Sentence examples for A solid conviction from inspiring English sources

It was replaced with a solid conviction about two things: this innings had to be treated like any other – and it had to be constructed around the basic principles I'd always employed.

But at its root is a solid conviction that the Metropolitan police act out of blatant self-interest at all times, and attempt to turn even the most unpromising of situations to their advantage.

Daniel admits to "that legitimate disgust that seizes any normal man at the sight of a baby," and to a "solid conviction that a child is a sort of vicious dwarf, innately cruel, who combines the worst features of the species, and from whom domestic pets keep a wise distance".

Thus, it is not surprising that many patients show a solid conviction in that their repetitive behavior is actually preventing some event that never took place.

In these 'rhetorical questions', the interrogative tone is adopted 'not to indicate a doubt and trigger a reply, but to indicate, on the contrary, a solid conviction and to defy those to whom one is talking to deny this certainty or even to reply' [ 15].

It is easy to imagine how DNA might, in the future, be manufactured to gain a rock solid conviction against a person who was proving inconvenient to the authorities.

He drifts over the changes with an airy lightness and solid conviction.

Chris Cviic was a person of solid convictions: a committed Roman Catholic and in politics a philosophical conservative (who was often willing to challenge my own political perspective).

Meirelles, who also adapted Paulo Lins' controversial novel, brings a vivid visual style and solid conviction to the story of one kid's attempt to escape the self-destructive urges of his friends.

It is not a violent word". So the I.R.A. invented the "armed struggle". Violence joins injustice — it was the work of a marketing genius and the solid conviction of hundreds, thousands, of men and women: It was their war, their struggle.

"But I know from personal experience, and I think the thousands of women who have worked with and for my father for decades when he was in the private sector are a testament to his belief and solid conviction in the potential of women in their ability to do the job as well as any man".