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An opinion is shocking only if it is a conviction.
Our opinion is an idea which we have; our conviction an idea which has us.
The inmate was doing time for a burglary conviction.
Betty has a previous conviction for theft.
Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.
I acted in accordance with my own conviction.
Patriotism is, fundamentally, a conviction that a particular country is the best in the world because you were born in it.
The basic prerequisite for every progress is the conviction that the necessary is possible.
Mr T (19 years old) avoided conviction for murder, but was found guilty of grievous bodily harm for having intentionally caused wounds.
Movie subtitles
Oh, that's splendid! You would put just conviction into it.
I can get a conviction, too, for first-degree robbery.
First, because no really sufficient motive has ever been discovered for this crime, and secondly, because you yourself were elected to your present high office mainly through the public acclaim you received through the conviction of your own friend.
I'm not here in my official capacity. but I think I can say with conviction. that no devil or any man has come through this window tonight.
A just verdict. Conviction.
But I affirm, with intense conviction the truth is on the march, and nothing will stop it.
I'll getcha a conviction. Oh, you could probably handle it as well as some of these dopes.
Maybe not murder, but there's no question of a conviction on the robbery charge.
He never had a conviction except Charlie Kane in his life.
My first official act as governor of this state will be to appoint a special district attorney to arrange for the indictment prosecution and conviction of Boss Jim W. Gettys.
I can show Bryan, our DA, that if he goes around tryin' to collect everybody he'll have a tangled case but if he sticks to Wilmer here, he can get a conviction standing on his head.
I have no conviction.
And remember, madame, if you insist upon his arrest and fail to obtain a conviction, you will find yourself in a very, very difficult predicament.
His conviction is curious.
A fourth conviction, according to the law. means a life sentence.
After a conviction criminals are sentenced and given this punishment for several days, until they disappear in the large dungeons of the capital.
To your trial and conviction In Norfolk for perjury?
What? - The boss wants a quick conviction. and I'm the guy who can get it for him.
We'll get a conviction on an attempted murder. or first-degree assault or however else the office wishes to proceed.
There's no conviction in your voice.
I must bow to your conviction that you are.
Why did you lie about that previous conviction?
I have no conviction, if that's what you mean.
Listen, if he thought it would do him any good he'd arrest his own mother and get a conviction.
I, a capitalist by instinct, became a socialist by conviction.
I doubt it, but I'm open to conviction.
He owes me his first conviction.
I've heard of the police deliberately planting clues to ensure a conviction.
And what you call cowardice in Francis, I know to be the courage of conviction.
But my conviction is absolute.
We can get a conviction, now we have you as a witness.
She wrote without conviction.
News and current affairs
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.
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.
And his younger brother, Dzhokhar, recovering from gunshot wounds in a Boston hospital while waiting to be put on trial for his life, seems to have been a pathetic follower who acted less out of deep conviction than out of fraternal love.
Those who believe - often with quasi-religious conviction - that we need even more Keynesian fiscal stimulus, and should ignore government debt, seem to me to be panicking.
More disturbing to them is his apocalyptic conviction regarding the imminent advent of the Hidden Imam, the Mahdi, whose appearance is believed to lead to the destruction of the world and the end of time.
Europe must work--promptly--to overturn Ibrahim's conviction.
By a vote of eight to three, the Court upheld his conviction on charges of racism.
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?
The boom, and the widespread conviction that home prices could only go higher, led to a weakening of lending standards.
In particular, they shared the neo-cons' conviction that military intervention is a legitimate and effective way of achieving political change.
In the one or two cases of acquittal, another charge is filed and a conviction obtained.
In some states, where a single felony conviction is enough to bar the offender from ever being able to vote again, over one quarter of African American males are disenfranchised.
Those in the Muslim world who want to embrace reform must be driven by the conviction that theocracy has never served as a vehicle for human progress.
Estrada's conviction gives Filipinos the clearest illustration of what the rule of law may bring to their society.
Notwithstanding the opinion polls, it does seem as though the public not only accepts his conviction, but that they respect it as the outcome of a fair system that has been allowed to work.
He did it not for some huge financial compensation, but out of conviction and a passion for his work.
But to embrace the images they published as a statement of Enlightenment conviction weakens the values that are essential to a civilized society.