Sentence examples for convince a number from inspiring English sources

It seems to me that the government has managed to convince a number of otherwise intelligent people that WikiLeaks is genuinely reckless.

The result shows the shopping centre giant was able to convince a number of WRT investors who voted against the restructure in an abandoned poll last month.

They also need to convince a number of partners about the credibility of its program, a very real obstacle for radicals.

Hollande called the declaration a "historic" step forward, and on Tuesday, the final day of his two-day trip, urged Beijing to "discuss with and convince a number of countries known to be vital" to the negotiation process.

Through the power of suggestion, he recently managed to convince a number of people that the woman who had shot J.R. in the television series "Dallas" was present in the room.

The move is a blow to the BBC, which has struggled to convince a number of top-level executives to make the permanent move north – after a period of internal confusion it emerged that the director of BBC North, Peter Salmon, would commit only to renting a house and not to moving his family.

Mr. Kulivan convinced a number of skeptics that his sighting was credible.

He succeeded in convincing a number of both American and Japanese friends of the importance of his undertaking.

"I personally convinced a number of extraordinary women to step forward, as well as a number of extraordinary men, at a time when politics can be very very divisive.

Balthus has also convinced a number of journalists that he descends from the Romanovs and, through Stanislaw, the last King of Poland, from the royal Polish family of Poniatowski.

The misfortunes of the right, coupled with the emergence of new evangelical leaders, have convinced a number of observers, notably E. J. Dionne, Jr., of the Washington Post, that the era of the religious right is over.