Sentences with phrase «much conviction in»

While Dunsmuir is now synonymous with the standard of review, it was not argued with much conviction in Mr. Dunsmuir's case.

If so, you obviously did not have much conviction in your initial buy.

Ai has so much conviction in the power of this global tragedy that he's structured «Human Flow» as an intermittently silent film.

Not exact matches

While that policy was a matter of necessity as much as principle, there were other places where Flaherty clearly let his convictions guide him: there was his elimination of income trusts; his ongoing fight to create a national securities regulator; and his efforts to rein in the Canadian Mortgage and Housing Corporation.

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.

Because neither of these allegations resulted in criminal charges, much less convictions, they're not proof of anything.

In 2005, when consumption hit the then - astonishing level of 40 % of GDP, there was a widespread conviction in policy - making circles that this was an unacceptably low level and that it left Chinese growth much too dependent on the trade surplus and on increases in domestic investmenIn 2005, when consumption hit the then - astonishing level of 40 % of GDP, there was a widespread conviction in policy - making circles that this was an unacceptably low level and that it left Chinese growth much too dependent on the trade surplus and on increases in domestic investmenin policy - making circles that this was an unacceptably low level and that it left Chinese growth much too dependent on the trade surplus and on increases in domestic investmenin domestic investment.

This is entirely in keeping with the underlying convictions about knowledge and power that animate much of the new trend in theology.

«Theory» holds sway in contemporary discussions of literature, poetry, and art these days as much by force of habit as by ardent conviction.

We will never escape the possibility of the Black Swan * no matter how much data we amass in support of our most cherished convictions.

The Lahore judges who rejected her appeal conceded that they had based their ruling on a technicality, which they recommended be eliminated in the future to make it much more difficult to achieve blasphemy convictions.

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.

Now Paul's theology must be studied as a Jewish theology modified by the conception of Jesus as the Risen Messiah; that is, it was a Jewish theology — of the high Pharisaic type, in some respects; in others, quite unPharisaic, and making much use of apocalyptic conceptions, as Bruckner and others have shown — and to this Jewish theology was added the new, distinctive, transforming conviction that the Messiah was none other than the lowly Jesus, dead, raised to glory, and soon to come again.

It is young men and women such as these that encourage me in my conviction that the world is much safer in the hands of the newer generation than it ever was with those of my own older generation or of the generation between me and those former students.

How can any Christian argue with much conviction against capital punishment if God effects his purpose in such an unwaveringly bloody way?

This last fundamental religious conviction is, to my knowledge, as much as black theology in North America has ever affirmed, and there is nothing essential in this which is overturned by preferring objective immortality to personal immortality and immortal souls.

In any case, those who think they need to act on their confessional convictions in daily life — much less encourage other people to embrace them — are on the path to terrorisIn any case, those who think they need to act on their confessional convictions in daily life — much less encourage other people to embrace them — are on the path to terrorisin daily life — much less encourage other people to embrace them — are on the path to terrorism.

There has long been a conviction in certain political and theological circles that capitalism itself as a system is to blame for much of the injustice, oppression and poverty in the world.

Since there is so much evidence of the moral decay that follows a loss of theistic conviction and so little evidence of the maintenance of civilization apart from this conviction, the burden of proof is on the person who answers Meiklejohn's question in the affirmative.

However, a comparison sample of students drawn from a secular university showed that, although evangelicalism was much rarer, evangelical students were able to maintain their convictions in this setting as well.

But the problem is frequently much more difficult, as psychologists (Jung) and social philosophers (Nietzsche, Sorel, Pareto, Spengler) have shown that the analysis of the social conditioning of ideas and convictions, though in itself not entitling to decisions as to their validity or invalidity, may contribute to the realization of the partial character of views or intentions expressed in them.

Even though the believer has been consciously looking for something to satisfy his longings, and searching for some purpose in life, his embracing of the Christian faith does not mean that at last he has found what he is looking for, so much as the strange conviction that he has himself been found.

Niebuhr himself came to recognize that he may have overstated the case when he had asserted that we must believe that perfect justice is possible in order to be optimally motivated.27 We can be inspired to committed effort by the conviction that a situation much better than the present one is realistically obtainable.

I believe that the contemporary student generation's concern for freedom in higher education and their recognition of the slavishness of much of what goes by the name of liberal studies points toward the need to restore the lost element of leisure in the life of learning and to renew the conviction that understanding contains its own rewards.

Since men had already been ready to believe that Moses and Elijah had been raised to heaven, how much more should those who had been Jesus» intimate disciples, and who had recognized in him one greater than Moses, come to the conviction that God had raised him from the dead!

For all their conviction of living in an age of miracle, the apostles found themselves living in a world which went on its course, outside the limits of the Christian community, much as it had always done.

It was not merely the enlarged world of his time that impinged on his consciousness with fresh conviction, but in a mood very much like that of the philosophic scientists of today he adduced the consideration that the ordered world declares its origin in a universal mind.

To say with such conviction that no Democrat will enter Heaven... based on YOUR interpretation of what God's holy nature is... based on a Book (no matter how much instruction and wisdom it may provide... without, it seems to me, using your own intellect to delve deeper into the whole of it... is in my opinion the sign of a Believer with a Giant Sequoia in his eye and teaching with his finger.

From the moment Levin saw his beloved brother dying and for the first time looked at the problems of life and death in the light of what he called the new convictions that between the ages of twenty and thirty - four had imperceptibly taken the place of the beliefs of his childhood and youth, he was horrified not so much by death as by a life without the slightest knowledge of where it came from, what it was for, and why, and what it was.

There is much which points to the fact that even when the exaltation of Jesus came to be spoken of in terms of resurrection, the grounds for this conviction were still of an ambiguous character, and open to more than one interpretation.

For the notion that «error has no rights» is very much alive» and precisely in those quarters where religious indifference has indeed led to intolerance of religious conviction.

«Feeling good» for them has replaced «being good,» and relationships are based not so much on a religious conviction about the essential worth of every individual as they are based on contractual arrangements in which each person is considered of value to the extent that he or she is of value to me.

Some of them still carry old denominational convictions; for instance, about continuity in the Anglican Church, the rejection of a set - aside ministry in parts of the Society of Friends, the parity of the ministry in the Reformed tradition, and no ordination without a call from a local church as in much of Lutheranism.

In a way, fundamentalism is as much a frame of mind as a set of doctrines, for many Christians hold these convictions without repudiating those who differ.

Her conviction is very lovable, and one can learn much from her, but one thing is not to be learned from her, one does not learn the movements, for her conviction does not dare in the pain of resignation to face the impossibility.

First of all, I firmly agree that the Gospel of Jesus should be central, but in contrast to much of the Christian Music (and most of the evangelical culture) of the 1980s, that doesn't mean that the Gospel can, or should, be reduced to a few basic convictions about Jesus.

The deepest convictions of men in favor of future hope, therefore, have come not so much from those who have framed arguments for it as from those who have heightened life's spiritual value, given it new meaning, made it wealthy with fresh significance and purpose until it has seemed as though it ought to go on.

In as much as the Church of North India will have within its membership both persons who practise Infant Baptism in the sincere belief that this is in harmony with the mind of the Lord, and those whose conviction it is that the Sacrament can only properly be administered to a believer, both Infant Baptism and Believer's Baptism shall be accepted as alternative practices in the Church of North IndiIn as much as the Church of North India will have within its membership both persons who practise Infant Baptism in the sincere belief that this is in harmony with the mind of the Lord, and those whose conviction it is that the Sacrament can only properly be administered to a believer, both Infant Baptism and Believer's Baptism shall be accepted as alternative practices in the Church of North Indiin the sincere belief that this is in harmony with the mind of the Lord, and those whose conviction it is that the Sacrament can only properly be administered to a believer, both Infant Baptism and Believer's Baptism shall be accepted as alternative practices in the Church of North Indiin harmony with the mind of the Lord, and those whose conviction it is that the Sacrament can only properly be administered to a believer, both Infant Baptism and Believer's Baptism shall be accepted as alternative practices in the Church of North Indiin the Church of North India.

Such universalism was not regarded as orthodox, however, no matter how much more it might seem to be in accordance with the supposedly Christian conviction that God is love.

What is at stake, in my own conviction, is the seeing that it is not so much beyond, as it is in and through, «the flaming ramparts of space and time» that redemption, re-integration, and the fulfillment of the divine purpose of love takes place.

At the time of his conviction, I wrote a small essay about my friendship with Scooter ¯ others knew him better, but we had a genuine literary friendship, free from the politics that infects too much conversation in America these days.

Although I was not raised such, I have come to the strong biblical conviction that these simple meetings with no clergy (but multiple elders) and emphasis given to the Lord's Supper rather than preaching are much more in line with the New Testament model.

When speaking of universal salvation sometimes he used it in quite a weak sense — much in the way an Englishman might hope for a fine day (without any firm conviction that it will come to pass).

He bases this on a conviction of the universality of suffering — that «with so much suffering in this world, it is little wonder that most, if not all persons, feel themselves to be only spectators.»

It was my conviction that, as no professional biographer in his right mind would touch Whitehead, someone who knew him and his work should write as much about this great man's life as the scanty materials allowed; not a memoir, mind you, but an objective partial biography.

These people are pathetic and have about as much in common with Mormonism, Christianity, and conviction as Gordon Gekko and the Music Man.

I found so much solace in writing that when someone first asked me what I wanted to be — I said with unshaken conviction and innocent sincerity — that I wanted to be a writer.

As long as it doesn't result in a felony conviction, McGregor's odd aren't bad for being able to get a visa to the US, although obviously it would be much easier to do so without any kind of conviction record.

O am hoping, without too much confidence or conviction to be perfectly honest, that Arsene Wenger goes transfer crazy in January and adds a fair few top quality players to the injury hit Arsenal squad.

no no absolutely not, you should stop thinking that all arsenal fans would be great guys and would love the club very much, every team has bad / very bad fans and nope i have had arguements with him a lot of times and you are wrong you should look up in the dictionary that isnt even close to irony thats simple cynism he ridicules the team and mocks it at every chance he gets... and for my feeling even if he is frustrated and feeling helpless, people who react like that because of frustration and helplessness are just weak - minded and lack conviction