acquittal
Fresh evidence has emerged that casts doubts on the men's conviction.出现了新的证据，对这些人的定罪出现了疑点。
He got off with a fairly light sentence because it was his first conviction.因为是初犯，他得以轻判。
The district attorney said if McVeigh is given the death penalty and his conviction is upheld on appeal, the state prosecution would become moot.
Because of a previous conviction, the judge refused to grant bail .
His conviction was quashed in March 1986 after his counsel argued that the police evidence was a tissue of lies.

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convictionnoun (OPINION)

C2[ C or U ]
a strong opinion or belief: 坚定的看法;坚定的信念;坚定的信仰
religious/moral convictions宗教／道德信仰
deep/strong/lifelong convictionThey share a deep/strong/lifelong conviction that you can do anything if you're willing to work hard.
[ + that ]It's my personal conviction that all rapists should be locked away for life.我个人坚持认为所有强奸犯都应处以终生监禁。
[ U ]
a feeling of being certain about something: 坚信，深信;确信
lack convictionHe said he was enjoying his new job, but his voice lacked conviction.他说他喜欢自己的新工作，但口气不怎么坚定。
She had a firm conviction that they would meet again in the hereafter.她坚信他们来世还会再见面。
His speech carried so much conviction that I had to agree with him.他的发言很有说服力，我只好赞同。
He has an irrational conviction that he is right.
Her statement that she supported the president lacked conviction.

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conviction | American Dictionary

conviction
noun[ C/U ]
us/kənˈvɪk·ʃən/

convictionnoun[C/U] (BELIEF)

a strong belief that is not likely to change, or the strong feeling that your beliefs are right:
[ C ]He has no ability to communicate his convictions.
[ U ]His followers believed with varying degrees of conviction.

convictionnoun[C/U] (CRIME)

the act of deciding officially in a court of law that someone is guilty of a particular crime:
[ C ]His criminal record includes convictions for robberies in several states.

conviction | Business English

conviction
noun
 LAWuk /kənˈvɪkʃən/us
[ C ]
a decision made by a court of law that someone is guilty of a crime:
have a conviction for sth He has two previous convictions for tax evasion.
[ U ]
the process of proving in a court of law that someone is guilty of a crime:
Too many defendants are escaping conviction because the case against them was poorly presented.

Examples of conviction

conviction
Yet so many other factors also influence epistemic convictions that purely national styles may be relatively rare.
One problem with his conclusions derives from his use of the surviving records of convictions for indictable offences as a proxy for all crime.
Personal conviction on its own is useless, yet within the politics of poststructuralism this is all we can call on.
The non-jurors had just discovered the joys of disestablishment, at first through circumstance, but then through theological conviction.
In other words, our personal moral convictions are not so badly aligned with general welfare that it would be better if they did not exist.
Or perhaps he believes that prior to a conviction suspects should never be jailed?
Now, no doubt the negative evaluation expressed by conviction and punishment goes well beyond the one expressed by an order to pay compensation.
After that is done, the second ballot presents itself, and the voter settles down to his or her more serious convictions.
It is just this dissociation between the standard predictors and convictions about democracy-in-principle that lends support to the diffuse model.
Then we have wanted a way to warn jurors that they must not let exaggerated, hyperbolic doubts stand in the way of conviction.
Despite conspicuous nationalist convictions, the tenentes had no clear goals in foreign policy.
These dialogues are crafted with great subtlety conveying, at the same time, convictions of truth and falsehood, choice and manipulation, decision and deception.
In the end, the solution to the mystery, if it is in the least unconventional, exposes narrowly conventional convictions as partial, as misguided, as insufcient.
The high court rejected this and set aside the conviction.
In this conviction, secondary materials are considered no different from other intermediary or final goods.
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Collocations withconviction

conviction

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absolute conviction
Yet even this is done with absolute conviction.
conviction rate
Therefore, a conviction rate as high as 90 per cent certainly cries out for explanation.
criminal conviction
Pure preemption is different from either criminal conviction or traditional civil commitment.
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