Sentence examples for under conviction from inspiring English sources

If I am going to do a day under conviction, it should be in Liberia.' All of his actions, he insists, fall within the Geneva Conventions.

"Scientific theories are organically conditioned just as much as religious emotions are; and if we only knew the facts intimately enough, we should doubtless see "the liver" determining the dicta of the sturdy atheist as decisively as it does those of the Methodist under conviction anxious about his soul".

Page A8 CONVICTION UNDER REVIEW President Dmitri A. Medvedev ordered Russia's prosecutor general to verify the legality of the conviction of Mikhail B. Khodorkovsky, the former billionaire whose imprisonment has been widely condemned as politically motivated.

She takes this seriously and is under the conviction that only another voodoo ceremony can restore her soul to her.

"He has spent more than 40 years in prison under a conviction and sentence based on an unconstitutional indictment," the judge wrote.

Likewise, people driven to Sirince are under the conviction that the positive energy of the place would rescue them from the upcoming apocalypse.

Although he is expected to oppose extradition, the arrest raised a strong possibility that Mr. Polanski would be returned to the United States to face sentencing under his conviction for having had sex with a 13-year-old girl in 1977.

Under Hallinan, conviction rates hovered around 50%, by far the lowest in the state.

I was buried under the conviction that I had no idea what I was doing.

Plath enrolled at Smith College with the intention of studying studio art but switched to English under the conviction of teachers who recognized her talent for words.

Securing a conviction under the peculiar FCR process under which defendants are denied the right to lawyers is much easier, however.