You've heard me say for months that we believed that 10 percent was going to come.
We believed that downturns had been rendered obsolete by the ingenious technology of the new economy.
We believed that the speed at the end of the traverse would be too high.
We believed that fiscal responsibility could spur economic growth, so we balanced the federal budget.
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We believed that because it used the same technology as the desktop, we thought it could improve.
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"We believed that the Arab summit was supposed to be held earlier, " Hamas spokesman Mohammed Nizal said Wednesday.
Our 2001 written response to OFAC stated that we believed that we were in compliance with applicable sanction regulations.
We believed that we could finally guarantee quality, affordable care for every American.
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We believed that while a subscription was a superior model, consumers should have an option to purchase digital albums and tracks.
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At the time, we believed that we would be attacked many more times that day and in the days that followed.
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"When the flight attendant said we were heading to Dhaka, we believed that this was how you pronounced 'Dakar' with a Turkish accent, " Valdivieso told the Times.
However, while fascinating, there's no game-changer so far - nothing where we believed that US policy was X and it has actually turned out to be Y.
If ever there was an example of an imminent, urgent humanitarian danger, we believed that this was very much -- was very much in line with that.
"After she went missing, we were worried, but we were hopeful because we believed that no one would harm an innocent child, " village head Ravindra Kasva told the BBC.
By making homemade ice cream and cookies and naming the combinations after architects, we believed that we could educate the public about design and bring value back to the discipline.
We believed that it was possible to shape those in a way that preserved the integrity of the system, made them available for the next generation, and did not affect current beneficiaries in an adverse way.
For once, we believed that we would have what Hastings needed - and still needs - so badly, an infrastructure that would enhance people's lives and livelihoods, reduce environmental pollution and improve the health of those thousands of people who live on the A259 trunk road.
Our role at the Treasury Department was to support the independent regulators and their efforts with private parties as credit markets were operating under considerable stress, and we believed that certain prudent actions would help to mitigate systemic risk, enhance liquidity, facilitate more orderly markets, and minimize risks to the taxpayers.
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But what we had even then was a group of students here at George Mason -- (applause) -- who believed that if we worked hard enough and if we fought long enough, if we organized enough supporters, then we could finally bring change to that city across the river. (Applause.) We believed that despite all the resistance, we could make Washington work.
And when we finally were informed that those individuals who were able to go in that compound and found the individual that they believe was bin Laden, there was a tremendous sigh of relief that what we believed and who we believed was in that compound actually was in that compound and was found.
"We might have talked about it but I don't think we genuinely believed that seven or eight years down the line we would be at the top level of non-league, " Fallon told BBC Sport.
"I grew up in a middle-class family in the middle of America, and we believed in that promise, " the 59-year-old Chicago native said.
We believed then that distance had added no enchantment to Stanley Baldwin, a Tory centrist, and Ramsay MacDonald, Britain's last previous too right-wing Scots Labour prime minister.
All I can assure everyone is if we thought and believed that this would detract from the area we wouldn't be doing it.
Even the 2001 Congress (with a GOP majority in the House) realized that the tax cuts might turn out to be counterproductive in the future- and they had the good sense to plan for this despite doing so during a time when we not only had surpluses but believed that we would continue to be in the money for many years to come.
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But I want everybody to understand if we are going to get to the vision that we all believed in, in 2008, and we still believe in, it is going to be imperative that we run a clear, forceful campaign.
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"We had a plan in December that we believed in, " Dolan said on the call.
One of the fallcies of the 1930s securities laws is that the public believed that we had a regulatory framework in place that would prevent another Depression.
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