Sentence examples for needs conviction from inspiring English sources

President Bush's "scolding" of the United Nations General Assembly may have gone over like a "lead balloon" (editorial, Sept. 22), but he demonstrated something that the world needs: conviction married to strong, principled leadership.

With all of today's problems, both at home and internationally, the country wants and needs conviction leadership.

The softer voices need conviction and it is the responsibility of the younger generation to be rooted themselves and to instill the same confidence in others in their communities.

The helpline is a great first step but now we need a national plan – we need data, we need prevention, we need a conviction and we need professionals to stop looking at this as a cultural issue and start treating it as a child protection issue".

Because even at the time of our arrests, we were told by police officers that they didn't care if we did it or not – that people right at the top needed convictions.

They are also extremely ambitious people, and they need convictions to earn promotions and grant money.

Bold adventure on stage needs musical conviction behind it, while any meaningful musical achievement relies on a brilliant staging to fully express itself.

"We need a conviction," said Marion Gray-Hopkins, the mother of Gary Hopkins, a college student who was killed by police 1999.

"To do the cumbersome and expensive task of redrawing the bylaws, we need some conviction that they would likely pass.

He notes that proving intent is needed for conviction under the law and that's hard to prove.

Not that the courts need a conviction to put poor defendants in jail in the first place.