Sentence examples for convinced much from inspiring English sources

While Pasteur didn't first propose "germ theory," he convinced much of Europe of its validity.

She hopes spring hunting will be banned, but is not convinced much will change even if it is.

The crash of the Bush Presidency and successive Democratic election victories had convinced much of the political class that the country had undergone a broad leftward realignment.

They couldn't hold a candle to Clifford Irving, who in the early 1970s convinced much of the reading public that he had been appointed the official biographer of the notoriously reclusive Howard Hughes.

That's the key lesson of the recent financial crisis: when powerful special interests have convinced much of the public that what they're doing isn't dangerous, only a disaster that discredits those interests will provide an opportunity for comprehensive policy change like the Dodd-Frank financial regulations.

Falun Gong followers championed their cause in the Western media as an issue of freedom of religion, until a number of self-immolations by alleged Falun Gong adherents in Tiananmen Square in January 2001 convinced much of the Western media that the group was indeed a "cult" (Falun Gong followers insisted that the immolations were staged by the Chinese government).

But while institutional confidence and trust remain high in abstract terms, the military as a profession struggles to convince much of society that it is a desirable profession.

Mr. Lobo took office on Jan . 27 facing the immediate challenge of convincing much of the world that his election, which took place under the de facto government that had ousted Mr. Zelaya, was legitimate.

Through years of prerelease publicitymongering, Spore's publisher, Electronic Arts, and its famed designer, Will Wright, managed to convince much of the general public and the gaming world that they had created an "everything simulator".

(In 2008, in what TechCrunch called "probably the biggest hoax in the history of Facebook," he managed to convince much of the French media that he had been elected the president of Facebook, but this was the real deal).

Conservative pundits and politicians like Cain have gone a long way toward convincing much of the country that if it fights hard enough now, we might soon be back to first principles — and done with politics once and for all.