Ms. Barron lends thorough conviction to Julia's adult-adolescent agony.
The word has many other meanings as well, including "[a]ct of convincing of error, or of compelling the admission of a truth"; "[s]tate of being convinced; esp., state of being convicted of sin, or by one's conscience"; "[a] strong persuasion or belief; as, to live up to one's convictions; an intensity of thorough conviction". Webster's New International Dictionary 584 (2d ed. 1950).
There was no regret, no sense of, "My goodness – two innocent boys were burned alive"; just a thorough conviction it was just.
Instead, the committee adopted this language: "In all death row cases, we encourage thorough post-conviction reviews".
Spend the money you raised freely, but follow a sober, high-conviction, thorough business plan at this stage.
"There is need for thorough investigations, prosecution and conviction of all those responsible".
He was 60. "He was a person of intense convictions and thorough integrity, and it's really a loss to our department that he's no longer with us," said Peter Duus, the William H. Bonsall Professor of History.
In "Analyzing Freud," she proves herself to be an excellent editor -- scrupulous and thorough -- but her convictions about H.D.'s importance as an artist and a thinker are so unmediated, so impervious to question, that they distort her view of what was taking place between the poet and the analyst during those intense months in the early 30's.
Such exceptions to the Constitution seemed justified a decade ago by the need to expose the Stasi's methods and by the conviction that a thorough reckoning with the past was required for the stability of a united Germany.
Thompson's is the third-largest district attorney's office in the nation, behind those of Chicago and Los Angeles, with five hundred prosecutors who litigate roughly a hundred thousand cases a year, and it is certainly the largest to make such a thorough effort to review past convictions.
Imagine the political tumult if Park were exonerated: The legitimacy of Moon's presidency and his progressive agenda depended not on a fair trial and a thorough evaluation of factual evidence, but on a conviction of his predecessor, and Lee's conviction was a prerequisite to Park's conviction, since bribery requires at least two culpable parties.
