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Shinawatra’s looming trial in Thailand and Ibrahim’s repeat
conviction
in Malaysia lack even the fig leaf of judicial independence.
And social protest has found fertile ground everywhere: a sense that the “system” has failed, and the
conviction
that even in a democracy, the electoral process will not set things right – at least not without strong pressure from the street.
By a vote of eight to three, the Court upheld his
conviction
on charges of racism.
We are at a pivotal moment in history, and we will need to muster the bravery and
conviction
needed to undertake strong action.
All Sufi groups share the
conviction
that religion’s purpose is not simply to obey laws and perform rituals; intimate personal communion with the Divine is crucial.
But they are animated by an ideal – the profound
conviction
that complicity in mass murder should not go unpunished, and that justice is essential for Bangladeshi society’s four-decade-old wounds to heal fully.
Clegg was tried, convicted, and imprisoned for murder but had his
conviction
quashed and was reinstated – and then promoted – in the army.
But most of all it needs national leaders who are prepared to act on the basis of
conviction
and steadfastness of purpose, rather than evading and shirking their responsibilities when divisive issues arise.
For this reason, and in order to emerge stronger from the difficult situation in which Europeans now find themselves, Europe’s leaders must work with the
conviction
that the future is inexorably linked to a more integrated and more capable Union.
But, Beteta's
conviction
was only a partial victory.
But it is also the product of a deep-rooted European
conviction
that transnational institutions and economic interdependence have helped establish and sustain peace across the continent for the past six decades.
The protests began when the government tried to enact amnesty legislation that would have overturned the
conviction
of former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra – Yingluck’s brother and the PTP’s founder, who was overthrown by the military in 2006 – on charges of corruption and abuse of power.
The fact that it provoked debate and dispute does not detract from the
conviction
shared by old and new member states that they had an obligation to rebuild the Continent after 40 years of division.
Fortunately, we have not yet reached William Butler Yeats’s bleak scenario, in which “the best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.”
With the traditional institutions of rule thoroughly discredited by the war, the vacuum of legitimacy would be filled by powerful demagogues and populist dictatorships: “The best lack all conviction, while the worst/are full of passionate intensity.”
However, I believe that the appeal process in the US offers enormous protection, not so much against wrongful
conviction
as against wrongful execution, so that there are very few, if any, documented cases of innocent people being killed.
The political "fanatic" is also dishonest, for he is blinded by the
conviction
that he is absolutely right in all cases.
It is the idea that a nation characterized by profound differences of caste, creed, color, culture, cuisine, conviction, costume, and custom can still rally around a democratic consensus – namely, that everyone needs to agree only on the ground rules of how to disagree.
With the help of professors like Alesina, conservative
conviction
could be turned into scientific prediction.
He currently is on bail, appealing a
conviction
for accepting favors from a developer.
In terms of durability and
conviction
of preferences, most societies place greater hurdles in the way of a couple seeking a divorce than Prime Minister David Cameron’s government did on the decision to leave the EU.
This effort stemmed from a
conviction
that peace could be achieved only by accommodating all parties’ concerns.
Indeed, the Institute for Systems Biology, which I co-founded two years ago, reflects my
conviction
that systems approaches will dominate biological study in the 21st century.
Even after conviction, the generals were sufficiently strong to exact a termination of the trials and then a pardon from the succeeding president.
But, considering that Transparency International ranked China 80th out of 176 countries in its 2012 Corruption Perceptions Index, the
conviction
rate among Chinese businesspeople and public officials remains disproportionately low.
Unfortunately, it confirms a pattern that has boon woven for some time: the growing
conviction
among a majority of Americans that they owe nothing to the world and that they can pursue their interests as if the outside world does not exist.
General Stanculescu has appealed to the Supreme Court to quash his
conviction.
Of course, many people and especially those who took to the streets against Ceausescu in 1989 feel vindicated his
conviction.
In the wake of the Stanculescu conviction, the Interior Minister reiterated his proposal for a general amnesty for all soldiers involved in the violence of 1989.
The US response to the so-called “Arab Spring,” for example, has lacked political conviction, much less strategic direction.
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