conviction

This conviction usually lasts about 24 hours until, after another night of horrible sleep, the idea of running eight miles before breakfast is about as appealing as lighting myself on fire.

They are to face oppression with humble persistence and absolute conviction.

In January, an appeal hearing will determine whether he qualifies for post-conviction relief.

Still, his conviction will restart a House Ethics Committee investigation into his actions.

Vasquez, who has borderline ID, was exonerated in 1989, four years after his conviction.

He acknowledged the theories but his voice lacked conviction.

Her eyes, for a moment, fixed themselves with a horrid conviction of a wide and nameless treachery.

The only thing that at all tended to shake this conviction, was the extraordinary poltroonery of our new captive.

It was their firm conviction that the system under which we live was, in its broad outline, a system of even justice.

To-day he seemed to speak the words with a conviction that was not usual, with some curious under-meaning.

Natives join them from various motives, for it would be venturesome to assert that they are all moved by religious conviction.