But the fourth may count for most: that he is an oilman by conviction as well as profession.
There is marriage of convenience, or maybe by conviction.
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Of course, if you happen to be a pacifist by conviction, you probably hate all that Alexander stood for as well as what he did in war, but, if the premise of war be granted, he was surely a formidably great generalissimo.
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They made much of the fact that, in Nixon's case, there was little doubt that impeachment would be followed by conviction in the Senate, whereas now it is almost inconceivable that two-thirds would vote to topple Mr Clinton (the Republican majority in the Senate is too narrow).
The shadow cabinet will discover, as Mr Duncan Smith intends, that other Europeans are not trapped, as many Britons are, by a conviction that public services must be provided, as well as paid for, by the state.
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But a spectacular trial followed by a conviction could sour bilateral relations, German media warn.
Victor Temple QC, prosecuting, said Mr Alexander was "undeterred" by that conviction.
My conscience is also salved by my conviction (and that of others) that hunting is actually the most ethical way to procure meat in this era of factory farms.
But the nine Supreme Court judges widened this by saying that if a person could prove that no set of circumstances could possibly lead to their conviction by a jury, they could get compensation.
Following Gabriele's conviction by a Vatican court, officials said he was likely to be pardoned by the pontiff.
And as Judge Higginbotham said, it has been too willing to liken impeachment of a president to the perjury conviction by a basketball coach.
But prosecutors wanted murder and the conviction by a jury happened yesterday, which could put Kenneth Minor in prison for the rest of his life.
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That leads to a prosecution and a conviction by jurors swayed by impressive sounding experts who spin a good tale, offering expert opinion dressed up as proven science.
He was guided by the firm conviction that many of the ills afflicting the church could be traced to a misreading of the reforms of the Second Vatican Council.
Rather than carom from character to character, as the series once did, the new episodes focus primarily on a single character, beginning with the ostensibly normal son, and the series' center of gravity, Michael Bluth (played with po-faced conviction by Jason Bateman).
But if he is a democrat, it would seem to be by circumstance rather than conviction.
Sgt Nightingale had his sentence reduced and then had his conviction quashed by Court of Appeal judges.
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That is certainly a conviction held by most Americans, and certainly backed up by the vast majority of the science.
The case began to unravel after the DA's office launched a review by its newly formed Conviction Integrity Unit in 2011.
Andersen's own fate was sealed by its recent criminal conviction over Enron.
The statute of limitations could run out on the case before the final appeal runs its course, which would essentially make the conviction fall by the wayside.
"It is often difficult to establish death by dangerous driving and, as a consequence, relatives feel someone's death is not recognised by a careless driving conviction, " he said.
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John Livingstone, one of the detectives involved in the Goad investigation, told File On 4 that dealing with new evidence brought forward by victims since his conviction had been problematic.
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Does she stand to gain financially from a conviction (by filing a civil suit), and if so, is there reason to think that she is the sort of person who would bring a false criminal charge for that reason?
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Her conviction to stand by the principles over rode her fear of the consequences.
His conviction was hailed by police as the biggest victory yet in a "cold case" using this type of DNA evidence.
That conviction was quashed by the Court of Appeal last year and he got his job back in September after going to the Police Appeals Tribunal.
The tensions inherent in that conviction were identified by Colombian Nobel laureate Gabriel Garcia Marquez, who met and travelled with Chavez before he took office for the first time.
After leaving the Navy, Lawrence moved to Houston, worked as a medical technician, and totted up a slew of drunk-driving violations, including a conviction for murder by automobile, in 1967.
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