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.
1. Deciding with speed and conviction.
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.
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.
Prosecutors decided that a past conviction — she had been caught in a motel room with drugs and a dealer boyfriend — qualified her for a doubled mandatory minimum sentence, from five to 10 years.
But in retrospective, we can both say with conviction that we would again decide to pursue scientific careers.
He decided to oppose brutality with steadfast conviction.
"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.
Mr. Wexler, a distinguished cinematographer ("Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?," "Bound for Glory," "In the Heat of the Night") with strong antiwar convictions, decided to blend fact and fiction to make points about violence and the media's relation to same.
At this time, Elisabeth decided that she was by conviction, a Socialist.
