And he said it in such a way, with this kind of spontaneous conviction, that I believed him.

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"Working together, we will now move this project forward with conviction but also with proper transparency and oversight and at no further costs to tollpayers and taxpayers, " Mr. Christie said.

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Part of the process is therefore encouraging participants to sit with this feeling and build their conviction and confidence to act on it at training retreats and capacity building workshops.

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Yet the problem with their promises is this: for every bit of conviction, there is a shameful share of pure posturing.

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Ironically, it seems that her stint in prison after a 2004 conviction seems to have only enhanced her cred with this new generation.

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But for all its occasional tin ear, "Dr Phil" dialogue, its contrivances and shortcuts, this remains a fundamentally sound and solid entertainment with a deep-rooted conviction that how we treat each other matters.

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It is this growing conviction of the economic potential of winter sports, combined with a fierce local pride, that explains why the city went to such lengths to secure the winter Olympics.

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We acknowledge the risk of downgrading at what appears to be a bottom (indeed, we have done it with this name before), but we can no longer even pretend to have any conviction in the name.

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This week Mr Berlusconi received yet another criminal conviction (for bribery), complete with jail sentence.

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