For example, although compulsive hand washers know objectively that their hands look clean, they cannot generate the normal subjective conviction that they are truly clean, and so continue to wash [ 14].
Ajai Sahni, executive director of the South Asia Terrorism Portal Forget about hanging — even a normal rate of conviction in terrorism and related cases is very low.
Lewis Wolpert, a professor of biology at University College, London, and a noted science writer, chose the title "Malignant Sadness" to reflect his conviction that "normal sadness is to depression what normal growth is to cancer".
Several hundred terrorism and national security cases have been run through the normal courts, with a conviction rate of about 85 percent and an average prison sentence of more than 15 years.
In short, the market's near-term over-enthusiasm has abated, but it retains the conviction that "normal" prices above $80 a barrel will be sustained.
It has turned Selma into a city where having a felony conviction seems almost normal.
Usually, it takes weeks before these cases can be heard in a normal criminal court and the conviction rate is said to be very low.
That was short-lived when the U.S. Supreme Court reinstated my wrongful conviction without exercising normal procedures and allowing my legal team to file briefs or make oral arguments.
He demonstrates the power of the aesthetic to overrule our normal taste, morality, and intellectual convictions.
As Peter Schjeldahl of The New Yorker wrote in his review of Mr. Currin's retrospective at the Whitney Museum, "He demonstrates the power of the aesthetic to overrule our normal taste, morality and intellectual convictions".
