This desire, I went on, growing voluble as my conviction was aroused, had mounted at such a rate recently that I now found its realization necessary not only to my physical but also to my spiritual wellbeing.

Their writings assume more than dramatic or patriotic interest because of their conviction that the struggle in which they were involved was neither selfish nor parochial but, rather, as Washington in his last wartime circular reminded his fellow countrymen, that `` with our fate will the destiny of unborn millions be involved ''.

His father was a professor at Hartford Theological Seminary, and from him he acquired a conviction, which he passed along to me, that there is in the universe of persons a moral law, the law of love, which is a natural law in the same sense as is the physical law.

Perhaps there is more truth than we are wont to admit in the conviction of that ornament of Tarheelia, Robert Ruark's grandfather, who was persuaded that the great curse of the modern world is `` all this gallivantin' ''.

To try to oppose the general religious and moral conviction of such a majority by a legislative fiat would be to invite the same breakdown of law and order that was occasioned by the ill-starred Prohibition experiment.

Even as the conviction of truth roared through him, shattering his last hope of safety, he was reaching to release the hand brake, to head up the road for home, doing her bidding.

An alert 10-year-old safety patrol boy was congratulated by police today for his part in obtaining a reckless driving conviction against a youthful motorist.

It was their conviction that the people should be `` brought up together '', a grade at a time, until in some indefinite future some might be ready to tackle history, economics and political science.

Garrison, Massachusetts born of Nova Scotian parentage, was by temperament and conviction a reformer.

Charlotte Fairchild was excellent as the loyal Marie, who became the second Mrs. LaGuardia, singing and acting with remarkable conviction.

Mercer did not know what an `` Earth-week '' was, since he had not been a well-read man before his conviction, but he got nothing more from the half-man at that time.

He grew up without any particular religious conviction, but his life's path was formed by a variety of twists and coincidences that were often put into motion by his recalcitrant insubordination.

It resulted in a conviction and she was burnt at the stake in 1576.

" The Court allowed the guilty plea only with a simultaneous protestation of innocence as there was enough evidence to show that the prosecution had a strong case for a conviction, and the defendant was entering such a plea to avoid this possible sentencing.

As evidence existed that could have supported Alford's conviction, the Supreme Court held that his guilty plea was allowable while the defendant himself still maintained that he was not guilty.

On 10 June 2004, Bardot was again convicted by a French court for " inciting racial hatred " and fined € 5, 000, the fourth such conviction and fine from a French court.

It was reserved for his biographer Karl Benrath to justify him, and to represent him as a fervent evangelist and at the same time as a speculative thinker with a passion for free inquiry, always learning and unlearning and arguing out difficult questions with himself in his dialogues, frequently without attaining to any absolute conviction.

" The university was not challenged about the origin of its interracial dating policy, and the District Court accepted " on the basis of a full evidentiary record " BJU's argument that the rule was a sincerely held religious conviction, a finding affirmed by all subsequent courts.

" The British did not know quite what to make of President Woodrow Wilson and his conviction ( before America's entrance into the war ) that the way to end hostilities was for both sides to accept " peace without victory.

In reading their minute directions for divers degrees of abstinence on various days, it is impossible to avoid being struck by the conviction that the great object of the framers of these rules was the general purpose of ensuring an ascetic mode of life.

There was a general reduction in the number of cavalry regiments in the British, French, Italian and other Western armies but it was still argued with conviction ( for example in the 1922 edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica ) that mounted troops had a major role to play in future warfare.

The executions took place at dawn only a few hours after Havana radio announced their conviction by a revolutionary tribunal at Pinar Del Rio, where the executions took place.

In May, Tirana announced the arrest, trial, and conviction of nine People's Assembly members, all known for opposing Yugoslavia, on charges of antistate activities.

In 2011, the Third Circuit again affirmed the conviction as well as its decision to vacate the death sentence, and the District Attorney of Philadelphia announced that prosecutors would no longer seek the death penalty.

Before the Tribunal convened, Nikitchenko explained the Soviet perspective of the trials :" We are dealing here with the chief war criminals who have already been convicted and whose conviction has been already announced by both the Moscow and Crimea declarations by the heads of the governments ....

On 13 December 2006 the newspaper announced that it was offering up a record breaking reward of £ 250, 000 for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the person or persons responsible for the murder of five prostitutes around Ipswich.

However, the ministers decided that a private hearing was required by " state policy ," he announced this conviction to the president of the court martial ; such an announcement was equivalent to an order.

On Thursday, September 29, 2011, it was announced that in mid-August, administrators for the Illinois Attorney Registration and Disciplinary Commission had asked the Illinois Supreme Court to suspend the former attorney's law license, in a likely prelude to disbarment ( which is usually automatic upon a felony conviction ).

On February 11, 2009, the State of Connecticut announced a $ 50, 000 reward leading to the arrest and conviction of the person or persons responsible for the murder.

On 3 October 2006, his successor, Ewen McQueen, announced the dissolution of Christian Heritage New Zealand, blaming Capill's conviction and disgrace for its demise.

Williams announced he would resign as Teamsters president while appealing his conviction.

In November 2006, after the site's 100th conviction, Perverted-Justice announced that chat logs would no longer be posted unless law enforcement was involved first, as " Information First " agreements were sufficient to cover most U. S. residents caught in a sting.

On 28 September 2007, the Commonwealth Director of Public Prosecutions announced that there were not " reasonable prospects of conviction for a criminal offence against Dr Laming ", effectively clearing him.

" In this case, criminal charges were not pursued against Mr. Vizard because the DPP was not satisfied that there was admissible, substantial and reliable evidence of the offence and therefore there were not reasonable prospects of securing a conviction … Whilst this was a decision for the DPP, it was also consistent with senior counsel advice that ASIC had independently received .... When ASIC announced on 4 July that we were pursuing civil penalties against Mr. Vizard, there were some suggestions in the press that we had gone soft or that we had somehow been nobbled by government.

" Leibell has only himself to blame for the fact that, after 28 years in public office, this conviction will be the capstone to that career ," said Preet Bharara, the United States attorney for Manhattan who announced Leibell's guilty plea.

In December 2007, Libby, through his attorney Theodore Wells, announced he had dropped his appeal of his conviction.

An new inquiry relating to his conviction was announced in August 2012.

Indonesian immigration officials announced the she would be deported from the country due to her guilty conviction.

On 28 June 2007 the SCCRC announced its decision to refer the case to the Court of Criminal Appeal for Megrahi's second appeal against conviction, having concluded:

In March 2009, the Independent Electoral Commission ruled that Winnie Mandela, who was selected as an ANC candidate, could run in the April 2009 general election, despite having a fraud conviction.

The antisemitism and injustice revealed in France by the conviction of Alfred Dreyfus had a radicalizing effect on Herzl, persuading him that Jews, despite the Enlightenment and Jewish assimilation, could never hope for fair treatment in European society.

Franckel and Moro-Giafferi, however, took the view that if Grynszpan was allowed to claim that he had shot vom Rath with such a motive, this would result in his certain conviction and possibly take him to the guillotine ( despite his being a minor ), since French law took a severe view of political assassination.

A former reporter who was angry at seeing the film portray Carter as innocent despite the overturned conviction began a campaign to pressure Academy Award voters not to award the film Oscars.

In December, 2010, Bouterse replied to a journalist, who asked why Dino was, despite his conviction, appointed as head of CTU, by saying: " Only the very best are placed in CTU and my son is among the very best ".

A delusion is a belief held with strong conviction despite superior evidence to the contrary.

In 2009 the California Supreme Court upheld the conviction of Richard Allen Davis, finding that the public safety exception applied despite the fact that 64 days had passed from the disappearance of the girl later found to be murdered.

If details of a spent conviction are made public by others with malice, the publisher may be subject to libel damages despite the fact that what is said is true.

The episode ends with a screen noting that " In May 2003, despite forensics proving that the disputed finger print is not from the Routiers or investigators, the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals upheld Darlie Routier's conviction.

Morpheus renews his conviction that Neo could still save Zion, and supports Trinity in finding Neo, whose mind is trapped in a computer netherworld called Mobil Avenue, despite not being jacked in.

In April, 2011 a three judge 5th Circuit Court panel ruled that the verdict would have been the same despite the legal issues under discussion, and Skilling's conviction was upheld.

In Section Five, Kennan exposited Soviet weaknesses and proposed U. S. strategy, stating that despite the great challenge, “ my conviction that problem is within our power to solve — and that without recourse to any general military conflict .” He argued that the Soviet Union would be sensitive to force, that the Soviets were weak, compared to the united Western world, that the Soviets were vulnerable to internal instability, and that Soviet propaganda was primarily negative and destructive.

However, once the media reported on his role there was outrage-with politicians proposing to ban his entry into the country ( despite the fact that he should have already been prohibited entry under Canadian law due to his conviction ).

In May 1976, despite a then-recent Court of Appeal decision ( 11 December 1975 ) not to overturn Davis's criminal conviction, the Home Secretary, Roy Jenkins, on partial completion of a police review of the case, agreed to recommend the release of Davis without further referral back to the Court of Appeal.

In 2012 she took the controversial step of announcing her continual desire to holiday in Mauritius, despite the recent trial and non conviction of two people for the murder of Michaela McAreavey.

Two years before Apprendi, the Court decided Almendarez-Torres v. United States,, in which the Court held that a federal statute authorizing increased punishment for illegally reentering the United States after deportation pursuant to a conviction for certain crimes was constitutional despite a then-emerging view ( later solidified in Apprendi ) that facts that increased punishment must be proved to a jury beyond a reasonable doubt.

Budanov was highly controversial in Russia: despite the conviction, Budanov enjoyed widespread support of Russian households, as polled by public opinion.

The members of a small, obscure UFO cult in question were very quick to amend their world-view so as to rationalize the unexpected outcome without losing their conviction about the validity of the underlying belief system, despite the obvious evidence to the contrary.

Accordingly, the defendant's conviction for murder was sustained on appeal despite the fact that the victim died 15 months after the defendant struck the ultimately fatal blow.

In 2005, Governor Bob Taft was convicted of four counts of failing to file accurate financial disclosure statements but said he would not resign his office despite the conviction, which grew out of the Coingate scandal exposed by The Toledo Blade.

The following year, it upheld the conviction of a man who refused to register despite his argument that this refusal constituted a political protest.

Having been found guilty despite his protests and sentenced to death, Franceschini then appeals — unsuccessfully — to Pope Innocent XII to overturn the conviction.

Controversy continues to surround Megrahi's conviction despite the rejection of his appeal on 14 March 2002.

Leibell had resigned from the State Senate on December 2, 2010, just prior to being arrested, which controversially due to a loophole in the New York State pension system allows him to keep a $ 71, 000 pension despite his conviction.