Sentence examples for had won a convert from inspiring English sources
Big business is not thinking a lot about the issue, either, but here and there the movement has won a corporate convert.
Richard Bernstein's Colline, on last hearing, could have won a few converts to the joys of an operatic voice; Angela Maria Blasi is the Musetta; and Mariusz Kwiecien sings Marcello.
Twenty20 has won a lot of converts during the course of its three weeks.
Ms. Natalicio's argument against the emphasis on graduation rates has won an influential convert in Woody Hunt, an El Paso-based businessman and former University of Texas System regent who has pushed the Legislature to alter state financing to reward universities' ability to graduate students.
COLLECTORS and bargain-hunters have long been devotees of eBay, but the online auction site may have won a new group of converts.
The church of spa had won another convert.
But there were rumblings among Conservative backbenchers that the anger unleashed by the disability cuts had won new converts to the "Anything But George" campaign that is seeking an alternative to Osborne as a potential future leader.
Before the end of the dynasty, Jesuits had won influential converts at court (notably the grand secretary Xu Guangqi, or Paul Xu), had produced Chinese books on European science as well as theology, and were manufacturing Portuguese-type cannon for Ming use against the Manchu.
We took a poll, and the numbers hovered at the brink of an acquittal: 10 to 2. Juror 9's powerful declaration had played a role in killing the drive for a compromise conviction and had won converts.
