Antonym: acquittal. Similar words: convict, fiction, convention, prediction, restriction, conversation, conventional, jurisdiction. Meaning: [-kʃn] n. 1. an unshakable belief in something without need for proof or evidence 2. (criminal law) a final judgment of guilty in a criminal case and the punishment that is imposed.
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151) In this, Vargas Llosa defends his most deep and abiding conviction: that literature can change the world.
152) Fawehinmi's conviction on the contempt of court charge was quashed by the appeal court in July.
153) The boys' father, Cedric Owens, is in jail after a conviction for burglary.
154) In spite of his conviction about Michael, there were other points that needed clearing up, if Edmund Jason could now speak.
155) It is the firm conviction of your Board that you should not become shareholders in a company with such an unsound strategy.
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156) They are commanding and authoritative, bloated with conviction that their advice is right, the best thing for me.
157) The right hon. Lady said no, no, no out of firm conviction.
158) Without the anchor of personal conviction they are at the mercy of every ebb and flow of opinion.
159) Probably she had found a sufficient stock of unused paper in the attic - yellowed enough with age to carry conviction.
160) There is now a growing conviction that the religious sources for a new public ethos have to be mobilised again.
161) He was poor himself but passionate in his conviction that Modigliani deserved a sponsor.
162) That shows an inner strength which must be the result of his deep religious conviction.
163) This Government has all the conviction of a blush on Madonna's cheek.
164) A person who has proof can therefore believe and can be compelled by belief to act with conviction.
165) The trial and conviction of Jimmy Malone took over three months.
166) They obscure our deeper conviction that what is in the blood will out, that shared blood means shared susceptibilities.
167) The only defendant to testify was Salaam, a move which most observers saw as having increased his chances of conviction.
168) Yet during his Saturday night guest appearance Julio Bocca danced the ballet with a heroic degree of conviction.
169) It is my strong conviction that an efficient economy and a fair society go together.
170) It takes moral courage and conviction to defend justice and oppose injustice. To take the side of justice is justice, to give comfort to injustice is injustice. Dr T.P.Chia
171) Widdowson appealed against conviction on the technicality that obtaining hire-purchase did not amount to obtaining services.
172) Let me not draw back from the Sacrifice I have made of my free choice and conviction.
173) She told Sam it was time he was in bed, but without conviction.
174) A central part of our view of individual agents is our conviction that there is an explanatory link between belief and action.
175) Legislative response to that conviction can not be regarded as arbitrary or capricious and that is all we have to decide.
176) He responded, "we will win," but his voice didn't carry conviction.
177) Her hair was coiled without conviction in the nape of her neck.
178) But it was one thing to tell myself that and another to act on it with any conviction.
179) Firmly distanced from the levers of power, the liberal parties were unable to carry conviction among their potential constituents.
180) On one level, there is no faulting their conviction that popular capitalism has caught the public's imagination as well as our money.
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