In a political climate overheated with petty bickering and partisanship, Mr. Safire demonstrates a brand of conservatism fueled by informed conviction.
I suspect the reason White Feminists want to ban sex work is based less on firm, informed conviction that it will protect sex workers (who they can't even be bothered to listen to) and more on some visceral objection to the fact that prostitution exists at all.
Their opinions were informed by convictions that could be described as "green" or "alternative", by a sense of responsibility for one's own health, and by the combination of philosophical concepts of Kampo with a pragmatic approach towards the choice of treatment (Western, Kampo, or both).
Subjects who already have a piercing object inserted should be informed with conviction about the risks they are facing.
Whenever anyone needs to find an example of what politics of conviction - the conviction informed by a faith in the market and in entrepreneurship - can achieve in a democracy, Thatcher would be a natural candidate," says an article in India's Economic Times.
If the conviction that our gender is coequal with our newborn plumbing has an at best tenuous basis in Scripture, then it needs to be asked: what other purportedly authoritative ways of thinking about gender and its relationship to the body might be informing this conviction?
His productions were informed by a conviction that society could be changed and by a will to enlighten the public.
That conviction informed the May 25 , 2016 runway show "Couture in Orbit," sponsored by the European Space Agency (ESA) and hosted by the Science Museum, London.
As is required under Michigan law, the jury was not informed that the conviction carried the automatic penalty of life imprisonment without the possibility of parole.
Christopher Turner writes in "Adventures in the Orgasmatron" that Wilhelm Reich coined the term "sexual revolution" in the nineteen-thirties to express the conviction, informed by his Marxism, that "a true political revolution would only be possible once sexual repression was overthrown, the one obstacle Reich felt had scuppered the efforts of the Bolsheviks".
