Senator Jeff Sessions, Republican of Alabama, said he doubts that she has "the deep-rooted convictions necessary to resist the siren call of judicial activism".
"I don't believe that Judge Sotomayor has the deep-rooted convictions necessary to resist the siren call of judicial activism," Mr. Sessions said Monday in an op-ed article in USA Today announcing his decision.
His obsessive focus on Iran -- not to mention the seemingly irrational calculus that is driving him toward a politically suicidal confrontation with the U.S., his country's most important benefactor -- stems from deep-rooted convictions, a system of political thought and his own perspective on Jewish history.
"Jews have a deep-rooted conviction that the Messiah has yet to come," he said".
What's driving that, I fear, is it is based upon a deep-rooted conviction unemployed people are unemployed by choice.
The deep-rooted conviction of the author is that, in terms of praxis, the categories of risk [68, 69, 70, 71, 72, 73, 74, 75] and conflict within the social systems and complex organizations are strictly correlated to a faulty and/or inefficient management of knowledge; or even worse, to the impossibility of accessing and using them in an mindful and rational manner.
Have a deep-rooted conviction that chemistry is going to provide the solution and am working along those lines".
My dive into yoga enabled me to face my life with a deep-rooted conviction to be true to myself, and good to others as I pursued my path.
Was this artist with unrivalled mastery bereft of deep-rooted aesthetic convictions?
Mr. Del Col said he did not know if Mr. Slavin was a member of any white supremacist groups, but said he had "deep-rooted religious convictions" and "a deep-rooted belief in the tenets in the Holy Bible".
Drawing on Lipsky's notions of the use of 'discretion' and 'coping mechanisms' by street-level bureaucrats we analysed providers' modifications of the care components of the standards and protocols (counselling, referral, provision of abortion services) that enable them to meet the demands of their profession as well as their deep-rooted religious convictions and socialised views of morality.
