This belief prompted the Manhattan decorator to renovate his 17-by-18-foot studio apartment rather than move to a larger space with less appealing architecture.

That belief prompted a search for an alternative method to attach the implants.

But increased liability and the belief that the courthouse should not be a domino hall prompted the action, he said.

Mr. Walesa's belief that a President should rule by decree to protect Poland from rapacious former Communists has prompted grumbling in many quarters.

He added that his political beliefs and conscience prompted him to deplore Tatarella's presence at the EU's telecommunications ministers' meeting.

This belief prompted scholars to use female subordination as a means to validate Western ideas about Chinese culture and Confucian principles.

Religious beliefs may prompt an individual to deny the existence of the scientific theory of evolution.

This, in addition to the belief that the few towns that did exist were too close together, prompted the Massachusetts General Court to establish two new inland communities.

Thorndike's belief that transfer of learning occurs when learning source and learning target share common stimulus-response elements prompted calls for a hierarchical curricular structure in education.

Cottrell's belief in public service and his love of the environment prompted him to join the U.S. Bureau of Mines in 1911.