As he told it, his old man first got sucked into some racist prayer groups after growing convinced that affirmative action cost him a job in middle age.
Less visible is a sharp right-wing shift in Japan's mainstream politics.Unthinkable three years ago, when it was ousted from power after a half-century of conservative rule, the Liberal Democratic Party LDPP) is growing convinced that it could soon become the governing party again.
I've just grown convinced that blacks think about race all the time because they're the minority in the room all the time and that that just raises a lot of issues for them.
Tony Fabrizio, a Republican pollster, said, "If the battle is, 'You can have free health care if we only tax rich people making over $250,000 a year,' most will say, 'Where do I sign up for the free stuff?' " Yet the same electorate has also grown convinced that much government spending is wasteful.
"The ANC leadership had grown convinced that Malema was trouble for the party going forward... [He] may well prove a political threat to the ANC in the future from outside its structures".
"I'm growing increasingly convinced that this could be quite chaotic," said Corey Cook, an associate professor of politics at the University of San Francisco.
Newspapers in the Middle East are growing increasingly convinced that a foreign attack on Syria is imminent.
As such a move required an absolute majority in parliament, I was growing increasingly convinced that a popular volcano was on the verge of erupting - one that was both supported and inspired by the army, which had never accepted the idea of a civilian leading the country - whether after free and fair elections, or through a fraudulent vote, as was expected with Jamal Mubarak.
The election campaigns for state offices, particularly for governor, have grown increasingly expensive, and the public has grown more convinced that campaign contributors have too much influence over their government, Mr. Knopp added.
But as the hearings began, Mr. Dash grew increasingly convinced that Mr. Thompson, at Mr. Baker's behest, was "relaying everything back to the White House," recalled Mr. Dash's widow, Sara.
I gave puppet shows to myself and grew up convinced that everyone else was off somewhere else having a better time than I was.
