Next, Congress could also delay collateral attacks
on the conviction by turning writs of Habeas Corpus proceedings into second trial by adding some clause that if the respondent to the writ does not establish beyond a reasonable doubt that the petitioner committed the crime from the evidence heard during the proceeding, the writ shall be issued, which essentially means the defendant's original trial is invalidated.
Not exact matches
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.
He notes that he could boost IMETs»
conviction rate
by taking
on only slam - dunk cases, but argues that would be inappropriate.
Dutch prosecutors have revealed that Slobodan Praljak died of a heart attack after drinking cyanide as his
conviction and sentence for war crimes was affirmed
by the the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in The Hague, Netherlands,
on Wednesday.
On Saturday the world enjoyed the long anticipated March for Science, which transformed Earth Day into a global defense of STEM, led
by quietly spirited people undaunted
by weather, buoyed
by conviction, and waving an unlimited supply of wry, funny signs.
In a note
on Friday, Morgan Stanley analysts wrote that the recent gain in the US oil - rig count is one reason why they are losing
conviction in their call for a re-balancing of the market
by mid-2017.
A successful arrest assisted
by mass interest
on social media doesn't necessarily lead to a successful
conviction.
«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.
That period of reflection appears to have emboldened Poloz's
conviction in the story he's been telling from the start: that international sales of manufactured goods and services would lead a rotation away from the economy's reliance
on high commodity prices and consumption
by heavily indebted households.
«People don't necessarily have
conviction at the moment
on their holdings,» Joe «JJ» Kinahan, the chief market strategist at TD Ameritrade, said
by phone.
Conviction sentiment is determined
by the K2 Advisors» Research group based
on a variety of factors deemed relevant to the analyst (s) covering the strategy or sub-strategy and may change from time to time in the analyst's sole discretion.
In January, Danish police made their second bitcoin
conviction when a 20 - year - old was jailed
by a court in Herning, Jutland, for making large - scale purchases of amphetamines, cocaine and ketamine
on an online «dark web» marketplace.
And as I have been increasing concentration, it has become increasingly important for my ideas to be extremely high
conviction, which is more attainable
by focusing
on businesses with strong market power.»
The US stock market had «rolled over» Monday / Tuesday last week... a move I had been waiting for... so I bought S+P puts but
by the end of the week I had a «low
conviction» level
on the trade because the market hadn't broken down.
Like all mainline Protestant denominations, United Methodism finds itself challenged
on its traditional position
on sexual morality
by the emergence of the conscientious
conviction that gay and lesbian relationships are a legitimate expression of God's good and diverse creation.
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.
The tragedy is compounded, moreover,
on the reading that I have proposed,
by the irony of the fact that in material theological terms the Luther of 1519 arguably did greater justice to the core
convictions of the catholic tradition than did the Luther of 1517.
... while Paul VI did write that it was his responsibility to sift the material he had been given
by many advisers, including the papal commission
on marriage and fertility that Pope John XXIII had established and that he, Paul, had expanded, he also made clear that the teaching of Humanae Vitae rested, not
on the personal conscience of Giovanni Battista Montini, but
on the mature
conviction of Pope Paul VI as custodian and servant, not master, of the Catholic tradition.
But I believe, and am of strong
conviction at this, that this country is provoking the judgment of God
on itself,
by treating it's poor, under - privileged and those who fall through the cracks as a burden, and as a nuisance that is only in the way of it's «at all cost» coveted image of «greatness», instead of giving a hard and honest look WHY is it the way it is in this country?
At least they live
by their
convictions — you use the science that suits you and pour scorn
on the rest.
It is this
conviction that Yahweh is recognized
by his intervention
on behalf of the poor that explains the denunciations in the Jeremiah traditions of the falsehood of Judaite faith.3 For prophets to speak words of peace in the name of Yahweh to a people who practice injustice is to speak a lie, for it is not Yahweh who has sent them (Jer.
If one is not prejudiced either
by social beliefs or
by scientific training into the
conviction that life originated spontaneously
on the Earth, this simple calculation (of the 2,000 proteins coming about chance) wipes the idea entirely out of court.»
The exclamation point was stamped
on our
conviction to do something about our situation when we attended a talk at our parish
by a monsignor who acts as a judge of the canon law tribunal in our diocese, considering annulment cases.
On the one hand, democratic freedom may mean the ideal of the individual exercising his or her own free will — a value based upon solid
conviction and nourished
by a Christian view of the competence and dignity of the individual soul.
I was particularly dissatisfied
by her argument that the «sheer impracticality» of Jesus» ethic is a product of his apocalyptic
convictions, since «no normal society could long run
on the principles of the Sermon
on the Mount.»
I was arrested
by her comments
on conviction, holiness and legalism.
But some religiously orthodox wedding vendors are finding themselves compelled
by the civil authorities to affirm an answer to that question that violates their religious
convictions on the subject, and some religious institutions — from universities to social service agencies to private companies owned
by orthodox believers — are finding themselves forced to take part in the enactment and enforcement of a moral code they are obliged to reject.
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.
Even where the Church is still only
on the way with its own doctrine, it draws its formulas each time out of its own enduring basic
convictions, which always recognizably and unchangeably shine through the attitudes and concrete formulations, which at first sight
by their merely literal tenor appear different or contradictory.
To be sure, if the reader shares at all the author's experience, he will find that clear light is shed
on the mature
convictions of Judaism and Christianity
by such a study of their origins and growth.
thinks, that the Tigris and the Euphrates have not a common source, that the Dead Sea had been in existence long before human beings came to live in Palestine, instead of originating in historical times, and so
on... We are able to comprehend this as the naive conception of the men of old, but we can not regard belief in the literal truth of such accounts as an essential of religious
conviction... And every one who perceives the peculiar poetic charm of these old legends must feel irritated
by the barbarian — for there are pious barbarians — who thinks he is putting the true value upon these narratives only when he treats them as prose and history.
Despite the strong public sentiment against such
convictions after the terrorist attacks
on the World Trade Towers and the Pentagon, a perusal of public statements made
by the leadership of the historic peace churches clearly indicates that, while they have repeatedly called for the perpetrators to be held accountable, they have not backed away from their commitment to nonviolence.
On March 24, 1980, not long after he voiced a plea to soldiers to disobey killing orders that were contrary to God's commandments and their moral
convictions, he was gunned down
by a rightist assassin while saying mass in the chapel of the hospital where he lived.
These fears may well have been borne out
by Paul's rebuke of Peter, when Peter went back
on his tentative multicultural
convictions out of fear of rebuke from the powerful Jewish establishment (Gal.
I end here
by repeating my
conviction that the canonical interpretation of Scripture is the theologians main job and
by adding to it my further
conviction that only those who give themselves to this task first and foremost will ever be fit to interpret anything else
on God's behalf.
The group that held this
conviction the most explicitly, and who acted
on it in the largest sector of independent higher education — that which belonged to the Liberal Protestants — is well represented
by William DeWitt Hyde, elected president of Bowdoin College in 1885 at the age of 26:
And the rescuers studied
by the Oliners said they were wrong, and acted courageously
on that
conviction.
Now it is up to the clergy, who more and more can begin to act
on the
convictions expressed
by the U.N. report, which opens with the words «Alarmed
by the threat to the very survival of mankind,» and proceeds:»... the accumulation of weapons, particularly nuclear weapons, today constitutes much more a threat than a protection for the future of mankind.
Whatever may have been the actual course of events, historically speaking, which the New Testament means to signify when it speaks of the resurrection of Jesus Christ, it is at least clear that it was the
conviction of the New Testament writers, building
on the testimony of the disciples after the crucifixion of Jesus — as it has been the continuing
conviction of millions of Christian people since that time — that far from Jesus» being «put out of the way»
by his death at the hands of the Roman authorities in Palestine, he was «let loose into the world.»
The Revolution of 1989 in east and central Europe» a world - historical series of events ignited
by moral passion, informed
by moral
conviction, sustained
by deft and morally sophisticated politics, and supported
by a resolute demonstration that the Soviet Union could not compete with the United States in a serious arms race» raised further questions about classic foreign - policy realism and its narrow focus
on «hard power» as the analytic prism for understanding both the dynamics of world politics and the exigencies of American foreign policy.
... You see, these misguided creatures start with the general
conviction that they are immortal for all time, which explains the contempt of death and voluntary self - devotion which are so common among them; and then it was impressed
on them
by their original lawgiver that they are all brothers, from the moment that they are converted, and deny the gods of Greece, and worship the crucified sage, and live after his laws.
Because of the continuing suffering of industrial labor and the vast wealth accumulated
by some capitalists, there arose a
conviction on the part of many that industrialization should be controlled
by the state and its products distributed equally.
So if I have understood you rightly it's about learning to be comfortable with uncertainty, not holding
on steadfastly to
convictions that either we have come to
by our own volition or
by cultural influences.
It was an illusion of Horace Mann and the other reformers who shaped our educational system in conscious opposition to «sectarian» schools that a coherent «common» education could be provided
by stressing only those
convictions on which «men of good will» agreed.
That America is guided
by Providence is a belief deeply entrenched in the seventeenth - century beginnings, the constitutional period, Lincoln's ponderings
on our greatest war, and Woodrow Wilson's
convictions about the inseparable connections between freedom and American destiny.
In fact, looking around the world today, the most hopeful sign I see is the human rights movement, which operates from the unprovable and,
on its face, improbable moral
conviction that all humans are equal and that no human should be abused
by any other for any reason whatsoever.
Such conservatives, estimated
by pollster Daniel Yankelovich as one American in five, are actually somewhat marginal to the mainstream of national life, have few polished spokespersons, and are given to unsophisticated and vehement expression of their resentment about assaults
on their
convictions and values.
@ monoya: Definition of BELIEF 1: a state or habit of mind in which trust or confidence is placed in some person or thing 2: something believed; especially: a tenet or body of tenets held
by a group 3:
conviction of the truth of some statement or the reality of some being or phenomenon especially when based
on examination of evidence Atheism easily fits within these parameters.
To put the point in the blunt terms employed
by Justice Harold Blackmun toward the end of his career
on the bench, when he announced that he would henceforth vote (as Justices William Brennan and Thurgood Marshall had previously done) to overturn all death sentences, when I sit
on a Court that reviews and affirms capital
convictions, I am part of «the machinery of death.»
If the Easter faith is understood primarily as the
conviction of the exaltation of the crucified Jesus to be Lord and Savior, it is possible to understand how it could have arisen among the dispirited disciples as their response to the «offence» of the crucifixion of their Master, while they wrestled with that problem in the light of the impact made
on them
by the life and teaching of Jesus, and in the light of their study of the scriptures, of their current
convictions about similar figures and of their belief about God.