Sentence examples for convinced that far from inspiring English sources

But she said she remained concerned about the government's criteria for detaining people and was convinced that far fewer immigrants needed to be locked up.

We came of age convinced that life — far from being the vale of tears that people who lived in the Old Middle Ages conceived it to be — was supposed to make us happy in some ineffable but all the same transporting way.

"We are convinced that the far better approach would be for the commission and all other interested parties to work together in the fight against trade in contraband, including counterfeit products, and we remain ready to cooperate with the European Commission and the member states in that regard," said David R. Davies, the company's vice president for corporate affairs.

In his veto message, Mr. Brown said that the bill would have been a "drastic change" to the labor laws he helped create and that he was "not yet convinced that the far-reaching proposals of this bill" were justified.

Although Mr Blair doesn't quite say it, he is convinced that the far-reaching structural reforms that will deliver better schools and hospitals depend on his determination to confront the timidity of ministerial colleagues and the inertia of civil servants.When it comes to war with Iraq, the prime minister is, if anything, even more confident about the role he, and he alone, must play.

She said that she had never met a woman as stupid as Emma, but I was convinced that Emma was far from stupid.

By the time Lehman's shares went into a spiral this week, Fed and Treasury officials were convinced that Lehman posed far fewer real risks than Bear Stearns had back in March.

It's important to know where Biggs is coming from, however: He's convinced that Americans are far better equipped for retirement than they think — that the retirement crisis is "phony".

But, convinced that culture plays a far greater role than Chomsky's theory accounted for, he decided that he needed to "take a radical reëxamination of my whole approach to the problem".

They regard reverse engineering a virus as the most likely way to learn how to disable it — and they are convinced that the potential gains far exceed the risks.

"Frankly the court is convinced that the defendants are far from the problem and are part of the solution to the problem of climate change," Howard said from the bench.