Sentence examples for claims convinced from inspiring English sources

In 1911 the provocative German action in sending a gunboat to Agadir, the Moroccan port to which France had claims, convinced Churchill that in any major Franco-German conflict Britain would have to be at France's side.

And while Mr López Obrador's claims convince many Mexicans suspicious of all things electoral due to the fraudulent tradition that helped keep one party in power from 1929 to 2000, the evidence produced persuades few serious commentators.

The claim convinced generations of women that if they weren't married by 40, it probably wouldn't happen.

For some time afterward, this wrong claim convinced German intelligence that Eastchurch was a fighter station and the Luftwaffe would launch seven fruitless raids on it in the coming weeks.

Nettie Craven claimed to have been married to Fair at the time of his death, but at a 1900 trial, Crothers' detailed analysis of the handwriting on the documents Craven had offered in support of her claim convinced the court that they were forgeries.

I don't find this claim convincing.

The indictment claims Gribkowsky convinced the BayernLB board to agree to this, even though "credible evidence indicating the legal grounds for such payments was still lacking".

The crown claims Monis convinced the "besotted" Droudis, now 37, to kill her after trying and failing to hire Rebels bikies to carry out the crime.

Of the dozens of companies the group claims it convinced to pull their money, Lowe's is the only one to confirm that it stopped advertising.

Those who make these claims are convinced that students with better grades and/or higher SAT scores are inarguably more highly qualified, and that their rejection is thus a deep injustice.

However, while Littman was working on the actor's visa application ― which the Danish actor required for U.S. work opportunities ― Coster-Waldau claims she convinced him to formalize their agreement in writing.