When The New York Times recently contacted Adi Faraj, the club's 26-year-old press officer, about doing an article about the team, he was initially convinced the phone call was a hoax.
Nixon was initially convinced that the speech was a failure.
Harkness was initially convinced that Diefenbaker was saying that he would support nuclear warheads in Canada.
Foraker was initially convinced of the guilt of the men, but reconsidered after evidence obtained in a private investigation by progressive organizations was presented to him (the attorney presenting it, an African American, was denied an audience with Roosevelt).
Charles Darwin read Natural Theology during his student years, and later stated in his autobiography that he was initially convinced by the argument: In 1993 the evolutionary biologist Steven Jay Gould compared Paley to Voltaire's Doctor Pangloss, the man who could argue any case (however hopeless).
The police were initially convinced her murder was a crime of passion by an ex-suitor.
Sheriff Alderden said at a news conference Friday that the authorities were initially convinced of the parents' honesty, given verbal statements, body language and emotions "that were entirely consistent with the events that were taking place".
Skylark is initially convinced by a display of fresh fruits and vegetables in a supermarket that food is in abundant supply, but, later in the film, he has a moment of reckoning when he picks up one of the grapefruit and discovers it is a fake.
Results showed that participants were initially convinced of the effectiveness of threatening health messages and were unable to anticipate the defensive reactions that in fact occurred.
In fact, when I was initially done testing the unit, I was convinced that I was going to send the unit back to the company, as I didn't want to embarrass anyone.
I was initially skeptical.
