Sentences with phrase «real conviction in»

Don't be too overbearing, but try to have real conviction in everything that you say.

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The prior three corporate convictions under the CFPOA have been achieved by the entering of guilty pleas.2 The Court also for the first time interpreted the meaning of key provisions in the statute, including clarifying that an inchoate offence of conspiracy exists under the CFPOA and in what circumstances a real and substantial connection will be required and found.

1) Diversify into heartland / flyover states and away from coastal city real estate 2) Conviction is HIGHER now that the new tax plan has passed with the $ 10K SALT cap and $ 750K mortgage cap 3) Invest in the fund with 12 — 16 deals, b / c they are picking the best deals on their platform and have a high incentive not to mess things up if they want to raise new funds 4) Learn from the investments of the fund and eventually invest in specific deals w / real capital (1 - 2 years away)

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.

The real problem is that some, and perhaps many, Catholics remain within the canonical boundaries of the Church but are not Catholics in any meaningful sense of conviction or expression.

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.

In his day diverse views were held with real conviction such that people acted on them.

Unanimity with the group as a whole had been at the beginning the sine qua non of Yahweh's favor; now such submergence of moral conviction in the majority's opinion seemed to the real devotees of Yahweh to be supine apostasy.

Like Professor MacKinnon in his Easter meditation, I based my sermon on the assumption that there was an objective Easter event, and that it was this event which produced the dramatic change in the outlook of the disciples; that to speak of «Easter» is not a way of describing the disciples» growing conviction that Jesus had been right after all; but that it was only because something real and objective and totally unexpected had actually happened at Easter that the disciples became changed men.

But in the second passage, the heat of argument elicits [Hume's] real conviction — everybody's real conviction — that visual sensations arise «by the eyes.»

What I find so maddening in my efforts to negotiate the barriers between my Protestantism and my seminarians» Catholicism is that while we are united in so many of our convictions and practices, we are divided by differences real enough to make the Omega Point almost as remote as in the bad old days of open hostility between our churches.

Christians are some of the most kind hearted people I meet on a consistant basis, a lot of them come from good homes and really choose to do good, but with their delusions and conviction in hallucination, they terrify me that they have real decision making power in the US...

And this assumption points dramatically to our real - world conviction that great art, beautiful poetry, and inspiring ideals are all made right here on earth, not in heaven.

In real life, a lot of convictions are still obtained through coerced confessions and uncertain witness testimony, which is just about the worst evidence there is.

Real differences of opinion and conviction are papered over in the name of tolerance.

I recently attended a event where a Mormon and a Baptist engaged in this kind of civil and respectful dialogue about their respective faiths and similar to your feelings I came away with the stronger conviction that we need more real dialogue and less the perpetuations of stereotypes and religious polemic.

The particular form of myth in which he expressed it does not hold for us the conviction that it held for him, but the experience that it points to is just as real.

This conviction arises, in Whitehead's view, because that real world impinges upon us.

If it is ever to be brought into being in the real world, my basic democracy would, of course, require a fleshed - out superstructure in which real humans could live together — arguing as well as deliberating, competing as well as deciding, united and distinguished by something beyond their shared conviction that equality, freedom, and civic dignity are essential to collective self - government by citizens.

Undoubtedly, one of the major problems that has beset theological aesthetics is, on the one hand, the modern and post-modern loss of faith in the image and likeness of God in created human nature; and on the other, the loss of conviction that truth is objectively real and attainable by the human person, intellectually and by feeling (aesthesis).

I showed him a newsboy shouting the midday paper, and a No. 73 bus going past, and before he reached the bottom of the stairs I had got into him an unalterable conviction that, whatever odd ideas might come into a man's head when he was shut up alone in his books, a healthy dose of «real life» (by which he meant the bus and the newsboy) was enough to show him that all «that sort of thing» just couldn't be true.

They started from the Conviction that God's creative love, his gracious dealing with his creatures, his purpose to bring men into true sonship towards himself whatever it might cost to win them over from complacent, hard - hearted, self - love, and his willingness to pay, himself, whatever it might cost — that all this was focused in the real, historical and human Jesus.

«Critical consciousness» seems to entail a conviction that our ideas are in touch with the real world only if they pass the test of being «verifiable» or «falsifiable» according to methods of observation that are publicly accessible.

In short, Whitehead is insisting that not only can something subjectively originated become, in his metaphysics, objectively real and communally known, but that, ethically, it must become so, since the willfulness of «immediate conviction» is not self - justifyinIn short, Whitehead is insisting that not only can something subjectively originated become, in his metaphysics, objectively real and communally known, but that, ethically, it must become so, since the willfulness of «immediate conviction» is not self - justifyinin his metaphysics, objectively real and communally known, but that, ethically, it must become so, since the willfulness of «immediate conviction» is not self - justifying.

You are having your first experience of real tragedy and sorrow, but in my similar experience one thing that helped me most was the conviction that I could handle my sorrow in such a way that my mother would be proud of me.

The religious freedom resulting from this tolerance is real enough; what is unreal is the assumption that religious convictions that can not be acted on in public will nonetheless continue to function in private as if they could be.

Plato (c.428 - 348 BcE), for example, regarded the «inspired utterances of poets and prophets as, at best, symbolical adumbrations or shadows of truth and, at worse, the source of degrading superstitions».3 Fundamental to Plato's thought is the conviction that truth can not be found in everyday life and sensible reality, but in a more real or ideal realm of unchangeable or eternal forms, which are the blueprint and pattern of the world.

You would do this in the conviction that there is within you a potency of real sensitivity and appropriate response.

And although his name has already been thrown around this transfer window in terms of a move to Arsenal, this is the first time it has been done with any real conviction.

Previous Conservative and Labour governments have created serious problems, particularly for the millions in the private sector workforce, and it takes real political courage and conviction to take them on and bring about positive change.

Silver's conviction of doing favors for a doctor and two real estate companies that funneled legal fees to him was overturned in July on the same grounds.

After 39 years in office, however, Silver fell far and fast following a conviction on corruption charges in 2015, when a jury found him guilty of colluding with both a physician and real estate interests to rake in millions from referral fees to his law firm in return for political favors.

«The real disgrace in our country is that only 6 % of rapes that are reported to a police station end in a conviction.»

Mr. Miller's fraud conviction, related to a real - estate deal, was overturned in 1993, when a judge ruled his actions weren't illegal, while they may «not have been a model of candor and disclosure.»

Members of the governing National Democratic Congress in the Volta Region, say the contents of the recently launched manifesto of the opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP), reaffirms their conviction that, the NDC is the only party that can bring real development to the region.

NEW YORK — Real estate giant Glenwood Management was fined $ 200,000 by a state ethics commission for its role in the federal corruption convictions of former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver and former Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos, once two of New York's most powerful politicians.

A good, or rather lamentable, example of this trend can be found in a spate of interviews with EDL leader «Tommy Robinson» (real name: Stephen Yaxley), who has convictions for violence as well as fraud.

UPDATED, 5:00 p.m., May 3: Former New York state Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver was sentenced to 12 years in federal prison Tuesday, after his conviction on federal corruption charges related to his dealings with several prominent real estate figures.

In addition, Mr. Berlusconi — who is barred from holding office because of a 2013 fraud conviction — has made it clear that he is the real power behind the coalition.

He added, «Steve understands and is well - equipped to make our Republican case in the present extraordinary political climate.Steve speaks about his Contract for New York, which sets out the terms of the mandate he wants from the voters and taxpayers of New York, with a genuine gut conviction based on real time experience walking - the - walk of a fiscally conservative county executive.»

A Federal appeals panel yesterday unanimously overturned the fraud conviction of former Assembly Speaker Mel Miller of Brooklyn, agreeing that a tangled real - estate deal in which he and his former law partner netted $ 200,000 did not constitute a crime.

Sheldon Silver — the former New York State Assembly speaker accused of receiving illegal payments from real estate developers and others in exchange for political support — had his 2015 corruption conviction overturned Thursday.

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.

While the previous films in the series have been just that — parts of a sequence designed to get us here, each with their own beginning and end — the first and second parts of Deathly Hallows are two halves of the same film, and to approach them as separate entities means missing just what director David Yates, writer Steve Kloves, and a host of storytellers and performers have done: They've made a five - hour fantasy epic that balances effects - driven battles with some very real character moments, and one that isn't afraid to have its heroes pay a high price for their convictions.

De Niro's performance begins to seem more a matter of well - practiced gestures than real conviction, and the long, silly finale more an exercise in empty panache by director Tony Scott than a truly gripping suspense piece involving people we care about.

The real Loomis Fargo Robbery was the biggest cash - haul in US history, but it ended in convictions all round, so don't go hoping for a happy ending.

As sad as it is, real world dramas of wrongful conviction are fairly commonplace in cinema.

Though it practically qualifies as an original film, taking little from Matheson's text and teleplay (including virtually nothing in the way of social commentary), Real Steel is a tired and familiar production, hitting all the beats to tug at your heart strings but without real conviction or personalReal Steel is a tired and familiar production, hitting all the beats to tug at your heart strings but without real conviction or personalreal conviction or personality.

Buzzed is an easy way to say tough with real conviction — Jake Gyllenhaal's seared soldier in «Jarhead,» Natalie Portman's futuristic punk in «V for Vendetta» and Charlize Theron taking it down to the roots for next year's new edition of «Mad Max.»

In composing the song, Stevens says he felt a «conviction to write something with dignity and grace, to pull back the ridiculous tabloid fodder and take stock of the real story of this strange and magnificent American hero».