Fortunately, the China people have faith in the wisdom of their central government leaders, confidence in their ability to "cross the river by feeling the stones," belief that that empowered leaders will - somehow, someway - outline a series of incremental reforms that transform the PRC into a modern state.
In Mianyang, many people have been moved to higher ground, but fishermen still ply the Tongkou river banks in the belief that even if the mud-dam collapses they will have several hours before it hits their area.
Hundreds of people joined the family by the banks of the Ganges – a sacred river, according to Hindu belief – at the village of Bharauli, 600 miles east of Delhi.
Many were recent immigrants, living in squalid, stinking neighborhoods along the rivers, seething with the belief that while the government fought for emancipation in the South, no one seemed to care about wage slavery in Manhattan.
To the Corps' belief that a river confined by levees would similarly look after itself the success of the jetties gave considerable reinforcement.
The river, York writes, expresses Rawlings' belief that "man must know or discover a relationship to a suitable physical setting" in order to survive the harshness of the world, as she herself did on the St . Johns
Tolman (1937) reported the popular belief that underground rivers fed surface springs, which was common before the twentieth century.
The ancient Greek Aristotle (384 BC–322 BC) wrote in his Meteorology of how the earth had the potential for physical change, including the belief that all rivers and seas at one time did not exist where they were, and were dry.
Contrary to popular belief, the boundaries of river cruising extend far beyond Europe.
"In the ocean where all loyalties meet, [we are] the measurement of the Chinese culture... our belief and devotion will flow in the Yellow river and the Yangtze river".
