Sentences with phrase «with less conviction»

It is difficult to imagine a party leader talking with less conviction.

Perhaps Paul will read from the Song with less conviction the next time.

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Forge told me that he wrapped up a conviction of Dusty Foggo, an executive director of the CIA, in less time than the SEC has taken so far with the Wal - Mart investigation — and the Foggo case involved classified documents.

The other thing that I would say is that we need to stand our ground, again with humility and compassion but conviction none the less.

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.

14 % of respondents believe that insider trading practices in the alternative investment industry have become less prevalent since the FBI arrested Raj Rajaratnam and scared the bejeezus out of everyone, a noticeable drop from January 2016 when 25 % of respondents felt this way; 37 % of respondents think the news of arrests and convictions there has had little impact on insider trading because those who engage in such practices think they are smarter than everyone else and will never get caught, compared with 39 % of respondents in 2016; and 49 % of respondents believe the influx of money into funds in recent years and the explosion in the number of hedge fund firms has put enough pressure on fund managers that there will always be a few desperate enough to try anything, including insider trading, a significant increase from the 36 % of respondents who felt this way in the Roundtable's previous survey on this topic.

JPY: Less conviction on the longer term move to 100 with the BoJ stuck in neutral.

A good death, he says, «is finally nothing more or less than a death approached and performed in a manner consistent with a good, well - lived life... Dying well is a morally significant act insofar as it bears evangelical witness to our most profound theological convictions.»

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.

My own desperate clinging to the tattered label evangelical has less to do with any political or cultural uniformity as it does to these core convictions, or rather, the core conviction that the good news of Jesus Christ's death and resurrection for sinners and a broken world is the mightiest power set loose in the history of the world.

Marcion was just as impressed with the inexorability of nature and its laws as we are, even though he had far less scientific data to buttress his convictions.

Where community is dissolved into free and isolated religious convictions of individuals and the cult is transformed into mood and reflexion, there too the link with Jesus is less prominent.

This may be the result of more or less idle curiosity on the part of the theologian, of the conviction that his authorities are also normative with regard to such matters, or of the belief that all truth is so interconnected that he must concern himself with everything.

Pre-trial intervention is not unusual for first - time and non-violent offenders — with good representation, anyway — and can be compared to deferred prosecution, as both paths allow those accused of crimes to pay lesser penalties and avoid convictions and incarceration while satisfying other conditions asked for by prosecutors and set by courts.

The league has some good defenders who would accept the chance to play for Arsenal from lesser leagues with more conviction.

IF you have less money than she does, or none at all because you're saving for the world wildlife fund, that's alright, as long as you do that with conviction.

«The Peacemaker» is a warmed - over story told with little conviction and less imagination.

It's far less fun, dramatically speaking, to watch people with firm moral convictions bravely act on them than to see scoundrels, bigots, and greedheads get moved to their core and impulsively cast aside self - interest.

And yet this film feels considerably less a matter of treading water than 2006's somewhat weary Lights in the Dusk — and besides, Kaurismäki recycling himself with panache and conviction can be a hell of a lot more fruitful than many other directors» originality.

Everyone performs admirably considering the less - than perfect screenplay, and even Timothy Oliphant succeeds (though only barely) in delivering some massive clunkers with commendable conviction.

However, I should explain that my prediction is led less by any conviction that the milquetoast Academy voters will get the thrilling formal invention and conversational artistry of «The Class» — and believe me, if they do, you'll hear my cheers from across the Atlantic — than by an instinctive suspicion that they will not get the avant - garde visual stylings and bleak anti-narrative of presumed frontrunner «Waltz With Bashir.»

No one, no one, could deliver these lines — a mush of anachronistic phrases and «period» posh — with conviction, much less the miscast Cusack and a motley band of supporting players.

It's difficult to imagine anybody involved with this project having real, honest conviction in the quality of the material (one hopes, at the very least, that this was just a paycheck for the otherwise enormously talented Kristen Wiig), and it's even more difficult to reconcile the film's tepid, warmed - over look and feel with Berman and Pulcini's still - great American Splendor, a film Girl Most Likely couldn't be less like.

She seems too sophisticated to be involved with gangsters, she lacks the conviction that could have been demonstrated better by a less fragile actress.

But by the ages of 28 to 33, about 20 percent of men with at least a high school diploma but less than a bachelor's degree hold some kind of criminal conviction or guilty plea.

[27] Thus, excluding applicants with prior convictions likely makes society less safe as a whole, even if it shifts some risk off - campus.

Insure.com compared insurance rates based on a 45 - year - old single man with no driving violations or convictions, who drives to work less than three miles one way.

Mentally prepared for all of these (though with more enthusiasm for some than for others), I had to think fast to respond to a new topic on the morning: a retiring female judge's pronouncement that if women drank less alcohol, there'd be a higher rate of rape convictions.

I stick with my long - stated conviction that Brexit will be far softer & less of a threat for Ireland than many of the dire initial predictions].

Splinter Cell: Conviction ends with the choice of whether or not to kill the big bad, ignoring the hundreds of lesser bads Sam Fisher murders at worst, and forcefully introduces to sink edges and toilets at best.

NWEI has been empowering citizens to act in alignment with their convictions for healthy air, water and food — encouraging people to consume less while at the same time living a life that is richer for both people and planet.

It's the deep change in internal conviction that needs to take place — and if it's not done by democratic means, popular resistance will make any measure far less effective than it could be with popular support.

The Court of Appeal dismissed the conviction appeal and dismissed the sentence appeal by concluding that there was no basis to interfere with the sentence of two years less a day.

In any event, the stigma associated with a criminal conviction is not appropriate for less serious breaches of regulatory rules.

Rather than a fixed period of time — for example, six months imprisonment on conviction for theft — an indeterminate sentence allowed a magistrate to impose a sentence of up to two years less a day, with the length of that sentence to be determined by the offender's conduct in jail.

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Summary conviction appeals are usually less costly than indictable appeals because, among other things, there is only one rather than three or five judges who must be provided with complete copies of all transcripts.

Driving with a taillight out will cost you less than, say, a DUI conviction.

• Leaving the scene of a crash resulting in property damage of more than $ 50.00 — 6 points s. 322.273 (d)(2), F.S. • Unlawful speed resulting in a crash — 6 points s. 322.273 (d)(3), F.S. • Reckless driving — 4 points s. 322.273 d1, F.S. • Any moving violation resulting in a crash — 4 points s. 322.273 (d)(8), F.S. • Passing a stopped school bus — 4 points s. 322.273 (d)(4), F.S. • Unlawful speed — 15 mph or more over the lawful or posted speed — 4 points s. 322.273 (d)(5b), • F.S. • Disregarding traffic / railroad signals — 4 points s. 322.273 (d)(6), F.S. • Any conviction under the Florida Statutes covering interference with an official traffic control device or railroad sign or signal — 4 points s. 322.273 (d)(10), F.S. • Unlawful speed — 15 mph or less over the lawful or posted speed — 3 points s. 322.273 (d)(5a), F.S. • All other moving violations (not including HOV and bicycle traffic violations but including seat belt violations and parking on highway outside the limits of municipalities) you just got yourself — 3 points s. 322.273 (d)(7), F.S. • A conviction under the Florida Litter Law — 3 points s. 322.273 (d)(9), F.S. • Any violations in other states count as the comparable amount of penalty points that an infraction would have accrued in Florida s. 322.273 (d) 10e), F.S. Florida law will notify any licensee, coming within their penalty point danger zone with a warning letter advising that any further convictions may result in loss of driving privileges.

For example, an employer looking to hire for a delivery driver position should be very wary of applicants with a Driving Under the Influence (DUI) conviction, but may not be as concerned with other less - relevant convictions.

In general, these findings are consistent with program effects on early - onset antisocial behavior rather than on the more common and less serious antisocial behavior that emerges with puberty.3 The mere presence of arrests, convictions, and probation violations by the time the children were 15 years old suggests that these children started offending early and that they may be on life - course trajectories that portend recurrent and more serious offenses in the future.