Sentences with phrase «without much conviction»

The head of MI6 (played without much conviction by Connie Nielsen) knows Barovsky, since she led an effort to frame his as a double agent to the Russian government, leading to his supposed execution.

A lot of movies pontificate on the meaninglessness of revenge without much conviction, reveling in vigilantes acting as our proxies for the indulgence of our worst instincts before paying lip service to law and order.

It was used with devastating effect by the Conservatives in the 1987 and 1992 elections, and they even tried it, without much conviction, in 1997.

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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.

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.

Without it we'd have far fewer atheists and agnostics than we have today, which would be a pity, and we would have much more sectarian violence like other places where religious conviction is allowed to go unchecked.

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).

The criticism was primarily based on one line and, as such, the end result was conviction without much content.

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.

«Game Change» is an entertaining film, though it's mostly recounting facts that are widely known and doing so without much insight into the convictions of these politicians.

Someone who makes a blank accusation without much evidence won't really be enough to make a conviction, let alone give the police enough incentive to press charges and prosecute.

Without Breathalyzer or blood test results to rely on, a DUI conviction becomes much more difficult for a prosecutor to secure.

This means that any offense would be a juvenile delinquency prosecution, which involves a secret trial without a jury, much shorter sentences for the same offenses (that would be served in a juvenile detention center rather than an adult jail or prison if incarceration was ordered), and the sealing of the record of the conviction when you become an adult.