Sentence examples for intimate convictions from inspiring English sources

France Soir, the only French daily to reprint the cartoons, fired its managing editor late Wednesday as "a strong sign of respect for the beliefs and intimate convictions of every individual," according to a statement from its owner, Raymond Lakah, an Egyptian-born French businessman.

Defence of a war criminal From Papon's letter to the Sud-Ouest newspaper: "I have the intimate conviction that I tried everything possible while staying in my post.

But, when the case was judged, three of the five judges declared her guilty simply on the basis of their own intimate conviction.

And whereas normal research papers tend to focus solely on the science, science autobiographies rather reveal the extent to which research practices are pervaded ('infected') by the dynamics of the socio-cultural world, for instance in the form of political convictions, intimate relationships, psychic problems, fierce competition and personal ambitions.

Her theory that sex should be reinvented to make the world a better place rests on Hite's (sometimes contested) discovery that sexual intercourse is unsatisfactory, so far as having orgasms is concerned, for the great majority of women, and on her conviction that intimate sexual behaviour is socially rather than biologically conditioned.

His intimate gaze and his unshakeable conviction that (in spite of dismal reviews, poor sales, and the rest of it) Keats was a genius make the letters he sent back to England during the winter of 1820-21 quite simply invaluable to scholars and irresistible to general readers.

As for the supposed problems of some allied leaders in getting an intimate sense of Mr. Obama's personal convictions, John Podesta, who ran the president's White House transition team, seemed to confirm the difficulty.

Descartes's conviction that, despite their intimate union in this life, mind is really distinct from body sprang from his confidence in the cogito argument.