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Conviction in sentence

563 examples of Conviction in a sentence

Anyhow, nobody would have followed them, except for a handful [of] men and women of conviction and courage.
"The President of the Royal Society has been vouchsafed a strong inner conviction that an asteroid killed the dinosaurs."
I was drawn by their sense of personal conviction and their life of service, and opted for baptism into the Christian faith as my 10th birthday present.
Anonymous extraordinaries are people who work selflessly and vigorously for what they believe in, people who are motivated by conviction and not recognition.
And I decided the remedy to all this malaise was going to be for me to chase an elevated dream, an extreme dream, something that would require utter conviction and unwavering passion, something that would make me be my best self in every aspect of my life, every minute of every day, because the dream was so big that I couldn't get there without that kind of behavior and that kind of conviction.
My state of Alabama, like a number of states, actually permanently disenfranchises you if you have a criminal conviction.
They come from the ideas in our mind that are also fueled by some conviction in our heart.
And they leave with the conviction, the ability and the efficacy to realize our most basic aspirations for health care.
He was overwhelmed not with conviction, but by doubt.
Abolish all doubt, and what's left is not faith, but absolute, heartless conviction.
It may be to stand up for your opinion, to stand up for your conviction.
They've got to have a year to commit their crimes, six months to get through the court system, and then they would be compared to a group taken from the police national computer, as similar as possible, and we would get paid providing we achieved a hurdle rate of 10-percent reduction, for every conviction event that didn't happen.
Don't people just stick with whatever conviction serves their interests or conforms to the culture that they grew up in?
It was nothing more than his own words that sent him to prison for nearly a decade, until a judge overturned his conviction just a few months ago.
Also left out will be confessions to more minor types of crimes that don't typically involve DNA evidence and aren't usually reviewed or appealed following a conviction.
So confessing may seem like the best option to most teens, who are less focused on that long-term risk of conviction and punishment down the road as a result of that confession.
In his 91-page decision to overturn Dassey's conviction earlier this year, the judge made a big deal about the fact that Dassey had no parent or other allied adult in the interrogation room with him.
Overturning Dassey's conviction, the judge pointed out that there's no federal law requiring that the police even inform a juvenile's parent that the juvenile is being questioned or honor that juvenile's request to have a parent in the room.
You don't have the depth of conviction.
We had a 90 percent conviction rate.
The main reasons why people cooperated with the Stasi were political conviction and material benefits.
So, when I created the "I'm G.R.A.C.E.D" training, I created it with that experience that I had in mind, but also that conviction that I had in mind.
But we had a very solid and clear conviction, that we knew that the hyperconnected environment of social media could maybe allow us to consolidate a network of experimental journalists throughout the country.
But hopefully, it was said with enough conviction that it was at least alluringly mysterious.
It gives me the strength and conviction to do my work every day.
The first was the arrest, trying and conviction and subsequent incarceration of Detroit's very popular mayor.
I'd quit my job in corporate America and decided to take this big leap of faith, a leap of faith that came out of a deep sense of conviction that there was a lot of work to do in Nigeria in the area of sustainable development.
Like an indictment in criminal court, it's only the formal accusation that launches a trial, which could end in conviction or acquittal.
A conviction requires a supermajority of two-thirds and results in automatic removal from power.
The eight cases that ended in a conviction and removal from office were all federal judges.
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