Sentence examples for wave of conviction from inspiring English sources

I may just be expressing a friend's regret at losing you to a great wave of conviction, to some gust of certainty, that leaves me here, rooted to the spot, and you carried far away".

Officials at state-owned Agribank have been charged with various crimes, and one has been sentenced to death for embezzlement.An outsider might see this wave of convictions and arrests as evidence that Vietnam's banks are irredeemably corrupt.

It was the first case won by the commission, which was established in 2006 after a wave of embarrassing wrongful convictions in North Carolina.

In the last decade, there has been a wave of terrorism-related convictions in Canada, especially as the country reacts to new threats at home and abroad.

Album: Convict of Conviction.

A wave of criticism followed the conviction last week of Mikhail B. Khodorkovsky, once Russia's richest man, on new charges of embezzlement.

It follows the closure of several newspapers in the last month and coincides with a wave of interrogations, arrests and convictions of political reformers.

Then came a wave of appellate decisions overturning convictions, more than 100 around the nation just on the strength of DNA testing.

Goldstein ably sketches reformers past and present, asserting that the common force behind each new wave of school reforms is evangelical conviction, and that new movements often seem based more on faith than on factual evidence.

The first wave of campaigners to have their convictions quashed came in 2011.

Indeed, despite the conventional wisdom that juries cannot understand complex corporate fraud cases, prosecutors have not lost a significant case since the recent wave of fraud trials began with the conviction of the accounting firm of Arthur Andersen in 2002, prosecutors and defense lawyers say.