Sentence examples for matter of conviction from inspiring English sources

"History nowadays is not a matter of conviction," he declares.

As a matter of conviction, the country is deeply uncomfortable with these expansions.

My views on this, my beliefs on this are a matter of conviction.

We are convinced that the problem is less a matter of conviction than of execution.

He sold Clintonism as a matter of conviction and a promising electoral strategy, and both were sincere propositions.

For me, this is a matter of conviction -- a belief that life, including early life, is biologically human, genetically distinct and valuable.

The only difference between church and state in the matter of convictions is their ultimate sanction.

Friends said Dr. Brown seldom retreated on matters of conviction.

Administration officials said Mr. Bush was not planning to change those positions, because they were matters of conviction, and some Republican strategists said that if he did change them, he might invite more trouble than he dispatched.

He spells out integrity as (a) a disposition to develop and maintain convictions in an epistemically responsible way; (b) self-awareness of the quality of one's judgment in matters of conviction; (c) a disposition to do justice to one's convictions in action.

A big volume by a major poet (it won a National Book Award last year) whose life work is adult matter, full of conviction, void of poses; its great theme is human pettiness exposed yet dignified by mortality.