Sentence examples for ground convincing from inspiring English sources

Success requires governments to hold the moral high ground, convincing the undecided that the state and its agents are the good guys, who enforce democratic principles and civil liberties even among their own troops and police officers.

But Obama's campaign out-organized her team on the ground, convincing many skeptical voters that he was, in fact, a viable candidate following his win in the Iowa caucus.

When there were bombardments, the Cure and his mother remained ostentatiously above ground, convinced that the shells would not hit them.

Nevertheless, the return of Billy Davies – "King Billy'" to some adoring fans at the City Ground – convinced Hasawi to keep spending and Jamie Paterson (£1m) Djamel Abdoun (£1.5m) Jamie Mackie (£1m) and Kelvin Wilson (£2.25m) arrived in the summer with the owner talking about Forest ultimately challenging for a third "European Championship".

And while the election isn't over until all the votes are counted, Syriza is making ground by convincing people that it is now a viable alternative.

He has worked to shift the conservatives toward the middle ground by convincing voters that he would fix rather than dismantle the public welfare system.

Enter Tilly's older sister, Agnes (a grounded and convincing Satomi Blair), who stumbles onto the module and gives it a try.

The indigenous notions of rights among the Igbo and Ubang derive in large part from what Nickel [ 9] describes as collective norms related to lived and actual human virtues, and acceptable ethical norms or natural rights grounded in convincing reasons and sensibilities.

Ghalioun said: There has to be a military victory on the ground to convince the regime, or some elements in the regime [of the need for change].

In all, he wanted a combined command of 175,000 soldiers, equivalent to 44 battalions "to give us a substantial and hard-hitting offensive capability on the ground to convince" the Vietnamese insurgent forces "they cannot win".

But with so many overlapping platforms and shared constituents — many of the candidates are from the same neighborhoods — the campaigns have been cranking up their ground games, convinced that their fortunes on Tuesday will depend less on policy prescriptions than on the ability to turn out their friends and neighbors.