And they never take the form of convictions".
They do so rather in the terms of French existentialism - there are links between Conrad and Camus - as a form of conviction when all other forms seem worthless.
Hence, even though both faith and knowledge are considered certain for us, and even though faith, like knowledge, is a form of conviction rather than persuasion, the nature of the commitment still does have, in its own way, a subjective quality.
Yet because Thatcher, 87, and Kuo, 44, represented two sides of the conservative disposition and two forms of the "conviction politics" for which the Iron Lady was known, both have much to teach us about the debate we need now.
Investigations involving the inspector general's office for Iraq's reconstruction have led to 35 indictments and 27 convictions for fraud in numerous forms; the number of convictions rises to 58 when cases pursued by other government agencies are included, according to figures compiled by the Justice Department.
The conviction rate, they argue, should be the measure of success, even if there is some collateral damage in the form of wrongful convictions.
Still, in an interview at his cattle ranch outside Westhof, south of Austin, Mr. Burwell voiced concerns about the fairness of the state's judicial system, particularly several cases in which he said prosecutors seemed more concerned with scoring victories, in the form of capital convictions, than with justice.
And whereas normal research papers tend to focus solely on the science, science autobiographies rather reveal the extent to which research practices are pervaded ('infected') by the dynamics of the socio-cultural world, for instance in the form of political convictions, intimate relationships, psychic problems, fierce competition and personal ambitions.
Although confessions extracted through torture are technically inadmissible in court, legal experts say the police frequently rely on heavy-handed tactics to win the confessions that often form the basis of convictions.
How has the line been drawn between religion and other forms of deeply held conviction: secularism, secular religions, political theologies, and the like?
The core idea unifying all the various forms of creationism is the conviction that divine intervention, i.e., special creation, is necessary to explain the diversity of life.
