Sentence examples for long-held conviction from inspiring English sources

It was a long-held conviction that he had AIDS.

This astonishing statement served to confirm a long-held conviction of Sara Murphy's that Fitzgerald knew very little about people, and nothing at all about the Murphy's.

Mr. Sen restated his long-held conviction that investment in public health and education would, along with the benefits of a market economy, take India far.

Sad as it may be to think about all of those wasted moleskin coats, lace and rubber dresses and motocross pants, "Make It Hard" is a poignant realization of Lang's long-held conviction that fashion and art have become one.

Nationally, state and local spending per college student, adjusted for inflation, reached a 25-year low this year, jeopardizing the long-held conviction that state-subsidized higher education is an affordable steppingstone for the lower and middle classes.

The former Belgian colony responded in 2008 by acting on a long-held conviction that France had been complicit in the genocide and had supported the previous regime against Kagame's opposition Front Patriotique Rwandais party.

When he watched the Ku Klux Klan-style rally at Charlottesville last year, how did he feel about those long-held convictions?

In 2007 he brokered a bipartisan agreement, known as the grand bargain, that unraveled even after concessions that went against Senator Kennedy's long-held convictions.

So ended that attempt to change Hoover's methods and his long-held convictions — going back to the early nineteen-twenties — in which liberalism was equated with radicalism.

Scientific research is beginning to bear out many of the long-held convictions of pet lovers: animals feel pain, confusion and loss much as humans do.

This week's Free exchange column takes a look at the latest thinking on the matter:The case for the free movement of capital is similar to that for free trade, an area where economists' long-held convictions remain firm.