But he believed it with weakening conviction; he could see all the arguments for considering humanism a vain promise.
Soon afterward, Ayer reported that his near-death experience, in which he saw a red light that seemed to govern the universe, "slightly weakened my conviction that my genuine death..
The skeptical British philosopher A. J. Ayer has written about an encounter that was less splendid; it "slightly weakened his conviction" that his death would be the end of him, "though I continue to hope that it will be".
Soon afterward, Ayer reported that his near-death experience, in which he saw a red light that seemed to govern the universe, "slightly weakened my conviction that my genuine death... will be the end of me".
It continues to be weakened by convictions.
Yet it is an ambitious undertaking, to bounce strobes of wit and artifice off the surface of your own narrative without letting hairline cracks invisibly weaken its conviction.
By abandoning our own values in pursuit of victory we not only reinforce the extremist narrative among vulnerable host populations, we weaken the conviction in ourselves about why we are fighting in the first instance.
In order to keep faith, we must allow nothing to enter our thought which will weaken this conviction.
Despite being weakened by the convictions of many dons and soldiers, the organization is said to be still carrying out murders and running multimillion-dollar rackets on orders issued from a jail cell by the younger Mr. Gotti, who is serving a 77-month sentence on a separate racketeering charge.
(Remember the so-called "super-predators"?) The Prison Litigation Reform Act, which emerged from a provision in the 1994 bill, shut the door to federal courts for thousands of prisoners seeking to appeal their convictions, weakened court protections, and lowered fees awardable to lawyers in lawsuits concerning prison conditions.
Hoeppel was weakened by a recent conviction for attempting to sell a nomination to West Point and Voorhis won the Democratic nomination, with Hoeppel finishing in third place.
