Sentence examples for notable conviction from inspiring English sources

That office obtained the most notable conviction from this era involving the former Brocade Communications chief executive, Gregory Reyes.

In response to the latest allegations, Kenya's anti-corruption authority, a toothless investigative body that has not instigated a notable conviction, has summoned 30 officials.

They will feel that a victory over New Zealand eclipses everything, particularly since this was not a backs-to-the-wall affair achieved with gritted teeth and bloodied brows but one brought off with notable conviction and, when it counted, more than a little panache.

France was particularly afflicted with reports of them in the 16th century, and there were many notable convictions and executions of loups-garous.

The Japanese actors declaim corny English dialogue with a notable lack of conviction.

But Mr. Gomes is always notable for both the conviction of his acting (even in the cartoon style demanded by "Le Corsaire": "You want me to free the slave girls? Hmmm. O.K"). and the quality of his partnering.

The most notable case was the 1994 conviction of Byron de la Beckwith for the 1963 assassination of Medgar Evers, a prominent organizer with the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, in Mississippi.

The most notable of these cases, the conviction of Rajat Gupta, a former boss of McKinsey and former board member of Goldman Sachs and Procter & Gamble, was recently upheld on appeal.Many still question the value of pursuing insider-trading cases, but the ability of enforcement agencies to bring and win new cases is beyond argument.

The United States Supreme Court upheld the convictions in a notable 6-to-2 decision in June 1951.

Courts rarely hand down convictions; the most notable of recent times was in Massachusetts in 1983, when two policemen caught a married man and woman having sex in a van.

In its 2013 "World Report," Human Rights Watch called the convictions the "only notable advance" in Bolivia's efforts to punish human rights violations under previous governments.