Sentence examples for fixed convictions from inspiring English sources

Indeed, he seems bored by politics, with few fixed convictions beyond his own importance and a crude sense of Italian greatness, while Mussolini watches and learns from the master of self-promotion.

A Washington Post/ABC poll this week had him level-pegging with Mr Obama, at 47% each, with Mr Romney doing rather better among independents.What about the complaint that he has no fixed convictions?

Patient may have some unrealistic fears, but no fixed convictions; (4) Poor insight – patient maintains that thoughts or behaviors are not unreasonable or excessive, but acknowledges validity of contrary evidence; and (5) Lacks insight, delusional – patient is convinced that concerns and behaviors are reasonable and cannot acknowledge evidence to the contrary" [ 28].

In a marvellous final coup, when an avalanche sweeps down and engulfs Brand's fixed conviction, the whole hard set disappears into a cloud of white mist.

Police are carrying out less proactive work, including fewer breathalyser tests, motoring fixed penalties and convictions for drug trafficking and possession, the report said.

Over several decades, research by Dweck and others has differentiated between growth mindset -- believing you can cultivate your qualities and personality with effort -- and fixed mindset -- conviction that you have a limited amount of intelligence or talent, a certain personality, an immutable character.

Between lawsuits and state statutes that award fixed compensation for wrongful convictions, state and municipal governments have paid out $2.2 billion to exonerees.

When it comes to Iraq, by contrast, President Bush's conviction that he was right in waging war remains as fixed as President Jacques Chirac's conviction that he was right in opposing it.

Our personal convictions and preferences are fixed at the convoluted intersection of native personality, ambient culture, level of education, faith, family structure, habits of media consumption, relations to the means of production, etc.

In her cult novels "Fountainhead" and "Atlas Shrugged" and other works, Rand described rugged and unbending individualists who embodied a raw brand of capitalism and a metaphysical conviction that reality was fixed and objectively knowable.

And the conviction that the game is fixed is nonpartisan.