conviction

When you do a rather daring thing, you've just got to have the courage of your convictions.

French investigations can be lengthy and do not always lead to prosecutions, let alone convictions.

He said he also took into account that Tang had no prior convictions and the five victims were well provided for and fed.

She was a passionate liberal whose anti-war convictions had been confirmed the previous summer when she worked in Vietnam as a journalist.

He said today that he would not ask President Bush for a pardon on his corruption convictions.

He said he rejects the five-year suspension verdict, which was handed down last week. He confirmed that he would appeal the convictions.

Daily life is all about having faith in yourself and allowing that faith to inspire the courage of your convictions.

The driver of the vehicle was an off-duty taxi driver who already had a number of convictions for traffic violations.

But your getting these silly convictions and conceptions out of nowhere, dont you realize all this life is just a dream?

Johnny knew that Owen had started the fight, but he was afraid to say so; he did not have the courage of his convictions.

Such an amputation sentence is often handed down to habitual thieves in Iran who have prior convictions for theft and robbery.

His detractors claim that only a lack of firm convictions made it possible for him to turn on a dime.

The Court of Appeal upheld the convictions and sentences of a jockey and a woman found guilty of race fixing and corruption offences.

And I denounce and reprobate this pretension not the less, if put forth on the side of my most solemn convictions.

Since the law was never a passion, whereas convictions were rooted in his being, politics would seem to have been a natural career for him.

Obama seems to be trapped between his personal convictions and the electoral necessities of US politics.

His personality and chilling integrity would have inhibited "special relationship" even if his convictions had not.

You must have the courage of your convictions and tell your father that you think he's making a mistake.

Such a crush of finery and folly she had never seen. It clinched her convictions concerning her state.

These representatives must concur in the President's convictions. If they do not, they have no alternatives except to resign.

Suu Kyi spent more than decade under house arrest for her political convictions, while Thaksin fled rather than do time for corruption.

Lay's convictions on 10 counts of fraud, conspiracy and lying to banks in two separate cases were wiped out with his death.

But critics worry that the raid is just a fishing expedition and that the government may lack the evidence it needs to secure convictions.

The convictions rested on confessions, later retracted, that were beaten out of the suspects by the police.

In most cases these convictions of his turn out to be utter moonshine.

If he achieves what no hero of a former era has ever achieved, it somehow threatens dearly-held convictions about their relative greatness.

If I was right when I tested my convictions with ten shares I would be ten times more right if I traded in a hundred shares .

Misreading feelings has resulted in many divorces, family feuds and even mistaken criminal convictions, he said.

Massachusetts was not amenable to those who did not share the majority's convictions about, right and wrong.

Accept, as a price of citizenship, that you may never impose your convictions on your neighbor, or use state power to compel belief.

There is nothing in Paul which does not stand up toscrutiny with regards to the sincerity of his convictions.

A great meeting, a great step forward for OCLC's members outside of the Americas, and a meeting which increased my convictions ten-fold.

People of various political convictions and aspirations took their flags and posters and came into the streets.

The case of the Countess Olenska had stirred up old settled convictions and set them drifting dangerously through his mind.

If you can persuade your board of directors to share your moral convictions, by all means take the high road. That would be a wise decision.

Grainger argued that Nicholson's climate-change convictions did not qualify for protection under the law.

Competing with his communist convictions were his deep love of his homeland, and his desire for recognition there.

However, following the spirit of the times and his own esthetic convictions, Tartini went further than Corelli.

Mr Fukui will need the courage of his convictions as Honda heads into a new era.

That sounds cynical enough. But most European governments do not even have the courage of their lack of convictions.

More than three out of four wrongful convictions identified through DNA testing involved faulty eyewitness identification.

Indeed, it is now widely known that eyewitness misidentification is the leading cause of wrongful convictions across the country.

I'm an admirer of good leadership, of politicians who stand by their convictions and tell the voters the truth.

Thoreau was sincerity itself, and might fortify the convictions of prophets in the ethical laws by his holy living.

In Pakistan, eight journalists have been killed in the last five years, but arrests and convictions have been won in only one case.

All of these men, institutions, and movements have strong confessional convictions held simultaneously with broad sympathies.

deep-rooted prejudice; deep-seated differences of opinion; implanted convictions; ingrained habits of a lifetime; a deeply planted need.

Iraq's pursuit of the rule of law, he said, has produced 300 court cases reaching the trial phase and resulting in 353 convictions.

It was the earnest and dogmatic way in which she presented her political convictions that put everyone's back up.

In the last two years, there have been just three convictions, said Chandy.

The difficulty in securing a guilty verdict was in part a result of the police's reliance on confessions for almost all convictions.

My education will be a lifelong endeavor. I will not be hesitant to stand up for my convictions.

A modified form of the Hunger Strike for those whose political convictions are not quite so radical is giving up chives.

But the newspaper USA Today says Illinois, for its population, is eighteenth among the fifty states in convictions for public corruption.

Perhaps they were more mindful of Friedrich Nietzsche's observation that "Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies. "

You know I have no political convictions.

Many countries do not pursue insider-trading convictions, or if they do, only impose financial penalties.

The convictions relate to a military operation in August 1995, when ethnic Serbs were forced out of Croatia's Krajina region.

In the light of Nixon's firm convictions, the outcome of this dispute was foreordained.

He is a man of religious convictions. He once did six months for impersonating a priest.

He would like the courage of his convictions but also a second term.

Would defendants be able to appeal clearly outrageous convictions?

We do not count a man's years until he has nothing else to count. Your faith and convictions are not subject to decay.

Romney programmed himself into a robot, so he wouldn't boil over with opinions and convictions, like his more genuine dad.

Work no longer could be an opiate anesthetizing him against his feelings and convictions.

Several people involved in it, including Mr Griffin, have criminal convictions, in his case for inciting racial hatred.

Photographs assisted officers in obtaining eyewitness identifications and aided prosecutors in securing convictions.

'In a nutshell, the evidence relates to his previous convictions. '

He would not give a millimetre where his convictions were at stake.

Over the same period, the number of convictions of suspected traffickers quadrupled.

Some of the biggest cases already have been investigated over recent years, but didn't result in the high-level convictions some had sought.

It was, of course, a lie what you read about my religious convictions, a lie which is being systematically repeated.

The court Tuesday denied Jeffrey Skilling's request to remain free while he appeals fraud and conspiracy convictions.

Stand firmly for your convictions in the face of personal pressure.

Stand firmly for your convictions when confronted with personal pressure.

Unlike law enforcement agencies, however, piracy profiteers play by no rules, and arrests and convictions are few and far between.

Personal convictions that may influence impressionable youths should be omitted from the contents of History textbooks.

The disciple went away sad, for he clung to his convictions. He feared "ignorance" more than death.

But, whenever you have strong convictions, you must not be tolerant in the sense that you must not accept any compromise of your beliefs.

Proving intent in a courtroom is famously hard to do, so few such exchanges result in convictions.

Anything we put into the market sells well because people have convictions in quality of our company's products.

These conflicting convictions permeate our juvenile laws, juvenile facilities, and treatment programs.

The threshold for arrests and convictions is lowered and the number of cases where people are sentenced collectively generally goes up.

Stand firmly for your convictions in the face od personal pressure .

Health, moral convictions, and religious reasons are among the most common.

This reinforced her image as a political opportunist driven by polls devoid of vision and lacking in convictions.

Second, develop a set of principles to live by, convictions and ideals to guide your course.

The act or state of holding unreasonable preconceived judgments or convictions.

What about the complaint that he has no fixed convictions?

In parallel, policymakers must have the courage of their (new-found) macro-prudential convictions.

Right or wrong in her convictions about what is the remedy for Britain's ills, she has been utterly true to her own belief.

on the contrary, you seek to live according to your own ideas and convictions, even if this means swimming against the tide.

And he expressed his unshakeable convictions in everyday language, in metaphors, in stories.

However, the court upheld his convictions on the charges of embezzlement and breach of trust.

Plainclothes officers now covertly buy drugs almost daily, gathering intelligence for convictions.

Recall that earlier generations faced down fascism not just with missiles and tanks, but with sturdy alliances and enduring convictions.

As a price for gaining entry to China, Google swallowed its convictions and agreed to censor its search results.

Mobile courts, in the backs of vans and operated by a police task force, are being introduced to speed up convictions for begging.

And the Home Office proposes to give the police the power to take DNA from people who have convictions pre-dating the database.

While errors might lead to wrongful arrest, "it's contamination that is the primary factor in wrongful convictions, " he said.

Neither of you do anything halfheartedly and you both have strong, powerful convictions.

I fear for any person who throws away their convictions in the name of fame and glory.

While black conductors were often motivated by their own painful experiences, whites were commonly driven by religious convictions.

Rich countries fear that, apart from the trouble and expense of putting pirates on trial, convictions will not deter them.

We can't have acquittals, we've got to have convictions.

As Ms Varney acknowledges, cartels were pursued enthusiastically, with record convictions, jail terms and fines.

The Galleon case resulted in more than two dozen arrests and convictions and included the testimony of Goldman CEO Lloyd Blankfein.

While we salute Sean Avery for having the courage of his convictions, we probably shouldn't be surprised.

Bravery (valor): Not shrinking from threat, challenge, difficulty, or pain; acting on convictions even if unpopular.

Not that she's letting that come between her and her political convictions.

men without convictions are more dangerous in modern society than poor woman without chastity.

Enables us to further understand the year, Comrade Deng Xiaoping repeatedly emphasized the profound implication ideals and convictions.

In religion and politics, people's beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second hand, and without examination.

When future generations come to this library, study this administration, they are going to find out that we stayed true to our convictions.

Likewise, for most people, religious or political convictions or sexual mores are considered private matters.

She lacked the courage of her convictions.

Likewise, for most people, religious or political convictions are considered private matters.

Under China's Criminal Law, state secret convictions can range from a minimum prison term of five years to the death penalty.

that children attend school; it cannot compel them to participate in ceremonies that violate their religious convictions.

Dooku confirmed Ventress' bitter ideas that the Jedi had abandoned their ethics and convictions.

Up until his death, Mr. Wilson was still hoping to persuade two other federal courts to void his convictions on the other charges.

and in doing so the genuine will and convictions of the public were often completely misconstrued.

Immigrants with more burning Christian convictions are pouring in, from Poland, the Philippines and Africa.

These were the times that tested the courage of our convictions, and the strength of our union.

The Government should now have the courage of its convictions and stare down the fear campaign being waged against it.

Supporters retort that people with strong religious convictions respect faith, whatever its form.

The treatise focuses on the basic convictions, values, moral principles and other factors for well-performing government's administration.

They simply drive people with those ideas to the fringes, where their convictions can deepen, unchallenged.

You have robbed me of the glory of youth, of the convictions of the virtue, of the sanctifying thirst after wisdom.

The five convictions secured so far have ended such talk.

It means possibly being ostracized for our Christian convictions. In some situations it may even mean dying for having faith in Christ.

Common action grows out of shared convictions.

You CAN free yourself. You just need the strength of your convictions.

The convictions of three men for the rape, torture and sexual enslavement of women in the Bosnian town of Foca was a big landmark.

By standing by my convictions, I proved, perhaps ironically, worthy of their esteem and their trust.

The court heard today that O'Connell had previous convictions for theft.

for others he lacked the courage of his convictions.

Under a financial stability mandate, the Fed will need to replace its ideological convictions with common sense.

This does not indicate a violent-crime problem: in the South Bronx, only 3% of convictions are for felonies.

Most worryingly, he left such tensions unresolved, never truly pushing his convictions.

The ideas and convictions he puts forth are not in accordance with China's target of progress.

So I have been thinking a lot about the price of being a Christian and a pastor with strong convictions in these days.

Her right-to-life convictions extend to stem cell research, which she opposes.

As early as 1936, the Supreme Court had begun striking down state criminal convictions based on confessions coerced from defendants.

The Christian life is far more than creeds and convictions; it includes conduct and character.

The disciple went away sad, for he clung to his convictions.

First, an organization sells convictions rather than products.

Live by the courage of your convictions.

Then I argued for Al Gore, emphasizing his strong convictions, good ideas, understanding of the future, and fundamental decency.

The Canadian-born businessman was released from prison last year after two of his four convictions were struck down on appeal.

Dad ruled our household with certain moral convictions, but the stranger never felt obligated to honor them.

To capture your quarry's heart, you need to share his or her convictions and show that you feel them deeply.

This resulted in the addition of more and more profiles without being clearly matched by an improvement in convictions.

You must have the courage of your convictions and the intelligent patience to sit tight.

Eventually, dozens of high-profile convictions and some tough corporate reforms later, the public moved on.

Never "for the sake of peace and quiet" deny your own experience or convictions.

Individual convictions count fOR little when habits of cORruption OR the drive fOR the quick buck overwhelm them.

Portman said her character sacrifices her own happiness because her convictions are so strong.

The judge reads about all his convictions.

Simple Life Convictions never desert people, enthusiasm of curtain never fall.

Our minds are sharpened and our convictions are deepened through conversation.

Organizations of all sizes can encourage everyone, from C-level leaders to junior hires, to pursue their convictions.

You lack the courage of your convictions. Do it!

but call-response overturns convictions everytime.

Wrong views and wrong convictions can be the most devastating of all our delusions.

He has strong convictions about his cause; he will not change his mind.

The conclusions are a snug fit with rightwing convictions.

It is believed that active convictions are considered the soul that leads a quality school to achieve its excellence.

His political convictions led him into development economics.

Searchlight reminds people that a number of the party's members have criminal convictions related to race hatred.

Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.

Seven other men in the church have already been prosecuted, with each receiving convictions and sentences ranging from six to 75 years.

Evidently, the German view of how to proceed reflects more than the convictions of its elite.

Eight people were arrested; Thursday's verdicts represent the first batch of convictions.

It would also help prevent wrongful convictions.

Their religious convictions prevented them from eating meat.

They have no previous convictions.

Apart from helping secure convictions, they arewidely interpreted as expressions of remorse.

Rumsfeld says he was convinced the intelligence was correct based on the convictions of those he talked to.

Driven by its ideological convictions, the Fed flew blind on the derivatives front.

He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions.

Mr Brandon's departure follows the convictions of four former colleagues for fraud.

In a balance-sheet released on October 5th the commission highlighted six big cases it took on, five of which ended in convictions.

Our moral convictions must arm us to face the ambiguity inseparable from the long haul .

Another major cause of wrongful convictions is false confessions.

The besiegers were thousands, steeled by convictions all the more fervent for their extreme simplicity.

These files provide the proof, according to the Libyan lawyers who collected them, that make convictions all but certain.

It's a shift that stretches past personal convictions and into legal constraints.

The court overturned convictions of people who had served jail terms for carrying marijuana.

Moral convictions must out - weigh expedience and buck passing.

Some people have strong convictions on buying from discount stores.

This time, would you be moved his convictions and survival principle?

Typically, when the PSI gets involved, criminal convictions soon follow.

After the confession came to light, both of the convictions were overturned.

Four years after the investigation began there have still been no convictions.

2, Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies. ----F. W. NietZche.

However, the European Court of Human Rights has overturned criminal defamation convictions based on Article 10 of the European Convention.

Market convictions that inflation is forever dead will be shattered.

Be ready and prepared. Examine your beliefs and convictions.

The potential for wrongful convictions is obvious.

Be wary of those who have overly strong convictions.

He has had a string of criminal convictions since his lottery win.

So long as both leaders remain in office, with their convictions unchanged, that will be a recipe for growing estrangement.

They are very strong in their convictions, and there are very few people who are not strongly affiliated with either party.

The Supreme Court says that the convictions can stand.

for the moral and religious convictions of others.

Number of convictions: four.

These (so far) 14 judges have delivered the 150-plus convictions.

Sure, God's infinite and all that, but clearly I have a better handle on Scripture than a person with those convictions.

In this way the immovable moral convictions of vice people become linked with the defense of property.

But in our district we like a man who votes his honest convictions.

Scotland Yard initially probed allegations of phone hacking in 2005 and 2006, netting two successful convictions.

Beneath the quiet exterior, INFJs hold deep convictions about the weightier matters of life.

Both men have vowed to appeal against their convictions.

No, I'm not stashing gold bars under my bed. But that's only because I lack the courage of my convictions.

Sometimes love is stronger than a man's convictions.

The question is whether Dynamic's managers will be free to express such strong convictions in the future.

"I predict there will be convictions this time, " says Kass.

Other than that, he seems rather unsure of his own core economic convictions.

Their convictions drive them to explore, to push back the limits.

She will not go against her convictions.

He has a thuggish history, including two criminal convictions.

Real men and women fight not for compromises but for their political beliefs and personal convictions.

Too many convictions simply mean too few paths for new ideas.

In January 2001, I arrived in Brussels with several firm and unfavourable convictions about the EU.

Other abuses involved "secret snooping, police abuse, wrong convictions and the highest ratio of people behind bars" , Xinhua said.

To deflect such claims, the government will need to secure convictions, and continue its campaign against narco-politics after the election.

He has, as a matter of fact, no real convictions.

Too many share his rigid restrictionist convictions.

Angry survivors, activists and the media are asking why it took nearly 26 years to get the first convictions in the disaster.

He stands firm on his convictions.

Other White "conductors" felt compelled to take part because of their deeply held convictions.

They suffered for their beliefs and emerged with stronger convictions.

There are a number of things which reveal a person's convictions.

Dr Ara Norenzayan said that religious convictions are shaped by psychological and cultural factors and fluctuate across time and situations.

Each of us is guided by our own convictions -- and to these we must stay faithful.

People can do enter the ministry for the wrong reasons, or they can compromise the convictions of the faith.

"We are imprisoned for our political convictions, " Ms. Alyokhina said.

however, to be wonderful, she has spirit, we should have lofty ideals and firm convictions.

Stand fast in your principles and your convictions.

They get to vote their policy convictions just like everybody else.

I am not saying that Curtis does not have morals or religious convictions.

Lawrence has two previous convictions in federal court from bank robberies in 1997 and 1999.

Lack of courage in one's own convictions?

We have convictions only if we have studied nothing thoroughly.

In all, officials said they have netted more than 100 criminal convictions and nearly 350 criminal charges.

My convictions are unfaltering. I remain true to the ideals I have expressed.

In a way, my dog Rusty gave me the courage of my convictions.

That is, there are times where we need to be convinced of our own convictions.

Here, Steare explains why morals matter, and how we can all find the courage of our convictions.