I argue, instead, that James's work suggests responses that reflect his thinking about the limits and meaning of possibility and about sustaining belief in a transcendent force.
Since teachers' evolutionary beliefs are known to be an important factor relating to the instructional time devoted to evolution (Moore 2007, 2008), sustaining belief change is a particularly salient feature of evaluating PD impacts.
The mental stretch comes from sustaining belief in the big goals while small changes happen along the way rather than just holding out for the final payoff.
The good news is most human beings are complex, and are able to sustain beliefs in both sin and forgiveness.
They understood this as a legitimate requirement, necessitated by cultural norms, the need to inculturate children, or the need to sustain beliefs.
Different players draw on different things to develop and sustain belief.
America has never been equal to its rhetoric, and sometimes it can sustain belief in itself only by forgetting.
For the rest of his thinking life, Nietzsche strove to sustain belief in the possibility of the flight; that is, in a new future for humanity.
But sustained belief by investors that JPMorgan's broader spread of retail and other businesses offers more of a cushion for shareholders surely isn't lost on Goldman's board.
Yet he rarely acknowledged that his chancellor's slash-and-burn approach to public spending was hurting the very people he had promised to help, and there was too much talk of the ideological desirability of shrinking the state to sustain belief that the cuts were merely a short-term necessity.
How can you not sustain belief when you hail from Rozellville, which as Seubert said, is "in the center of the state, where two highways meet a couple of dirt roads?" Or about 90 minutes on the highway from where Seubert and the Giants will knock frozen helmets with the Packers on Sunday night, as they brave winter's wrath for the right to bask in Super Bowl glory.
