'(T he mere fact that a path is a beaten one,' Mr. Justice Jackson once observed, 'is a persuasive reason for following it.' 13 We confront here a nearly universal conviction, on the part of our people as well as our courts, that forcing a lawyer upon an unwilling defendant is contrary to his basic right to defend himself if he truly wants to do so.
This is an almost universal conviction of religious leaders, with the most notable exception of a few spokesmen of the Southern Baptist Convention who are greatly influenced by their commitment to Israel based on eschatological, or final days, theology.
Revelations about the NSA's trespass on the Fourth Amendment evoked a response conditioned by the near universal conviction among Washington elites that the Agency's activities were invaluable and, therefore, any conjectural curtailment -- however modest -- had to be balanced against that supposed benefit.
The other, nearly universal conviction is that this contraption must be a gimmick, some piece of plastic slickness that sounds cool but can't possibly work.
Kenneth Hudson, author of Museums of Influence, recently told the Economist that the most fundamental change which has affected museums is the now "almost universal conviction that they exist in order to serve the public".
In the case of the failed coup, there is much more at play than fanciful conspiracy theories, many Turks say, because of the nearly universal conviction that it was engineered by Mr. Gulen, who for 16 years has lived in a secluded compound in the Pocono Mountains in Pennsylvania.
The accounts of the Resurrection of Jesus are found in the four Gospels Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John and various theological expressions of the early church's universal conviction and consensus that Christ rose from the dead are found throughout the rest of the New Testament, especially in the letters of the Apostle Paul (e.g., 1 Corinthians 15).
Last fall, there was nearly universal conviction that the growing U.S. current-account and trade deficits were the reason for the dollar's weakness.
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The diverse group convened by the Vatican called for a universal change in convictions and behaviors that currently condone an attitude of indifference with respect to what we leave for future generations.
