Sentences with phrase «years with the conviction»

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Berman's death was one of a handful of unsolved cases — all of which shared Durst as a suspect — at the center of The Jinx, which aired last year and covered Durst's history of run - ins with the law as well as his ability, to that point, to wrangle away from any major conviction of wrongdoing.

The former New York congressman is serving a nearly two - year federal prison sentence following his conviction on charges that stemmed from sexting with a 15 - year - old girl.

End Illegal Immigration Act Fully - funds the construction of a wall on our southern border with the full understanding that the country Mexico will be reimbursing the United States for the full cost of such wall; establishes a 2 - year mandatory minimum federal prison sentence for illegally re-entering the U.S. after a previous deportation, and a 5 - year mandatory minimum for illegally re-entering for those with felony convictions, multiple misdemeanor convictions or two or more prior deportations; also reforms visa rules to enhance penalties for overstaying and to ensure open jobs are offered to American workers first.

His conviction in index funds for the general investor is so strong that he made a bet with several hedge fund managers in 2008 that 5 funds of their choosing would underperform the overall market over 10 years.

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)

-- Michael Scherer spent hours in early February interviewing Joe Arpaio, the former Maricopa County sheriff who had his conviction pardoned by Trump and is now running for Arizona's Senate seat: «Each of the Republicans running for Senate in Arizona this year claims a special bond with President Trump, but only one describes it as a supernatural connection beyond rational explanation.

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.

And with so few money laundering cases opened and investigated every year, each conviction since the law went into effect carries an estimated $ 7 million price tag.

Amnesty International documented 106 convictions between 2004 and 2014, with some individuals imprisoned for up to five years.

This led Luther eventually to conclude that the Roman Church was irrevocably committed to the claim that the authority of the pope stood even above Holy Scripture and it was in this context that he came, over the next several years, to believe that the papacy was the prophesied Antichrist of the last days, a conviction he then held to his dying day with a literalistic fervor that his modern interpreters have rarely been willing to take as seriously as he did.

This year, Hillary Clinton has better policy proposals to help improve the lives of women, children, and families than Donald Trump, whose pro-life convictions are lukewarm at best, and whose mass deportation plan would rip hundreds of thousands of families apart, whose contempt for Latinos, Muslims, refugees and people with disabilities would further marginalized the «least of these» among us, and whose support for torture and targeting civilians in war call into question whether Christians who support him are truly pro-life or simply anti-abortion.

This is one of the reasons why years ago I joined prominent religious leaders, including some I strongly disagree with, in signing a document expressing convictions concerning religious liberty.

Last year, Gorsuch spoke of how he agreed with Scalia that judges should use «text, structure and history» to understand the law, and «not to decide cases based on their own moral convictions or the policy consequences they believe might serve society best,» The Washington Postreported.

But my basic convictions about them were derived not from these philosophers but partly from my being surrounded from birth with the reality in question; partly from Emerson's essays and the works of James and Royce; partly from the poems of Shelley and Wordsworth (which similarly influenced Whitehead); and most of all from my own experience, reflected upon especially during my two years in the army medical corps, when I had considerable leisure to think about life and death and other fundamental questions.

In the 10 years leading up to the end of 2015, 13,835 offences were committed by those with a previous conviction, or caution for animal cruelty, including murder and rape.

I am counting on you to be a Christian, your convictions growing stronger with the passing years, but with a hospitable spirit that welcomes truth wherever it comes from, and that feels with Malachi, «Have we not all one father?

But the basic conviction has grown stronger, not weaker, with every year that nothing men can do to mankind is worse than the totalitarian war of our era.

I shall never forget the impact on my ministry when I sat down a few years ago and jotted on paper «the great rocky facts of being» (Augustus Hopkins Strong): some elementary but elemental truths I felt certain of, with certainty defined as «no doubt about it» but as «convictions by and for which one lives and dies.»

Little by little, Tolstoy came to the settled conviction — he says it took him two years to arrive there — that his trouble had not been with life in general, not with the common life of common men, but with the life of the upper, intellectual, artistic classes, the life which he had personally always led, the cerebral life, the life of conventionality, artificiality, and personal ambition.

In 1956, the Joint Committee presented, to both organizations, a statement tracing the history of the association of the two bodies and offering the Committee» s conviction that the time had come for the World Council of Churches and International Missionary Council to consider afresh the possibility of integrating the two Councils.18 In the same year, the Joint Committee prepared a draft plan of integration, with a booklet entitled: Why Integration 2, to be presented to the World Council of Churches Central Committee Meeting in 1957 and the Ghana Assembly of the International Missionary Council in 1957 - 58.

Over the past several years I have served in various positions that have allowed me the opportunity to engage with people who express firm religious and political convictions.

This conviction grew with the advancing years, and to all appearances he lived like a Hindu.

The past year has been a disaster for refugees and for those of us who are deeply concerned — many because of the convictions of our faith — with their well - being.

The moderates» break with the national Southern Baptist Convention came more than ten years ago after they were trounced in a Baptist «holy war» in the 1980s by politically savvy conservatives determined to enforce their conviction that the Bible is historically, scientifically and theologically inerrant.

«May 21, 2011, is the day of judgment,» he says with conviction, in a YouTube video posted last year.

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Our 5 year old announced with conviction that she would not be eating any of the chicken because of the «gross onions and limes.»

Elliott paid a fine and served a year of probation, but foreigners with certain felony convictions can be deported.

Armed, however, with avicious split - fingered fastball that's as good as ever and the aforementionedhardheadedness — Clemens is a staunch power pitcher the way Strom Thurmondremained a staunch conservative to the grave — Clemens concedes nothing.Whatever velocity he may have lost since his prime years is compensated forwith conviction and command.

Maryland Governor Marvin Mandel got a four - year sentence last week following his conviction on charges of mail fraud and racketeering: for the latter, read playing legislative footsie with state racetrack interests.

I think that the Spuds are going to be a real threat this year and may take 4th place unless we respond (with some conviction) to what we can all see as being inadequate

You have to earn the right to play football in any game first and foremost by matching your opponent for workrate, intensity, composure and conviction and Arsenal were well and truly found to be lacking for any of these components Monday night, and indeed in any of our meeting with the «BIG» sides in recent years, they think they will be let pass, when this does nt transpire they cant react.

April 1 — Already without the services of former England midfielder Adam Johnson, imprisoned for six years after his conviction on charges of sexual activity with a 15 - year - old girl, struggling English Premier League team Sunderland have now had to sack one - time Arsenal fullback Emmanuel Eboué, who has been banned from football for 12 months by FIFA because of an unpaid debt owed to his former representative.

The program of prenatal and infancy home visiting by nurses described above produced treatment - control differences in 15 - year - olds» arrests and reductions in arrests and convictions among 19 - year - old females.32, 33 In a subsequent trial with a large sample of urban African - Americans the program produced treatment impacts on 12 - year - olds» use of substances and internalizing disorders.34

• A 26 - year - old Bedford Park woman with a previous retail - theft conviction was charged with felony retail theft for taking $ 152 in cosmetics from Sephora at Orland Square Mall on March 20.

As of September 11, only 13 cases linked to the eight - year insurgency had been concluded, with nine convictions, according to the government.

The Supreme Court, in a case last year involving former Virginia Gov. Robert McDonnell, ruled that corruption convictions could only be based on performance of an «official act» that represented a formal exercise of government power — not just a phone call or a meeting with a lobbyist.

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.

«I am deeply saddened by the events that have taken place this year, culminating with today's conviction of former Speaker Sheldon Silver,» Heastie said in a statement.

Skelos along with his son had his conviction overturned last year and is awaiting retrial by federal prosecutors.

But victims» groups say that with many rape convictions carrying a sentence of just five years - only half of which might be served depending on behaviour - some sex offenders could face a sentence as short as 15 months.

A Groton man with a history of DWI convictions has been sentenced to six months in jail and 5 years of

In a dizzying year that saw the public corruption convictions of former Assembly speaker Sheldon Silver and Skelos at the hands of Bharara's office, what better candidate to run in Skelos» old district than a former prosecutor with a record of fighting corruption like Kaminsky?

A man who served 16 years behind bars for murder before his conviction was overturned cried and held the hands with a Brooklyn judge Tuesday after learning he won't be...

The case — along with the conviction of former Senate leader Dean Skelos, who is to be sentenced May 12 — was a capstone of Manhattan U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara's crusade against Albany corruption, and prosecutors asked for more than 14 years in prison — the highest federal sentence ever for a New York legislator.

Waving his fists in the air, Ganim, whose corruption convictions sent him to prison for seven years, jumped on a table and shouted along with his political staff and loyalists.

Dianne Renwick, one of the judges who tossed the stop - and - frisk conviction of a 14 - year - old boy found with a gun in Harlem, is the wife of Bronx DA Robert Johnson.

One of those factors will likely be what his run would mean for his fellow Senate Republicans, who are gearing up for a re-match with the Democrats for control of the chamber in what's shaping up to be a challenging year, thanks to the twin corruption convictions of two former top conference leaders — ex-Deputy Majority Leader Tom Libous and ex-Majority Leader Dean Skelos — as well as a presidential election that will likely boost Democratic turnout in this Democrat - dominated state.

'' My feeling is, if you made a mistake when you're 16 or 17 — and I don't know a 16 or 17 year old who has not made a mistake — but if you made a mistake that actually led to a conviction of a crime, but you didn't commit another crime in 10 years, then we will conditionally pardon you and let you get on with your life and remove the obstacle,» Cuomo told WNYC's Brian Lehrer on Monday.

«It's just shocking,» said Dadey, who said the «crime wave has accelerated» with 11 convictions in the just the past three years.