1. Deciding with speed and conviction.
What tipped the balance, I cannot say — although one naturally inclines towards any sports team which features a goalkeeper named Szecsi and a goalscorer named Gergely Kiss — but I decided, with no previous convictions, that for the next half-hour or so (each game comprises four quarters of eight minutes each), I would become an honorary resident of Budapest.
Decided in his convictions, replete with information, and fertile in argument, he delighted in the discussions of the day, and often communicated, with great force and grace, his thoughts to the public press.
But, in 2010, the Criminal Cases Review Commission decided his conviction was unsafe.
But in retrospective, we can both say with conviction that we would again decide to pursue scientific careers.
The pair could have accepted the relatively small fines and got on with their lives, but instead they decided to fight the conviction with the representation of QC Rudi Fortson, an experienced barrister in the field of drug laws.
"I decided that to be able to talk about this [movie] with conviction, I needed to become a vegetarian," he told the Vegetarian Times in 1998.
One doesn't decide to join the economy, and the belief in its safety may have less to do with conviction than with desire and necessity.
Every man of humane convictions must decide on the protest that best suits his convictions, but we must all protest.
All with conviction, energy, strength.
He spoke with conviction.
