Sentences with phrase «by one's convictions»

They seem to safeguard the right of every American to live by his convictions.

Above all, we are driven by our conviction that the path to sustainability is the only way forward.

But in reality it was a shared tragedy, one for those who still believed that politics should be motivated by conviction.

You can't help but be inspired by his conviction.

You can write something like: good job for sticking by your convictions.

But we create justice not with the ideas in our minds; we create justice when the ideas in our minds are fueled by the conviction in our hearts.

Every once in a while, American K — 12 education is overwhelmed by the conviction that its basic design is obsolete and that it needs somehow to reinvent schooling.

We're united by the conviction that good ideas can come from anyone, anywhere, at any time.

What is, is not supposed to be, and we are required by that conviction to project a future social order wherein all can develop to their fullest potential.

I was ecstatic when I found this site (to say the least), and amazed by your convictions.

With compelling immediacy, she depicts the struggles of men and women torn by their convictions and challenged by the perils of war.

Your life will be unaffected by his conviction and incarceration.

I mean, he couldn't possibly be standing by his convictions, right?

We should all admire the sacrifice made by the team and the school where they both live by their convictions and live within the rules of the secular groups in which they participate.

We're driven by a conviction that all children deserve great public schools in their communities.

Propelled by the conviction of former Assembly Speaker Silver and the ongoing trial of former Senate Leader Skelos, editorial boards are again calling on Governor Cuomo to sign two bills, A114 and A1438B, that would strengthen New York's Freedom of Information Laws.

So I see Mendelssohn's attempt to reconcile Judaism with Enlightenment philosophy as a sincere theological enterprise guided by his conviction that «truth can not conflict with truth,» rather than as an intentional act of obfuscation and deceit.»

The only mechanism for removing the vice president from office is impeachment by the House of Representatives followed by conviction by the Senate.

Instead, they have been propelled by a conviction that the country needs more U.S. citizens going into science and engineering because those graduates will benefit the nation in countless ways.

Nowhere is that effort more lacking than in the realm of reform, a decades - long need in New York exacerbated by the embarrassing fall from power of two of the three men in the room with Cuomo only a few years ago and now magnified by the conviction of a one - time gubernatorial buddy in a blistering corruption trial.

Paul abides by his conviction: «I know and am persuaded in the Lord Jesus that nothing is unclean in itself» (Rom.

One must endure evil days sustained by the conviction that it was the will of God.

Although decidedly different in approach, both books are animated by the conviction that, as Sudhir Venkatesh puts it, the «public housing complex has become a contemporary mirror for American self - examination.»

The power to do evil is never greater than when it is fired by a conviction that God commands it.

For example, the Old Testament is dominated by the conviction of Israel's dependence upon God and by specific illustrations from history of the consequences of that dependence.

The modern crisis of religion is therefore caused by the conviction of many of our contemporaries that man can lead the good life without believing in God.

Obviously I have made an interpretive decision informed by a conviction of «the preferential option of the poor.»

For a state capitol that began the legislative session shellshocked by the convictions on corruption charges of two of its most powerful leaders, Sheldon Silver and Dean G. Skelos, the most significant action was perhaps the pension - forfeiture measure, which had fizzled last year.

Hyndman, running in a seat with 20 times as many Democrats as Republicans, will likely fill the vacancy created by the conviction of former Assemblyman William Scarborough.

When I was convicted of white collar crimes arising out of clients from my law practice, I went into sentencing looking at Guidelines of 121 to 151 months, which were driven by a conviction for conspiracy to commit money laundering with my clients.

This decision is prompted not only by cowardice, but also by the conviction that the Thomistic conception, excluding any sort of divine process or becoming, does run into trouble with divine - human interaction.

NOBODY in NYS is shocked by the conviction of another politician.

I admired his honesty and candor, a straight talker by conviction and habit.»

On Saturday the world enjoyed the long anticipated March for Science, which transformed Earth Day into a global defense of STEM, led by quietly spirited people undaunted by weather, buoyed by conviction, and waving an unlimited supply of wry, funny signs.

People were very surprised by the conviction.

It's defined by conviction.

But Whitehead upholds such perplexities by his conviction that recognition of a thing as a composite and also as a unity are required modes of understanding, that these two modes are reciprocal, that they presuppose each other, and that the perspective emphasizing the composite exhibits an outcome and the perspective emphasizing the unity exhibits a causal factor (MT 63).

So how do we pursue our passions and stand by our convictions without building unassailable empires in our own image?

I am not optimistic by disposition and I am anti-utopian by conviction, but I am inclined to a somewhat more hopeful set of possibilities.

Official attitudes and practices were structured by the conviction that non-Catholic Christians were the adversaries of our central religious and moral tenets.

It will be very difficult to judge him as someone who «stands in the periphery of every religion, by profession as well as by conviction».

Printing, publication, and other means of public communication were also stimulated by this conviction.

Civil disobedience self - justified by conviction of «higher law.»

Bubbles are fed by the conviction that «this time is different,» and all recoveries by the underlying strength of the market.

Niebuhr himself came to recognize that he may have overstated the case when he had asserted that we must believe that perfect justice is possible in order to be optimally motivated.27 We can be inspired to committed effort by the conviction that a situation much better than the present one is realistically obtainable.

An observer commented, «A mainly atheistic outlook tempered by the conviction that the subordination of action against religious bodies to the wider objectives of the state leaves the maximum freedom to pursue whatever policy appears to be the most expedient at any particular juncture».