Sentence examples for settled convictions from inspiring English sources

would determine it contrary to "the settled convictions of the community," - the rule is pretty certain either to be denied outright or to be undermined by a fiction or a specious distinction.

These facts, while not directly probative of his behavior during the five-year period 1922-1927, at least establish that his early devotion to the Party organizations was not transitory, nor inconsistent with his genuine and settled convictions.

As I recount in my recent book, my settled convictions were shaken when I started to see how the results of those traditional condemnations produced blatant contradictions with the Bible's teaching about the fruits of righteousness and the nature of God.

Will that distaste harden into a settled conviction that Mr Brown's number is up?

It was the settled conviction of Lord Salisbury that the duty of a Conservative prime minister was to prevent change, since "whatever happens will be for the worse".

That shuffling, however, was being asked to disrupt a France side with a settled conviction that it was destined to return to a World Cup final.

Perhaps not yet settled in his convictions about the score's shape and pace, let alone its introspective substance, Mr. Ashkenazy began to lean heavily on its brilliant surfaces.

We are of opinion that a motion to dismiss the writ of error must prevail since it is settled that a conviction for a criminal, although summary, contempt is for the purposes of our reviewing power a matter of criminal law not within our jurisdiction on error.

The biographer embarked on her "grave duty" quite settled in the conviction that her version would define her friend's posterity: "the more fully she – Charlotte Brontë – the friend, the daughter, the sister, the wife, is known… the more highly she will be appreciated," she wrote.

Scarred Life, Severed Family Carrying a box of religious and self-help books, a garbage bag full of legal documents and a few worn-out sweaters, Mr. Deskovic went from prison to Cobleskill, a speck of a town in central New York where his mother, Linda McGarr, settled after his conviction.

What we are seeing is a president without settled or tested policy convictions, influenced by advisers with sharp knives and fundamentally different views of the world.