Even some of the most cosmopolitan, American-educated Saudis in this capital of four million profess a deep conviction that American news media are owned, controlled and directed by Jewish organizations, lobbies and individuals who are working together to defeat the Arabs.
Whether for this reason or from conviction, most profess themselves unfazed by the prospect of a failure to raise the debt ceiling.
For all the ideological convictions they may profess to hold, ultimately, most voters like to see the politicians in Washington cooperating to get things done.
After his conviction, Osborn continued to profess his innocence, and wanted a more exacting test that prosecutors agreed would almost definitively prove his guilt or innocence.
Neither professes any passionate or deep-seated conviction, belonging to rival tribes largely by accident of birth.
All persons have the right to choose their religion or philosophical convictions freely, and to profess them alone or in community with others".
"There are, both among those who have these convictions and among those who merely profess these views, some who raise a difficulty by asking, who is to be the judge of the healthy man, and in general who is likely to judge rightly on each class of questions.
Some of their extremists, such as Jahm ibn Ṣafwān (d. ad 746), regarded faith as purely an inward conviction, thus allowing a Muslim outwardly to profess other religions and remain a Muslim, since only God could determine the true nature of his faith.
Even among those who profess to think him a decent chap, there is a widespread conviction that he does the monarchy more harm than good.
"I still believe in the process and the system," Jeanine Pirro declared on Thursday, professing her hope that future appeals would overturn the conspiracy and tax evasion conviction a federal jury had just delivered against her husband, Albert Pirro Jr.
But Simon waited until 2005 -- six years after his videotaped confession -- to file a post-conviction petition brazenly professing his innocence.
