Although we evaluate certain metrics that help us gain conviction about a particular company, we often invest in the intangibles — the things that are hard to get across on paper.
"Given the escalation here, given everything else that's been going on, how do we gain conviction that we don't see further contagion or further spreading to other customers given that this seems to be bleeding out?" Stacy Rasgon, a senior analyst at Bernstein Research, asked.
Sending in experienced investigators is one way to help developing countries gain convictions.
Barnardo's staff were working with police but they seemed powerless to catch them, let alone gain convictions.
With regard to Ms Coakley, Mr Balko points to two child-abuse cases where discredited methods were used to collect evidence and gain convictions.
The ultimate goal of the bureau in gathering intelligence is to gain convictions for crimes; for the agency, intelligence itself is the object.
In the following years, while continuing to work as an independent television maker, she noticed the police starting to use trafficking laws to gain convictions.
Mr Underwood said it would be a question for any future inquest as to why police may have lied to gain convictions, but suggested one such reason may be that officers wanted to cover up their informant's involvement.
The failure of his office to gain convictions against four white officers who were videotaped beating Rodney G. King, a black motorist, led to riots in which more than 50 people were killed and property damage totaled nearly $1 billion.
The British government attempted to publicly portray any republican activity as that of ordinary, and not political, criminals yet continued to rely on closed hearings, secret evidence, and extended detention without charges in order to gain convictions on suspected IRA members.
In 1994, when he sentenced Mr. Gravano to five years in prison despite his involvement in 19 murders, Judge I. Leo Glasser of Federal District Court in Brooklyn cited Mr. Gravano's "invaluable" aid and "remarkable contribution" in helping the Government gain convictions of dozens of Mafia figures, including the mob boss John J. Gotti.
