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Prime Minister Jose Maria Aznar of Spain is not far behind Blair in showing the courage of his convictions.
The perception that fundamental convictions guided these leaders is what enabled them to engage in political trickery effectively.
And the many serious challenges to human rights and governance in Malaysia do not end with politicized convictions of opposition leaders.
Will my conviction, and the trials and convictions of other journalists, mark the beginning of the end of Indonesia's hard-won third democracy?
For decades our world existed under a shell of bipolarity, with two power blocs opposing each other on values, ideas and political convictions.
And its editors bravely and nobly stood by their convictions, even when their lives were threatened.
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.
“Without our Constitution, America is just another world power made great by wealth and weapons instead of by values and convictions; so we are at risk of collapse when our wealth and weapons fail us.
In the United States, Robert Mueller, the special counsel investigating Russian interference in the 2016 election, has handed down dozens of indictments, secured multiple convictions, and demonstrated the need for empowered prosecutors in cases involving social media.
The tide has turned in part because voters in recent elections seem to have shifted from the center left to the center right, or at least re-confirmed their more conservative convictions.
Egyptians who lived through the past six decades and now see the country’s political structure unraveling – with all the social convictions, power nexuses, and top-down narratives that had been integral to it – feel disoriented.
So now is a moment, even amongst all the uncertainty, for some clarity and that clarity comes best from a worked out strategy based on a strong set of convictions.
What can continue to justify a political entity after the urgent realities and convictions that drove its establishment have faded to the pages of history and civics books or, at best, are the subject of grandparents’ stories?
The result is echo chambers in which like-minded people reinforce shared convictions, creating increasingly polarized silos.
The US now incarcerates more people than any other country, largely as a result of soaring drug convictions, with a disproportionate number of African-American and Hispanic prisoners.
It would have been difficult to procure the evidence to get convictions.
Stops and searches conducted under counter-terrorism powers in Europe have produced few terrorism charges and no convictions.
But the possibility of violence should not distract us from noticing that fundamentalist convictions also motivate positive political activism.
Miscarriages, if proven to be self-induced, can even lead to homicide convictions.
After all, if the state ostentatiously takes sides in this conversation, it cannot avoid denigrating the ultimate convictions of many of its dissenting citizens.
But even then, I will get something more precious out of a policy of state disestablishment — and that is the construction of a political system in which no citizen disparages the ultimate convictions held by others.
What these kinds of exams cannot do – and should not attempt to do – is test people’s political convictions.
For one thing, such convictions can always be faked by those determined to dissimulate.
It has conducted fair trials and has provided a meaningful appellate process that has led to significant convictions and equally significant acquittals.
But today, America is moving away from the convictions which sustained its international involvement over the past five decades.
This attitude is exemplified in the proliferation of trials, investigations, demonstrations, convictions, and resignations relating to corruption, particularly in Brazil and Venezuela, and to a lesser extent Mexico and Guatemala.
Lacking convictions, he could be everything to everybody from new left to center with any socialist taint concealed by the industrialist-advisors who lent Schroeder a Blairite and Clintonian veneer.
One reason for this is that the language of human science draws on our ordinary understanding of what it is to be human, to live in society, to have moral convictions, aspire to happiness, and so on.
Demanding justice in Mexico, a country where 98% of crimes fail to result in convictions, is no easy task.
“Earlier generations faced down fascism and communism not just with missiles and tanks,” Obama preached in his famous campaign speech in Berlin, “but with sturdy alliances and enduring convictions.”
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