Sentence examples for hold convictions from inspiring English sources

Whittaker Chambers, who saw in Communism "the concentrated evil of our time," wrote in his classic cold war memoir, "Witness": "Their power, whose nature baffles the rest of the world, because in large measure the rest of the world has lost that power, is the power to hold convictions and act on them.

Mr. Altfest's buy-and-hold convictions were sorely tested last month when Bristol-Myers fell by about 20percentt in one day.

It may take celebrities with deeply held convictions and equally deep pockets to prove otherwise.

It is one of the farmers' most firmly held convictions, but it happens not to be true.

We speak of opponents' "deeply held convictions", but few of us actually believe anything of the sort.

Mr Fortuyn, who was gay, condemned Islam as a "backward" and homophobic religion, insisting he was simply voicing the majority's silently held convictions.

"The public square in the United States is always enriched whenever people approach it when they're inspired by their deepest held convictions," he said.

Former Ukip MEP Godfrey Bloom has said no "sane" person from a professional background would enter politics now because they face being vilified for holding convictions.

At least when people begin with firmly held convictions, such an approach is likely to increase polarization rather than reduce it.

Instead, they cling to their "deeply held convictions" that, for example, allowing people of the same sex to marry each other will ruin it for everyone else.

The former Ukip MEP Godfrey Bloom has said no sane person from a professional background would enter politics these days because they would be vilified for holding convictions.