Sentence examples for different convictions from inspiring English sources

But while a bank robber caught that many times would probably have faced long sentences, Mr. Reifler managed to have different convictions punished with concurrent sentences and had sentences reduced by his willing cooperation with the authorities.

Herzen didn't say that his distinguishing mark was "an absolute lack of certainty about almost everything," as Mr. Stoppard once did, but he might have endorsed one of the dramatist's recent comments: "I'm a man of many different convictions, and they all co-exist".

It stood for a new type of participatory democracy, "a free, informal, open community of people of different convictions, different faiths and different professions united by the will to strive individually and collectively for the respect of civil and human rights".

If the emergent Islamic parties of nations in transition — like the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt and Ennahda in Tunisia — are to honor the terms of democratic governance they will have to concede that they have no monopoly on truth, that the prescriptions of Islam are malleable and debatable, and that significant currents in their societies have different convictions and even faiths.

Part Two of the book a philosophical case for the culture of debate shows us how to cope with each other in a world where we may share citizenship but at the same time be rooted in different cultures and hold different convictions, or where political borders may signal deep cultural or religious divides, often expressed in animosity and conflict.

Candide does not ridicule Voltaire's contemporary Alexander Pope, a later optimist of slightly different convictions.

It is not neutral when it comes to the shared values necessary for people of different conviction to live and thrive together.

"When we have these moral convictions, as they're called, it's really difficult to recognize that somebody else has a different notion of morality, or different conviction on the same topic".

"When we have these moral convictions, as they're called, it's really difficult to recognise that somebody else has a different notion of morality, or different conviction on the same topic".

Of course another answer also seems to be reasonable, but unfortunately not because of deeper insight into the effects and side effects of catecholamines rather than just a different conviction.

Obviously the two congressmen harbor some different ideological convictions.