Sentence examples for convinced of the case from inspiring English sources

Mike O'Brien, the immigration minister, said in July that the government was not convinced of the case for restoring benefits.

High-profile Conservatives, including three former ministers, Cheryl Gillan, Peter Luff and Sir Gerald Howarth, are among those yet to be convinced of the case for action.

Steinbrück's position is reminiscent of the one espoused by the former Green foreign minister, Joschka Fischer, who famously told Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld in February 2003, "Excuse me, I'm not convinced" of the case for war against Iraq.

It is impossible to read Howard Davies's fastidiously fair and analytical Airports Commission report without being convinced of the case for Heathrow expansion: business and unions are united in wanting it to happen.

In evidence to the committee, the Home Office says it is yet to be convinced of the case but will watch carefully how the new system works in Northern Ireland.

Politely, I suggested that if he had been so convinced of the case, without any strong arguments being made to support it, that that must have been because he had access to security information that we, the public, hadn't seen.

Governments are far from convinced of the intellectual case for capitalism and globalisation, whatever their claims.

Sir Rod was convinced of the economic case for charging for road use, but the public does not share his enthusiasm.

The jury deliberated for just over 12 hours before announcing that, by a majority, they were not convinced of the prosecution case.

For a start, the cost of installing and running a network means that retailers a notoriously parsimonious bunch must be convinced of the business case before going ahead with a chain-wide roll-out.

"But I'm not convinced of the commercial case, and if big companies like Inmarsat seem sceptical, we should be arguing whether this is something we should be spending a lot of time and money on".