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Those eyes used to have conviction, a purpose
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That is the same conviction of God presence in our lives
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"I wish I could share your conviction," Serpent said, "but I've seen this Man who is meant to dominate us and he is a complete buffoon!"
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the oracle with great conviction
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or that he added real conviction
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They all knew, believed with total conviction, that they were destined for something great
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For the most part the good folk who take up the cudgels of representative democracy on our behalf are well meaning, hard working souls armed with the sword of conviction and the shield of dedication
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I felt the dirt between my toes and the pain from the small sharper stones, but the murmuring of the chant was flowing and I was making the slow dance at last, a fervent conviction, a celebration
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And once all life had left, a sense of horror came and turned to shame for lack of true conviction
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A barking dog told to shut up is a conviction
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meaning, hard working souls armed with the sword of conviction
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say, I've seen that before, with any kind of conviction
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” Inside he realized he spoke with more conviction than he felt
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Gradually, she came round to the conviction that maybe it would be better if she didn’t say anything
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conviction, Alistair told Tom a story
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Somehow she managed to instil the last few words with a meaning which reduced the conviction of her brother for child abuse, the deaths of two men and a woman, and the resultant comatose state of her daughter to an event which was purely and simply intended as a disruption of her life
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The man was as serious about his belief in teaching as his conviction
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more in hope than conviction
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His next words rang with utter conviction
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When they spoke, it was with conviction and a confidence neither had heretofore practiced with any duration
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My second trip to the mountain has reconfirmed my conviction that this is the year to go
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“May as well,” Dobber stated, with little conviction
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Is it conviction or condemnation? God always moves our heart toward change whereas the enemy always pushes down under the chains of condemnation
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Conviction would prick the hearts of men when they preached,
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that will have to suffice,’ he said without conviction
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Whether it was from his silent promise of revenge or the other buyers’ conviction that she wasn’t The Maiden’s Odyssey
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• Step by step, by conviction, among the poor
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It is by this superior knowledge of their own interest that they have frequently imposed upon his generosity, and persuaded him to give up both his own interest and that of the public, from a very simple but honest conviction, that their interest, and not his, was the interest of the public
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support it thenceforth as well, not from conviction, but
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My conviction is that time is a creation that is born out of others to serve a definite purpose
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reflect the conviction that it is wrong
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And behold, Lord Saint Bodhisattva Lucifer strode With conviction through the amazed crowd of angels, His eye chilling bright power… solid in countenance, With bold body language he would dare to chisel sharp Precise words into perfection—captivating the hearers Into profound insight
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The conviction of the moment: here is 82
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Conviction or proof? Irony of the repressed actuality of the
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But for someone who seemed a hapless traveler on the surface, she certainly possessed conviction
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“I must say, new recruits with such passion and conviction can too often seem few and far between
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To dream that you are waffling over a topic suggests that you need to think things more clearly and learn to express yourself with more assurance and conviction
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” she offered without conviction
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“She"s too old,” a chorus of voices stated with conviction
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She knew!” I stated with conviction
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His voice was as full of conviction as any almost-three -year-old could muster
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Deanna’s conviction that Scott must still be alive had become a source of anguish for Colleena and awkwardness and
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They are listened to, esteemed, and respected by their superiors; but before their inferiors they are frequently incapable of defending, effectually, and to the conviction of such hearers, their own sober and moderate doctrines, against the most ignorant enthusiast who chooses to attack them
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It cannot be necessary to have recourse to the general contribution of the whole society, except for the conviction of those criminals who have not themselves any estate or fund sufficient for paying those fees
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voice was full of conviction
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He further advised us that „Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction
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“Corporal Lamb we have appealed to the C in C to either have the conviction quashed or the death sentence commuted on account of your age
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Thus: „Those who speak out against stem cell research may be rooted in an admirable conviction about the sacredness of life, but so are the parents of a child with juvenile diabetes, who are convinced that their son"s or daughter"s hardships can be relieved
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’ Yes he could really say that with conviction
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” The words didn’t come out with the conviction she intended, and he reached for her again
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Paul’s conviction that we spend too much time and energy on
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When he had met her, one of the things he had been most attracted to was the conviction of her opinions
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He knew in the inevitable sequence of chronology, that a successor would be none other than the bully whom he'd hated with even greater conviction than Akaman, though this one had been expected to make an appearance from the start
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He tripped over his words, desperately trying to form a coherent sentence with enough conviction to throw them off the scent
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He got four years in federal prison in 2008, even though his cooperating with the justice department resulted in the conviction of an Ohio congressman, an ex-deputy interior secretary, and
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“Of course,” he said, though his words carried less conviction than hers
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“I'm telling you, I had it under control,” I said, but without much conviction
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He was just beginning to catch the note of absolute conviction and seriousness of the situation coming across in his Aunts voice and her silences
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And, I can tell you right now with conviction that learning to be compassionate, learning how to care for and treat others, has done more for my soul than any other lesson that I’ve ever learned from my grandparents
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conviction that Mabel's babies are sadly spoiled
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"The same conviction seized upon us both
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“Someone will be here soon,” Sheena said with as much conviction as she could muster
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“I know he loves me,” Dawn whispered, her conviction growing inside her
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But as the sky slowly darkened on yet another sun, the young badger's conviction began to waver
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The aged shepherd paused and considered for a moment, And looked up at the man with a smile, and said with conviction,
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The spirit of Truth brings Conviction
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For only The Spirit of Truth will bring conviction unto righteousness
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That conviction changed my approach and it gave me a further opportunity to look at myself and not focus on others (Matthew 7:3-4)
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Lead with passion and conviction for the good of everyone in the family and rule with love
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They should be extended on the basis of (overriding) circumstantial evidence that otherwise creates (plausible) doubt as to the merits of the conviction
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A terrorist, for example, (read: William Jefferson Clinton) should never be pardoned based upon incontrovertible evidence that led to that conviction to begin with
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It can't possibly be," I objected without conviction
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Republican Party promises oftentimes ring hollow with the ―common‖ man because they are seldom stated with (genuine) conviction
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I don’t know where that conviction came from, but no amount of rational thought could shake it
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Thorne, and the conviction came over me that, one way or another, I was never really going to leave this place
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“This is the dumbest, creepiest cop-force in the whole damned country,” he vowed with conviction
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The “Security moms” show that with conviction
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To gain conviction against him, Edgar was fighting more than just a highly skilled defense lawyer: also to consider were corrupt judges and public attorneys, all of whom, even the semi-honest, succumbed to political pressure
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Clippings from the national newspaper were shocking for their obvious lack of objectivity and racist slant, leaving would-be tourists with the conviction that only in Limon was there danger, black muggers lurking in alleys waiting to slice their throats
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His actions and later conviction led to a greater wave of hostility for all three groups
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Delay was only a few months away from the scandal that removed him from office, indictment in September for violating election laws and money laundering that would lead to his resignation in June 2006 and conviction in 2010, later overturned
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Hell, he told himself, shaking the feeling, if the druggies wanted to sniff the stuff, how could anyone claim that he was responsible? They couldn’t, and that was that! He reran the thought repeatedly to strengthen his conviction, because he knew Beth wouldn’t agree, not one little bit
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The man had good legal representation, but had still been facing almost certain conviction with prison sentence of ten to twelve years
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His voice was rising in anger and firming in self-assured conviction – top cop bossing an underling
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"We can work this out, guys," I said with more conviction than I felt
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Exactly who was this Douglas Finney from Boston, Massachusetts? His police record, begun in childhood, included two separate arrests for possession of cocaine with the intent to sell, but through plea-bargaining he had avoided conviction on both occasions: the first had been reduced to possession, and the second dropped altogether
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He calmed himself, emptied his mind and held to just one conviction:
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Beth was horrified with the realization that she had killed a man, and no amount of rationalization could sway her from her conviction that she had
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With the strength of that solidarity came conviction that he would do nothing against their interests, and as midnight came and went and still the police hadn’t arrived to break down the door, it was refreshing that that possibility passed from her thinking
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He said with some lack of conviction:
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Even then, people of staunch and Calvinist evangelical conviction were having difficulties with some of the more rigid aspects of the Westminster Confession of Faith
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We will take him far away,” suggested Lone Dove, but her voice lacked conviction in that plan
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” he said, though his voice lacked conviction
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Andy replied without hesitation, a fiery conviction in his voice, an immaculate, fearless shine in his eyes
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And of those who were convinced, many could offer only suspicions of their conviction
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We would have drowned in the certain conviction of our own false reality
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In 314 however, war broke out between the two emperors…During the years which followed, Licinius turned against the Christians, finally renewing the persecutions, whereas Constantine, from conviction, policy, or both, interested himself in their controversies and by his intervention attempted to restore peace between the various factions, summoning two councils (at Arles in 314; Milan in 316) in unsuccessful efforts to heal the breach between the Christians of the Roman Church and the Donatists, whose strength lay mainly in North Africa
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“In 326, Constantine undertook to transfer the capital of the empire from Rome…the traditional seat of Paganism in the west to the strategic crossroads of the East where Christians formed perhaps half the population in the more important areas…In religious matters, since he himself was not baptized until he lay on his death bed, Constantine was probably attracted to Christianity, whose advance had been so remarkable, as much by the political use he could make of it to restore unity to the empire, as by personal conviction
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“Well, obviously I wanted to,” I say, frustrated, but without conviction
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“You’re right,” I say without conviction