Sentences with phrase «just on the conviction»

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.

Not exact matches

Therefore, just as Christians do not believe that Jesus is the risen Lord because of a conviction that the story of Joseph «raised» from prison by Pharaoh is both a prefiguration and historically accurate in the details of Genesis, so also Jews do not commit themselves to observance of the law on the basis of convictions about the historical accuracy of the book of Exodus.

In this case, on page 13 of Jonathan Riley - Smith's The Crusades, Christianity, and Islam, in a discussion of Augustine, just war, and medieval thought, we read: «The second was the conviction that violence was ethically neutral.»

Monsignor William Lynn was convicted of one count of child endangerment on Friday, and victims groups hope that conviction will pave the way for prosecutors across the country to go after church officials — and not just accused priests — in confronting sex abuse.

(a) A person who pulls you (or pushes you) out of the way of the train (possibly inadvertently causing you to skin your need or even break your arm if you fell)-- but ultimately saving your life — knowing full well you might get angry at them because you didn't understand why they just pushed you and caused you to break your arm; or (b) A person who lets you walk in front of the train because he or she believes wholeheartedly with great conviction that doing anything else would be interfering with your free will to walk where you want to walk and forcing their thoughts and wishes on you

Monsignor William Lynn was convicted of one count of child endangerment on Friday, and victims groups hope that conviction will pave the way for prosecutors across the country to go after church officials - and not just accused priests - in confronting sex abuse.

Naturally I do not deny that the Holy Spirit may intervene and give direction to our action; but the possibility of the Spirit's intervention is no justification for rushing pell - mell into action, just for the sake of action; for yielding to some emotion, sentiment, visceral reaction, on the plea that «God will turn it to account» or, worse, in the conviction that this visceral reaction is tantamount to a divine commandment or a prophetic insight.

The search was based on the conviction that growth in itself was not the solution to the problems of those countries, nor for their most appropriate development, and that the free market is not the most effective mechanism for producing a more just distribution of resources.

Just muddling through some long pondered convictions... may I act on them more!

I suppose those three dudes that broke in to that lesbian's home and carved anti-gay slurs in her skin recently were just acting on their convictions.

Just as it is illegitimate for Jews to tailor their convictions to the expectations of the majority community, it is likewise «impertinent and unwise» for the community of the few to advise or solicit corresponding changes on the part of the «community of the many.»

I'm not rationalizing it i acted on my moral convictions, just like they did

In spite of all the hymns which laud the surrender of our wills to God, we ought to do what is right not just because some outside power makes us, but because of a decision on our own part to do so, because of inward conviction and principle and faith.

We have seen how the University of Berlin was based on these convictions, just as the University of Halle expressed the nationalism that was the other pole of the Enlightenment.

Just staying on the journey with Jesus over a very long period of time and coming to the conviction that the clearest revelation of God we have is Jesus Christ Himself — that God is like Jesus.

She is convinced in all her childish naïveté and innocence, this conviction also ennobles her nature and imparts to her a preternatural greatness, so that like a thaumaturge she is able to conjure the finite powers of existence and make the very stones weep, while on the other hand in her flurry she may just as well run to Herod as to Pilate and move the whole world by her tears.

He was given just under the maximum sentence he faced, which was three - and - a-half to seven years in prison for his conviction on the third - degree felony.

The Church's defence of a moral reasoning based on the natural law is grounded on her conviction that this law is not a threat to our freedom, but rather a «language» which enables us to understand ourselves and the truth of our being, and so to shape a more just and humane world.

In all honesty, the «religious people» that don't legislate against things based solely on their religious convictions and thereby hurt the rights of individuals, and who don't condemn science and medicine and societal progression and other religions and other denominations and people who are not religious, and who don't claim to know that something is true beyond all other truths, are probably a very slim minority, and I'd have to argue that they aren't really religious, they are just doing whatever makes them feel good, which could be accomplished through secular means as well.

t just seams wrong to me to push my religious convictions on others, these are the things I do, it's unreasonable to ask others to make that choice.

I would like to take up this man's cause, wield a couple of cudgels on his behalf, and express my conviction as to how «just being a church» could provide the key to programs that work — that multiply and meet people's needs more comprehensively than seeds, heifers and agricultural innovation alone.

But the Evans family is on a budget just like everyone else, and economics often trump conviction... especially when Oreos are two for five dollars.

In view of the continual process of the world, more people are dependent on the master than on the prophet, in whose place — according even to his own conviction — another person could have been called just as well.

To be fair because these players flopped in their respective clubs does not necessarily mean Te would have flopped at Arsenal because if you want to use such harebrained and short - sighted analogy then you can blame Wenger for the many many players hw could have signed who later turned out world class later, CR7, Zlatan just to mention 2...... like it or lump it Wenger is overcautious and indecisive in the transfer market nowadays...... you win some and lose some, no manager in the world can boast a 100 % success rate when buying players...... I know the jury is still out on Martial but personally I respect LVG's courage, conviction and decisiveness in identifying him and going al out to get him, Wenger need to show such attributes more!!!!

Ozil need to start the next games on the bench so he will understand he is not indispensable, the guy just loses the ball with no conviction he would walk like he doesn't care.

Despite the Gunners taking the lead midway through the first half, Bolton had the conviction to claw their way back into the game when Johan Elmander jumped highest to capitalise on a defensive mix - up at the back for Arsenal, drawing level just before the break.

Could it be that Roma has a winning coach on their hands, or just someone who's conviction borders on insanity?

The Supreme Court, in a case last year involving former Virginia Gov. Robert McDonnell, ruled that corruption convictions could only be based on performance of an «official act» that represented a formal exercise of government power — not just a phone call or a meeting with a lobbyist.

The symposium's timeliness wasn't lost on Ravitch or other participants: Two former legislative leaders, Democrat Assemblyman Sheldon Silver and Republican Sen. Dean Skelos, are awaiting sentencing following federal corruption convictions — just the latest in a jailhouse parade of disgraced lawmakers.

But victims» groups say that with many rape convictions carrying a sentence of just five years - only half of which might be served depending on behaviour - some sex offenders could face a sentence as short as 15 months.

The government's heavy handed tactics of contacting witnesses is just as legal as Silver accepting legal fees for referrals — sleazy and inappropriate but legal (as Silver plays the Joe Bruno defense of accepting a possible short term conviction but having that conviction tossed on appeal).

Silver, who was arrested on corruption charges just months prior to Skelos, had his conviction tossed this summer when a judge determined the jury was given incorrect instructions.

The swaggering Mr. Bharara, who seems to have successfully indicted just about every single pol in Albany, has drawn fawning press and was on a remarkable winning streak until an appeals court overturned some of his insider trading convictions.

Since just about every conviction Silver was nailed for depended on whether he took an «official act,» the Second Circuit suggested prosecutors needed to start over.

Capital NY noted this morning that the Republicans are on the offensive and dredging up old convictions not just in this race, but also in the 60th SD (Grisanti's seat), where they are reminding voters that the Democrat who emerged from Tuesday's primary, Marc Panepinto, had his law license suspended for 30 days in 2001 after pleading guilty to falsely saying he witnessed voters sign nominating petitions.

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.

After the conviction of former Bronx assemblyman Eric Stevenson on bribery charges, Bharara emphasized that the case was just one step in a larger quest.

«It's just surreal,» said Jaron Benjamin a week after the conviction of former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver and on the day of closing arguments in the federal corruption case against former Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos, knowing that those cases may have been bolstered by work he did years ago in the fight to strengthen the state's rent laws.

She was particularly disappointed, she says, in one of the comments Nixon made on Wendy Williams, in which she suggested the governor was soft on gun control; just a few days prior, Ossorio pointed out, Cuomo had negotiated a deal with the Legislature to require anyone with a conviction for domestic abuse to surrender their guns.

To hear his critics and Buffalo skeptics, however, Jemal is just another hard - nosed out - of - towner with a reputation for sitting on properties — and with a nine - year - old felony conviction for fraud to boot.

Responding to their conviction on The Big Issue, Mr. Ayariga said he was not going to abandon his «comrades» just because they had broken the law.

To me, the cluster of issues that we have focused on are just basic — whether it be bail reform, raise the age of criminal responsibility, reform the institution of the grand jury, which goes back to the time of Magna Carta, wrongful convictions, ensure that not one single person is convicted of a crime that they're innocent of.

The stunning ruling comes just days after the same court upheld the bribery conviction of former Brooklyn Assemblyman William Boyland Jr. on similar grounds questioning the jury instructions.

She said it would be premature to comment on the just - introduced bill but did defend Governor Cuomo's SAFE Act, saying it has worked to keep guns out of the hands of people with prior violent criminal convictions and others who may not be fit to handle firearms responsibly, such as some living with mental illness.

«And on the other hand, it's just another one in a very, very long line of Albany convictions over the years that just continue to pile up people's cynicism and lack of confidence in Albany as a whole.»

Scoring a conviction against Skelos, who is currently on trial, in addition to Silver, would solidify Bharara's legacy, but taking on shady Albany politicians is just one feather in his cap.

«Instead of focusing mainly on first - time offenders, we need to come up with new ways of dealing with offenders who have just one prior conviction,» he said.

To give you just a glimpse of the convictions involved, we asked Krauss, whose intriguing book Hiding in the Mirror: The Mysterious Allure of Extra Dimensions, From Plato to String Theory and Beyond is coming out in October, to riff a bit on what he's thinking these days.

They created their own algorithm, ultimately settling on just two factors: age and number of prior convictions.

Dee has enough problems just getting on with life - trying to raise her children, with her children's deadbeat dad and his abusive girlfriend in the same building, and yet even after her conviction is overturned, her subsequent case (spearheaded by the A.C.L.U.) puts her in the D.A.'s crosshairs - who uses his substantial infuence to not only prevent her from returning to her job of 7 years, but even makes sure that she is terminated from the minimum wage job she finally manages to procure.