It seems unlikely, despite the general conviction that things are improving.
The acceptance of this idea is expressed in the general conviction that obscure events are more meaningful than public ones (that commodity trading fifteen years ago tells you more about the "real" Clintons than their health-care policy right now) and also in the general conviction that the truth can be found only in disguise, behind the scenes.
Beyond the general conviction that the proper role for a woman was that of a wife, the dynastic and diplomatic stakes in the projected royal marriage were extremely high.
As I wrote in my last column, there is a general conviction among many experts -- though, in fairness, not all -- that nuclear terrorism has a better-than-even chance of occurring in the next 10 years.
But there was a general conviction that the march had achieved what it had set out to, as well as relief that it had, thus far, passed without incident.
Bruno Bleckmann, a dean at the university, said Ms. Schavan's failure to attribute certain information properly had "resulted in the general conviction of the faculty council that the former doctoral student systematically and deliberately faked a mental performance throughout the entire dissertation that was in reality not her own".
Although there is a genuine and general conviction that the Moroccan problem will be solved peaceably, the uncertainty as to the real state of the negotiations provoked on the Bourse to-day scenes of desolations similar to those witnessed on Monday.
Abdulnabi Mansour, head of the Bahrain Research and Study Center in Manama, said there was a general mood among residents that the United States "has directed its efforts at only one aspect -- gangs of terrorists who are Muslim -- while ignoring the state terrorism of Israel," adding, "There is a general conviction that the U.S. is unfair".
Recently philosophers have become more interested in the emotions, perhaps in response both to the growing place of psychoanalysis and other psychologies in popular and academic culture and to the (not unrelated) general conviction that knowledge does not represent the product of pure rationality it was once taken to be.
