Sentence examples for decreasing conviction from inspiring English sources

With an air of decreasing conviction, he said, "I think he comes from a prominent New England family".

Each of the three major centrist figures Gantz, Lapid, and Gabbay has pressed the others to accept his leadership, the latter two with decreasing conviction, considering Gantz's surge.

Victory on the one surface considered (with decreasing conviction) his weakest, would make a compelling argument for the Mallorcan, already the undisputed master of clay, to be regarded as a worthy presence at the summit of his sport alongside, if not above, Federer.

Soon strange, violent things start happening in their dream house and the troubled community and go on happening with ever-decreasing conviction until the picture disappears up its own fundamental implausibility.

All of these practices reflect sexist and false assumptions for instance, that rape only happens (or only matters when it happens) to sexually "pure" or "virtuous" women, and that women are likely to lie about having been raped while increasing the trauma of rape trials for victims and decreasing the likelihood of convictions.

It said more men than women were still caught drink-driving, but female convictions were not decreasing at the same rate.

Mills points to the obvious savings from decreasing the number of wrongful convictions.

Prior to OMT, convictions decreased to about 0.2% per day on the day of treatment initiation.

Non-smokers possessed a more favourable attitude towards the smoke-free policy which was evident in their greater satisfaction level, conviction about its need and potential effect in decreasing smoking behaviour.

The hazard was lower for females and decreasing with older age, while increasing with high numbers of criminal convictions prior to application to OMT (all p < 0.001).

Whether early diagnosis and improved clinical care can lead to a decrease in convictions is not clear.