I've become convinced, as I stood holding the railing, waiting for my train to start moving again, that my 9 a.m. coffee will emerge from the subway to see the 7 p.m. sunset.
Frederick C. Weyand, who served as the commander of American forces in Vietnam in the final year of the war, a duty he carried out despite having become convinced as early as 1967 that the war was a hopeless venture, died on Wednesday at his home in Honolulu.
He became convinced, as at the start of his career, of the need to go it alone.
It seems equally clear from Powers's review that Wright's point of departure for "A Father's Law" was Woolrich's "Charlie Won't Be Home Tonight" (Dime Detective, July 1939), in which a middle-aged cop (white, of course) slowly becomes convinced, as does Wright's black cop protagonist, that the criminal he's seeking is his son.
When researchers began to adapt the models to New Orleans, they became convinced, as one of them put it to me, that "we had this train wreck imminent".
I became convinced, as I wrote in my journal, "that the Polar Regions will have its greatest worth for mankind, not by being regulated and exploited, but by being left nearly untouched by man".
The six men who pleaded guilty have told investigators that they went to Afghanistan because they had become convinced that as Muslims, they were obligated to prepare to defend their religion.
I know many persons who have cash on hand ready to purchase investment stocks as soon as they become convinced that panicky conditions have definitely passed.
When the explorers finally succeed in breaking through the shield and studying the pyramid, they become convinced that its origins are as alien to the moon as they are themselves.
But there is hope in some quarters of Wall Street that with each new crisis, and each last-minute fix, the risks to the markets grow less severe as investors become convinced that politicians eventually find solutions to their disagreements.
He says that the system and its incentives are beginning to change, as insurers become convinced that preventive medicine, disease management and other long-term cost-cutting steps are both cost-effective and better medicine.
