Sentence examples for rapid convictions from inspiring English sources

There are fears that the massive public pressure to secure rapid convictions and hangings could lead to procedural short-cuts.

Dr Chris Shepherd, regional director of Traffic in South-East Asia praised the Thai and Singapore customs staff, adding: "The authorities in Singapore are to be congratulated further on making an important arrest and rapid conviction – an opportunity to learn more about the rhino-horn smuggling networks".

The war on drugs over the same period also contributed to the rapid escalation in convictions and sentences.

Monica Macovei, an MEP and former Romanian justice minister, points to the rapid growth in convictions of senior figures in the last year alone.

Portrayed as ultimate truth here, though less accepted these days as gospel by many of its European neighbors, the German conviction that rapid debt and deficit consolidation could be concurrent with meaningful economic growth and getting people back to work looks more and more like a falling idol.

ROSS WILLIAMS, Grand Rapids, Minn., posted on nytimes.com Bush drew from his moral convictions and finally pushed back against Cheney's influence, which most likely began to suffocate him.

A conversion so rapid seems to have been rather the result of expediency than of conviction.

But for some, the very fact of a conviction of a police officer -- a member of the Bay Area Rapid Transit police, not the Oakland force -- was some solace.

Not even open-heart surgery, which he underwent last year, and from which he made a rapid recovery ("a few hours later I was in the next room, and sent an email") could dent his convictions.

Andy Grove's Intel famously made the rapid transition from memory to microprocessors, but far too few large organizations respond quickly enough, and with the right conviction to these types of difficult challenges.

"Got convictions.