Sentence examples for Public conviction from inspiring English sources

Yet for the EU to recapture public conviction, it will take more than structural devolution – important though this may be.

Over the past decade North Korea's string of nuclear provocations has reinforced the public conviction that Washington's bark is worse than its bite.

Finally, and it cannot be denied, Tebow's very public conviction about his faith resonates (Isn't he a model for how to live?), intrigues (How can he be so certain?) or annoys (Can't he keep it in the church pew?).

Where Blair fits in is that this liar — like journalists who made different kinds of mistakes in covering W.M.D.s — contributed to a growing public conviction that the press makes things up, or is biased, or irresponsible, or in the pocket of powerful officials.

That public conviction in North Korea's self-reliance has become increasingly tenuous as the country's poverty has deepened — and as the propaganda the North Korean masses (and even the ranks of the elite) hear becomes all the more distant from the reality of their lives.

This explains why the clerical rulers have failed to counter the growing public conviction that the Islamic Republic, too, is impervious to political reform and why the democratic impulse that began with the Constitutional Revolution continues to be a potent and resilient force.

Make your public convictions and commitments known to them and choose to hold them accountable.

Sullivan famously threw out a jury's 2008 public corruption conviction of U.S. Sen. Ted Stevens after it was discovered that prosecutors and agents had hid evidence of key government witnesses giving conflicting accounts.

In that decision, the high court unanimously overturned the public corruption conviction of former Virginia Gov. Robert F. McDonnell (R), ruling that prosecutors had to meet a higher threshold of evidence.

That fall, many of the people who had actively opposed the war in 1968 began to grow impatient, and the first large cracks in the public's conviction that it had embarked on a period of peace and national unity appeared.

While Democratic analysts said that a major foreign upheaval — an Israeli bombing raid on Iran, for example — could scramble the election, attacks on American troops in Afghanistan were likely simply to harden the public's conviction that the United States should stick to, or even accelerate, its withdrawal timetable.