What got me onto this theory was reading that the shoe bomber, a Muslim convert named Richard Reid, had been described by someone who knew him well in England as 'very, very impressionable.' I had already decided that the man was a complete bozo.
The schools becoming academies were far from random ("outstanding" institutions enjoyed special freedoms to convert; failing schools were sometimes forced), so the department proposed, and identified funds for, a systematic evaluation.
A 30 April deadline to convert $4.7bn in pledged assistance into specific payment timetables has been missed.
Howard, by then a cautious convert to the importance of symbolism to advance reconciliation, proposed a policy of constitutional recognition at the 2007 election but by then he'd run out of time in the Lodge.
I should have seized some opportunities; had some break-point opportunities but I didn't convert them.
Thatcher wanted to know whether Gorbachev had approved the donation, since the Soviet miners would have needed government permission to convert roubles into foreign currency.
The culture secretary has announced that same-sex couples will be able to convert their civil partnership to a marriage from early December.
One of the few remaining players from their heyday did his best to keep his club in the tie, Paul Cooper saving his fifth penalty of the season, as Colin Walsh failed to convert one of the rare chances during the goalless first leg at Portman Road.
They said it was common practice for free trials for services to convert to a paid subscription unless cancelled, and that consumers would understand and expect that they had to cancel within the free period if they did not want to start a paid subscription.
He is a cradle Catholic, she a convert and they plan to have a big family, starting here, and to devote their lives to each other, to their children and to all their future patients.
I'm not trying to convert anybody (although a mass poly baptism does sound like a fun day out).
