He has indicated that his party's atavistic defence of hereditary peers in the House of Lords may now be reconsidered: good, though it might carry more conviction if he had not held his two-day shadow cabinet summit this week on the estate of one of them, Lord Cranborne.

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Howell's latest conviction saw him carry out a raid at a home in the Browns Avenue area of the island between 1 and 2 June 2008.

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Conviction on the charges would carry a maximum sentence of five years in prison.

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The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men, the conviction and the will to carry on.

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Mr Bryant says any conviction on a murder charge would carry a sentence of life imprisonment or death, and that he will not agree to charge Mr Rideau with the lesser crime of manslaughter.

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But we can do no greater honor to her memory than to carry forward the power of her principle and a courage born of conviction.

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