Mr. Thieke explained that he was not running for personal glory, but rather out of a simple conviction that his efforts would help build the long-term prospects of his party, which has about 1,000 members statewide.
Szuszana reminds me a little of X in this respect: they both have the simple conviction that their best is good enough, which of course it is.
Here is the simple conviction at the core of the Green surge.
At the heart of Augustine's doctrinal complexity is a simple conviction that we attain blessedness not by navigation, but by love.
It took seven years and the combined heft of reporters, broadcasters, street protesters and the victims' relatives to get what should have been a simple conviction.
"Under S. 1290, for example, two men of equal size, strength, and economic status joined by a civil union or merely engaged (or formerly engaged) in an intimate 'social relationship,' could be subject to this prohibition for conviction of simple 'assault' arising from a single shoving match," the letter says.
Like JM Coetzee, a writer he resembles in several ways, Kundera has always been a passionate defender of animals, not out of simple sentiment, but in the conviction that it is by our treatment of animals that we most clearly display our essential and unforgivable arrogance as a species.
He was detained in 2010 by a sheriff's deputy in Gwinnett County, Ga., when it was discovered that he had violated probation for a conviction in 2005 of simple assault, simple battery and child abuse, charges that sprung from a domestic dispute with his wife at the time.
Conscience, according to Johnson, was nothing more than a conviction felt by ourselves of something to be done or something to be avoided; in questions of simple unperplexed morality, conscience is very often a guide that may be trusted.
