growing conviction
collocation in Englishmeaningsofgrowingandconviction
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growing
adjective
uk/ˈɡrəʊ.ɪŋ/us/ˈɡroʊ.ɪŋ/
increasing in size ...
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conviction
noun
uk/kənˈvɪk.ʃən/us/kənˈvɪk.ʃən/
the fact of officially being found to be guilty of a particular crime, or the act of officially finding ...
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(Definition ofgrowingandconvictionfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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There has been agrowingconvictionover the last 20 years or so that objective, population-based methods should be used in the management of health services.
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There is agrowingconvictionthat to make too much fuss about a timetable is indulging in a certain amount of hypocrisy.
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It is mygrowingconvictionin constitutional matters that a majority of one is not enough.
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There is thegrowingconvictionof world unity—growing, as everybody perceives, with the shrinkage of the world.
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The second project derives from thegrowingconvictionthat children of primary age are more receptive and more capable than was thought hitherto.
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There is agrowingconvictionthat these views are harder and harder to sustain.
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But there is agrowingconvictionamong our people that we need protecting, that our interests are in danger.
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Unfortunately, there is agrowingconvictionthat the only answer is to be found in powerful pressure groups.
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There is agrowingconvictionto that effect.
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I have had agrowingconvictionthat, as a nation, we are relatively uneducated as regards understanding the third world and, indeed, the second world.
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I have agrowingconvictionthat he is not subject to any kind of control whatsoever.
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There appears to be agrowingconvictionof the need for increased international cooperation on family issues as part of the global effort to advance social progress and development.
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There isgrowingconvictionthat not much fishing industry will be left now that the deep sea industry has gone and the middle water and inshore sections are severely threatened.
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I have agrowingconvictionthat behind this objection to developing our own oil from our coal resources is the vested interest of the oil concerns.
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There is now agrowingconvictionin conservation and architectural circles that many buildings from the 1930s should be statutorily listed —far more than have been statutorily listed.
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There is agrowingconvictionthat we have not properly planned for changing employment patterns; for micro-development; for the changing role of employment and its relation to leisure.
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They have agrowingconvictionthat pollution and population must have precedence of decision if ever international politics are to have meaning two decades ahead from now.
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This happened because of agrowingconvictionthat the imperialist and reactionary forces in the world could not be overthrown without the use of violence.
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Following the exhibitions, he got many commissions for portraiture, but he had agrowingconvictionthat he lacked the requisite talent.
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Despite hergrowingconviction, she is unable to convince anyone else and soon becomes certain that there is no one actually on her side, least of all her own husband.
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