Sentences with phrase «act with conviction»

Rather we act with the conviction that near - term global population stabilization — such as the United Nation's low - variant population projection, which shows the end of population growth just 40 years from now — can be achieved through the vigorous pursuit and realization of a progressive human rights agenda and will be a powerful contributor to solving today's most pressing ecological and social challenges.

I think that knowing the value of a company looked at from many angles enables you to act with conviction when the market overreacts.

Since, apparently, the ISIS members who do such things as kidnap and behead noncombatants act with the conviction that it is what God wants them to do, it's relevant to ask of believers in general if absolute commitment to doing God's will as they think they know it is a feature of true belief in God.

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What's more, because he is always pushing, Zuckerberg has shown an ability to recognize big ideas from others early — including when Facebook has been late — and has been able to act with bold conviction to buy what others have created, if necessary.

Likewise, even if people are not fond of a particular post, object, person or view, the simple act of clicking like, even when done with no profound intention or conviction, can lead to a rationalization process that will subconsciously make them feel positively about that post, object, person, etc..

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.

People who try to separate their private convictions about human dignity and the common good from their involvement in public issues are not acting with integrity, or with loyalty to their own principles.

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

A good death, he says, «is finally nothing more or less than a death approached and performed in a manner consistent with a good, well - lived life... Dying well is a morally significant act insofar as it bears evangelical witness to our most profound theological convictions.»

My personal conviction is that these people must have a chance to create a clinical setting and work personally with individual cases, although, in a pioneering situation they must, in addition, do educational work and act as organizers.

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.

(Is it just my imagination or do many people who call Jesus «lord and master» shy away from discussions with those of other views because — acting in obedience to someone else's interpretation of Jesus — they have no reasoned convictions of their own?)

Thus the quest of the historical Easter, in the sense of the initial nature of the disciples» Easter faith, suggests that this began with the conviction «that Jesus was somehow alive among them and that, if this was so, God had indeed acted and had raised him and exalted him.»

We do not miss the loyalty of David's mercenary troops (15: 19 - 21); the narrator's conviction of the mature quality of David's faith (15:25 f.; 16:12); the essential gentleness of David in these most wretched hours (16:5 - 14); the brilliant, carnal symbol of Absalom's irrevocable usurpation (16:20 - 22) and its portentous recall of the David - Nathan encounter (II 12:11 - 12); the arch Old Testament realist, the remarkable pragmatist Ahitophel (17: 1 - 23); Joab, who always acts like Joab (18:10 - 15; 19:1 - 7; 20A - 13); David's pathetic concern, implicit throughout, for the defiant son (18:1 - 5); the moving grief of a father's utter brokenness in the loss of his son (18:33); the reassertion in this critical time of the old and always fundamental north - south cleavage (19:11,41 - 43); David's profound and probably chronic annoyance with the crude, brash, «muscular» ways of Joab and his brothers, the sons of Zeruiah (16:10; 19:22; see also 3:34 b; 3:38 f.); and finally, in a kind of pausal summary before the last scene of David's reign in I Kings 1 - 2, the statement of David's very modest bureaucracy (20:23 - 26; cf. the extensive elaboration of this structure under Solomon, I Kings 4:1 ff.).

And the scientist who sees his life in relation to God and man may perhaps have the courage and the integrity to act in accordance with his convictions.

If we say this with conviction and meaning, we too must act, but no longer with feverish self - concern.

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.

Scotus shared the Augustinian, conviction that ultimate human fulfillment lies in love for God, and he shared with Bonaventure the traditional Franciscan view that love for God is more an act of will than of reason.

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.»

Under the new policy, neighbors who provide authorities with information that leads to an arrest and conviction for an act of vandalism will be eligible for a $ 100 reward.

Our curriculum, inspired by Rudolf Steiner, progresses in accordance with child development, awakening students to the experience of knowledge, strengthening their sense of moral responsibility, and empowering them to act with courage and conviction.

«This is not the time for retreat, indifference or despair; but the time to rise up in defence of what we believe — calmly, patiently, winning the argument by the force of argument; but without fear and with the conviction we act in the true interests of Britain.»

It is illegal, under the act, for a potential employer to ask about spent convictions, or to treat an applicant with spent convictions differently.

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.

The Labour Party would serve the world best, not by doing half - heartedly what they do with conviction, but by clarifying its own principles, and acting in accordance with them.»

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.»

«For us in the NPP, we have the strongest conviction that crime has no colour, and as long as we believe that our core party supporters are not involved, if the Police have any reason or if anybody is caught to have indulged in any act of indiscipline or hooliganism, Ghana is a country of law and we will not hesitate to cooperate with the Police.

«Let us not forget the passion of the hundreds of thousands of activists who took pride in Labour's record, and our vision for the future and then with unparalleled conviction acted upon it.»

Acting U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York Joon Kim says the case marked the first conviction of a public official for securities fraud in connection with municipal bonds.

She released a new TV ad today that continues her ongoing effort to link Martins with disgraced former Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos, who lost his job in a federal corruption scandal — though his conviction was recently overturned, thanks to a U.S. Supreme Court decision that significantly narrowed the definition of an «official act» in connection with public corruption.

She said it would be premature to comment on the just - introduced bill but did defend Governor Cuomo's SAFE Act, saying it has worked to keep guns out of the hands of people with prior violent criminal convictions and others who may not be fit to handle firearms responsibly, such as some living with mental illness.

«You can be anything you want to be, if only you believe with sufficient conviction and act in accordance with your faith; for whatever the mind...

REDHERRING — Mar 27 — A federal law, the International Marriage Broker Regulation Act (IMBRA), makes it a felony for a man in the United States to communicate with a foreign woman via dating site, without the man first submitting unilaterally to criminal background and sex - offender checks and certifying all previous convictions or arrests, marriages, or divorces, children, and states of residence since the age of 18.

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.

It takes a lot of effort to take the underdog stomping grounds of New York's top punk acts and turn them into the Central Perk from Friends - albeit with slightly more stain - but CBGB does it with total conviction.

Crowe, despite his considerable talents as a dramatic actor, is plainly incapable of presenting Javert's convictions believably, starting with the embarrassingly obvious fact that acting well while singing is way beyond his reach; his warning to Valjean to heed his words and remember his name is delivered with such flatness and with so little affect that it's difficult to think of anything else.

Acted by locals with authentic conviction, the dialogue ringing idiomatic and magical, and full of respect for the power and majesty of nature, Sayles» film elaborated the artistry of cultural identity amid the vicissitudes of an industrial age.

«I don't fully understand it, but it came to me with a sense of conviction and so I chose to move forward in acceptance of that rather than struggling with it,» Daniel said, adding that acting was a sanctuary that «saved me from myself when I was a kid.

«I don't fully understand it, but it came to me with a sense of conviction» - Daniel Day Lewis on quitting acting

A tall, lanky man with a graying mustache and a humor that coexists well with his staunch, ruthless conviction, Mireles acts as a compelling center for the film's attention.

It takes a lot of effort to take the underdog stomping grounds of New York's top punk acts and turn them into the Central Perk from «Friends» — albeit with slightly more stain — but «CBGB» does it with total conviction.

The pathos behind these indiscriminate acts of generosity are transparent from the start (making the scenes in which Marnie visits a shrink a bit redundant), but Sarandon's exuberant performance is delivered with care and conviction.

Duff's portrayal of a free spirit with conviction is believable and shows off just a bit more acting talent than some may realize that she has.

This is combined with the rather poor acting and farcical comedy that is standard in K - dramas, resulting in an unsatisfying combination that never achieves either tone with conviction.

Damon and Blanchett make some half - hearted gestures towards romance before eventually walking away, while Bill Murray and Bob Balaban are set up as a bickering double - act but their one - liners are delivered with such little spark or conviction, it's as if we're watching them in an early rehearsal, reading from the page.

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.

BRAVO Principals Act With Courage, Conviction Making difficult decisions requires courage.

Educational leaders are called to act with urgency on issues that range from demanding external pressures, such as pay for performance and public accountability, to internal convictions for success.