The conjunction of supply and demand led to the modern orchestra and chamber ensemble, and from there to the subscription concert, the living-room quartet and the middle-class conviction that nice children take violin lessons.
On this worm-eaten but over-lit stage, every character must play the part allotted by class or by conviction.
The asset-owner class conjured whatever conviction it could to protect the remaining value of its decimated investments.
Over the course of nearly two decades, their imprisonment grew into a much-examined narrative about wrongful conviction, class, conformity and the power of celebrity.
Such sentiments, analysts say, reflect the middle class's growing conviction that Indian leaders seem more concerned about reaping the rewards of economic growth for themselves than about improving the country.
The man with the jingle of money in his pocket who married the girl a year later would always cherish an abiding distrust, an animosity, toward the leisure class — not the conviction of a revolutionist but the smouldering hatred of a peasant.
Sheik Masri vouched for Mr. Ujaama after a court ordered him to complete anger-management classes after one conviction, prosecutors said.
If the Coast Guard has its way, all media, not just independent writers and photographers like myself and Jerry Moran, will be fined $40,000 and receive Class D felony convictions for providing the truth about oiled birds and dolphins, in addition to broken, filthy, unmanned boom material that is trapping oil in the marshlands and estuaries.
But for the political class, Mr Chirac's conviction sends a powerful message.
Today it's mostly the other way round, pitting women against one another along the fault lines of conviction, economic class and need, and, often, ethnicity.
In limited cases known as Class A1 felonies, a conviction for sale or possession of drugs carries a mandatory penalty of 15 years to life in prison, even if no violence was involved.
