Question: I have encountered the following sentence:
他就拿我没办法的信念
in the following paragraph:

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> 抱着誓死不从，他就拿我没办法的信念，我只有拼命挣扎，但是我错了。
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which was originally [here](http://health.sohu.com/20041120/n223089261.shtml) (link now broken).

I couldn't understand the meaning of 拿 here. Any definition from the dictionary doesn't make sense to me.

As for the 信念， I think it refers to the 信念 in a previous paragraph in the text:

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> 在我的印像中，但凡强奸如果女的不愿意，誓死不从的话，男的很少能得逞的，所以我当时就是抱了这样的信念的
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The best translation that I could come up with is:

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> He could not do anything with my belief
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Or in other words, he couldn't make me stop fighting. But I feel pretty uncomfortable with this translation. It doesn't seem correct to me.

Answer: 
Adding punctuation might help. 

抱着“誓死不从，他就拿我没办法”的信念，我只有拼命挣扎，但是我错了。

拿...没办法, literally 'take ... with no solution', is an idiomatic way to say 'could do nothing about ...'.

誓死不从，他就拿我没办法 = (If I am) determined to resist to the end of my life, he could do nothing (to make me yield).

抱着...的信念 = with the idea/belief/conviction that ...

So the whole sentence goes 

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> With the idea that he couldn't do anything as long as I am determined to resist, I struggled hard with every string pulled, but I was wrong.
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I think you are right. It sounds weird even in Chinese. So I'd say it's the problem with the original sentence, not your translation.