Sentences with phrase «more conviction of»

Not exact matches

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.

She's more emblematic of the 1990s than of the 2000s, but remember this: Martha Stewart bet that by not appealing her conviction (for lying to prosecutors, in case you forgot) and by simply getting her five - month prison stretch done with in March 2005, she would minimize the damage to her reputation and quickly get her company back on track.

According to the researchers, «The refusal frame «I don't» is more persuasive than the refusal frame «I can't» because the former connotes conviction to a higher degree... perceived conviction mediates the influence of refusal frame on persuasiveness.»

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.

«Jack Johnson's reputation was ruined by a racially motivated conviction more than a century ago after he was charged with transporting a white woman across state lines,» McCain said in 2017 as he unsuccessfully urged President Barack Obama to issue a pardon on his way out of office.

«We now have high conviction that liquidity dynamics are changing, that markets are finally becoming more aware of that reality.»

«Before his conviction, Mr. Libby had rendered more than a decade of honorable service to the Nation as a public servant at the Department of State, the Department of Defense, and the White House.

To «sell - out» may win you some more customers, but exchanging financial profit for your personal convictions is the most tragic of losses.

«This positive development represents a more shareholder - friendly capital allocation policy and demonstrates the conviction of Apple's management and board in the company's future.»

Ross had a vision for a new kind of business magazine, one that «reflects our basic editorial conviction: that business is important, interesting, understandable and — more often than many people realize — fun.»

Considering the possibility that maybe we're a rare civilization who made it past the Great Filter through a freak occurrence makes him feel even more conviction about SpaceX's mission: «If we are very rare, we better get to the multi-planet situation fast, because if civilization is tenuous, then we must do whatever we can to ensure that our already - weak probability of surviving is improved dramatically.»

End Illegal Immigration Act Fully - funds the construction of a wall on our southern border with the full understanding that the country Mexico will be reimbursing the United States for the full cost of such wall; establishes a 2 - year mandatory minimum federal prison sentence for illegally re-entering the U.S. after a previous deportation, and a 5 - year mandatory minimum for illegally re-entering for those with felony convictions, multiple misdemeanor convictions or two or more prior deportations; also reforms visa rules to enhance penalties for overstaying and to ensure open jobs are offered to American workers first.

At such times, traders and investors who focus on doomsday headlines from mainstream financial media sites are more than likely to be shaken out of their long positions... especially those who lack conviction in their trading system.

A U.S. appeals court vacated the conviction of former Jefferies Group trader Jesse Litvak, the latest turn in a case that has spanned more than five years and helped usher in changes to sales tactics on Wall Street.

If jurors decide the killing was unintentional but Garcia Zarate was grossly negligent, he will be guilty of involuntary manslaughter, punishable by two to four years in prison — though previous drug convictions could add 13 more years to his term.

a) investing their own money alongside you, so your interests are aligned b) a stake in the company they work at i.e. it is a partnership or employee - owned c) a proven ability to outperform an index over the long - term (at least 10 years) d) reasonable charges — preferably no more than a 1 % management fee and no performance fee e) a concentrated, high conviction portfolio i.e. they do not just hug their benchmark f) a low - asset - turnover ratio i.e. they have a long - term investment horizon and rarely sell investments g) a proven ability to preserve capital during the bad times h) a stable team who have worked together for a number of years.

From Ross Ulbricht and Charlie Shrem's convictions to hacks at MyCoin and Bitstamp (and of course the lingering Mt. Gox albatross), 2015 has kicked off with more of a crash than a bang.

Chan's conviction is tied to one of the more dramatic Ponzi scheme's to grace the Canadian court system.

Founded in 1995, Daruma Capital Management invests in high - conviction small - and smid - cap portfolios of no more than 35 stocks.

U.S. District Judge Robin Rosenberg tossed Brown's conviction on the more serious charge of using and...

With our modified method, which also gives us more headroom on a P / B basis, we were able to invest according to the level of conviction we have with this company.

See Zero Hedge for more on conspiracies and convictions in court over price manipulation of precious metals.

I'm just issuing one more call for cooperation between different religious and political groups, and perhaps for a little more respect for the convictions of those who disagree with us.

Robust and evangelically vibrant Catholic conviction, it seemed, had no more place in the «real world» of late modernity than did the dream of a Europe without the Berlin Wall.

He said: «You only had to have half an hours conversation with him to realise that he was a man of passionate Christian belief and conviction and what is more he believed entirely in the incarnation, that God comes among us fully in the person of Jesus, and he believed entirely in the resurrection.»

Science and the scientific method is universal and consistent all over the World whereas religion is regional and a person's religious conviction, no matter how deeply held, is clearly nothing more than an accident of birth

The scholar I have found most associated with the claim in more recent Evangelical literature is Anthony Hoekema, an irenic Reformed scholar to be sure, but one who nevertheless has said that «it has been the almost unanimous conviction of the mainline Protestant churches that these miraculous gifts ceased at the close of the Apostolic Age.»

I am often so turned off to their religious convictions for that reason alone, because they are POSITIVE that they are correct with total disregard not only to those who might not believe in a higher being, but more oddly, to ALLLLL of the other religious that span the globe.

Hartshorne also has a deep and abiding conviction «that idealism (here taking Ewing's definition: the belief that reality can be explained in terms of the mind) has more to teach us than most contemporaries realize» (CSPM xiii).

«While I'm proud of what we've achieved together, I'm far more mindful of my own failings,» Obama said in his acceptance speech, «knowing exactly what Lincoln meant when he said, «I have been driven to my knees many times by the overwhelming conviction that I had no place else to go.»»

But here, too, there is little that is actually new, although there is detail that confirms what shrewder observers of Vatican life pieced together after the events of early 2013: that Benedict XVI's poorly - planned 2012 visit to Mexico and Cuba convinced him that he could no longer travel; that he believed the Pope must be present at World Youth Day 2013 in Brazil, a conviction that became the terminus ad quem driving the timing of the abdication and what immediately preceded it; and that, contrary to speculations that have become more lurid over time, Benedict's concern about his increasingly frailty, which fuelled his concern that he would be increasingly unable to give the Church what she deserved from a pope, was the sole motive behind his decision to renounce the Oice of Peter — not Vatileaks, not concerns about financial and other corruptions inside the Leonine Wall, not blackmail.

The deeper I look into myself the more clearly I become aware of this psychological truth: that no man would lift his little finger to attempt the smallest task unless he were spurred on by a more or less obscure conviction that in some infinitesimally tiny way he is contributing, at least indirectly, to the building up of something permanent — in other words, to your own work, Lord.

(10) Behavior therapies have an aura of hope based on the conviction that what has been learned can be unlearned and the belief that everyone has some capacity to learn new, more constructive behavior.

It was his conviction that the Christian must always contemplate wars with mental pain and that «if any one either endures or thinks of them without mental pain, his is a more miserable plight still, for he thinks himself happy because he has lost all human feeling.»

In fact Father Maillard, the director of Frères du Monde, actually declared: «If I noticed that my faith [true, he did not add «Christian»] separated me by however little from other men and diminished my revolutionary violence, I would not hesitate to sacrifice my faith,» A clear statement of the conviction latent in Shaull's writings; namely, that revolution is more fundamental than the faith.

In fact, when it comes to Christmas, the season more often puts us in the role of intolerant, overbearing zealots demanding that everyone else conform to our religious preferences and publicly reflect our inner convictions.

If he has seen almost unbelievable courage and endurance and, what is even more moving, an unshakable conviction of the final goodness of God, he is bound to feel humble.

Some say it allows people to discriminate against gays and lesbians, while others say it gives people of faith more liberty to live out their convictions.

May we all be inspired to speak with more truth, more conviction, more care, and more bravery about this difficult topic, so that our awareness doesn't end here, but continues to grow, until the day when all things are reconciled to the source of love, and the story of abuse is only a memory.

Most modern Church - goers give this weekly witness to their own inner conviction without the slightest sense of superiority, and more frequently than is sometimes supposed, it is given by young Christians despite ridicule, discouragement and even some persecution.

If they were, then the emergent theology could compete on a more equal basis with traditional ones, and the insights and convictions now gathered under the heading of a theology of nature could penetrate more deeply into the life of the church.

And I know many of my fellow Christians who hold a more conservative view of sexuality share that conviction too.

We were Catholic, a religious expression that seemed to arise more out of tradition and perhaps superstition than conviction.

A more ambitious set of liberals then came to claim that religion had to be private in the sense that religious believers should not bring their moral convictions to the political and legislative process.

And the impact of Jesus Christ upon history, his continuing influence and power in the world, the very wonder of his person itself that we read about in the New Testament — all point to his being more than the best of men, making credible the conviction stated in a hymn, that in Jesus we have «God in man made manifest.»

No, an unfavorable result can no more disprove the faithful man's conviction of what his calling should be, than a favorable result can of itself prove that he is in his proper calling.

But the participants share one important conviction: they believe that the resolution of religiously rooted political tensions will be attained not by avoiding religion in public, but by initiating more and better religious conversations in public.

So soon as the human race reaches the level of shared appreciation, ordered and agreed convictions as to ends or aims to be sought after and if possible achieved, and a pattern of common life in which the mutuality and sharing known at the personal level can be broadened in more or less formal communal patterns, we can speak of the appearance of civilization.

He does not wish to force it upon you any more than you would desire to force it upon him if you were of this conviction.

At Vox Nova, Kelly Wilson has published an extended examination of the dilemma posed to those who find themselves struggling with Church teaching, whether because they authentically lack conviction or understanding or deal doubt from a more cynical place, as in the case of ideologically - driven op - ed columnists.