Sentence examples for conviction of high from inspiring English sources

Given the indisputable evidence of movie after movie, the country looked to Hepburn as a figure who merged all our contradictory fantasies of aristocratic lineage and republican conviction, of high spirits and high morals: she was a big-screen Eleanor Roosevelt, with the beauty that only Hollywood can grant as a reward.

The operation resulted in the arrest of sixteen people and the conviction of high-ranking Detroit police.

An army general and a colonel were convicted late Monday for allowing right-wing paramilitary gunmen to kill dozens of villagers in 1997, the first such conviction of high-ranking military officers in a human rights case.

The story Bahgat wrote which landed him in custody called, A Coup Busted? was about the secret military trials and convictions of high ranking military officials supposedly connected to the Brotherhood for their participation in a coup plot.

The Southern District office, too, has gained several convictions of high-volume swindlers.

Many relatives of the dead and missing remain skeptical that the investigations will lead to convictions of high-level officials.

The United Nations tribunal for Rwanda in Arusha, Tanzania, long plagued by delays and reported ineptness, has delivered eight convictions of high-ranking former officials and is now trying another nine of its 44 detainees.

The tribunal created by the White House and its Congressional enablers to guarantee convictions of high-profile detainees in Guant?mo Bay, Cuba -- using evidence obtained by torture and secret evidence as desired -- has held its first trial.

In real life, Hill's account of his involvement in organized crime helped land 50 convictions of high-level gangsters, including James "Jimmy the Gent" Burke (played by Robert De Niro).

STEUBENVILLE, Ohio — The rape trial that concluded here on Sunday with the conviction of two high school football stars has spurred calls in many quarters for expanding — or more aggressively enforcing — the legal obligations of those who know about a sexual assault, or who could be in a position to prevent one.

I may venture to express my conviction of the high value of such studies, although they have been very commonly neglected by naturalists.