She was sure she would reach the pool by climbing, and she clung to that belief despite the increasing number of obstacles.

But by the time the papers were finally disposed of, the group had informed the world of its purpose, its recommendations, and its belief that Paul Bang-Jensen was not of sound mind.

A popular belief grew up after the war that the only time during the Civil War that Thomas ever put his horse to a gallop was when he went to hurry up Stanley for this assault.

But Michael Sept had unmasked him, revealing he had never been a bishop, but was an Anabaptist, afraid to state his faith, because he knew John Calvin had written a book against their belief that the soul slept after death.

And now Andrei sat on a train on the way to Lublin and wondered if he was not being punished for his lack of belief.

But just when was an unknown, and of course the longer it did not happen, the stronger her wish and belief that it might not.

It is our belief that this readiness to relinquish some control was evidenced by the Kohnstamm-positive subjects in some of the other experimental situations to be discussed below.

The potters, in particular, had virtually eschewed freehand drawing, elaborate motifs, and the curving lines of nature, while yet expressing a belief that there was order in the universe.

With the return of our soldiers, it soon became apparent that the belief was not shared by the great majority of citizens.

Mr. Kennedy was less troubled by that possibility than by the belief that a Geneva breakdown, or even continued stalemate, would mean an unchecked spread of nuclear weapons to other countries as well as a fatal blow to any hope for disarmament.

Disapproval of the meeting was based largely on the belief that the timing could hardly be worse.

The tragic irony of the play is that the very belief in and concern with a devil who could be met in the woods and combatted with formulae set out in books was the very thing that prevented them from detecting the real devil when he came among them.

The common belief was that there existed one moral order, which included everything.

this was not virtue as we understand the word today, and it did not mean an abandonment of the belief in magic manipulation.

The lieutenant was not entirely wrong in the belief.

It is a popular belief that alchemists made contributions to the " chemical " industries of the day — ore testing and refining, metalworking, production of gunpowder, ink, dyes, paints, cosmetics, leather tanning, ceramics, glass manufacture, preparation of extracts, liquors, and so on ( it seems that the preparation of aqua vitae, the " water of life ", was a fairly popular " experiment " among European alchemists ).

This embodies the belief that the image was somehow the god or man himself.

( Despite common belief, he did not take a day from February ; see the debunked theory on month lengths ) According to a Senatus consultum quoted by Macrobius, he chose this month because it was the time of several of his great triumphs, including the conquest of Egypt.

Doubleday's purported invention of baseball was such a widely accepted belief in the late 19th century, that the legend was recorded on a Civil War monument in Maryland in 1897.

Despite popular opinion, Limbo, which was elaborated upon by theologians beginning in the Middle Ages, never entered into the teaching of the Roman Catholic Church, yet, at times, the church incorporated the theory in its ordinary belief.

Ancient Egyptian civilization was based on religion ; their belief in the rebirth after death became their driving force behind their funeral practices.

Many deist freethinkers held that belief in an afterlife with reward and punishment was a necessity of reason and good morals.

In western Europe Arianism, which had been taught by Ulfilas, the Arian missionary to the Germanic tribes, was dominant among the Goths and Lombards ( and, significantly for the late Empire, the Vandals ); but it ceased to be the mainstream belief by the 8th century.

Ambrose was known to be Catholic in belief, but also acceptable to Arians due to the charity shown in theological matters in this regard.

A government in exile may also form from widespread belief in the illegitimacy of a ruling government. For instance, the Syrian National Council was formed as a result of the Syrian Civil War, which sought to end the rule of the ruling Ba ' ath Party.

As early as 1870, Syrian writer Francis Marrash distinguished the notion of fatherland from that of nation ; when applying the latter to Greater Syria, he pointed to the role played by language, besides customs and belief in common interests, in defining national identity.

Syrian Islamic scholar Muhammad al-Ya ’ qoubi declared on national television his belief that the mujaddid of the Indian subcontinent was Ahmed Raza Khan, going so far as to say that a person of the Ahlus Sunnah wal Jamaah can be identified by his love of Ahmed Raza Khan, and that those outside the Ahlus Sunnah are identified by their attacks on him.

In his book, Saadeh formulated his belief in the existence of a Syrian nation in a homeland defined as embracing all historic Syria extended to the Suez Canal in the south, and that includes modern Syria, Palestine, Lebanon, Jordan, Iraq, and Kuwait.

These three movements would share characteristics like being territorially expansionist, with the SSNP wanting the complete control of Syria, belief in the superiority of their own people ( with Saadeh theorizing a " distinct and naturally superior " Syrian race ), being " nonrationalist, anti-intellectual, and highly emotional " and " military virtues and power stressing self-sacrifice ".

Though Americans usually lived in groups segregated by national origin or religious belief, they liked to work and shop in the noise and vitality of downtown.

His advocacy of Spiritualism and his belief in a non-material origin for the higher mental faculties of humans strained his relationship with the scientific establishment, especially with other early proponents of evolution.

* His belief in cosmic cycles predating the creation of the world, following Heraclitus, which is extra-Biblical in origin.

A less common belief, contradicting allochtonic Slovene origin, was that the Glagolitic was created or used in the 4th century by St. Jerome, hence the alphabet is sometimes named Hieronymian.

Such a recent origin was a handicap for a belief system bound by the scripture revealed, and the ways of those who lived, twelve centuries earlier.

The " prohibited grounds " include race, gender, sex, pregnancy, marital status, ethnic or social origin, colour, sexual orientation, age, disability, religion, conscience, belief, culture, language and birth.

The term " secular " is more popular as a self-description among Israeli families of western ( European ) origin, whose Jewish identity may be a very powerful force in their lives, but who see it as largely independent of traditional religious belief and practice.

Rousseau's break with the Encyclopedistes coincided with the composition of his three major works, in all of which he emphasized his fervent belief in a spiritual origin of man's soul and the universe, in contradistinction to the materialism of Diderot, La Mettrie, and d ' Holbach.

The origin of the practice is uncertain, but it is quite likely that it was maintained because of widespread belief in the Joan legend, and it was thought genuinely to date back to that period.

In 2001, the European Union explicitly banned racism, along with many other forms of social discrimination, in the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union, the legal effect of which, if any, would necessarily be limited to Institutions of the European Union: " Article 21 of the charter prohibits discrimination on any ground such as race, color, ethnic or social origin, genetic features, language, religion or belief, political or any other opinion, membership of a national minority, property, disability, age or sexual orientation and also discrimination on the grounds of nationality.

The Washington Ethical Society functions much like a church, but regards itself as a non-theistic religious institution, honoring the importance of ethical living without mandating a belief in a supernatural origin for ethics.

This implies that only the soul of Adam was created directly by God ( with Eve's substance, material and immaterial, being taken from out of Adam ), in contrast with creationism ( not to be confused with creationism as a belief about the origin of the material universe ), which holds that all souls are created directly by God ( with Eve's substance, material and immaterial, being taken from out of Adam ).

In its origin it was an allusion to the Jewish belief that God remained actively working in the Universe even after its creation and does not necessarily mean soul creation.

Paradoxically their acceptance in to the canon was due to the change in belief that they were in fact of apostolic origin.

A Sicilian belief of Arabic origin holds that a werewolf can be cured of its ailment by striking it on the forehead or scalp with a knife.

Some modern research has indicated stigmata are of hysterical origin, or linked to dissociative identity disorders, especially the link between dietary constriction by self-starvation, dissociative mental states and self-mutilation, in the context of a religious belief.

The sacrality of fire is related to the belief that it is the element at the origin of Earth ( the central fire within ), of every life on Earth and that connects our world with the divine one.

This latter tradition is the origin of the Egyptian belief that people who had drowned in the Nile were sacred.

The folk tale explaining the origin of this Vietnamese tradition is a good illustration of the belief that the combination of areca nut and the betel leaf is ideal to the point they are practically inseparable, like an idealized married couple.

1 ) excludes from the world to come the Epicureans and those who deny belief in resurrection or in the divine origin of the Torah.

They are listed as: The world was created by God ; God is one and incorporeal ; belief in revelation ( including the divine origin of tradition ); man is called to righteousness and endowed with all necessary qualities of mind and soul to avoid sin ; belief in reward and punishment ; the soul is created pure ; after death it leaves the body ; belief in resurrection ; Messianic expectation, retribution, and final judgment.

The domestication of the chicken as stated in the Encyclopædia Britannica ( 2007 ): " Humans first domesticated chickens of Indian origin for the purpose of cockfighting in Asia, Africa, and Europe and is understandable since the belief by many archaeologists that " chickens were first domesticated not for eating but for cockfighting ", because of the " aggressive rooster's ability to fight ".

According to popular belief and the origin of its name, rambutan is native to Indonesia and Malaysia.