Sentence examples for usual conviction from inspiring English sources

Although he did not strike his killer backhand down the line with his usual conviction Murray still served 15 aces and his 45 winners contrasted with just 16 unforced errors.

Though Bartoli double-faulted twice to drop serve in the opening game, Lisicki handed it straight back and as she pushed her forehands and serves instead of hitting them with her usual conviction, she fell apart.

Four French cops watch carefully from no more than ten feet away — smiling slightly to one another while remaining fixed in place, demonstrating the usual conviction of the French police that the human comedy as it unfolds is so absorbing that to intervene and impose artificial order upon it would be inartistic.

Although the novel's scope is large and Drabble's descriptive powers are as considerable as ever -- she keeps pulling back the focus, so that we end up with an aerial view of a landscape that includes the sagas of Bessie's daughter, Christie, and her granddaughter, Faro -- she hasn't been able to see her way clear to rendering her main character with her usual conviction.

His essay, of course, is written with his usual passion and conviction, but, in the real world, passion and conviction do not count for many marks.

The new analysis confirms that on a more usual definition of conviction rate – the proportion of cases prosecuted in the courts – 62.5% of rape cases ended in a conviction, eight points higher than in 2005.

The Fed has more conviction than usual in its upbeat forecast and will be strongly inclined to chalk most of December's weakness up to noise.

The usual rule in post-conviction proceedings is that a lawyer's mistakes are imputed to the client, on the theory that the lawyer is the client's agent.

The Lisbon government responded in the usual way increasing sentences for convictions and spending more money on investigations and prosecutions.

This, police hope, will prevent criminals from disposing of their assets during the trial.A clash with the Human Rights Act may be in the offing: seizing assets before conviction upsets the usual presumption of innocence, not to mention property rights.

Instead, the judge found that Mr. Mubarak, 84, was an "accessory to murder" because he failed to stop the killing, a rationale that lawyers said would not meet the usual requirements for a murder conviction under Egyptian or international law.