Sentence examples for convinced before from inspiring English sources

And Mr. Fink, who was enthusiastic but not convinced before the dinner, was also sold.

But Daddy became convinced before he died that in spite of every foolish, greedy, misguided thing we have done to our environment, this great woodpecker somehow survived.

I was convinced before the war that the threat of weapons of mass destruction in the hands of Saddam Hussein required a vigorous and sustained international response to disarm him.

I became convinced, before I was out of high school, that the dynamics of success and failure were of earthquake proportions in America, and that Hollywood was only an exaggerated version of the American success drive.

It's as though Gaddis was already convinced, before he even completed his nine hundred and fifty-six-page début, that the novel was going to be treated with contempt or indifference by the literary press, and had decided to work in this gag as a sort of futile, preëmptive revenge on the critics who would never get far enough into the text to notice.

Your true socialist is convinced, before everything else, that his personal existence is of vast and undoubted value to the world, and that the world, if it were not a swindling felon, would reward him handsomely for remaining alive.

Spielberg, like many others, wants to convince before he discusses.

Airline officials say they will have to meet, talk and convince before they try it again.

But most of the teenagers at the postelection discussion said they would need convincing before they were willing to believe that "change" was more than a slick slogan.

Unbeaten in 11, the hosts still need a win to look convincing before their midweek Champions League duel with Paris Saint-Germain.

He is personable but not quite handsome, and he could probably be convincing before a trial jury, I thought, were there ever to be such a thing in Mexico.