Conviction
in sentence
563 examples of Conviction in a sentence
Calls for pooling European efforts have been many, based on the
conviction
that only in this way can European governments play a more effective international role.
The general fought less out of
conviction
than pragmatism, but the end result was the same.
In the immortal lines of W.B. Yeats’s great poem, “The Second Coming”:“Things fall apart; the center cannot hold Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world… The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity… And what rough beast, its hour come round at last Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?”
Free Speech, Muhammad, and the HolocaustThe timing of Austria’s
conviction
and imprisonment of David Irving for denying the Holocaust could not have been worse.
Putin’s public speeches reveal his
conviction
that the EU and the US cannot possibly be serious about their financial war, which, in his view, would ultimately hurt their highly complex and interconnected financial markets more than Russia’s relatively isolated financial system.
But, in an unusual twist, Navalny was released from custody pending appeal of his
conviction
only a day after it was handed down.
And indeed, his
conviction
demonstrates once again the crucial role that the US has played in the pursuit of international justice, starting at Nuremberg and continuing to this day.
His point was that no president can be indicted, only impeached by the House of Representatives, perhaps to be followed by
conviction
by the Senate, which requires a two-thirds vote, or 67 senators, a high bar to removing the president from office.
This
conviction
underpins the Incheon Declaration, adopted by 120 ministers and representatives from 160 countries in May at the World Education Forum (WEF) in Incheon, Republic of Korea.
The recommendation follows a 2012 decision by the European Court of Human Rights upholding the
conviction
of a Leipzig man for having a sexual relationship with his sister.
The reason the center could not hold is as relevant today as it was then: “The best,” Yeats argued, “lack all conviction, while the worst/ are full of passionate intensity.”
Perhaps all these factors, combined, led me to the
conviction
that Europe is one political entity whose security is indivisible.
The shared
conviction
that there is no alternative to the UN negotiating process is its greatest strength.
One minute, President Vladimir Putin’s regime is on a charm offensive, desiring a settlement to its six-decade-old territorial dispute with Japan over the Kurile Islands and reassuring investors following the
conviction
of oil billionaire Mikhail Khodorkovsky.
The problem, as Khodorkovsky’s
conviction
demonstrated, is that dictatorship usually seems to be trumping law.
And his younger brother, Dzhokhar, recovering from gunshot wounds in a Boston hospital while waiting to be put on trial for his life, seems to have been a pathetic follower who acted less out of deep
conviction
than out of fraternal love.
If the Senate does not produce a two-thirds vote for
conviction
during that period, Rousseff will return to the presidency.
Its strength is that it has preserved an idea of itself as one land embracing many – a country that endures differences of caste, creed, color, culture, conviction, costume, and custom, yet still rallies around a democratic consensus.
The Senate appointed a special select committee, headed by Democrat Sam Ervin and Republican Howard Baker, which heard testimony and gathered official evidence that led to the indictment of 40 administration officials and the
conviction
of several top White House aides, as well as to Nixon’s resignation.
After all, strategic and security interests are always more amenable than religious
conviction
to reason and diplomacy.
Those in the Muslim world who want to embrace reform must be driven by the
conviction
that theocracy has never served as a vehicle for human progress.
DiEM25 was founded on the
conviction
that it is only against EU institutions, but within the EU, that progressive politics has a chance in Europe.
They had won the Cold War, or so they perceived, through hard force and
conviction.
But in a world where, as Yeats said, “and the best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity,” it is worth trying.
But, when teams lose, these stereotypical virtues are damned with equal
conviction
as characteristic defects: German lack of imagination, Italian fear of attack, Dutch selfishness, the absence of national feeling among ethnic minorities in France, and so on.
Out of both
conviction
and convenience, Mexico invariably sides with Washington and points to China’s undervalued exchange rate as the cause of its economic stagnation.
Once again, French lawmakers are acting on the
conviction
that they know better than market participants.
In both countries, impunity is the key: in Guatemala only 4% (at most) of all crimes, and less than 2% of murders, result in a criminal
conviction.
This Israeli
conviction
on what it considers an existential issue stands in stark contrast with the fatalism that otherwise dominates Israelis’ thinking about themselves and their relations with the Palestinians.
Such obstruction was one of the charges pending against Richard Nixon when he resigned, rather than face certain impeachment in the House and
conviction
by the Senate.
Back
Next
Related words
Which
Their
Could
Would
There
World
After
About
People
Himself
Against
Without
Still
Political
Being
While
Before
Should
Other
Sense