Sentence examples for rooted conviction from inspiring English sources

At the same time, I've never been able to shake the deeply rooted conviction that it's hopeless to plan for the future.

In his first report Mr Delarue refers to "a deeply rooted conviction on the part of public opinion that poor conditions of existence for inmates are a 'just' return for the offence committed".The upshot is boredom, tension, depression and worse.

As Crespo, a peasant farmer in conflict with a brutally arrogant Spanish captain, in Calderón's The Mayor of Zalamea (1980) - a role that brought him a British Theatrical Association award the following year as best actor - he exuded patriarchal authority; this was a wiry, nut-brown, white-bearded figure with a rooted conviction that "honour is the offspring of the soul of man".

Katharine Whitehorn, journalist Do you think the catastrophic situation at Southern Cross old people's care home company, and the abuse at Bristol's private home for young handicapped people will shake your party's rooted conviction that private and profit-driven provision of service must always be better than public provision?

I have a deeply rooted conviction and passion to have a closer impact on women and girls.

But the decision wasn't just about courage, it was also rooted in conviction and calculation.

"I believe, I believe," Mr. Bekmambetov said, when asked if this universe is rooted in conviction or is just a movie conceit.

Brown's acceptance speech in Manchester went straight to the core of his values, with a good, sonorous Old Testament ring that seemed to resound from somewhere deep in Labour's moral roots: "Conviction... a fair chance in life... when the strong help the weak it makes all of us stronger... the driving power of social conscience... the better angels of our nature... we must have a soul".

There has been marked opposition, however, in a country that remains largely Roman Catholic, with deeply rooted conservative convictions in much of the populace.

Do Christian aid workers stick out their missions longer than their secular counterparts because they have more deeply rooted moral convictions (Mr. Wolpe) or because they have an "extra agenda" (Mr. Chapman)?

But I have asserted a firm conviction - a conviction rooted in my faith in God and my faith in the American people - that working together we can move beyond some of our old racial wounds, and that in fact we have no choice is we are to continue on the path of a more perfect union.