Sentence examples for firmly held conviction from inspiring English sources

We love Leslie's belief in her job, her firmly held conviction that Vice-President Joe Biden is the sexiest man on earth and her whole-hearted commitment to everything from penguin marriage ceremonies to harvest festivals.

United in a firmly held conviction that the only place to eat in the vicinity of The New Yorker's office building in Times Square is the Szechuan place on 39th St., and in their passion for chicken tenders and dessert cocktails, two co-workers went for lunch to investigate.

I shared with secretary [Condoleezza] Rice my firmly held conviction that the Armenian Genocide is not an allegation, a personal opinion, or a point of view, but rather a widely documented fact supported by an overwhelming body of historical evidence.

"I shared with Secretary Rice my firmly held conviction that the Armenian genocide is not an allegation, a personal opinion, or a point of view, but rather a widely documented fact supported by an overwhelming body of historical evidence," Obama said in 2008.

It is one of the farmers' most firmly held convictions, but it happens not to be true.

At least when people begin with firmly held convictions, such an approach is likely to increase polarization rather than reduce it.

But he now has firmly held convictions about how to handle pitchers, and they stand in direct opposition to baseball's prevailing orthodoxy — what he calls "the babying" of modern-day pitchers.

We are exclusively interested in arguments that confirm our firmly held convictions.

Their determination to bring down the Iraq regime rested on firmly held convictions about both Saddam Hussein in particular and their broader foreign policy theory of regime change as the preferred path to best effect change in the Middle East.

In some circles, particularly in the United States, the theory of evolution is in conflict with firmly held religious convictions (Verhey 2005; Sinatra and Nadelson 2010; Scott 2004).

"The issue has become divisive because our nation remains split on how to balance the diversity of our culture with the traditions and firmly held religious convictions," Hutchison said in a press conference Wednesday morning.