Sentences with phrase «general conviction»

I previously suffered with anxiety, fear of disapproval, an inability to set personal boundaries and difficulty identifying general convictions.

Freud treated dreams as «the royal road to the unconscious,» a thesis that served his general conviction that consciousness, the reasoned control of life, constitutes only the surface part of the energies that propel or immobilize persons.

If Jesus» belief in miracles is understood as a general conviction that certain happenings, which we today are accustomed to attribute to natural causes, depend upon a higher, divine cause, then the belief is meaningless and has no relation to his idea of God.

Christian monastic orders with surrender of personal possessions have existed since the sixth century, and outside of Christianity long before that, but there has been no general conviction on the part of Christians that society as a whole should be thus organized.

My general conviction that there must be some way through the morass grows weak if I can not find even one plausible suggestion.

He says that the expected power shift would be used to assuage the pains of the zone, which he said, was punished by the PDP in 1998 because of the general conviction of the Biafra war they fought against the rest of the country.

People with non-commercial driver's licenses will receive confidential convictions on their DMV records, while those with commercial driver's licenses will receive a general conviction both without the corresponding point.