Teenage life moves fast and is filled with heightened emotions.
Several meetings with the Chancellor, Gordon Brown, had served to heighten their conviction that the G8 summit offered a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for change.
But this only heightened the conviction of the health-care plan's Republican backers that an individual mandate was needed.
Yager, Laufer, and Gallops (1984) found that participation in violence during the Vietnam War was associated with a heightened risk of arrests and convictions, after controlling for pre-service factors [ 9].
Many at the caucus site — a high school gymnasium here — did not appear to need convincing, with their political convictions heightened by frustration at the idea of being ignored by the party.
It was the "he said/she said," only heightened by the conviction of two self-assured witnesses.
Still, I keep reminding myself, sometimes aloud in order to heighten my inner conviction, there's no place for comparison: America is not Israel.
Such mistrust has been heightened here since the conviction of former Gov. Don Siegelman, a Democrat, in a case many still insist was politically motivated.
Indeed, although affirmed negotiators proved relatively more open to compromise when either the salience of their true convictions or the importance of remaining faithful to those convictions was heightened, the reverse was true when the salient goal was compromise.
Mr. Romney's distant, complicated relationship with many of the conservative media's leading voices has heightened concerns that his convictions are not as genuine and deep-seated as their own.
Watercolor heightened with gouache.
