But their brand of angry blame-mongering could very well serve to convince particular individuals – especially those who are already close to the edge – that some people are less than human, and thus fair game for attack.
I wasn't convinced this particular project was worth its salt, but a little reflection convinced me.
They were, it seemed, convinced in particular by submissions from the Special Advocates who represented Binyam in the various sessions of the court that were closed to the public when confidential material was being discussed.
In its members' handbook, the Alberta Teachers Associationn describes Boyle's efforts to remedy this situation as "heroic", citing in particular his convincing the legislature to set a minimum teachers' salary of $840 per year.
His handling of Webern's Variations for Orchestra, Op 30 – its crucial silences in particular – was less convincing.
Which sounds wonderful, but it was just a very, very difficult way to sort of manage anything, because convincing everybody to do one particular thing, especially if it was hard, was almost impossible.
"Watson and the Shark" in particular seems utterly convincing in its first-person account of doctors caught on the edge of genocide, too aware of their own confused motives to see themselves as heroic.
He says his opinion was changed in part by what he sees as convincing medical evidence about the particular efficacy of helmets in protecting child cyclists, who generally fall off away from other traffic and at lower speeds.
The appeal of both formal and informal case studies lay in their perceived value in convincing local practitioners that a particular intervention had been successfully delivered in a similar area, by professionals similar to themselves and working within a similar regulatory and financial framework.
Once convinced that a particular molecule belongs to the enemy, the immune system is forever primed to treat it as hostile.
