Conviction in a sentence as a noun

Or maybe there's been no one with the drive, conviction and gravitas to pull it off?

When I ask him why he did it, he answers with the same conviction that led him to create the game.

If they'll do that with a slam dunk case, what will they do to get a conviction when the case is a tough one?

If you meet probation terms such as random drug testing and so forth, then your conviction record is "erased".

Yet every year the number of false accusations and convictions from cold hits grows, as we see in this latest case.

That's the conviction which caused me, just a few hours ago, to hand in my notice of resignation to my current employer.

She comes off as believing that her job is to present the most aggressive possible case for conviction and let the judge & jury sort out the truth.

It seems like a lot of people are objecting to the raid/seizure itself in addition to the possibility of conviction, so I have a question.

Ordinary people don't live in the kind of circumstances where they might wander into a felony conviction from a minor lapse in judgment.

What they didn't count on was the fact that there are people living on the edge who rack up a number of felony convictions for relatively minor things even though they're not the kind of hardened criminal legislators were thinking about.

The number of times she saw people send themselves up for long stretches in prison, under circumstances in which the authorities would /never/ have gotten a conviction otherwise, led her to give me the same advice you see every single lawyer on television offer their clients: don't say anything!

I think David Foster Wallace gives the most accurate comparison I've read, and I always want to show it to those lucky souls who have never had to deal with this type of depression:The so-called psychotically depressed person who tries to **** herself doesnt do so out of quote hopelessness or any abstract conviction that lifes assets and debits do not square.

Even if they believed that Rehtaeh Parsons had been raped, the bar for laying criminal charges is "significant likelihood of conviction", and the bar for conviction is "proven beyond a reasonable doubt" -- and where the alleged victim does not make a complaint until after facing bullying for what her peers were presuming was consensual, it can easily raise doubts as to her veracity.

Conviction definitions

noun

an unshakable belief in something without need for proof or evidence

noun

(criminal law) a final judgment of guilty in a criminal case and the punishment that is imposed; "the conviction came as no surprise"

See also: condemnation sentence