Perhaps American women are becoming more anti-abortion, and are acting on that conviction, which no one can argue with.
But by consistently acting on that conviction, he has drawn into himself the power of certainty.
The argument really comes down to a search for what faith is, what is the reality of a selfless quest in a world acting on the conviction that God is dead.
Why did the U.S.G.A. make such an unusual departure from its tradition and bring the Open to Shinnecock? Hannigan and his predecessor, Harry Easterly, are the men most responsible, acting on their conviction that the course would make for a perfect setting but knowing the difficulty of holding an Open far from a major metropolitan area.
Whether this is true is difficult to judge, but fear of harming his scientific eminence did not dissuade Lejeune from expressing and acting on his convictions.
He wasn't looking to be a hero; he was acting on his convictions and his moral compass led him to participate in activities that are now seen as extraordinary.
But the real question is whether we're acting on a newfound conviction with the urgency required.
In his first interview with an English-language newspaper since he was fired, the former executive, Matthieu Tenenbaum, 33, said that while he had no evidence, he was leaning toward the hypothesis that Renault had been duped into acting on the mistaken conviction that it had a traitor in its ranks.
That he appears to be acting on his core convictions could go a long way with the "liberty voters" who had considered supporting Mr. Paul but became concerned that his positions on other issues of national security — for example, supporting Senate Republicans in their aggressive posture toward the government of Iran as it negotiates a nuclear pact with the United States — were too hawkish.
The debate over the length of Ulbricht's sentence in the past few weeks has hinged on a few central questions was Ulbricht a (perhaps misguided) hero and former Boy Scout following acting on his libertarian convictions, or was he a calculating drug lord getting rich off of others' drug addictions and ruin?
But this would mean acting on his true convictions.
