Sentences with phrase «less conviction on»

JPY: Less conviction on the longer term move to 100 with the BoJ stuck in neutral.

Not exact matches

European stocks, which had followed much of Wall St's rout on Monday, had less dramatic falls Tuesday, but failed to stabilize with any conviction after data showing service sector activity across the Eurozone and U.K. was weaker than originally thought in December.

14 % of respondents believe that insider trading practices in the alternative investment industry have become less prevalent since the FBI arrested Raj Rajaratnam and scared the bejeezus out of everyone, a noticeable drop from January 2016 when 25 % of respondents felt this way; 37 % of respondents think the news of arrests and convictions there has had little impact on insider trading because those who engage in such practices think they are smarter than everyone else and will never get caught, compared with 39 % of respondents in 2016; and 49 % of respondents believe the influx of money into funds in recent years and the explosion in the number of hedge fund firms has put enough pressure on fund managers that there will always be a few desperate enough to try anything, including insider trading, a significant increase from the 36 % of respondents who felt this way in the Roundtable's previous survey on this topic.

Their firm conviction on this subject amounted to hardly less than a fixation or a stereotype.

The deeper I look into myself the more clearly I become aware of this psychological truth: that no man would lift his little finger to attempt the smallest task unless he were spurred on by a more or less obscure conviction that in some infinitesimally tiny way he is contributing, at least indirectly, to the building up of something permanent — in other words, to your own work, Lord.

It seems more likely that Mr. Schaeffer gets the rationality of A but has weak conviction on it, something less than belief but short of disbelief.

In any case, those who think they need to act on their confessional convictions in daily life — much less encourage other people to embrace them — are on the path to terrorism.

At the same time, non-Westerners see Western progressivism less as a rival for men's souls than as an attack on all cultures of conviction, including their own.

These principles were an expression of the conviction that domestic rulers were less likely to be arbitrary than crusading foreign armies bent on conversion.

Their fidelity to the faith and their acceptance of the truths of the faith are based less on obedience to their pastors than on understanding and conviction.

This may be the result of more or less idle curiosity on the part of the theologian, of the conviction that his authorities are also normative with regard to such matters, or of the belief that all truth is so interconnected that he must concern himself with everything.

A caricature of an Italian chairman, he wears sunglasses at all times, has a conviction for tax evasion (on the purchase of a yacht, no less) and has a very attractive son straight out of Rich Kids of Instagram.

Since having having a felony conviction on his record could restrict his ability to travel and compete in various countries (without exemptions) his lawyers will do their best to have everything dropped to a misdemeanor or less.

Sheldon Silver, the former powerful Democratic speaker of the state Assembly, was found guilty of federal corruption charges less than a year after his first conviction on the same charges was thrown out.

The ruling comes less than three months after the conviction of former longtime Democratic Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver was also tossed on the same grounds.

«Because we can not conclude that the (instruction) error was harmless beyond a reasonable doubt, we are obliged to vacate the convictions,» the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals wrote, less than three months after reversing former state Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver's separate corruption conviction on the same grounds.

The judge in his ruling based his conviction of the former Governor on section 58 (5) of the Public Procurement Acts, saying «the law hands of the laws are tied to convict any person found guilty of breach of procurement acts to be sentenced to less than five years imprisonment.

The requests by Mr. Skelos, 68, a Republican from Long Island who forfeited his Senate seat upon his conviction, and his son, 33, come less than a month before both are to be sentenced on April 13 for their convictions in one of the two most prominent public corruption trials to be held in New York City in decades.

Less than two weeks after Silver's conviction, former state Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos and his son Adam were found guilty on federal corruption charges of their own.

The convictions are especially striking because Sheldon Silver, the longtime speaker of the New York State Assembly, was also convicted on political corruption charges less than two weeks ago.

In its 2014 study on human trafficking (pdf) the U.N. agency found that 40 percent of countries surveyed reported less than 10 convictions per year between 2010 and 2012.

It's far less fun, dramatically speaking, to watch people with firm moral convictions bravely act on them than to see scoundrels, bigots, and greedheads get moved to their core and impulsively cast aside self - interest.

May 16, 2018 • The release of Anwar, who has served nearly a decade in jail on two separate convictions for sodomy, was less than a week after a stunning election upset by Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad.

Insure.com compared insurance rates based on a 45 - year - old single man with no driving violations or convictions, who drives to work less than three miles one way.

Mentally prepared for all of these (though with more enthusiasm for some than for others), I had to think fast to respond to a new topic on the morning: a retiring female judge's pronouncement that if women drank less alcohol, there'd be a higher rate of rape convictions.

Johns» painting floats the idea that the conviction we feel so forcefully in the early work on view here springs not merely from individual temperament but from a convergence of circumstances that can not be contrived, much less faked.

And I denounce and reprobate this pretension not the less, if put forth on the side of my most solemn convictions.

787 (1) Unless otherwise provided by law, every person who is convicted of an offence punishable on summary conviction is liable to a fine of not more than $ 5,000 or to a term of imprisonment of not more than two years less a day, or to both.

In light of the broad definition of assault above, penalties for an assault conviction can vary depending on the specific circumstances of the offence, the offender, and the complainant, or the presence of «aggravating» or «mitigating» factors, which result in greater and lesser penalties, respectively.

Rather than a fixed period of time — for example, six months imprisonment on conviction for theft — an indeterminate sentence allowed a magistrate to impose a sentence of up to two years less a day, with the length of that sentence to be determined by the offender's conduct in jail.

If, however, you were convicted, and the Court found that you knew that the victim hadn't died at the time of trial, but you did not raise the fact that the victim wasn't dead, it isn't clear if you could have the original conviction vacated because it was a fair trial and you knew evidence sufficient to get yourself acquitted (which you may have refrained from presenting to avoid conviction on a lesser charge like kidnapping or aggravated assault), and the status of an «actual innocence» grounds for vacating a conviction after trial is hotly disputed, conservatives like the late Justice Scalia generally say «no», liberals generally say «yes», moderates like to say «yes» but make it almost impossible to establish except in rare cases like one where a live person walks in when there was a murder conviction for killing that actually living person.

Under the Criminal Code of Canada, anyone that is found guilty of Fraud under $ 5000 is guilty of an indictable offense that is punishable by a term of imprisonment up to two years or, in less serious cases, by an offence punishable on summary conviction.

Section 32 (5) provides, inter alia, that a person found guilty under s 32 (2), ie publishing / distributing organs for sale etc, shall be liable on summary conviction to imprisonment for up to 51 weeks, or a fine not exceeding level five on the standard scale, or to both of these — a slightly less punitive penalty than s 32 (5), but still not insignificant.

An accused could still be found guilty of speeding over 50 km / h as an included offence and that still would be a 6 point penalty, but the fines would be less and they wouldn't have that s. 172 conviction on their record for their insurance company to see.

To preclude a civil litigant from relitigating an issue previously found against him in a criminal prosecution is less severe than to preclude him from relitigating such an issue in successive civil trials, for there are rigorous safeguards against unjust conviction, including the requirements of proof beyond a reasonable doubt and of a unanimous verdict, the right to counsel, and a record paid for by the state on appeal.

If you have numerous conviction points on your DMV driving record, because you have accumulated various traffic offenses throughout the years, you are less likely to be called in for an interview.

Did you know that traffic ticket convictions affect your insurance rates for no less than three years and accidents stay on your record for at least six!

Even if paying your traffic ticket means that you are admitting your guilt and a conviction is entered on your driving record, submitting your traffic tickets payments is generally less expensive than losing the case.

• Leaving the scene of a crash resulting in property damage of more than $ 50.00 — 6 points s. 322.273 (d)(2), F.S. • Unlawful speed resulting in a crash — 6 points s. 322.273 (d)(3), F.S. • Reckless driving — 4 points s. 322.273 d1, F.S. • Any moving violation resulting in a crash — 4 points s. 322.273 (d)(8), F.S. • Passing a stopped school bus — 4 points s. 322.273 (d)(4), F.S. • Unlawful speed — 15 mph or more over the lawful or posted speed — 4 points s. 322.273 (d)(5b), • F.S. • Disregarding traffic / railroad signals — 4 points s. 322.273 (d)(6), F.S. • Any conviction under the Florida Statutes covering interference with an official traffic control device or railroad sign or signal — 4 points s. 322.273 (d)(10), F.S. • Unlawful speed — 15 mph or less over the lawful or posted speed — 3 points s. 322.273 (d)(5a), F.S. • All other moving violations (not including HOV and bicycle traffic violations but including seat belt violations and parking on highway outside the limits of municipalities) you just got yourself — 3 points s. 322.273 (d)(7), F.S. • A conviction under the Florida Litter Law — 3 points s. 322.273 (d)(9), F.S. • Any violations in other states count as the comparable amount of penalty points that an infraction would have accrued in Florida s. 322.273 (d) 10e), F.S. Florida law will notify any licensee, coming within their penalty point danger zone with a warning letter advising that any further convictions may result in loss of driving privileges.

In general, these findings are consistent with program effects on early - onset antisocial behavior rather than on the more common and less serious antisocial behavior that emerges with puberty.3 The mere presence of arrests, convictions, and probation violations by the time the children were 15 years old suggests that these children started offending early and that they may be on life - course trajectories that portend recurrent and more serious offenses in the future.

Most of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander prison population is either being held on remand (many of whom do not receive a custodial sentence upon conviction) or is serving sentences of less than two years.