Sentences with phrase «as much conviction»

Few of her contemporaries embrace these genre possibilities with as much conviction as she does.

As versatile as they come, he could play the heroine's harassed father with as much conviction as he would «boss heavies.»

And as for Jon Fox and myself being Pals?We have never met never spoken and never corresponded.We share a common hatred of Arsene Wenger.We also share a long time support of Arsenal Football Club.That is it.There are many many others who post their thoughts and feelings on this site who feel the same way about Wenger and the hierarchy of this club as we do.It would be very very easy to rip your comments to shreds but I simply refuse to waste time pointing out the obvious to you other than to say if your «posts» carried as much conviction and feeling as the ones posted by Jon Fox then you would find yourself gaining far more respect than what you are getting now.Study Ken1945 and how he writes his posts.

you would treat me the same way if i talked about Santa Claus with as much conviction and forced my Santa Claus related beliefs down your throat to the point were they practically control the masses

And they've worked just as hard — with just as much conviction — to make their crowdfunding site a success.

Not exact matches

I learned so much from West, including the importance of having confidence as well as the conviction to create a distinctive voice or sound.

While that policy was a matter of necessity as much as principle, there were other places where Flaherty clearly let his convictions guide him: there was his elimination of income trusts; his ongoing fight to create a national securities regulator; and his efforts to rein in the Canadian Mortgage and Housing Corporation.

«I could feel her conviction and I knew that when we said yes to working together it meant as much to her as it meant to me.»

«I never was really burdened by too much conviction about what I as thinking....

It bolstered my conviction that micro-processors would soon run the same programs as larger computers, but at a much lower cost.»

«Theory» holds sway in contemporary discussions of literature, poetry, and art these days as much by force of habit as by ardent conviction.

It is my conviction that Scripture does not so much reveal God to us as it reveals us to us.

On other days, there's not much left in the it that I believe as I once did, with the conviction that would make it «real» as the video implores.

Now Paul's theology must be studied as a Jewish theology modified by the conception of Jesus as the Risen Messiah; that is, it was a Jewish theology — of the high Pharisaic type, in some respects; in others, quite unPharisaic, and making much use of apocalyptic conceptions, as Bruckner and others have shown — and to this Jewish theology was added the new, distinctive, transforming conviction that the Messiah was none other than the lowly Jesus, dead, raised to glory, and soon to come again.

It is young men and women such as these that encourage me in my conviction that the world is much safer in the hands of the newer generation than it ever was with those of my own older generation or of the generation between me and those former students.

The false identification of liberalism with the absence of conviction and disciplined living receives far too much support from the practice of many who think of themselves as liberals.

My contention is that this places Ivan's sensibility much nearer to the authentic vision of the New Testament than are many of the more pious and conventional forms of Christian conviction today The gospel of the ancient church was always one of rebellion against those principalities and powers — death chief among them — that enslave and torment creation; nowhere does the New Testament rationalize evil or accord it necessity or treat it as part of the necessary fabric of God's world.

It will do this not so much on the basis of concepts of God that it claims as its own, as out of the conviction that One beyond conceptualization claims us as his own.

This last fundamental religious conviction is, to my knowledge, as much as black theology in North America has ever affirmed, and there is nothing essential in this which is overturned by preferring objective immortality to personal immortality and immortal souls.

Her conviction that much of the church has simply got it wrong when it comes to women is substantiated by her own effectiveness as a leader and communicator.

There has long been a conviction in certain political and theological circles that capitalism itself as a system is to blame for much of the injustice, oppression and poverty in the world.

However, a comparison sample of students drawn from a secular university showed that, although evangelicalism was much rarer, evangelical students were able to maintain their convictions in this setting as well.

But the problem is frequently much more difficult, as psychologists (Jung) and social philosophers (Nietzsche, Sorel, Pareto, Spengler) have shown that the analysis of the social conditioning of ideas and convictions, though in itself not entitling to decisions as to their validity or invalidity, may contribute to the realization of the partial character of views or intentions expressed in them.

Even though the believer has been consciously looking for something to satisfy his longings, and searching for some purpose in life, his embracing of the Christian faith does not mean that at last he has found what he is looking for, so much as the strange conviction that he has himself been found.

The practice's illegality, like that of drinking alcohol during Prohibition, was thought to reflect merely unenlightened prejudice or religious conviction, the two being regarded as much the same.

For all their conviction of living in an age of miracle, the apostles found themselves living in a world which went on its course, outside the limits of the Christian community, much as it had always done.

From the moment Levin saw his beloved brother dying and for the first time looked at the problems of life and death in the light of what he called the new convictions that between the ages of twenty and thirty - four had imperceptibly taken the place of the beliefs of his childhood and youth, he was horrified not so much by death as by a life without the slightest knowledge of where it came from, what it was for, and why, and what it was.

«Feeling good» for them has replaced «being good,» and relationships are based not so much on a religious conviction about the essential worth of every individual as they are based on contractual arrangements in which each person is considered of value to the extent that he or she is of value to me.

Some of them still carry old denominational convictions; for instance, about continuity in the Anglican Church, the rejection of a set - aside ministry in parts of the Society of Friends, the parity of the ministry in the Reformed tradition, and no ordination without a call from a local church as in much of Lutheranism.

In a way, fundamentalism is as much a frame of mind as a set of doctrines, for many Christians hold these convictions without repudiating those who differ.

How much of this was merely ad hominem and how much represented Jesus» personal conviction concerning human destiny it is difficult to be sure, just as when Plato used demonology to serve his purpose it is difficult to know how literally he took the mental pattern he employed.

The deepest convictions of men in favor of future hope, therefore, have come not so much from those who have framed arguments for it as from those who have heightened life's spiritual value, given it new meaning, made it wealthy with fresh significance and purpose until it has seemed as though it ought to go on.

In as much as the Church of North India will have within its membership both persons who practise Infant Baptism in the sincere belief that this is in harmony with the mind of the Lord, and those whose conviction it is that the Sacrament can only properly be administered to a believer, both Infant Baptism and Believer's Baptism shall be accepted as alternative practices in the Church of North India.

My personal conviction has been for years that homosexuals are as human and as much valuable as heterosexuals, that God loves us all equally, gay or straight, and that homosexuality and Christianity are not mutually exclusive.

Such universalism was not regarded as orthodox, however, no matter how much more it might seem to be in accordance with the supposedly Christian conviction that God is love.

What is at stake, in my own conviction, is the seeing that it is not so much beyond, as it is in and through, «the flaming ramparts of space and time» that redemption, re-integration, and the fulfillment of the divine purpose of love takes place.

The criticism was primarily based on one line and, as such, the end result was conviction without much content.

I am committed to an ecumenism of conviction, not an ecumenism of accommodation, but I do believe that all of Jesus» disciples have much to learn from one another, even about controverted matters such as Mary.

What was exciting him as much as what Luther was actually saying, was that it was challenging all the old assumptions, and that it was being said with great intellectual confidence and conviction, backed evidently by deep emotion.

It was my conviction that, as no professional biographer in his right mind would touch Whitehead, someone who knew him and his work should write as much about this great man's life as the scanty materials allowed; not a memoir, mind you, but an objective partial biography.

These people are pathetic and have about as much in common with Mormonism, Christianity, and conviction as Gordon Gekko and the Music Man.

As long as it doesn't result in a felony conviction, McGregor's odd aren't bad for being able to get a visa to the US, although obviously it would be much easier to do so without any kind of conviction recorAs long as it doesn't result in a felony conviction, McGregor's odd aren't bad for being able to get a visa to the US, although obviously it would be much easier to do so without any kind of conviction recoras it doesn't result in a felony conviction, McGregor's odd aren't bad for being able to get a visa to the US, although obviously it would be much easier to do so without any kind of conviction record.

As for no video, people are making too much out of this there are 1000's of cases where video does not exist and convictions are still obtained.

Miliband needs to convey much more conviction and authority as well as personality.

«I am mindful of our dual responsibilities as prosecutors to protect the innocent from wrongful conviction, as much as the victims who have been wronged.»

«As the former Assembly speaker and former Senate majority leader are about to be sentenced after their corruption convictions, corruption is very much the issue for New Yorkers right now,» said Siena pollster Steven Greenberg.

A U.S. Court of Appeals on Tuesday overturned the federal corruption conviction of former Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos, much as it did in July for former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver.

Bharara's recent convictions of two of New York's three most powerful political leaders isn't so much about the misgivings of Sheldon Silver and Dean Skelos, but rather the culture of abuse and entitlement that has plagued our capital, as well as our state and country.

A federal appeals court's decision to overturn the convictions of former New York State Assembly speaker Sheldon Silver shows how public corruption cases have become much more difficult to substantiate in the wake of a Supreme Court decision narrowing what qualifies as corruption, legal analysts said.

As Judge Davis concludes, «one can be hopeful that this latest contribution to the ever growing literature will further the ultimate goal of our criminal justice system: to assure, as much as humanly possible, the exoneration of the innocent, while achieving, fairly and transparently, the conviction of the guilty.&raquAs Judge Davis concludes, «one can be hopeful that this latest contribution to the ever growing literature will further the ultimate goal of our criminal justice system: to assure, as much as humanly possible, the exoneration of the innocent, while achieving, fairly and transparently, the conviction of the guilty.&raquas much as humanly possible, the exoneration of the innocent, while achieving, fairly and transparently, the conviction of the guilty.&raquas humanly possible, the exoneration of the innocent, while achieving, fairly and transparently, the conviction of the guilty.»