Sentence examples for controversial convictions from inspiring English sources

In 2006, the military staged a coup to oust the prime minister, Thaksin Shinawatra, and then appointed his opponents to investigate him and examine his assets, leading to controversial convictions that forced him to remain in exile.

(Granted, Hollande's personality wasn't the most engaging up until last year, and Ségolène Royal regularly stole his thunder, but Hollande's transformation in 2011 was not just physical – the man found a voice and strong, controversial convictions in the process, all of which Bayrou still sorely lacks).

There was now an audience for his hysterics—a Republican base that welcomed the kind of apocalyptic fervor that Santorum was peddling, and applauded his refusal to back down from even his most controversial convictions.

And they shared a controversial conviction.

Mr. Kuh, who was then an assistant district attorney in Manhattan, was the prosecutor who won the controversial conviction of Lenny Bruce on obscenity charges.

Wakefield's least controversial conviction may be the belief that some symptoms of autism — repetitive body movements, leaning over furniture, self-injury — might be symptoms of gastrointestinal distress in an autistic population unable to verbalize that discomfort.

With apologies to Billy Wilder and William Holden as Joe Gillis in "Sunset Boulevard," that is how Cameron Todd Willingham's voice-over might begin "Incendiary," a wildly and broadly appealing, nearly completed documentary about his controversial conviction and eventual execution in Texas.

Dawson's office was sensitive to charges of Bush Justice Department politicization of recent public-corruption prosecutions, most notably the controversial conviction of Alabama's Governor Don Siegelman, a Democrat, in 2006.

Given the kudos he gets when politically controversial conviction rates go up, you would think that the director of public prosecutions, Keir Starmer, would be delighted that fewer cases were being referred to his team, possibly suggesting that they are the cases police consider most likely to succeed.

Foreign investors shied from Mother Russia in the wake of the controversial conviction of ex- Yukos CEO Mikhail Khodorkovsky.

It was a groundbreaking case that ended in Carter's controversial conviction.