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In this tight and well made crime drama Bogart plays a district attorney with the same grip and
conviction
as he did earlier in numerous roles at the wrong side of the law.
The acting is of the finest caliber with all the major players executing their roles with such
conviction
that you actually believe that these people were the Roman aristocracy.
Though Indian politics is hardly immune to the appeal of sectarianism, its people have come to accept the idea of India as one land embracing many differences of caste, creed, color, culture, cuisine, conviction, costume, and custom, yet still rallying around a democratic consensus.
I wrote The Price of Civilization out of the
conviction
that the US government has failed to understand and respond to the challenges of globalization ever since it began to impact America’s economy in the 1970’s.
Although Nixon did fire the first independent prosecutor, Archibald Cox, in the infamous “Saturday Night Massacre,” another was installed and Nixon ultimately resigned rather than face impeachment by the House of Representatives and
conviction
by the Senate.
Change for the better will be founded on the basic
conviction
that one should get what one deserves and deserve what one gets.
Eastwood has merely updated his earlier films – think The Outlaw Josey Wales or Pale Rider – with their unwavering
conviction
that America's god of righteousness must prevail.
The Fourth Assessment, which was just issued, confirms the mounting evidence and the increasing
conviction
that global warming is the result of the increase in greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.
They feed on their own atrocities or on those of their opponents to win support through fear rather than
conviction
– using videos to raise funds and recruit new members.
That withdrawal was based on the
conviction
that the gaps between the Israeli and Palestinian positions are too wide to enable meaningful negotiations.
Krishnan assailed the fact that the
conviction
rate for rape prosecutions in India has fallen from 46% in 1971 to just 26% today (which, it should be noted, is higher than the
conviction
rates in the United Kingdom, Sweden, and the United States).
The tragic conflict in Kosovo that erupted only days after Hungary joined NATO confirmed our
conviction
that our security could be guaranteed only within NATO's structure.
When the MDGs were adopted in 2000, the sense of urgency was powered by the moral
conviction
that extreme poverty had become an unacceptable anachronism in our globally connected world.
Faithless and wavering, it has been defeated by the unswerving
conviction
of the right.
By sheer force of
conviction
and personality, such figures, many of us believe, can carry the day, bringing a glimmer of hope to an otherwise detached and impersonal universe.
Moreover, his wife’s
conviction
of the widely publicized murder of British businessman Neil Heywood has severely embarrassed the CCP.
Like Bo, both men had been members of the CCP Central Committee, the Party’s inner circle – a status that allowed them to escape a death sentence (unlike the lower-ranking former Minister of Railways Liu Zhijun following his
conviction
on similar charges of corruption and abuse of power).
For the Party, however, Bo’s
conviction
will not mark the end of the scandal.
Its own history of colonial rule makes it wary of preaching its ways to foreign civilizations, and underscores its
conviction
that each country must determine its own political destiny.
Navalny was registered as a candidate in the election and joined the campaign a day after being released from jail, following his
conviction
– and five-year prison sentence – in a completely fabricated case.
For all our differences, Reagan and I shared the strong
conviction
that civilized countries should not make such barbaric weapons the linchpin of their security.
But Chen’s career as a legal activist met an abrupt end with a
conviction
for disturbing public order, and most experts inside and outside of China considered his ensuing confinement to be unlawful.
Based on this conviction, the MSF approach demands that governments take steps to empower women in all areas of society, and ensure that all sexually active people have access to modern birth control, with women free to have an abortion, if they so choose.
Her lawyers will likely appeal her
conviction
to a higher Sharia court, and if necessary, to Nigeria's Supreme Court, but if the judgment of the Funtua court stands, Amin Lawal will be stoned to death the moment her daughter is weaned.
The Harsh Truth About India’s GodmenNEW DELHI – Late last month, when two Indian states and the national capital were held to ransom by rioting mobs protesting their spiritual leader’s
conviction
on two counts of raping minor girls, many Indians found themselves confronting several painful truths about their country.
In the 15 years and 200 sittings of the court it took to get to a conviction, Singh’s devotees made numerous efforts to pressure investigators, police, judges, and the complainants to withdraw the case.
The resistance by Dera followers to their guru’s
conviction
exposed their fears that without him and his organization, they might once again face social and economic marginalization.
That commitment was apparent in the rioting and destruction that followed Singh’s conviction, in which 30 people were killed, dozens of vehicles burned, several buildings (including two new hotels) set ablaze, train carriages wrecked, and roads blocked, paralyzing life across an important swath of northern India for several days.
Above all, Europe needs
conviction.
But this convention guarantees freedom from detention until trial and conviction, except for “grave offenses.”
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