The people everywhere had grown meanwhile in devotion to basic democratic principles, in understanding of and belief in the federal balance, and in love of their Union.

It is Field Marshal Montgomery's belief that in most Western countries about 60 per cent of the people do not really care about democracy or Christianity ; ;

He, along with Moses, performed " signs " before his people which impressed them with a belief in the reality of the divine mission of the brothers ( Exodus 4: 15 – 16 ).

The Greeks believed amethyst gems could prevent intoxication, while medieval European soldiers wore amethyst amulets as protection in battle in the belief that amethysts heal people and keep them cool-headed.

Due to a false etymology, a popular belief is that they were most likely Finns – the obsolete name of Nenets people, Samoyed, has a similar meaning in Russian: " self-eater ".

* Lists of people by belief

" The prophet Jonah shows us where God shows concern for the people of Nineveh, while Nahum ’ s writing testifies to his belief in the righteousness / justice of God and how God dealt with those Assyrians in punishment according to " their cruelty " ( Nahum 3: 19 ).

This strengthened the belief that the Israelites, who understood themselves to be God ’ s chosen people, were even more culpable than other peoples for not living up to God ’ s statutes because they were to be a ‘ light unto the nations ’.

A rigid belief in laissez-faire guided the government response in 1846 – 1849 to the Great Famine in Ireland, during which an estimated 1. 5 million people died.

Others see anti-Judaism as the rejection of or opposition to beliefs and practices essentially because of their source in Judaism or because a belief or practice is associated with the Jewish people.

In Judaism, " chosenness " is the belief that the Jews are the chosen people, chosen to be in a covenant with God.

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints also holds this belief, and holds baptismal services in which righteous people are baptized in behalf of their ancestors who, it is believed, are given the opportunity to accept the ordinance.

The belief that women are prohibited from playing is widespread among non-Aboriginal people and is also common among Aboriginal communities in Southern Australia ; some ethnomusicologists believe that the dissemination of the Taboo belief and other misconceptions is a result of commercial agendas and marketing.

Widely shared among the people of Erewhon is the belief that children choose to be born.

Indeed, these Four Freedoms were explicitly incorporated into the preamble to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights which reads, " Whereas disregard and contempt for human rights have resulted in barbarous acts which have outraged the conscience of mankind, and the advent of a world in which human beings shall enjoy freedom of speech and belief and freedom from fear and want has been proclaimed the highest aspiration of the common people ,...."

Historically, Fianna Fáil has been seen as to the left of Fine Gael and to the right of the Labour Party and is generally seen as a classic " catch all " populist party-representing a broad range of people from all social classes with the belief in the coincidence of economic growth and social progress.

Bel Geddes expounds upon his design in his book Magic Motorways, stating, “ Futurama is a large-scale model representing almost every type of terrain in America and illustrating how a motorway system may be laid down over the entire country – across mountains, over rivers and lakes, through cities and past towns – never deviating from a direct course and always adhering to the four basic principles of highway design: safety, comfort, speed and economy .” He had acknowledged this in the belief that “ A free-flowing movement of people and goods across our nation is a requirement of modern living and prosperity .”

Some people interpret the Bible, especially the New Testament, as teaching belief in, and practice of, faith healing.

One use of the term faith healing is in reference to the belief of some Christians that God heals people through the power of the Holy Spirit, often involving the laying on of hands.

A study of beliefs about miraculous healing among the more religiously committed has indicated that there are significant differences in belief about miraculous healing even among people within the same denomination ( Anglican ).

Older people had less belief in miraculous healing or the sovereignty of God over illness, while those with experience of higher education had more inclusive beliefs about miraculous healing and saw human input as less important in the healing process.

Scientists contend that there is no evidence to support this belief, which has only come about because most people do not understand the concept of homeostasis because many non-scientists incorrectly see homeostasis as a process requiring conscious control.

The belief that " ye may not be a Witch alone " extends the idea that personal growth, both intellectually and spiritually, is dependent on and affects one's surroundings and the people therein.

It was based upon the belief that the common people possessed the wisdom and peaceful ability to lead the nation.

Julius Caesar and Pliny record a belief that European moose had no knee joints and could not get up if they fell over.

Nevertheless, even if this belief turned out to be true, the patient would not have known that he would get well since his belief lacked justification.

Smith has a justified true belief that a man with ten coins in his pocket will get the job ; however, according to Gettier, Smith does not know that a man with ten coins in his pocket will get the job, because Smith's belief is "... true by virtue of the number of coins in Jones's pocket, while Smith does not know how many coins are in Smith's pocket, and bases his belief ... on a count of the coins in Jones's pocket, whom he falsely believes to be the man who will get the job.

" Finagle's Law " can also be the related belief, " Inanimate objects are out to get us ," also known as Resistentialism.

It was the basis for Social Darwinism, the belief that helping the poor and sick would get in the way of evolution, which depends on the survival of the fittest.

The Just-world phenomenon is the belief that people get what they deserve and deserve what they get, which was first theorized by Melvin Lerner ( 1977 ).

It's one of the reasons I'm so bored with Antonioni-the belief that, because a shot is good, it's going to get better if you keep looking at it.

Other references in classical literature include the belief that upon death the otherwise silent Mute Swan would sing beautifully-hence the phrase swan song ; as well as Juvenal's sarcastic reference to a good woman being a " rare bird, as rare on earth as a black swan ", from which we get the Latin phrase rara avis, rare bird.

Basiliscus successfully exploited his unpopularity to get the purple for himself, only to become unpopular in his turn, mainly for his religious belief.

He fully realizes Mrs Bramson's belief that she is an invalid and that other people should do things for her, and he plays on this fact to get hired by her as her caretaker.

At midnight on December 31, Buddhist temples all over Japan ring their bells a total of 108 times ( じょやの鐘 joyanokane ) to symbolize the 108 human sins in Buddhist belief, and to get rid of the 108 worldly desires regarding sense and feeling in every Japanese citizen.

My belief is that he thought we knew more about him than we did, and thinking things were getting hot, he decided to get rid of the money to avoid being found in possession with it ".

Also during this time cats, then the symbol of the devil and witchcraft, were thrown off Cloth Hall, possibly due to the belief that this would get rid of evil demons.

However, the apparent entry of the popular Lord Mayor of Dublin, Alfie Byrne, into the presidential race ( in fact he eventually failed to get nominated ) and the belief that neither O ' Kelly nor any other politician could beat Byrne ( ironically a close friend of O ' Kelly ) led to all party agreement, on the opposition Fine Gael's suggestion, that the office go to Douglas Hyde, a Protestant Irish man, as a thank you for his contribution to Irish society.

Perhaps in the belief that " The bomber will always get through ", the British lagged behind in its heavy fighter development.

Still another segment of the student population consists of those who seek, in what they regard as religion, intellectual clarity, rational belief, and ethical guidance and reinforcement.

* He emphasized his belief that in the future humanity would need to be able to recognize the Spirit of Love in all its genuine forms, regardless of what name would be used to describe this being.

However, another interpretation is that Job's silence is defiant, and that what he gives up is not his belief that justice be done, but his confidence that God will behave justly.

By the early 20th century the Liberals stance began to shift towards " New Liberalism ", what would today be called social liberalism: a belief in personal liberty with a support for government intervention to provide minimum levels of welfare.

Often this involves stressing what are now conservative views of free-market economics and belief in individual responsibility, with social liberal views on defence of civil rights, environmentalism and support for a limited welfare state.

The belief is that what the student does is more important than what the teacher does.

Otherwise what is or is not divine may be loosely defined, as it is used by different belief systems.

In many of Plato's dialogues, such as the Meno, and in particular the Theaetetus, Socrates considers a number of theories as to what knowledge is, the last being that knowledge is true belief that has been " given an account of " — meaning explained or defined in some way.

Husserl proposed that the world of objects and ways in which we direct ourselves toward and perceive those objects is normally conceived of in what he called the " natural standpoint ", which is characterized by a belief that objects materially exist and exhibit properties that we see as emanating from them.

The Catholic Church sees as the main basis for this belief the words of Jesus himself at his Last Supper: the Synoptic Gospels (; ; ) and Saint Paul's recount that in that context Jesus said of what to all appearances were bread and wine: " This is my body … this is my blood.

" Orthodox ", from Greek orthos (" right ", " true ", " straight ") + doxa (" opinion " or " belief ", related to dokein, " to think ") was adopted by the Church in order to distinguish itself from what was becoming a larger and larger body of non-orthodox Christian denominations.

Due to what these churches perceive as the errors of modernism and ecumenism in mainstream Orthodoxy, they refrain from concelebration of the Divine Liturgy with them while maintaining that they remain fully within the canonical boundaries of the Church: i. e., professing Orthodox belief, retaining legitimate episcopal succession, and existing in communities with historical continuity.

Yet, like the " Churches in Resistance " above they remain fully within the canonical boundaries of the Church: i. e., professing Orthodox belief, retaining what they believe to be legitimate episcopal succession, and existing in communities with historical continuity.

This is any ideological system or belief that claims to bridge the gap between man's yearning for absolute unity versus what he saw as the inherent irrational nature of the universe.

In their 1972 study, The Unknown Orwell, the writers Peter Stansky and William Abrahams note that at Eton Blair displayed a " sceptical attitude " to Christian belief, and that: " Shaw's preface to his recently published Androcles and the Lion in which an account of the gospels is set forth, very different in tone from what one would be likely to hear from an Anglican clergyman " was " much more to Blair's own taste.

Producer Tomoyuki Tanaka offered Ishirō Honda a chance to direct this film, but he strongly rejected the offer, because of what came of Godzilla in the 1970s, and his belief that Godzilla should have been permanently laid to rest after Eiji Tsuburaya's death.

The books ' characters may clarify or provide different perspectives on past events throughout the books so that the readers ' belief of what is true may not necessarily be true.

Among Christian heresiologists, the concept of false gnosis was used to denote different Pagan, Jewish or Christian belief systems ( e. g. the Eleusinian Mysteries or Glycon ) and their various teachings of what was deemed

Thus, while one might agree that there is no belief one can hold come what may, there are some for which there is ample practical ground to " hold more stubbornly at least ".

Some belief systems contain universalism, the belief that everyone will go to heaven eventually, no matter what they have done or believed on earth.

It is characterised by the belief that the Written Torah ( Law ) cannot be correctly interpreted without reference to the Oral Torah and by the voluminous literature specifying what behavior is sanctioned by the law ( called halakha, " the way ").

' In the second case, he cites an example that demonstrates ignorance of statistical principles in the lay press: ' Since no such proof is possible genetically modified food is harmless, the article in The New York Times was what is called a " bad rap " against the U. S. Department of Agriculture-a bad rap based on a junk-science belief that it's possible to prove a null hypothesis.

Along with the belief in liberty — as opposed to, for example, the European belief in equality, the Muslim belief in theocracy, and the Eastern belief in social conformity — Judeo-Christian values are what distinguish America from all other countries.