Sentence examples for reliable conviction from inspiring English sources

After all, the English legal system is founded not on the assumption that everybody will behave with decency and restraint but on the rather more reliable conviction that most people, including the police, are capable of lying and may do so if it is to their advantage.

However, since their being is merely contingent, Parmenides thinks there can be no stable apprehension of them, no thoughts about them that remain steadfast and do not wander, and thus no true or reliable conviction.

They demand true conviction.

Colleagues described him this way: "great synthesizer," "big heart, big convictions," reliable.

When the men's lawyers contended in the 1990's that early DNA tests had eliminated all three as suspects, a judge sided with prosecutors, saying the tests were not reliable enough to overturn the convictions.

Federal rules of evidence do not permit the consideration of intelligence reports as proof for criminal convictions, no matter how reliable the informant.

She has been a staunch champion of so many issues, and she has been so reliable in standing up for her convictions that even bad poetry cannot diminish our respect for her.

The result is that assisted dying presently goes on in various medical contexts in Canada, but it is governed not by transparent, reliable norms but by the private convictions of individuals.

Ninety-eight per cent of Chinese trials end in conviction, and yet the most reliable predictor of Liu's fate is that the Party has already embarked on one of its most enduring rituals.

The churn of police-blotter activity -- a marijuana-possession arrest here, a vehicular-manslaughter conviction there -- now has a rhythm as reliable as the daily box scores.

Continental philosophers share the conviction, moreover, that science is not the only reliable or meaningful access to reality and they generally embrace epistemological pluralism.