An opinion is shocking only if it is a conviction.

So really isn't a word that we should use with simple confidence.

She firmly held on to this conviction until her death.

We've become addicted to their certainty, their assuredness, their definitiveness, and in the process, we have ceded our responsibility, substituting our intellect and our intelligence for their supposed words of wisdom.

But it's maybe the conviction as monkey and homunculus we are.

Many of the reactions to my book tend to confirm that belief.

In a word, all the Mischief arises not from Toleration, but from the want of it.

Gödel's incompleteness theorems, proved in 1931, showed that essential aspects of Hilbert's program could not be attained.

That belief was behind China s pressure on Cambodia to block ASEAN s final communiqué this summer.

How enduring, our bland fatal assurance that reflection is righteousness being accomplished.

A professional is someone who has a combination of competence, confidence and belief.

Our opinion is an idea which we have our conviction an idea which has us.

Faithless and wavering, it has been defeated by the unswerving conviction of the right.

I just have one belief, that I DON'T NEED TO BE THIN TO BE HAPPY.

There is widespread conviction that the prince should resign his claim to the throne.

Based on primary accounts and based on what one would expect based on the geographic positions of the islands given Columbus's venture's course, the prime candidates are San Salvador Island (so named in 1925 on the theory that it was Columbus' San Salvador), Samana Cay, and Plana Cays.

development and enduring success of the Union , REAFFIRM their conviction that the Structural Funds should continue to play a considerable part in the

REAFFIRM their conviction that the Structural Funds should continue to play a considerable part in the achievement of Community objectives in the field of cohesion

The mostly European passengers of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17, downed over rebel controlled territory, paid for this insight with their lives.

Well, my belief is that it works because scientists are a community bound together by an ethics.

The basic prerequisite for every progress is the conviction that the necessary is possible.

Anyhow, nobody would have followed them, except for a handful of men and women of conviction and courage.

For Scarisbrick, Henry was a formidable, captivating man who wore regality with a splendid conviction .

Around this time, some skinheads became affiliated with far right groups such as the National Front and the British Movement.

Not only because of the color of the 44th U.S. president's skin which alone would be enough but also the change that Obama brings through his views, words, beliefs and future projects.

In Mali, the lack of resolution in the conflict in the North of the country was the main reason invoked by Captain Amadou Haya Sanogo to remove Amadou Toumani Touré from power.

Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.

This right includes freedom to change religion or belief and freedom , either alone or in community with others and in public or in private , to manifest religion or belief , in worship , teaching , practice and observance .

They comprise principles , good practices and guidelines which should govern the design and operation of payment systems and suggest the key characteristics which all systemically important payment systems should satisfy .

So we just insist that we're right, because it makes us feel smart and responsible and virtuous and safe.

Religious exemption from military service can be more difficult to resolve, because some religions teach pacifism.

Nevertheless, the feeling grew so strong that aides began to address Romney as Mr. President.

She never required a focus group to tell her what she believed or how to express it.

Throughout Europe, it printed on Protestant minds the indelible conviction that Catholicism was a bloody and treacherous religion .

Harmonices Mundi Kepler was convinced that the geometrical things have provided the Creator with the model for decorating the whole world .

This right includes freedom to change religion or belief and freedom, either alone or in community with others and in public or in private, to manifest religion or belief, in worship, teaching, practice and observance.2.

The Member States reaffirm their conviction that the Structural Funds should continue to play a considerable part in the achievement of Union objectives in the field of cohesion.3.

One can also not say that the country is ungrateful because that it was in the relationship for self interest and not for conviction.

Because they had decided in their minds, I believe, that fairness is a very complex issue and that animals cannot have it.

Thus , the evidence did not support the view that the supply of bank credit had been severely affected by the turmoil in 2007 .

Unfortunately, the window of opportunity for such a gesture to be viewed in Europe as a much awaited olive branch and a sign of real American strength and conviction is closing fast.

But the idea that transparency will restore public trust in democracy rests on several problematic assumptions, primarily the belief that if only people knew, everything would be different.

Now this is not all necessarily good news, because it's also my belief that hatred has gone global just as much as love.

They spoke with a passion, an urgency, an intellectual conviction that, for me, was a voice I had not heard in decades, a dream long forgotten.

After Germany s defeat, he was convinced that only a united Europe could prevent another devastating war in the West.