Sentences with phrase «in a conviction once»

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Parker was acquitted in the rape case more than a decade ago and Celestin had his sexual assault conviction overturned on appeal (a higher court deemed his trial attorney ineffective), but the two men have come under fire once again as the media reports troubling details from the case, which included accusations that Parker and Celestin, then both 19, had sex with a Penn State freshman while she was unconscious after a night of heavy drinking.

Making a Murderer is one of multiple examples of a true crime narrative so evocative that it revived momentum in a once dormant case, as Avery recently hired a new lawyer in the hope of mounting a fresh appeal of his 2007 conviction.

By killing himself in his prison cell while awaiting appeal of a murder conviction, former National Football League tight end Aaron Hernandez essentially died an innocent man under a Massachusetts law that once protected the assets of the late Enron CEO.

Senators once again coalesced around another modest bipartisan fix in December, after discovering a lapse that allowed the gunman in Sutherland Springs to buy his weapons despite a domestic violence conviction.

What Lasch described in 1972 as «the familiar materials of popular discontent, quietly persisting through three decades of «affluence,»» are once again on the rise: «distrust of officials and official pronouncements; cynicism about the good faith of those in positions of great power; resentment of the rich; a conviction that most things in life are «fixed.

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.

If I accept once again that Catholicism has all the answers, then it is likely that I will have to do violence to certain elements in my nature — the conviction, for instance, that all life is one, or that it is better to have polygamy than the starving widows of soldiers begging in the streets.

In my randiest, loneliest moments, I can certainly wish for a different conviction, but even then, what I most desire is not the freedom to masturbate with a clear conscience, but to be married and near enough to that spouse to once again fumble our way through the best earthly picture we have of the Trinity's penultimate love.

But also once again there has been a continuity of past and present; once again there is the conviction that here is something which is relevant to the lives of men and women today as in earlier days.

However, state officials in Wisconsin say that they will once again appeal the decision, meaning that it is unclear if Dassey will be freed from prison, even though the conviction has been thrown out.

Those in the Abrahamic tradition can once again have support from science and philosophy for their conviction that what they worship is worthy of their worship, that, at the base of reality is something worthy of their trust.

It is based on the conviction that the Christian scriptures give a unified, consistent account of the nature and destiny of humanity and cosmos, that is at once existentially true (it speaks to our subjective need for order and meaning in our personal existence) and cosmologically true (it gives a true and adequate picture of the way our world objectively is and will be).

But then the slow and inexorable gravity pull of the secularism dominant in the force - field of the academy begins to retard and then counteract the inertial momentum that has hitherto set the course of the Catholic college or university, until, after a period when the forms and symbols of Christian identity are gradually evacuated of their conviction, the institution finally emerges as a wraith of the Christian community it once was.

In our new context, traditional religious practices frustrate the postmodern project, which is one of weakening the strong convictions that once bound people together.

There was once a Nigerian striker called Rashidi Yekini, he is the 2nd all time goal scorer in the history of the African Nations cup, he also played in the Portigal league and was highest goal scorer in all his time in that league... dude had a hell of a shot on him, free kicks or penalties he does not do any fancy tricks, he places the ball down, face the direction he is going to hit and then go for it, with power, precision and conviction... the opposing players and keepers will know what he ws foing to do but still could not help the goals going in....

The push from Senate Republicans comes after Democrats successfully flipped the district on Long Island once held by former Majority Leader Dean Skelos, who was ousted in December following his conviction on corruption charges.

Joe Percoco, the disgraced former top aide to Gov. Andrew Cuomo, will be able to cash in once again on his time in government and collect his pension — despite three felony convictions on corruption charges.

But he has never had the courage of his convictions, first voicing his contempt of Rajiv Gandhi for banning the book in a context where Indian citizens were being killed in police firing, then apologizing to the Iranian regime for writing it, only to recant once again when his contrition wasn't deemed to go far enough.

It has not resulted in an indictment, it has definitely not resulted in a conviction and I'm going to let the investigation go forward and once I have more facts, then we'll see where that leads.»

Already, Gov. Andrew Cuomo and others have renewed calls for reforms in the wake of the convictions of two men who were once among the most powerful in the state.

Once a highly popular political figure in his hometown, Ganim was convicted in 2003 of 16 counts of racketeering, extortion, bribery, conspiracy, mail fraud and tax evasion after a lengthy investigation by the FBI that led to the convictions of 10 other friends and colleagues of Ganim.

The once powerful Manhattan Democrat, facing 12 years in prison after his conviction on federal corruption charges, is surfacing in different campaign ads.

Mr. Silver, the once powerful Assembly speaker in New York, is being retried on public corruption charges, after an early conviction was overturned.

Dean Skelos, the once mighty Senate Republican who was addressed by colleagues as «Leader» before his political career collapsed last year, was sentenced Thursday to five years in prison following his conviction on federal corruption charges.

NEW YORK — Real estate giant Glenwood Management was fined $ 200,000 by a state ethics commission for its role in the federal corruption convictions of former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver and former Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos, once two of New York's most powerful politicians.

MANHATTAN FEDERAL COURT — Former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, once one of New York's most powerful politicians, was sentenced to 12 years in federal prison Tuesday following his conviction on corruption charges.

Yuh - Line Niou won a six - way race on Tuesday for the Democratic nomination to inherit the State Assembly seat once held by Sheldon Silver, in a repudiation of the stubborn grip Mr. Silver held on his Lower Manhattan district for four decades — held, that is, until his conviction late last year on federal corruption charges.

Another once powerful figure in New York state politics was sentenced to prison yesterday after a corruption conviction.

Joseph Percoco, who was once likened to a brother by the Democratic governor, faces up to 20 years in prison for his conviction on conspiracy to commit honest services wire fraud and soliciting bribes.

The once powerful Manhattan Democrat, facing 12 years in prison after his conviction on federal corruption charges, is surfacing in different campaign ads — and not in a good way.

The «conduct which led to his conviction was fundamentally driven by Dean's love and concern for his only son and ultimately his son's young family,» the once - mighty Republican's lawyer argued in court filings.

All four of these candidates won their primaries in «open» seats where the current officeholder is term - limited or, in once case, the seat was already vacant due to the recent corruption conviction of Ruben Wills.

A federal appeals court on Thursday overturned the 2015 corruption conviction of Sheldon Silver, once the powerful speaker of the New York State Assembly, saying the judge's jury instructions were in error in light of a United States Supreme Court decision that has since narrowed the legal definition of corruption.

MANHATTAN — A federal appeals court on Thursday overturned the 2015 conviction of former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, once one of the most powerful men in Albany, for public corruption.

In fact — we never told anyone this — there was a day once on vacation when we nearly rented a Jet Ski, sans experience, sans even any real desire to Jet Ski, just on the conviction as we gazed across the harbor from our cabana that if we were to choose this day to make our Jet Ski debut, they would choose this day to do that thing they sometimes do, arcing up out of the surf at our side and keeping pace with us, singling us out as among the very crème of enlightened humanity.

The question of security in online dating has once again entered the news headlines, thanks to the conviction of Stephen Port, a UK man who was accused and found guilty of killing four men he met through gay dating apps.

My sentiment of this album is summed up perfectly by the NME quote here: «Allen's old sharp eye feels watery on Sheezus, squinting at the discourse around feminism, race and privilege unfolding online in 2014, and riding them as a bandwagon back to the middle of the very space the Myspace - spawned pop star once owned, but not having the conviction to do much with them once she's arrived.»

Allen's old sharp eye feels watery on Sheezus, squinting at the discourse around feminism, race and privilege unfolding online in 2014, and riding them as a bandwagon back to the middle of the very space the Myspace - spawned pop star once owned, but not having the conviction to do much with them once she's arrived.

Pitt's conviction in the role of Beane, once a rookie player with potential that never developed into success, turns the volleys of negotiations over trades and verbal showdowns over his unconventional ideas into dazzling drama.

Carl Van Vechten & the Harlem Renaissance: A Portrait in Black & White By Emily Bernard Yale University Press Hardcover, $ 30.00 372 pages, Illustrated ISBN: 978 -0-300-12199-5 Book Review by Kam Williams «This book is a portrait of a once - controversial figure... a white man with a passion for blackness... [who] played a crucial role in helping the Harlem Renaissance... come to understand itself... Carl Van Vechten has been viewed with suspicion... [as] a racial voyeur and sexual predator, an acolyte of primitivism who misused his black artist friends and pushed them to make art that fulfilled his belief in racial stereotypes... While his early interest in blackness was certainly inspired by sexual desire and his fascination with what he perceived as black primitivism, these features were not what sustained his interest... More important [was] his conviction that blackness was a central feature of Americanness... Van Vechten's enthusiasm for blacks may have catapulted many careers, but at what cost to the racial integrity of those artists, and to the Harlem Renaissance as a whole?

Once I had the conviction that I could become a filmmaker, I began exploring the possibility of studying in the United States.

Leo, a psychologist, is hospitable if circumspect, but Ellen, a comparative literature professor, goes all in; once she meets Nancy and notes a physical resemblance to Brooke, her yearning for this strange woman to be her long - lost child turns into full - fledged conviction.

Once he is released from the clutches of the dastardly copper Javert (a one - dimensional turn by Crowe), he finds himself tainted by his conviction, hounded like a dog, roaming the country in search of salvation.

Once described in a Massachusetts Historical Society publication as a generous man «with a genuine flair for business and promotion, yet always with instinctive conviction about what was right and honest,» Larsen never tried to meddle with Wilson's words.

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.

Every once in a while you hear about an author who has the courage and conviction to self publish and as a result his or her world changes because of it.

Once you've eliminated those stocks, then you could simply rank the remaining ones in descending order of expected returns and then allocate capital based on your conviction (as expressed in terms of expected return) keeping in mind the need to diversify into multiple names as well as other portfolio construction considerations dealing with limiting «aggregation of risk.»

Or they're simply forgotten — investors pop the stock & then it drifts right back down once they get bored and move on... As I mentioned above (re activists), in general catalysts are perhaps most powerfully employed if you use them wisely (and profitably) to cherry pick & endorse your high - conviction stock picks.

On the other hand, the same issue had a Pielke Jr. article in it, in which he once more trots out the claim that because virtually the whole mainstream climate science community (which Pielke refers to loosely as «pro Kyoto» lambasted the flawed Baliunas et al Climate Research article, we all must be letting our political convictions over-ride our scientific judgement.

In contrast, the SFO has only achieved a conviction rate similar to the NCA's once in the past 15 years: in 2009 - 10, when it oversaw a total of 22 successful convictionIn contrast, the SFO has only achieved a conviction rate similar to the NCA's once in the past 15 years: in 2009 - 10, when it oversaw a total of 22 successful convictionin the past 15 years: in 2009 - 10, when it oversaw a total of 22 successful convictionin 2009 - 10, when it oversaw a total of 22 successful convictions.