Sentence examples for but instead convinced from inspiring English sources

He was asked to assess the Henry Ford Company Henryy's first company) assets, which the investors wanted to get rid of, but instead convinced them to start a new company called Cadillac.

As I felt I could not just leave the laboratory behind and interrupt my teaching in Kortrijk (at the KULAK), I declined the invitation but, instead, convinced J. Balzaini to take up this assignment and from the first December 1985 he went over for a year to work in Sam Broder's laboratory on the anti-HIV activity of new nucleoside analogues.

X provides Mulder with information allowing him to take revenge on her captors, but Mulder is instead convinced by Scully's sister Melissa to visit her bedside.

She said that she wanted to pursue charges at the time, but that her lawyer instead convinced her to sign the agreement.

Uninterested in testing the limits of the mnemonist's mind, the villagers instead convinced their visitors to join them around the table and continue drinking.

Panicked and prejudiced (I'm sorry, Wetherspoons clientele), I told him to follow me on Twitter instead, convinced he wouldn't even remember my name.

To help Anton, she departs from the unimaginative standard E.S.L. lessons ("I sit on the chair") by giving him children's stories instead, convinced that a story line will pull him through language and into his adopted country.

He was instead convinced to stand once again for the Massachusetts House, to which he was elected.

Dudley was opposed to this scheme, and instead convinced the provincial legislature to issue £50,000 in bills of credit.

Wary of directing two horror films in a row, Whale instead convinced Laemmle to buy the rights to a mystery novel called The Hangover Murders.

Whale, wary of doing two horror films in a row and concerned that directing Dracula's Daughter could interfere with his plans for the first all-sound version of Show Boat, (previously filmed as a part-talkie by Harry A. Pollard), instead convinced Laemmle to buy the rights to a novel called The Hangover Murders.