Sentence examples for conviction someone from inspiring English sources

For a conviction, someone besides the victim had to identify the attacker; there had to be independent proof that a sexual act occurred; and there had to be evidence of 'force' (i.e., bruises).

Keith Flett London Amid all the euphoria over the convictions, someone has to ask the question, would the attorney general have allowed any other case to go ahead, given all the pre-publicity?

In that piece the veteran social commentator Hugh Mackay tried to explain Turnbull's appeal, saying he was "possibly the only politician on either side seen as a man true to his convictions", someone who "may be seen as arrogant, but is also seen as a man of substance and that is exactly what the electorate is yearning for".

She believed in the doctrine with the conviction of someone who has given up "sophistication" in order to believe.

They're waiting patiently, like the long-suffering lot they are, in the firm conviction that someone has conned them.

But once pressed, he spoke with the clear-eyed conviction of someone who had discovered a new purpose.

Reed-thin at 44, the minister carries himself with the earnest conviction of someone who has already surmounted many obstacles.

She is in need of help but has the conviction that someone will come and find her.

This was not spoken as a throwaway line, but with the conviction of someone who had made a paradigm shift, right then and there.

Malaysia's new conviction that someone on the missing plane deliberately changed its course has heartened some relatives of the passengers.

He speaks with the conviction of someone who knows inside where he has been and knows, too, where he is now.