Even at the highest levels people tend to harbor convictions about what their business is or could do that have entirely nothing to do with what it actually is or does.
According to his son, however, he harbored convictions about status and class that didn't fit the rest of the picture.
Two objections: the reviewer is wrong in stating, "The principal message of these books is one befitting men who harbor the conviction that they should have been president: I told you so".
We each may harbor a conviction that we are a nobody, insignificant, invisible, in terms of our true worth.
Now they're worth $5 million, and two-thirds of that is in their house". Like many Band members, he harbors a conviction that the dreary economic environment today is part of a natural cycle and that somewhere the drivers of the next boom are being conjured forth in labs and garages around Silicon Valley.
Quite a few Americans still feared stock bubbles and speculators, shared a desire to regulate the financial sphere and harbored the inchoate conviction that a financier's wealth should not be conflated with wisdom.
Instead I harbored the hallucinatory conviction that I had stayed around the scene of my own life too long — that I was, in some unyielding sense, ex post facto.
("Russian-American, eh?" sneers one. "Like a dictionary?") In "The Conversion," a rootless American named Tom finds himself returning to Russia following a nasty breakup because he "harbored a secret conviction that if he remained in America, he would always regard his time in Russia as the best of his life".
His stance is not dissimilar from that advocated for centuries by the world's major religions". Despite the popular perception of science and religion being at irreconcilable odds, Davies says many scientists harbor deep spiritual convictions.
Obviously the two congressmen harbor some different ideological convictions.
"It's a mixed joy for me because I'm leaving behind colleagues in jail," said Ziyad Kahla, adding that he had served 40 months of a 54-month sentence after a conviction for harboring criminals.
