Sentences with phrase «overwhelmed by the conviction»

Every once in a while, American K — 12 education is overwhelmed by the conviction that its basic design is obsolete and that it needs somehow to reinvent schooling.

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The idea was simple, effective, and brilliant, but it would have died in Blakely's Atlanta kitchen had she not followed it up by phoning, then visiting, every hosiery mill in North Carolina, until her conviction overwhelmed the skepticism she met in all quarters and she found a manufacturing partner.

«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.»»

They have started like Lincoln, vowing that if ever he had a chance to hit slavery, he would hit it hard, and they have ended like Lincoln, saying, «Many times I have been driven to my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere else to go.»

«While I'm proud of what we've achieved together, I'm far more mindful of my own failings, 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.»»

A subsequent investigation by the Raleigh News & Observer found overwhelming evidence of a pro-prosecution bias at the lab, including training materials advising analysts on how to improve their conviction rates and instructing them to be wary of defense experts, whom it referred to as «defense whores.»