| They tried to convince Walter that his two great-uncles were thieves, and that Walter should tell them where the money was hidden. |
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| Mostly I collect the remnants of hobbies I've lost enthusiasm for, or have managed to convince myself I have no time for. |
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| The sharp jab of pain she felt when she did so was enough to convince her that it was most certainly not a dream. |
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| Well, I am hoping to convince you that they passed far beyond the normal limits of statutory construction, the changing of the meaning of. |
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| But how to convince those who regard it as an ugly and brutal activity that it merits wider public acclaim? |
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| Unfortunately my attempts to convince my father were waylaid by my mother, who chose that moment to walk in. |
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| We hope still to be able to convince our colleagues that on balance the agreement is not a good one. |
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| Hotels may try to convince you that the rack rate is their typical room rate, but it's not. |
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| They had no weight or influence in society to convince them of any falsehood that it would replace what was true. |
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| I noticed a jump rope lying on my floor from when my mother had been trying to convince me to exercise earlier in the week. |
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| We must convince our legislators to place roadblocks in the almost criminal misuse of American jurisprudence. |
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| I never try to convince my body that it should be sleeping when it knows better. |
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| There may be rationales for such beliefs, but the weight of the evidence I've seen does not convince me. |
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| Unfortunately his piece reads like a university essay and wouldn't convince too many apart from those who want to believe his theory. |
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| But despite desperate attempts to convince the Irish duo to back the reappointments, the pair abstained from voting. |
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| We have to convince a reasonable and appropriate proportion of people in society within different sectors within society. |
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| Again, being able to make a reasonable deposit will help convince them you are serious and not a bad risk. |
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| But state Attorney General Jay Nixon, who was fighting the appeal, was able to convince a federal judge that the recantations weren't credible. |
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| Richards will have her work cut out to convince clients the cuts were needed and stop a further damaging exodus. |
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| She issues world-weary, no-nonsense wisdom as she tries, repeatedly, to convince heavyset Deb that bigger is better. |
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| A couple of statements are made to convince the audience of his worthiness of the medals collected. |
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| Carling will try to convince the consumer that it is as Scottish as heather and rainy summers. |
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| In doing so, I hope to convince you that running for a Student Government Executive Body position will be worth your while. |
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| It was a journey fraught with worry and panic, as I managed to convince myself that I had left the gas on at home! |
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| The Prime Minister is having to draw on his last reserves of personal conviction, and convince us that he is levelling with the country. |
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| Or will the parting strains of Robbie Burns' haunting refrain convince her to come back again soon? |
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| Greater transparency is being sought to convince farmers that they are being properly refunded for the VAT paid on inputs. |
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| I'm going to try to convince you that we developers start off a project wrong-headedly. |
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| I was about to convince myself that people were finally losing interest in the story, when a little bird told me to keep going. |
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| Williams is an American who is attempting to convince the Wyandots that the Treaty of Swan Creek was fraudulent. |
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| Improvising, he reined his horse back slightly, just enough to convince it to leave the position it knew it should take. |
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| It had taken Juliet two weeks to convince Sam that he would be all right to walk the streets again by himself. |
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| How do prospective renters convince landlords that they and their pets are model citizens? |
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| Climbing up the lattice made Cerri dizzy, so as she climbed, she focused her thoughts on what she'd say to Alia to convince her to stay. |
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| It's very hard to convince a customer that the accountant is leading them up the garden path. |
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| We simply have to convince people that one way of using words is better than another. |
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| She told a tale of woe that involved her ex-boyfriend Kevin using guilt to convince her to lend him her car. |
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| Is the leader becoming a liability, or can he convince his critics he's not a racist? |
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| Some fakers are compulsive liars who convince themselves of the truth of their own stories. |
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| I hope that the brevity of this war does not convince Americans that we can lick anybody on the block. |
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| A look at the old ledgers is enough to convince one of the antiquity of the bank. |
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| I am not here to convince the anti-vax champions regarding the merits of vaccination. |
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| Part of his magic is his ability to convince of the rightness of his course of action. |
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| It is up to the project leader to convince developers of the rightness of any such decisions. |
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| Then they convince themselves they are the most righteous, lily-white citizens God ever created. |
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| Jessica stretched lazily while trying to convince her body that it was time to rise and shine. |
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| But as long as I was still a baroness and he a baron, we would have to convince everyone around us that life was perfect. |
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| But the rest of you, listen up, because I've got compelling arguments with which to convince you, or your friends, if you're already a believer. |
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| Each will convince you how healthy, light, and flavorful root vegetable dishes can be. |
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| If these elements can convince the military to carry out a coup, they can surely convince them to arm the missiles. |
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| Sailors in bleached white uniforms wander around trying to convince themselves they are having fun. |
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| She would convince Morgan that there were other ways of accomplishing the ascension without her demise. |
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| However, the mechanic loused it up, but tried to convince me that that was as good as those engines could get. |
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| The characters, setting and story did not convince me and the ending seemed rushed. |
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| He did propose the setting up of an observatory to provide accurate lunar data in his attempts to convince the commissioners. |
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| I've decided I can enjoy it if I convince myself that Buffy and Spike had a safeword which we never happened to hear about. |
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| No amount of yogurt parfaits, or fat free lean beef tacos is going to convince those who eat healthy otherwise. |
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| I had to convince them that my plans to renovate it weren't just pie in the sky and persuade them that I'd actually finish it. |
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| The only way, it seemed, that we could convince my buddies to tag along was to tell them that there was unlimited food and beer awaiting them. |
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| Possibly it will convince me that it is time to get a proper job, settle down and get married and have kids and await my inevitable death. |
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| The tech-savvy leaders may convince business tycoons to bear the financial burden. |
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| Unless the salesman can successfully answer that question satisfactorily, even the price of the product will not convince the prospect to buy. |
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| Striking women, many of them in their teens, formed picket lines outside their workplaces, trying to convince the scabs to join them. |
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| He has managed to convince even the most sceptical among us that Scottish rugby may indeed have a future fit to mirror its glorious past. |
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| This has severely hampered the government's efforts to convince those skeptical of the EU to trust it in the matter of the constitution. |
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| Not only does he need to convince a sceptical market, he also has to reach an increasingly disillusioned customer. |
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| By and large, psychical researchers failed to convince the majority of the scientific and academic worlds of the existence of telepathy. |
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| They still thought I had secret plans, evil schemes, and I was at a loss as to how to convince them otherwise. |
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| A politico-military marriage combines lethal and nonlethal force to convince an enemy to accede to the victor's will. |
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| We want crime rates to drop and steps to be taken to convince young criminals that there is an alternative to thieving and breaking the law. |
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| You should thus try to convince your husband that such a thing is not socially acceptable. |
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| With last year's matric results out, now is the time to convince many young matriculants of the opportunities in the farming sector. |
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| This is why they work hard to convince people not to buy third-party ink cartridges. |
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| The president's been trying to convince Washington that Social Security's no longer the third rail of politics. |
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| The challenge for e-marketers is to convince the general population and firms that all transactions and information are secure. |
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| With enough seductive advertising, you could convince many people that night is day. |
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| Brett, in the meanwhile, had turned his attentions to his wife and had managed to convince her to at least taste the cake. |
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| Meanwhile, Ed tries to convince Joel to treat his ailing uncle Anku, a medicine man uninterested in the services of a western doctor. |
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| If an authentic medium detects a spirit that is present, they will try and convince it to move on. |
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| Well, I don't have a huge list of examples but I've seen enough to convince me of it's efficacy. |
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| No, but, I mean, hang on a tick, it's how well a film can convince you of that. |
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| And besides, short of knocking him senseless with a piece of plank, Michael doubted he could convince the other man to leave his side. |
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| Somewhere that doesn't convince us that will help the team win a playoff series. |
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| His government should convince all political parties that it is time to bell the cat to implement the one-child norm for one and all. |
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| So it's usually up to technology project leaders wanting a seat at the CEO's table to convince management committee members that they belong. |
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| Sometimes the problem is to convince your boss or client put effort into any optimization methods. |
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| And in mass lay-offs, it will be tougher to convince the boss to single you out for better treatment. |
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| We took in trainloads of children, but their parents had to convince British officials in Vienna that they had a job waiting for them. |
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| So they need to prove they're still effective to their supporters, to rally morale, to convince their financiers that they're still a good bet. |
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| Whatever it takes to convince workers to do whatever it takes to get the company's job done really is a mind game. |
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| Just as before, the would-be dominators try to convince us that it is necessary to apply a firm hand to the benefit of a shiftless character. |
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| Tug a slot machine enough times, and the ting-a-ling of instant income might convince you to continue emptying your change bucket. |
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| This was also partly meant to convince the colonialists that the Africans were ready to manage or mismanage their own affairs. |
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| It got really hard to convince myself that letting him keep his binky was easier than getting rid of it. |
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| He was sent by Temple to William III to convince him of the necessity of triennial parliaments, but his mission was not successful. |
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| He wants to teach us, move us, and convince us how much the whole Trinity cares for us. |
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| You may continue betting, and if you convince all the other players to fold, you win the pot without having to show your hand. |
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| You need to consult with a kiddie shrink who will convince your wife that youngsters who call the shots wind up in a not very good place. |
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| It got to the point where I actually managed to convince myself it was the truth. |
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| I told Sam you weren't nearly as black-hearted as you'd tried to convince him you were. |
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| The castle loomed above us, within sight, but we could not summon enough energy to convince each other to go up there. |
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| To convince the enemy of their menacing strength, the townspeople were ordered to bang drums, blow trumpets and jostle the sightless envoy. |
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| We'd argue and it would take a monumental effort to convince him to change his mind. |
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| Prayer is not the only way the Spirit works to convince us that Jesus is Lord. |
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| I tried everything I could to convince the members that it was time to talk but they didn't want to listen to a baby-faced blow-in from Sydney. |
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| I'm trying to convince people I need to come along, simply because it will involve a free plane trip and I can bludge for a few days. |
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| Maybe he should try to convince whatever doctor worked on Tom to at least wash his hands and put his instruments, or saw, in boiling water first. |
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| My step-father will get tired of sharing his bologna and convince my mother to throw us out into the street. |
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| You have to be nice to people to convince them that lending their work of art is a unique opportunity. |
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| Loveliness still existed in her oval face which was yet unlined and framed by curly tendrils which she couldn't convince to stay in place. |
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| How can I convince someone that free markets are a good thing if you've been peppering their inbox with nastygrams in the name of capitalism? |
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| Efforts to convince the security staff proved futile and at one stage the media threatened to boycott the prime minister's visit. |
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| If not, what does it take to convince you that you're providing a soapbox to an unstable lunatic? |
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| How will the search giant convince you to make Google Buzz your social network of choice? |
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| I didn't realize Vikki wasn't willing to break her healthy habits and was unable to convince her to share fish 'n chips with me. |
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| In my hands is to do the utmost, to talk with my colleagues, to convince them to work even harder. |
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| The 600 or so souls that rush off to line up for reincarnation during and after Songkran should be enough to convince anyone of this fact. |
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| Can you convince a business or community center to donate space or offer a reduced rent? |
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| My friends went on the bumper cars, but couldn't convince me to come along. |
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| Touting the park's scenic grandeur might convince Virginians to favor the park. |
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| For a buttonhook to be effective, the receiver must convince the defensive back covering him that he is going to continue his pattern downfield. |
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| Now if he could only convince himself to snap out of it before he found himself on the worse side of a hangman's noose. |
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| Since people can convince themselves of anything that is to their benefit or is in their interest, this is not surprising. |
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| If I can't convince Decker to take the medication, then I will have to consider getting a court order to have him committed until he stabilizes. |
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| Which of the candidates has got the capacity to convince people that life is precious? |
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| If parties need cash, let them go out and convince people that they stand for something worth supporting. |
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| They failed miserably to do so in the run-up to the May election and will have a job on their hands again to convince people. |
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| We hope to convince every motorist to stay off alcohol if they plan to get behind the wheel and drive home. |
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| The nation also has further to go to convince investors that its capital markets will remain open if things get dicey. |
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| It will take more than the force of ideas to convince most Democratic officeholders to turn against the teachers unions. |
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| The emotional life sentence now facing Cable is one that may convince other witnesses to be wary of taking on known, hardened criminals. |
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| His's the first carbon-neutral publishing company, planting trees to offset air travel and he's hoping to convince his readers to do the same. |
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| Nona's response was to convince herself that Faith had never existed and did not once visit her in the asylum. |
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| So the plan has been put on ice until the society can convince them that it is safe. |
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| The second challenge is how to convince the drug industry to be more open about their ongoing trials. |
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| His threshold challenge tonight is to convince the American people that he is prepared to be a heartbeat away from the presidency. |
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| The movie assumes the audience knows Curtis and his world beforehand and doesn't convince the casual viewer he's worth caring about. |
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| In the meantime, Gray was working hard to convince a straight person in her life that it was OK to attend. |
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| The strength of the argument, however, lies not in its ability to convince but in what it removes. |
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| She'd tried to convince him to strip the bark off, but listened to reason when Jinx explained that the bark worked as kindling. |
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| They pass a taxidermy shop, and Bill, who loves stuffed animals, tries to convince Jake to buy a stuffed dog. |
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| One science teacher tried to convince me that his suit was stylish and expensive. |
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| Well all of that is true, and so most writers trying to convince other people of something tend to leave themselves out of the picture. |
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| In the meantime, somebody please convince Better Homes and Gardens Magazine to hold a contest challenging people to build the best robot butler. |
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| He agreed that if he could be convinced I wasn't a spy, he'd convince the higher-ups and arrange my release. |
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| After you do this you can probably convince him more easily that he must consider others. |
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| No attempt is made to convince or convert people of other faiths to Hindu faith. |
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| It only takes one case of poison ivy, oak or sumac to convince most people to stay away from these skin-irritating plants. |
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| It is not, alas, possible to convince oneself that the kitten got there entirely of its own free will. |
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| He has the raw charisma, false sunniness, and keen edge to convince us of his criminal tendencies. |
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| This is the style of hot gospellers preaching to the convinced but can convince none other. |
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| He is desperate to convince us that he believes in the rightness of his actions. |
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| He tells of his summer long pursuit to convince a parliament of owls to attach themselves to his shoulder. |
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| He was trying to convince himself that he had not cheated, which showed he didn't have a clear conscience. |
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| You half-expected the same spokesman to try to convince us all that bookies are really closet philanthropists. |
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| I can't seem to convince Hilary that it's a good idea, so I thought I'd leave it up to you. |
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| Years ago, my older brother tried to convince me that whenever he and his friends played penny-ante poker, a police raid was in the offing. |
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| I'm sure that I'm not persuasive enough to convince anyone to cut back and spend more wisely. |
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| They use scantily clad models and people who offer false smiles to convince me that their goods are fun and harmless. |
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| You can convince yourself that you are helping him and thus avoid the feeling of impotency. |
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| He's trying to convince me to allow him to colour my hair next time, but wouldn't that double the price? |
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| Now the burden is on the hospital to convince judges that they are faultless. |
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| Niki tried to convince him to cut his hair into a fauxhawk, but he wasn't buying that either. |
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| The pirate manages to convince King William III to give him a commission to guard a valuable treasure ship traveling to England. |
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| Whether he will entirely convince his readers that England was first amongst equals in a commonwealth of British nations remains to be seen. |
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| Book sales reps commonly use any of three inducements to convince bookstores to carry specific titles. |
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| I'm sure that was to convince us her dog would never embarrass the family in public by piddling on the water department's property. |
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| Pletnev seems eager to convince us that these are very important works, and so everything is inflected, almost to the point of fussiness. |
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| He is going to five different colleges, trying to convince kids to study computer science. |
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| They should convince you that the idea of trying to teach complex, abstract concepts to young children is silly. |
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| Governments can no longer convince people they aren't fiddling the figures. |
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| Exploiting that to try to convince people of your crackpot ideas that the terrorist attacks were an inside job makes me want to kick you. |
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| His application was rejected because he failed to convince the commission of his conscientious beliefs. |
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| Apparently he can convince the cops to plant drugs in her purse if she tries to leave the marriage with their daughter. |
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| Millions of pounds of public money have been poured into campaigns designed to convince intransigent bottle-users of the error of their ways. |
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| I don't have to convince anyone of something that is common knowledge and conversationally appropriate. |
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| But, if you want to convince or convert me, you'll have to use powerful, yet easily understandable, intellectual arguments. |
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| She knows now that it was supposed to be a way for her to convince herself of her own invincibility, that cocaine didn't rule her life. |
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| There is nothing I can say or do to convince a sceptic to believe in the existence of spirit. |
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| Somehow, the oracle saying her name had been enough to convince her to believe what she was told. |
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| It's a simple one, but it's one of those scams that convince people because they want to believe it. |
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| He had also tried to convince her of the importance of telling her husband the truth. |
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| It had taken all of Ryder's persuasion to convince Corrie to holiday away from her home town. |
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| And so persuasive was my sister that she managed to convince the straight boys to go too. |
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| I couldn't believe I was actually planning on still trying to convince her to do it. |
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| Name calling such as this does nothing to convince me that the agency isn't doing a good job. |
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| I mean, how confident are you that you will convince those flinty eyed people over at Finance that you've got a case for more money? |
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| He is able to get outside his flinty, tightly wrapped personality just enough to convince a majority of voters that he deserves another chance. |
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| Please, please, please I'll do anything if you convince her not to bring the unicorn and pom-pom sweater this Sunday. |
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| If we as fitness professionals could just convince Americans to watch their diet, exercise regularly and floss, we'd really be getting somewhere. |
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| The lobby must also convince opponents of the scheme that costings will not run out of control. |
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| Though not an avid canoeist, she managed to convince a friend to portage through Riverdale Park one spring for a jaunt down the infamous stream. |
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| I found myself staring at Table 7.1 for some minutes to convince myself that there was indeed a seasonal pattern in leaf flushing. |
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| The Next Big Thing is always out there as are the fly-by-nighters trying to convince some VC that they've hit upon it. |
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| The answer to how people or states convince themselves to commit murder or genocide is complex. |
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| It isn't going to be easy to convince her that we are just a couple of run-of-the-mill cowpokes. |
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| She would have to do some fairly under handed and crafty lying to convince him to leave without revealing the conspiracy. |
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| His goal is to convince them that party politics is central to the credibility story. |
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| Corporations in need of funds have to convince creditors to lend them money. |
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| Every now and then I convince myself writing with a fountain pen requires deliberation and will improve my handwriting. |
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| But cringeworthy campaigns such as this aren't going to convince anyone to pick up the phone and seek out further information. |
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| I had to cross my heart and swear to die and even then promise to do to her no harm before I could convince him. |
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| But even the most cursory of glances at The Canterbury Tales will convince you that this is hardly new. |
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| The performance did not quite convince the cynics, nor some of his closest colleagues in the diplomatic service. |
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| He staked everything on his ability to convince a judge to sentence the pair to life imprisonment and save them from the gallows. |
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| If you can convince them though that by their actions they've risked eternal damnation, that's another matter. |
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| Key army officers visited army garrisons to convince commanders to join the uprising. |
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| How for example can we convince the town that putting deckchairs in regimented straight lines is not what the modern tourist wants? |
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| The two election defeats were put down to an inability to convince the electorate that they could be trusted with the nation's finances. |
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| These and other techniques help convince the credulous that pet psychics have telepathic or clairvoyant or other powers. |
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| They don't know this man, yet, they are so desperate for a human connection, to find that partner, they'll convince themselves this is the guy. |
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| It took forever for me to convince my parents to let me go, no help from the few suspensions and many detentions. |
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| And Nick Johnson's work with the glove will probably convince Giambi that the free agent should take up DHing after all. |
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| The Mets would love to add Furcal, even though they would have to convince him to move to the right on the infield diamond and play second base. |
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| A general reading of school textbooks would convince one that the Mughal rulers were all weak, effete and full of vices. |
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| Nonetheless, it took several weeks, and no doubt a bigger than average wad of petrodollars, to convince him to finally sign on the dotted line. |
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| Reading such a thing might convince the layman that getting hammered is healthy for the heart. |
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| From there came the years in Egypt, ending when Moses brought forth the plagues to convince Pharaoh to let his people go, and the parting of the Red Sea. |
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| They want to believe that everything is fine, and if necessary they'll halfway convince themselves it is, even when evidence to the contrary is staring them in the face. |
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| If the nails didn't convince the non-believer, perhaps the chilling voices and telekinesis will do the trick. |
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| The original objective of the Federalist Papers was to convince New Yorkers to elect to their state ratifying convention delegates who would support the Constitution. |
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| We see him speaking with Budd, trying to convince him to watch out. |
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| I walked sadly to my locker, trying to convince myself that it was bound to be like this and that he had pashed my friend anyway, so he wasn't worth my time. |
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| Despite the cloudless sky, I tried to convince myself that this also could have been an accident. |
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| Tara was holding study sessions for second midterms, trying to convince the students that their grades were still salvageable and that they really did need these sessions. |
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| After winning the World Cup at a canter, save for that epic semi-final against South Africa, the Wallabies failed to convince in their two-match series against Argentina. |
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| So in a few minutes I'm heading into town to send belated birthday presents and to try and convince myself to think about Christmas with appropriate jollity and generosity. |
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| In his third effort to convince the Athenians of the threat from Macedonia, Demosthenes finally won some support and was appointed admiral of the Athenian fleet. |
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| Satan first scouts the Edenic territory in the shape of a beast and then addresses Eve while inhabiting the body of a serpent, to convince her to disobey God's fiat. |
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| As the farmers' loan repayment problems mounted, how were they to convince the banks to advance additional money to allow them buy more cattle and keep their farms working? |
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| I tried to convince myself to be spontaneous and adventurous and brave. |
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| There is presently no better way to successfully market a school than convince parents the school is equipped with the latest computers and is connected to the World Wide Web. |
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| Turkey is not the only country trying to convince the private sector that domestic violence is their problem, too. |
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| Whether or not Risner will be able to convince a federal judge that the U.S. should be held responsible, is another story. |
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| The only way to stop cops from killing young, unarmed black men is to convince Americans that their lives truly matter. |
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| A visit to WoodRocket.com is enough to convince anyone of the truth in that. |
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| My cousin's wife spent last night talking about horrible premonitions and it didn't take much to convince my cousin that they would be better off at home. |
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| A bike lane, however, will not convince many drivers to quit their cars. |
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| Will it convince Americans that nonbelievers can be trustworthy, moral, and even electable? |
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| For their part, these men wanted to convince me of the righteousness of their cause. |
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| It was nicely worded, and enough to convince me to stay with the service. |
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| How can we convince the criticasters that documentation is a must? |
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| Philonous needs to convince him that a commonsensical philosophy could be built on an immaterialist foundation, that no one but a skeptic or atheist would ever miss matter. |
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| If that one episode isn't enough to convince you that season five is better at everything than you will ever be at anything, try these quotes on for size. |
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| While a moralistic speech won't convince kids not to try drugs, a story about people affected by drugs might. |
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| He tried to use argumentation to convince his opponents, rather than force. |
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| The money she dangled in front of him wasn't enough to convince him to sell. |
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| A little study of biostatistics would also convince you that a sample of 1000 children is too small to conclude anything about already low occurrence rates. |
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| Milloy told The Daily Beast that he hoped the Climategate emails might convince some uncommitted observers to join his side. |
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| But you know, there are times in this fabulous country when I can almost convince myself that the hate campaign is a myth and that Pommie-hating is a thing of the past. |
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| The audience sings mockingly, trying to convince him to leave the stage. |
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| For more than 40 years, comparing an administration's enemies to Hitler has been a reliable way to convince a pliant media and unquestioning public to go to war. |
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| No one can convince me, however, that life in America would be better if blacks and whites had stayed separate and unequal. |
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| I tried to convince myself it was just a one-off until it happened again. |
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| Turmoil erupts in the flophouse when Osugi's husband discovers his wife's affair, and she tries to convince the thief to murder him in order to solve all their problems. |
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| Negotiations cannot convince the militia's leaders to lay down their arms. |
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| A horse relay, Gwinn believed, would halve the time required to deliver mail and convince Congress that the central route deserved the federal contract. |
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| From there she compiled a book of horoscopes for women, and it was only a hop, skip and jump to convince her publishers to let her write nincompoopish novels aimed at women. |
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| Whatever the cause, it was enough to convince him to renovate the farmhouse rather than knock it down. |
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| Those incidents provided welcome relief from a turgid second period that saw Dunfermline monopolise possession, but rarely convince anyone they knew what to do with it. |
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| And of course one needs to convince the French Ministries of Culture and of ecology that the application makes sense. |
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| I can't convince people there is a God and I really have no desire to, except in moments of arrogant presumption that somehow my knowledge is better than that of others. |
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| He went to great lengths to flatter the corrupt Roman legate and convince him that he and his tribe, the Cherusci, were friends and allies of Rome. |
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| In colonial America, Puritan preachers often used a special sermon form to instruct, persuade, or convince their hearers to change their actions or thoughts. |
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| It will also be difficult to convince foreign governments to turn over the multi-million dollar houses that Ruth owns in Europe. |
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| Apparently he's managed to convince Olivia to let bygones be bygones. |
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| They will attend as many cocktail parties, skiing holidays and hunt meetings as it takes to convince us they're not a bunch of privileged freeloaders. |
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| Of course none of this will convince the philistines who believe that making music this good involves nothing more complex than a good mains supply. |
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| The fanciful assertion that nation states lessen it is unlikely to convince a Russian or Chinese dissident, or Tibetan. |
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| My love of good food won through and I somehow managed to convince the Mother Superior, without my mother's knowledge, that I could not eat fish and never had to at home. |
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| Juliet's coltish, little girl steps soon slink, like Prokofiev's undulating score, into something languorous and self knowing enough to convince us she is now a woman in love. |
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| It takes a book like the Selfish Gene to convince you inconvertibly. |
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| They are going to try to bludgeon their way through these poor poll numbers and convince people that he is a great president because he is so tough and strong. |
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| The only people that complain about Jordan are women with smaller, saggier chests and new men trying to convince the world how civilised and right-on they are. |
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| It is no longer feasible to convince the multitudes to expect little from their leaders, now that they have learned of international standards of governance. |
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| Only during the fugal finale do the singing, acting, and stage conception come together to move the listener and to convince him how great this opera really is. |
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| Officials are live-tweeting proceedings from the court, an unprecedented move, presumably designed to convince the public he will receive a fair hearing. |
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| Someone would have to have a rather strong argument to convince me now. |
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| The strategic decision by the United States to try and convince the Shah to share some of his power with the ascendant middle class was the result of a combination of factors. |
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| But I really think this whole distinction is irrelevant to the cloning debate, and it's used to convince us to remove our protection from those humans we deem unpersons. |
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| How could they convince the stubborn, mule headed men to not duel? |
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| If family forest owners can convince the public that they are managing their lands for long-term sustainability, they believe that can lead to reduced regulations. |
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| It has a lugubrious pace and doesn't entirely convince but there are some sharp lines, an unsentimental view of big city politics and Pacino's rich performance. |
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| They seem to be desperately trying to convince the general public that they are simply nice people who give money to charity and do good works in the community. |
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| The entire population must then involve themselves in a massive snow job, trying to convince a young physician that this tiny town is the best place for him to settle. |
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| I note some tut-tutting over the methods employed by frontline reporters armed with only the gift of the gab, trying to convince Brown to speak to them. |
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| When she called Bell she could have pulled out the standard sob story, but instead she managed to convince the woman at accounts just how great these boots really were. |
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| First he takes a common for a wife then tries to convince the council of elders to adopt the concept of allowing the commons responsibilities in the government. |
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| Five boys started gabbling at him at the same time, all trying to convince him that they were blameless with different varieties of the same excuse. |
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| The argument that POTS telephony capacity scaling is a counter-example of network neutrality isn't going to convince anyone on either side of anything. |
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| And, that if somebody gets injured and it is their own fault, even if they manage to convince a lawyer to act for them, the Court will not award them compensation. |
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| And she started to convince her to change lawyers and to personalize her guilt. |
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| Many of the more experienced contenders have spent decades trying to convince an obstinate babu that they are not dead as shown in Government records. |
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| It may have been too early to celebrate a nascent political vitality that remains, for now, too feeble and limited to convince that democracy is finally within our grasp. |
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| I think we spent a lot of time trying to convince tired and burned out staff that this is a good idea, instead of convincing the people who really should make the decisions. |
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| They were able to convince a group of wealthy Canadians to subscribe or loan money to their company to produce the film, using the facilities of the OMPB at Trenton. |
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| So your interest is piqued, but then how did you convince Marvel to hand you the keys? |
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| What argument might convince the bottom-line conservative who is unmoved by noblesse oblige, but might understand Tocqueville's concept of enlightened self-interest? |
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| The victim had to present his own case, though many people hired professional speech-writers, especially since they had to convince a jury of not 12 but 501 members. |
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| I was actually tempted to convince him to come back to the band. |
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