Sentence examples for convinced states from inspiring English sources

Furthermore, we are convinced states and cities will increasingly view Pay for Success as a budget solution to meet the fiscal demands they face.

Kansas City injected millions of dollars into its local broadband network to reach average speeds of 30Mbps before lobbying by private providers convinced state politicians to block further investment.

Officials from White Pine County decided to make the best of the publicity generated from the article, and convinced state authorities to do the same.

Volunteers have helped elderly people vote for the first time in 2008, countered belligerent operatives who were intimidating officials and voters, convinced state officials to remove intimidating police presences at minority precincts.

After a 28-year-old man killed 35 people at the Port Arthur historic prison colony in Tasmania, Australia, a popular tourist destination, Prime Minister John Howard and his right-wing Liberal Party banned the importation of all semiautomatic and automatic rifles and shotguns, instituted a mandatory national buyback program for such guns, and convinced state governments to ban the weapons outright.

But having read Judge Blackburn's reasoning, I am much less convinced that state laws that merely enforce laws that the federal government is not enforcing are unconstitutional.

To outsiders, the idea that four children all had eating disorders so severe that their growth was stunted at preschool levels seems so unlikely as to be laughable, but apparently the Jacksons convinced numerous state workers.

Britain seems the least convinced that the state has been overspending and France the most concerned.

Russia's rulers remain convinced that greater state control is the solution.

But Iowa's proposal is extraordinary because the state is convinced it must look outside this country's borders.

Verizon, AT&T and Centurylink went to every state and convinced regulators that in order to build these networks, the state would have to change the existing laws to give the companies billions of dollars for new construction.