He was the living proof of my conviction that this building incubates narrative.
Mug shots are merely artifacts of an arrest, not proof of a conviction, and many people whose images are now on display were never found guilty, or the charges against them were dropped.
As Iverson explains in the exhibit's catalog, "She wished to present her full life story as proof of her conviction that invention and independence are central to the creative process".
And yes, sometimes the rhetoric splashes all over the place as if spraying from a punctured hose: "But men and animals stood living proof of the conviction people still held, that a field torn into dark clods could still be born up green and something eternal could still spring from an earth steaming as if breathing with a bloody fire".
No further proof of this conviction is needed than the fierce struggle both Calvin and Beza waged against Castellion.
But he also makes the case that the Affordable Care Act is proof of his conviction that major problems can be solved, in spite of the law's shortcomings and the noxious politics surrounding it.
As the historian Gwendolyn Wright puts it, "the Islamic sense of history and architecture found the concept of setting off monuments entirely foreign", which "gave the French proof of the conviction that only they could fully appreciate the Moroccan past and its beauty".
The protesters' platform also requests further legislation mandating all police officers to wear body cameras, lowering the standard of proof for convictions in federal civil rights inquiries, and banning police union contracts that they say obstruct investigations into officers responsible for fatalities.
If Australia needed proof of how unreliable conviction in an Egyptian court can be, that was made starkly apparent by the farcical trial of the Australian journalist Peter Greste.
And the inability of the two most powerful people in the United States to get up and say 'Gaddafi is, was, and always will be a despot' is sad proof of my earlier conviction.
