Though we may convince ourselves into believing that our faith and values make us distinct from other secular NGOs, our aspiration and ambition towards "professionalizing" our organizations makes the actual work that we do on a community level indistinguishable from the work of any other NGO, secular or faith-based.
However, it seems the Fed has only succeeded in duping some perennial bulls (and possibly even trying to convince itself) into believing that ending QE and the subsequent increase in rates would not adversely affect the economy...but markets are not so easily fooled.
Baby Kochamma fearing arrest convinces Chacko into believing that the twins are responsible for his daughter's (Sophie Mol) death.
Thus Toadstool will not convince the sceptic into believing Q1.
Their goal was to convince – and confuse – internet users into believing a conspiracy theory: that LulzSec is in fact a crack team of CIA agents working to expose the insecurities of the web, headed by Adrian Lamo, the hacker who reported the alleged WikiLeaks whistleblower Bradley Manning to the authorities.
Everything that Schubert is addressing, page after page, becomes a sales pitch or an advertisement -- or in some instances, it's a statement: Can you believe that we as consumers can be convinced into buying or needing this product?
Kevin Warwick, a professor of cybernetics at the University of Reading, who administered the test, wrote, "In the field of Artificial Intelligence there is no more iconic and controversial milestone than the Turing Test, when a computer convinces a sufficient number of interrogators into believing that it is not a machine but rather is a human".
Counterrorism officials say detainees have also been sent to third countries, where they are convinced that they might be executed, or tricked into believing they were being sent to such places.
They didn't protect themselves first, putting the man who seduced them both into believing he was worth more, convincing them to put him before their own lives and reputation.
If he can muster it, he should revive his cockiness, if only to fool his players into believing in him, if only to convince himself that a 4-7 record in Year 2 is just a transition phase in his genius.
