The asset-owner class conjured whatever conviction it could to protect the remaining value of its decimated investments.
Though she came to epitomise conviction politics, her own story demonstrates that whatever conviction politics is, it is not just the opposite of guile.What, then, does it take to be a conviction politician?
Whatever his convictions, the tactics, as usual for Mr. Schröder, look smooth and confident.
Whatever xenophobic convictions he had came from hearsay, the background noise of a bitter place.
The latter opted to keep in the knockers and the F-words (and, ugh, John McCain), and at least retained the courage of whatever few convictions it might originally have had.
The doctor wrote: "I sense that you have a strong sense of justice, [but] whatever your convictions, if you truly believe that those who oppose abortion are all ideologues driven by perverse desires to inflict suffering on women, then you, in my judgment, are not fair-minded".Mr Obama says he "felt a pang of shame".
"We must all be able to live together whatever our convictions, be they Islamic, Jewish, Christian, agnostic or atheist".
Whatever our moral convictions, we cannot condone his murder.
(Whatever her private convictions may be, Maynard's video statements have been resolutely secular).
"The Statement" ultimately doesn't have the courage of whatever (presumably noble) convictions brought it into being.
