Though her gauche abandon in the early sequences, in which she frolics with her sisters on an alpine backlot, is now hard to take, she gains conviction in later scenes, and was nominated for another Oscar, losing to Jennifer Jones in The Song of Bernadette.
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.
Peter Anderson, crime and substance misuse services manager at Bristol, says the CCTV footage has proved vital in deterring or helping convict criminals: "In the last month, it's been central in gaining convictions in a murder trial and against a group of people tampering with ATM machines," he explains.
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.
The ultimate goal of the bureau in gathering intelligence is to gain convictions for crimes; for the agency, intelligence itself is the object.
The report, issued Friday by the United Nations Committee Against Torture, documented what the authors described as widespread abuse in the Chinese legal system, one that often gains convictions through forced confessions.
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.
So far, the tool that had worked most effectively against Al Qaeda was the last one — the slow, difficult work of gathering evidence, getting indictments, hunting down the perpetrators, and gaining convictions.
