Dietrologia – literally "behindery" or conspiracy-theorising – is a national pastime precisely because the courts don't offer convincing verdicts.
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Wisden's verdict was that "this convincing victory confirmed the First Test realisations of Australia's clear superiority at all points.
Yes, the outcome of the fight reflects how the fight went in that the official verdict was close, and I think a convincing argument can be made as to why this was a close fight.
"Ali Imron has been found guilty in a legal and convincing manner of terrorism," said Judge Mulyani, who read the verdict.
Though his attorney-general described the students' fate in convincing detail, their families have refused to accept the government's verdict that they are dead and have accused Mr Peña of putting Asian summitry above their own needs.
They did their job and the original trial verdict was quashed, but the Church still took a deal of convincing of her sanctity, and she was not canonised until 1920.
They say they will fight on, but the verdict of Mitch McConnell, the Kentucky Republican who argues that politics needs more money, not less, looks convincing: "McCain-Feingold is dead.
