Besides, a politician can always find half-plausible excuses in which he can half-believe.
If his enemies and interlocutors did not pretend to half-believe the half-fiction, it would have been much more difficult to negotiate the Good Friday Agreement.
But believe me there are no half-hearted allies of America today and no semi-detached partners in Europe.
While I am a card-carrying member of the glass-is-at-least-half-full club and you may find it hard to believe, I actually do have friends that regularly reside in the bear camp.
We so want to believe in a cure that we are prepared to believe every rumor, false lead, or half-baked study that suggests a solution is near.
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She seems to believe the answer is yes, pointing to the half-million women who die from breast cancer worldwide each year.
In a population of 11 million, at least 140, 000 are infected with the virus - an estimate many experts believe understates the incidence by half.
"He was all set to go to another club I believe on a two-and-a-half year deal and he rang me on the morning to say he didn't want to go and wanted to stay here, asked if there was anything I could do, " Cooper revealed.
Villa responded to losing 7-1 to the Premier League leaders a fortnight earlier with a performance of industry and desire and their manager Martin O'Neill will also believe his side should have had a first-half penalty when Jon Mikel Obi clumsily felled Gabriel Agbonlahor inside the area.
In our Solar System, we believe the Sun has accreted about two-and-a-half Earth-masses of rocky material.
We also believe that economic growth will start to improve, going from a half-speed recovery to a more normal speed recovery.
With operating margins close to all-time highs unless revenue growth can be generated I believe the second half earnings numbers will come down.
Will the prospect of some half-hearted European involvement really have such an effect on an embattled regime that may believe it is gaining the upper hand?
Australia had dominated the second half of the day - a commendable achievement given their toils in the first three Tests - and still believe they have time to win the match and square the series.
The camera, maps and multimedia apps offer just a few examples of the minimalism that appears throughout various parts of the OS. It's been one of my major takeaways from the first half of my BB10 trial, and I don't believe things were left out by accident -- in fact, most mobile platforms start out the same way.
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But among the more than one-third who said they didn't believe the former Vermont governor had the requisite temperament, about half said they voted for Kerry.
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