Jo gave a voice to the voiceless, she exemplified the best of our country, and put her convictions to work for everyone she touched.
Many international donors and visiting dignitaries experienced firsthand his passionate conviction that to work in Iraq is to believe in its future.
Communities like Cleveland, Kevin Miller's hometown, tell us a lot about the interplay of race, crime, the justice system, and the economy, and offer a window on the challenges of getting men with felony convictions back to work.
What the movies successfully shows is just that range of convictions and reasons to work for the Stasi.
During the First World War, these convictions led him to work for the establishment of the League of Nations; during the Second, he helped to draft a manifesto that became a basis for the United Nations' Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
That, his advisers say, grew out of a conviction the United States needed to work with others and forge consensus to restore its moral standing.
The odd thing about Batmanghelidjh's early conviction that she wanted to work with needy kids was that during her own childhood she never, ever met any – because she, her brothers and lost sister led an exceptionally cloistered life.
The British foreign office is yet to make a public comment on the potential pardons for Sue Turton, a former al-Jazeera English foreign correspondent who quit earlier in the year after claiming the travel restrictions imposed by the conviction made it impossible to work and senior producer Dominic Kane, who remains employed by the news agency.
Victims of their convictions * While cycling to work in Amsterdam in November 2004, the Dutch film-maker Theo van Gogh was shot and then stabbed to death by Mohammed Bouyeri, a radical Islamist.
