Since the euro crisis started over two years ago you have said that Germany will defend the single currency, based on your conviction, shared by business and the political class, that its survival is in our national interest.
(State's counsel acknowledging "I have no reference to any 50-year-to-life sentences based on two convictions").
Similarly, federal law prohibits "unlawful" drug users and "addicts" from buying guns, based on recent convictions, or multiple arrests over the past five years.
Making pensions revokable based on criminal convictions "is not a useful area to go in," said an official of District Council 37, the largest public employee union in New York City.
Mr. Martinez oversaw those changes with what friends described as a low-key manner, based on the convictions of a conservative pragmatist.
His sense of right and wrong on the largest of political questions seems to be absolute, as if based on religious convictions — possibly on Christianity in some vague fashion, to judge by some of his remarks.
Based on those convictions, George Cole, George Mirabal, Teresa Jacobo, Oscar Hernandez and Victor Bello already face possible eight-year prison sentences, making the four-year offer more attractive.
