The phrase "alarming conviction" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a strong belief or opinion that causes concern or fear.
Example: "Her alarming conviction that the world was ending led her to make drastic life changes."
Alternatives: "disturbing belief" or "worrying certainty".
And then, with alarming conviction: "It's over".
Britain First preach Islamophobia, but insist they are not racist – a case Fransen was able to put across with alarming conviction.
In her memoirs, Margaret Thatcher records how to some she was not only a woman but "that woman", offending by class as well as gender, and through what she calls her "alarming conviction that the values and virtues of middle England" could solve problems created by "Establishment consensus".
His alarming conclusion: the wrongful convictions were not idiosyncratic but resulted from a series of flawed practices that the courts rely on every day, namely, false and coerced confessions, questionable eyewitness procedures, invalid forensic testimony and corrupt statements by jailhouse informers.
In an ambitious investigative series last week, the Dallas Morning News chronicled the role of eyewitness errors in the alarming number of wrongful convictions exposed by DNA in Dallas County.
"It's going to happen with alarming regularity," says Martin with conviction.
Although this gender-related discrepancy cannot be explained by the present survey, we feel that this tendency of disregarding life-threatening situations in favor of personal conviction is slightly alarming, although only a minority of the male respondents was of this opinion.
Her conviction politics and certainty, combined with the need to dominate makes for a very alarming prospect".
They are part of a growing and above all alarming trend that is characterised by an increase in reports of discrimination, arrests, mistreatment and wrongful convictions of homosexuals.
Especially alarming to defense lawyers was the possibility that DNA samples were cross-contaminated and led to false convictions, or could do so in the future.
KABUL, Afghanistan — A court has reversed the convictions of three Afghans jailed for torturing a young relative who had refused to become a prostitute, alarming activists who had celebrated the guilty verdicts as a warning to all those who would seek to reverse the strides made by women here in the past 12 years.
