Sentences with phrase «conviction which»

This resulted into arrest and conviction which incarcerated responsible criminal for 25 years without parole.

There are usually ways in which the lawyer can help to mount a credible defense and perhaps avoid you getting a criminal conviction which could affect your life for a very long time.

When you pay your citation it is counted as a conviction which may result in points being applied to your DMV record.

Instead, they become a confidential conviction which will mask the violation from your public record.

Depending on the evidence available to the state and the circumstances of the case, the State might not have the evidence it needs to get the conviction which means no prosecutor will want to go forward with the case.

The regulations fall short of the inducements I have previously proposed in that they still require at least a 90 - day «absolute suspension» and still require a criminal conviction which for many accused persons is an even greater concern than the loss of their licence.

In the U.S., a criminal defendant can not raise the issue of ineffective assistance of counsel on a direct appeal of a conviction or sentence, but can raise it in a collateral attack on a conviction which must be brought first in the state court and if that remedy is exhausted, may then be brought in federal court.

Of far more consequence is the conviction which Jennifer Aniston and Paul Rudd bring to their performances as the couple in crisis.

That's on the conviction which I understand, but the issue is the fine amount and it seems like NY just made the amount up.

The Central Electoral Commission has said Mr Navalny was ineligible because of a corruption conviction which he says is politically motivated.

Thus one conviction which the SPORTING LOOK»S editors share is well founded in on - the - scene observation.

But again and again he feels frustrated and grows disheartened because he does not really understand the thinking and feeling of people who possess absolutely nothing of that Christian conviction which shapes his whole life.

It was then that he began to take his Christian faith seriously, experiencing an inner conviction which allowed him, as he put it at the beginning of his Apologia, «to rest in the thought of two and two only absolute and luminously self - evident beings, myself and my Creator.»

It was the loyalty to him which was the chief source of monasticism and of the contagious conviction which made monks for centuries the chief active agents in the spread of the faith.

For, according to it, Jesus was a mistaken preacher of the end; he was wrong about the most central conviction which animated his mission.

There is an astringent relish about the truth of this conviction which some men can feel, and which for them is as near an approach as can be made to the feeling of religious joy.

In thus analyzing the elements in this moment, as well as in describing as I have its inner significance, I do not believe I am doing more than to draw out some of the implications of the common Christian experience and conviction which we considered in an earlier chapter.

Because the exaltation of Jesus to be the Lord of men is a conviction which can be apprehended only by faith, it is hard to see how such a conviction could have grown in their minds except in the same way as similar convictions about God had always emerged in the past.

Can both possibilities explain the enthusiasm and contagious conviction which led to the rapid spread of Christianity?

I am only saying that for many, if not most, of them it is not a deep conviction which makes a genuine difference in their basic attitude towards existence.

From my undergraduate days at Cornel University one of my deepest impressions is the inscription over the entrance to the main hall of the College of Arts and Sciences, «Above all nations is humanity» To this conviction which an increasing number of thoughtful people now accept must be added another, «Above all humanity is God.»

The strong conviction which seems to have been found in an older generation, especially among those who would have styled themselves «believers», is nowadays very infrequent.

We may not be happy with the particular fashion in which this conviction was expressed in the several classical formulations; we may seek for and hope to find a way of stating this conviction which does not depend upon the philosophy of ancient Greek thinkers.

Clergy and laity will then experience themselves first of all as brothers of the same religious mind and conviction which all have acquired through many sacrifices in a personal decision and in conscious opposition to the mentality of their surroundings.

The essence of this, he wrote, «lies in the conviction which a Christian man possesses that every goad thing in him, every good thing he does, is somehow not wrought by himself but by God».23 Paul, for example, said, «By the grace of God I am what I am» (1 Cor.

It was undoubtedly this conviction which led to Wieman's declaration early in The Source of Human Good that

It will show how a religious conviction which begins with an almost spiritual commitment to religious principles or fundamentals soon descends into fanaticism and violence.

But the point to remember is that these millions are voicing a conviction which it has been the role of the church to foster for centuries.

Then came Jesus, claiming that they were wrong in their understanding of God and his attitude to these outcasts and so striking a blow at the fundamental convictions which upheld the Jewish people.

So the year 2000 is but a human convention which rests both on a miscalculation and on convictions which have now become outmoded.

For this reason I shall now proceed to set down what seem to me to be the basic convictions which are affirmed in the Christian tradition.

That this universe is fundamentally a moral order, that there are reason and purpose in it, that what ought to be done can be done, that, as Carlyle cried, «No lie can live forever» — these are religious convictions which undergirdle men to carry on when carrying on is hard.

It would seem that no thought - through secular substitute for the philosophical and religious convictions which once helped give society a reliable fabric of civility has as yet won widespread support.

If Western man, who has long been the dominant man on the planet, should now lose those ultimate convictions which have been partly regulative for at least fifteen centuries, the change would be enormous.

In fact the ambivalence of the church toward marriage is grounded in the eschatological convictions which freed some from the necessity of marriage — i.e., singleness becomes a genuine option for service to the community.

But about the original figures we really know practically nothing, for Israel kept reinterpreting the original stories, as well as adding new ones, in order to express in these sagas the hopes and convictions which Israel came to believe about herself as a people.

Among his convictions which Marcus Borg explains in his book is the idea that salvation is about way more than just going to heaven when we die.

Effective December 2, 2014, this law was updated to include convictions which require registration as a sex offender only.

Mr Brown reminded MPs people have religious faith have supported similar research in the past, but said he respected the views «of all those with religious convictions which they see as precluding this type of research».

Criminal offences under Canada's criminal code are divided into three kinds: indictable offences which are the more serious offences and which carry longer terms of imprisonment, summary convictions which are the less serious offences usually punishable by less than 2 years imprisonment and hybrid offences which can be prosecuted as either indictable or summary.

Conrad Black has no match in the ability to make voluminous submissions, as the court noted: «He has provided the Council with a copy of his book on the subject of his convictions which runs to more than 500 pages».

You can not attend traffic school or complete a defensive driving course to prevent out - of - state convictions which transfer to the D.C. DMV as mandatory suspensions or revocations from being applied however.D.C.

Not exact matches

You'll need to present your thoughts and ideas with a high degree of confidence, indicating your convictions, but any excessive degree of confidence could be mistaken for needless arrogance, which will compromise your perceived authority.

Still, despite what he feels is a weak case against him, he thinks the odds are he'll be found guilty, at least during this first trial; Japan, which has a more than 99 % conviction rate, is also one of a few countries that allows prosecutors to appeal an acquittal twice.

That's already a major barrier to people seeking treatment in the first place (as is a dearth of affordable treatment options); but it can be magnified by a conviction and incarceration, which exacerbate a vicious cycle of lackluster employment opportunities, social exclusion, and continued crime and addiction.

Most likely, this reflects central banks» aggressive liquidity injections, which have translated into an increasing conviction among investors that major tail risks have been indefinitely removed.

One of the most enduring and well - known embodiments of Cathy's convictions is Chick - fil - A's «Closed - on - Sunday» policy, which requires every restaurant to only operate six days a week for practical and spiritual reasons.

The decision came down today from the Divisional Court which heard Ford's appeal of his November conviction.

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.

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.