must be punished.

Hammarskjold believes the U.N. is an organization that settles matters in a procedural way.

Patchen believes that the world is being destroyed by power-hungry and money-hungry people.

Far from being irrelevant to the ecumenical task, the Pontiff believes that a revivified Church is required in order that the whole world may see Catholicism in the best possible light.

And the thing about hurt feelings, the wet bathing suit pointed out, is that the person who has them is not quite the innocent party he believes himself to be.

The faculty believes that broad autonomy is necessary to preserve its freedom in teaching and scholarship.

He believes that this is a sound approach to gas competition in builder developments where gas is available.

What matters is that while Fromm's reading of the data is not the only one possible, it is precisely the one we would expect from a writer who earnestly believes that every man can and ought to be happy and satisfied.

No optimism is more baseless than that which believes that the high speed of modern digital computers allows for use of the crudest of methods in searching out a result.

He, too, believes in good intentions and is astounded and offended when they are not taken for the deed.

Not only should this provision be enforced but other economic and political actions might be taken which, this author believes, `` must surely be supported by every American who values the freedom that has been won for him and whose conscience is not so dominated by the lines in his account books that he can willingly and knowingly contribute to the enslavement of another nation ''.

Indicating the way in which he has turned his back on his 1910 philosophy, Mr. Reama said: `` A Socialist is a person who believes in dividing everything he does not own ''.

After Cuba and Laos, it was argued, Mr. Khrushchev will interpret the President's consent to the meeting as further evidence of Western weakness -- perhaps even panic -- and is certain to try to exploit the advantage he now believes he holds.

Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ is born of God.

To be human, he believes, is to seek one's own destruction: the Freudian `` death-wish '' cliche inevitably cited whenever laymen talk about auto race-drivers.

the Briton Stirling Moss, one of the greatest virtuosi of all time, believes that ultra-fast road-circuit driving is an art form related to ballet.

He believes that greatness is a marriage between the man and the times as was aptly represented by Churchill, who would very possibly have gone down in history as a political failure if it had not been for Hitler's war.

In the popular sense, an agnostic is someone who neither believes nor disbelieves in the existence of a deity or deities, whereas a theist and an atheist believe and disbelieve, respectively.

* The Prefect: The Prefect believes at first that the talk of plague is a false alarm, but on the advice of his medical association, he authorizes limited measures to combat it.

Mr. Clark believes in a good full breakfast of fruit, hot cereal, milk, honey, whole-wheat toast with real butter and eggs.

Zoroastrianism is a monotheistic religion that believes that Ahura Mazda is the eternal creator of all good things.

He considers this a good solution because he believes it increases the enjoyment of the room by its occupants.

Physicist Sean Carroll believes that conceiving of morality as a science could be a case of Scientific imperialism and insists that what is " good for conscious creatures " is not an adequate working definition of " moral ".

Many students of democracy have desired to improve education in order to improve the quality of governance in democratic societies ; the necessity of good public education follows logically if one believes that the quality of democratic governance depends on the ability of citizens to make informed, intelligent choices, and that education can improve these abilities.

He believes that he can discover what is good to do in life by acquiring wisdom and using it to examine and contemplate the world.

The gods do not punish the bad and reward the good as the common man believes.

Wimsey saves her from the gallows, but she believes that gratitude is not a good foundation for marriage, and politely but firmly declines his frequent proposals.

Pessimism is a state of mind in which one anticipates undesirable outcomes or believes that the evil or hardships in life outweighs the good or luxuries.

Etzioni believes that " rivacy is merely one good among many others ", and that technological effects depend on community accountability and oversight ( ibid ).

Filmmaker Oliver Stone, however, has accused the film of promoting " the worship of World War II as the good war ," and has lumped it alongside films such as Gladiator and Black Hawk Down that he believes were well-made, but may have inadvertently contributed to Americans ' readiness for the 2003 invasion of Iraq.

In like manner, I apprehend, the sole evidence it is possible to produce that anything is desirable, is that people do actually desire it … No reason can be given why the general happiness is desirable, except that each person, so far as he believes it to be attainable, desires his own happiness … we have not only all the proof which the case admits of, but all which it is possible to require, that happiness is a good: that each person's happiness is a good to that person, and the general happiness, therefore, a good to the aggregate of all persons .”

Those who believe and those who are Jews and Christians, and Sabians, whoever believes in Allah and the Last Day and do righteous good deeds shall have their reward with their Lord, on them shall be no fear, nor shall they grieve ... let there be no compulsion in religion "-that all monotheistic religions or people of the book have a chance of salvation, to the most exclusive teaching common amongst Salafis and Wahhabis, and supported by several works of medieval Islamic theology and by traditions ( hadith ) which are considered correct ( sahih ) by Sunni Muslims, for the most part are summed up in Surah 9: 5, 29: " Then, when the sacred months have passed, slay the idolaters wherever ye find them, and take them, and besiege them, and lay in wait in every stratagem of war.

Although historian Alwyn Barr of Texas Tech University believes that the battle " should have taught ... lessons on Mexican courage and the value of a good defensive position ", historian Stephen Hardin believes that " the relative ease of the victory at Concepción instilled in the Texians a reliance on their long rifles and a contempt for their enemies ".

In this case B has falsely framed A's claim to imply that A believes only sunny days are good and B has argued against that assertion.

The Nobel prize-winner Robert Mundell believes that Gresham's Law could be more accurately rendered, taking care of the reverse, if it were expressed as, " Bad money drives out good if they exchange for the same price.

The Muslim faith believes that without a good spirit while enduring, the struggle will not bear its full reward, thus, Patiently persevering, striving and going forward, despite the difficulty, is the pinnacle of behavior during challenging times.

A foundation of Bokononism is that the religion, including its texts, is formed entirely of lies ; however, one who believes and adheres to these lies will have peace of mind, and perhaps live a good life.

Moral bravery involves acting in a way that enhances what one believes to be good in spite of social disapproval and possible backlash.