His approach, he said, would derive from some basic convictions.

Some of our most basic convictions are going to have to be rethought - right from square one.

For those with a rosier outlook, three days of hectic, up-and-down trading have not altered their basic conviction: that the market will keep climbing.

It is simply that the show comes straight from the basic convictions of its creator, Gene Roddenberry.

It is with this basic conviction that Bultmann, with the majority of modern exegetes, read the Bible.

Neutral inadequately described her basic conviction about the war.

There was a restless energy, a basic conviction that with hard work anybody could succeed, and everybody deserved a chance.

Personalism reinforced some of his basic religious convictions.

He is sticking by his basic conviction that the objective of the European Union must be to remain competitive as a whole in the global market.

There were always points where Reagan made tactical shifts, but they never called into question his basic convictions.