Barcelona grew in conviction during a group stage campaign that, if nothing else, should be celebrated for the hat-trick against APOEL that made Lionel Messi the competition's all-time top scorer.
In many ways today's Fawcett report, which highlights the growing gap in conviction rates between police force areas, sadly tells us nothing new.
To read a well-regarded writer and to find the conviction growing in yourself that he or she is second- or third-rate, that, in Bob Dylan's words, "you can say it just as good", is both encouraging and, if acted upon, a niggling form of ambition.
The conviction was growing in the international press that Dadis was responsible for the massacre and would have to relinquish his office.
In the same magazine, Norman Rockwell rejoined: "The conviction has been growing in me that I should change my name.
There is a growing conviction in official circles in Peking that the efforts of the British and Japanese diplomacy are now centered upon splitting the country into northern and southern divisions.
Tenor Peter Auty grew in confidence and conviction in his debut as Dick Johnson, with some thrilling top notes and an air of untrustworthy charm.
And recent crackdowns on militant groups in the country's northwest and the Punjab attest to a growing conviction in Pakistan's national security apparatus that terrorism must be defeated.
Quickness and superb reaction have been his trademarks, now seasoned by maturity, anticipation, assured reading of situations as they unfold and growing conviction in his playing style.
Either way, there is a growing conviction in Downing Street that something ironic, broader and potentially quite damaging is happening to a government previously famous for its virtuosity in "spin".
Seymour M. Hersh, in his book "The Price of Power: Kissinger in the Nixon White House" (1983), quoted from one of Mr. Davis's cables: "What is significant now is growing conviction in opposition parties, private sector and others that opposition is necessary".
