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Given such flawed proceedings, my
conviction
and prison sentence come as no surprise.
Will my conviction, and the trials and convictions of other journalists, mark the beginning of the end of Indonesia's hard-won third democracy?
Energy wealth gives them a sense of unique opportunity, the
conviction
that time is playing in their favor, and that they can now redress the humiliations they have suffered from the outside world.
Pundits will say that May lost the election because she performed robotically on the campaign trail, failed to answer journalists’ questions with conviction, and refused to debate Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, who campaigned with more panache than anyone expected.
It helps that, unlike most of his predecessors, Trump is initiating his bid for a peace agreement at the outset of his term, rather than in its twilight, thereby imbuing his position with a sense of vigor, conviction, and commitment.
But to embrace the images they published as a statement of Enlightenment
conviction
weakens the values that are essential to a civilized society.
Asia’s ongoing transformation – rooted in the long-term
conviction
that more equitable, inclusive, and increasingly knowledge-led growth will help to reduce poverty and offer greater prosperity to its citizens – requires a short-term commitment to mitigating any global economic slowdown caused by new shocks.
Science means constantly walking a tightrope between blind faith and curiosity; between expertise and creativity; between bias and openness; between experience and epiphany; between ambition and passion; and between arrogance and
conviction
– in short, between an old today and a new tomorrow.
Faced with difficult questions in foreign, fiscal, and social policy, he would be wise to turn toward the center rather than conciliate his conservative base, but it remains unclear whether the politics of
conviction
or of pragmatism will prevail.
Latin Americans’ lack of
conviction
on such grave matters – with the exception of the ALBA countries, which have the wrong convictions, but nonetheless believe in them almost religiously – has marginalized the region on other important international issues, such as the recent crisis in Libya, and the ongoing one in Syria.
World leaders have not yet figured out how to reconcile the moral
conviction
that all people are equal with the simple fact that all countries are not.
And he set and attained personal standards of
conviction
and courage that few will ever match.
There is a profound
conviction
in the West that an Iranian regime such as this must want nuclear weapons, and that it is acting accordingly.
When he was re-elected by an even larger majority, his government was overthrown, his political party was banned by the Supreme Court, and he was forced to flee the country after corruption charges against him led to a criminal
conviction.
Since he first appeared at the side of Dr. Chaim Weizmann in the late 1940's during the struggle for Jewish statehood and sovereignty, few people could articulate the Zionist and later the Israeli case with comparable eloquence and
conviction.
Politicians and regulators have neither the political courage nor the intellectual
conviction
needed to return to a much clearer and more straightforward system.
Their
conviction
that they represent the Alpha and Omega of knowledge is as rigid as their scientific illiteracy.
After successful experiments in smaller economies, New Zealand in 1990 and then Canada in 1991, and later in Sweden and the United Kingdom, the
conviction
developed that the new approach represented a superior way of dealing with the problem of inflationary expectations.
The boom, and the widespread
conviction
that home prices could only go higher, led to a weakening of lending standards.
Russia and China today are united not only by their energy deals, but also by both countries’
conviction
that their time has come, and that the outside world needs them more than they need the outside world, particularly the US.
Today, the guerrillas are significantly weaker, allowing Santos’s government to offer a minimalist agreement that can satisfy both the Colombian establishment, which backs the process but without much conviction, and a fatigued and mercurial public that wants peace but remains unwilling to accept too many concessions to the FARC.
Political risks in the eurozone’s periphery include the collapse of Italy’s government and a fresh election as a result of former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi’s criminal
conviction.
He or she will also require a demonstrated capacity for political leadership and a core
conviction
that the Bank needs a new vision and path forward.
I know that you share my
conviction
that much more still needs to be done, and that in times of crisis and economic hardship a spirit of global solidarity must not be lost.”
Earlier this month, electoral authorities decided that he could not, because of Brazil’s “clean slate” law – signed by Lula himself during his second term – which prohibits anyone with an upheld
conviction
for corruption from seeking public office.
Bo Xilai, the son of one of Mao’s comrades and a supposed “immortal” of the revolution, was recently sentenced to life in prison after his
conviction
on charges of corruption and abuse of power.
But then, as a 78-year-old white male, I would think that, wouldn’t I?Guilt and Shame in Abu GhraibWhenever governments lose moral authority, as when their police seize evidence in violation of the Constitution, their case for
conviction
suffers.
In particular, they shared the neo-cons’
conviction
that military intervention is a legitimate and effective way of achieving political change.
Democratic HysteriaBERKELEY – In the political impasses that recently paralyzed the world’s two largest democracies, India and the United States, both countries’ usually clear-sighted leaders, to paraphrase William Butler Yeats, lacked all conviction, while the misguided and the shallow were full of passionate intensity.
His
conviction
on sodomy charges will effectively ban him from politics for five years, at a moment when the opposition is posing the most serious challenge to Malaysia’s ruling United Malays National Organization (UMNO) since the country gained its independence from the British Empire in 1958.
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