Sentence examples for long-held convictions from inspiring English sources

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.

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

With the country in turmoil, many liberal Israelis seemed to be re-examining long-held convictions that peace with the Palestinians was within reach, while conservatives, who never trusted Mr. Arafat, said they felt vindicated.

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

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.

Julia A. Clarke of North Carolina State University and colleagues challenged a long-held conviction among many paleontologists that modern birds arose as a distinct phylogenetic lineage after the extinction of nonavian dinosaurs at the end of the Cretaceous Period (about 65 million years ago).

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.

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.