Sentence examples for perverse conviction from inspiring English sources
Mr. Moore said that all drivers have a perverse conviction that an accident can't happen to them.
Conviction rates present a "perverse incentive" for prosecutors to pursue only the strongest cases that offer the highest probability that a DA can win the case, said the study's authors, Kimberly A. Lonsway and Joanne Archambault.
That it took the government so long to figure it out would only have reinforced his conviction that officialdom is willfully perverse, innately illogical and slow, if not plain stupid.
A conviction of these defendants would have been as perverse as a policy to build new coal-fired power stations.
In however perverse a way, Machiavelli was no less a martyr to his convictions than Thomas More, who was beheaded — and eventually canonized — for his refusal to condone the royal power grab that Henry VIII purportedly learned from "The Prince".
Instead, Murray argues that our leaders should embrace his own libertarian convictions, scrap all existing government programs (and the dependency and perverse incentives they create) and replace them with a universal guaranteed income.
They are seeing defendants falling foul of a perverse incentive to plead guilty and swallow a £150 charge for a summary offence rather than risk conviction and a £520 charge after trial.
The doctor wrote: "I sense that you have a strong sense of justice, [but] whatever your convictions, if you truly believe that those who oppose abortion are all ideologues driven by perverse desires to inflict suffering on women, then you, in my judgment, are not fair-minded".Mr Obama says he "felt a pang of shame".
Consider the perverse incentives.
