Sentence examples for conviction led from inspiring English sources

Though the conviction led to his expulsion, Mr. Monserrate tried for a comeback.

His successful appeal against conviction led to the scrapping of the ID card system.

His arrest and subsequent conviction led some to question the prime minister's judgment.

Mr Rajaratnam's conviction led to the subsequent downfall of Rajat Gupta, who had headed McKinsey, a consultancy, and served on the boards of elite firms and institutions.

Nonetheless, her conviction led her in 1834 to undertake the raising of funds for a school devoted to the liberal education of women.

This conviction led to much talk of a "third way"—that is, a centre-left position that would preserve the socialist commitment to equality and welfare while abandoning class-based politics and public ownership of the means of production.

Because of Supreme Court decisions, every death-penalty conviction leads to an appeal to the state's highest court.

In the 2010 case of Padilla v Kentucky, a majority of the US Supreme Court (7 2) held that the right to counsel in criminal trials contained in the Sixth Amendment to the US Constitution requires, in the case where a criminal conviction leads to automatic deportation, that 'counsel must inform her client whether his plea carries the risk of deportation'.16.

Too often our zeal and conviction lead us to represent our faith as though Jesus is a conquering king who will take His kingdom by force.

When it came to Iran, though, "his convictions led him to pull his punches".

But, he said, radical movements have often drawn in middle-class people whose convictions led them into violent illegality.