convictions

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When Mr. Bederow asked if she had a personal stake in the conviction’s being upheld, she said, “You have questioned my integrity repeatedly, so that is certainly personal to me.”

From New York Times • Nov. 23, 2015

Stern conviction's o'er me stealing, That the mystic lady's dealing In oracular revealing.

From The Complete Plays of Gilbert and Sullivan by Gilbert, W. S. (William Schwenck), Sir

Towards all beside I have a kindly mood; Yet, though I yearn to gaze on thee, I feel At sight of him strange horror o'er me steal; That he's a villain my conviction's strong.

From Faust — Part 1 by Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von

Sensitive to the last degree, he keenly felt the blows and stabs of the envious and obscure—of the smallest, of the weakest—but the greatest could not drive him from conviction's field.

From The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 12 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Miscellany by Ingersoll, Robert Green

"Well, even if your conviction's just, that still doesn't tell me into which of my very empty pockets it will be of the least use for me to fumble."

From The Outcry by James, Henry