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Guided by one of the architects of the problem, Hank Paulson, who had advocated for deregulation and allowing banks to take on even more leveraging, it was no surprise that the administration veered from one policy to another – each strategy supported with absolute conviction, until minutes before it was abandoned for another.
Today, however, Pakistan’s military may not be prepared to act with the force and
conviction
it showed last time.
Recent weeks have seen the trial of former Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin and the
conviction
of former Defense Minister Charles Pasqua.
Many Italians remember that Ben Ali – whose rise to the presidency was directly supported by Italy – provided refuge to Bettino Craxi, the former Italian prime minister (and Berlusconi’s political mentor), who fled the country in 1994 to avoid
conviction
on corruption charges.
He was genuinely practicing politics faithful to what Max Weber called the “ethics of conviction.”
Abe may have to consider further Weber’s “ethics of responsibility,” which unlike the ethics of conviction, focuses on the consequences of an action, not the intention behind it.
Instead of throwing up our hands in despair, we should adhere to a distinction dear to the great German sociologist Max Weber, for now is a time when the ethics of responsibility must prevail over the ethics of
conviction.
The deep
conviction
that reform can only lead to revolution and chaos results in a stultification of reality that can lead to immobility and despair – and thus become a dangerous and self-fulfilling prophecy.
From the Muslim point of view, no major political party took up the cause of Indian pluralism with the
conviction
that guided Nehru.
The 2008 global financial crisis not only caused much pain; it also reinforced the
conviction
that Wall Street is Main Street’s enemy.
It is a time to rise up in defense of what we believe – calmly, patiently, winning by force of argument, not by the argument of force, without fear, and with the
conviction
that we act in the true interests of Britain.
Yet, because of the judiciary’s activist approach, 51% of Brazilians disapprove of Moro’s actions, which include Lula’s 2017 corruption
conviction.
In a few days, there will be ceremonies to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the revision of Captain Alfred Dreyfus’s
conviction
on charges of espionage in a trial that tore the country apart.
Sweden’s starting point is the
conviction
that a more liberal trade regime, coupled with global standards, is needed.
This is because charging someone with racism and xenophobia is more complicated and the process more drawn out than winning a
conviction
for simple thuggery.
Marx did not arrive at this
conviction
through detailed studies of human nature under different economic systems.
US policymakers in particular wanted to take advantage of the ongoing surge in NATO combat forces in Afghanistan – which reached 150,000 in August, of which some two-thirds were American – to shake Taliban commanders’
conviction
that they were winning the war.
But at its core was the
conviction
that in a land of extreme poverty and inequality, the objective of government policy must be to improve the welfare of the poorest, most deprived, and most marginalized.
Palme spoke appreciatively of "socialist revolution," never mentioning his own party's
conviction
that "revolution" should take place only after free and honest elections.
Without this
conviction
the letter of the law is nothing but a mask for bureaucratic caprice and authoritarian will.
The problem is that it has been difficult to shake the
conviction
that innovation flows only one way: from North to South.
But dietetics’
conviction
that health and morality are two sides of the same coin is a deep-rooted notion.
Europe must work--promptly--to overturn Ibrahim's
conviction.
In the 1969 case of Brandenburg v. Ohio, the US Supreme Court overturned the
conviction
of a Ku Klux Klan leader charged with advocating violence for his participation in a KKK rally, where he delivered an inflammatory speech.
In this sense, the SDGs more clearly reflect the conviction, upheld by the UN, that all of us are global citizens.
This
conviction
lies behind the establishment of international humanitarian law and the supranational courts that address violations of it.
It is difficult to answer these questions with much
conviction
while we are still in the midst of the crisis.
It is my firm
conviction
that the Europe of the future will embody a new type of institutional framework.
Italy's Parliament, where Berlusconi's ruling coalition holds an overwhelming majority, has passed four laws designed to safeguard the Prime Minister against prosecution and
conviction.
Also tellingly, the accused member of the hated religious minority was jailed for life and condemned to a method of punishment – solitary confinement on an island 3,000 miles away – that was invented just for him after his
conviction.
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