Sentences with phrase «act on my convictions»

Hubris, meanwhile, is not a fair label to apply to any person who thinks differently and has the courage to assert or act on their convictions.

Unaware that acting on his convictions was a bad career move, former Olympic gymnastics gold medalist Peter Vidmar resigned from his position as chef de mission of the 2012 U.S. Olympic team.

if nothing else, i think they deserve credit for acting on their convictions, for lending a hand where they thought it was needed.

It is easy to see why that seems like the right tool: Free exercise jurisprudence has frequently involved the crafting of prudential exemptions and accommodations — precisely the carving out of spaces — that could allow religious believers to act on their convictions even in the face of contrary public sentiments or (up to a point) public laws.

Now it is up to the clergy, who more and more can begin to act on the convictions expressed by the U.N. report, which opens with the words «Alarmed by the threat to the very survival of mankind,» and proceeds:»... the accumulation of weapons, particularly nuclear weapons, today constitutes much more a threat than a protection for the future of mankind.

I suppose those three dudes that broke in to that lesbian's home and carved anti-gay slurs in her skin recently were just acting on their convictions.

He says that he wants to be persuaded of the Church's teaching and prays that, if and when persuaded, he would have the courage to act on his conviction.

In an online world where we can speak our opinions and act on our convictions without having to consider the practical difficulties of getting political work done, Paul fits right in.

For great leadership is about honouring pledges and acting on conviction and belief - not the laws of short - termism and expediency.

Most people don't believe in acting on the convictions of their beliefs and selling their views via the free market of ideas, that takes disciplne and is hard work.

As my mentor, Dr. Mary Grassa - O'Neill, constantly reminded her students, each of us at HGSE is both teacher and student, both leader and learner, embodying and acting on the conviction that true education arises from our efforts of inquiring about, engaging with, and learning from each other.

Freed from union rules and OPSB central - office control, the RSD was able to act on its conviction that improved performance lay in spinning off as many schools as possible and chartering them as independent institutions with open - enrollment admissions policies and citywide catchment areas.

She was acting on a conviction that since 100 % of scholars are capable of high levels of achievement, as the teacher she needed to ensure that 100 % of the scholars were actively participating in the lesson.

I'm 100 % fine with what Jim Hansen does, acting on his convictions.

we need a powerful and active movement not to force the administration and the Democrats in Congress to do something they don't want to, but to give them the political space they need to act on their convictions.

Washington's willingness to act on his convictions made him a great hero and role model for his time and for all time.

Gullotto acted on a conviction similar to Jones» when he agreed to list 18 new condos in a Dallas building that was previously low - income rental housing.

Not exact matches

I think it is very important for you to do two things: act on your temporary conviction as if it was a real conviction; and when you realize that you are wrong, correct course very quickly

End Illegal Immigration Act Fully - funds the construction of a wall on our southern border with the full understanding that the country Mexico will be reimbursing the United States for the full cost of such wall; establishes a 2 - year mandatory minimum federal prison sentence for illegally re-entering the U.S. after a previous deportation, and a 5 - year mandatory minimum for illegally re-entering for those with felony convictions, multiple misdemeanor convictions or two or more prior deportations; also reforms visa rules to enhance penalties for overstaying and to ensure open jobs are offered to American workers first.

Dr. Michael Hasenstab, CIO of Templeton Global Macro, certainly has strong convictions about many aspects of the global economy and markets — and is not afraid to act on them.

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The exclamation point was stamped on our conviction to do something about our situation when we attended a talk at our parish by a monsignor who acts as a judge of the canon law tribunal in our diocese, considering annulment cases.

In his day diverse views were held with real conviction such that people acted on them.

Loyalty to the state took precedence over acting on religious convictions.

Intense conviction, indeed, is necessary to explain such an act on the part of Jesus, and such an act on the part of Jesus is necessary, we would claim, to make sense of the fact of the cross.

I pretty much judge a person's Christian convictions on how they act and the way they speak.

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.

Just muddling through some long pondered convictions... may I act on them more!

The group that held this conviction the most explicitly, and who acted on it in the largest sector of independent higher education — that which belonged to the Liberal Protestants — is well represented by William DeWitt Hyde, elected president of Bowdoin College in 1885 at the age of 26:

And the rescuers studied by the Oliners said they were wrong, and acted courageously on that conviction.

I'm not rationalizing it i acted on my moral convictions, just like they did

Now I stand firm on this conviction that yes... an homosexual man or women can come to faith and be saved by Jesus Christ and have their sins forgiven through the blood of Jesus Christ but through the sanctification of the Holy Spirit they would not carry on committing the act of homosexuality because they would be «convicted» — now where there is no conviction of sin then where is the fruit of the Holy Spirit in that man or women?

If you don't, you can be victimized by propaganda and act on false convictions.

In Christ God had performed a supremely important act for the world, so climactic that prophecy found there its culmination and so determinative that all man's future was conditioned on it — such is the Christian Scripture's dominant conviction.

Voting 242 - 184 and largely along party lines, the US House approved the Pain - Capable Unborn Child Protection Act on Wednesday, the second anniversary of abortionist Kermit Gosnell's conviction for murder.

Indeed, my conviction that I ought to act in a certain way often seems dependent on my view that it is right without qualification.

I can believe that a thing is true and I can have a deep - down conviction that I ought to act on it, and yet I can refuse to act on it.

On Tuesday Mr Scoffield said the case, a simple transaction, raised an issue of principle since those with deeply - held religious or philosophical convictions could be compelled to act against their beliefs.

The religious freedom resulting from this tolerance is real enough; what is unreal is the assumption that religious convictions that can not be acted on in public will nonetheless continue to function in private as if they could be.

Belief in the reality of One who interrelates empoweringly with every miniscule component of the cosmos is the conviction that I am not totally on my own in those acts of imagining.

In the wake of its December decision to place Hawkins on administrative leave, Wheaton explained that its concern was «in no way related to her race, gender or commitment to wear a hijab during Advent,» but instead was related to her explanation of the act which «seemed inconsistent with Wheaton College's doctrinal convictions.»

A lot prayer occurs but no conviction to act on them.

Silver's convictions were overturned last year based on a Supreme Court decision which narrowed the definition of an official act and how it can be used in a corruption trial.

Staten Island DA Dan Donovan, who acted as the special prosecutor in Sen. Kevin Parker's assault case, released a statement in the wake of the Brooklyn Democrat's conviction on two misdemeanor charges, saying he respects the jury's decision despite the fact that it did not deliver a felony guilty verdict.

The Supreme Court, in a case last year involving former Virginia Gov. Robert McDonnell, ruled that corruption convictions could only be based on performance of an «official act» that represented a formal exercise of government power — not just a phone call or a meeting with a lobbyist.

Silver's successful appeal was based on a 2016 US Supreme Court ruling that reversed the conviction of former Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell and limited the definition of «official act» in a corruption case.

The Second Circuit Court of Appeals on Thursday threw out the 2015 conviction of former New York State Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver on honest services fraud because the charge to the jury did not comport with the Supreme Court's 2016 decision in the case of former Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell, which narrowed the definition of an «official act.»

Proper voting in my view is taking these items from the particular person or politician who wants to buy your Vote and yet still voting on a clear conscience because you are of the conviction that such act is virtuous.

ALBANY — The corruption convictions of former state Senate Republican Majority Leader Dean G. Skelos and his son Adam B. Skelos were overturned by a federal appellate court on Tuesday in the wake of a U.S. Supreme Court decision that retooled the definition of an «official act» as it relates to public corruption.

Since just about every conviction Silver was nailed for depended on whether he took an «official act,» the Second Circuit suggested prosecutors needed to start over.