Sentence examples for is almost persuaded from inspiring English sources
He has shown it to be a hypothesis one is almost persuaded to believe that it is true, as he himself recently has characterized his own epistemic attitude (Batson 1997, 522).
We were almost persuaded to head up movement against skyscrapers when we learned Mayor Walker had appointed committee of several hundred members.
Even so, I wouldn't call their fruit sweet exactly, although you can sometimes eat Bramleys late, say in spring, and be almost persuaded that they are an eater.
"But I'm nearly persuaded," he adds.
Grant Barrett, a vice president for the American Dialect Society, says it is almost impossible to persuade people to discontinue the use of a political word.
Combining them with turmeric, ginger, cider, fennel, vinegar, honey – the roll call of life-giving ingredients – is almost enough to persuade you of your own immortality.
But the absurdity of the process was soon apparent: it is almost impossible to persuade someone else of the quality or poverty of a selected novel (a useful lesson in the limits of literary criticism).
As a result, Friday's Labor Department report is almost certain to persuade the central bank to delay any increase in interest rates for at least several more months, if not for the rest of the year.
For her own part, Jacoby, the author of "The Age of American Unreason" and other books, believes Alger Hiss was guilty of the perjury for which he was convicted; she is almost, but not entirely, persuaded that Hiss was also a Soviet spy.
It's not hard to guess whose influence that is: Leon once almost persuaded me to get a Dorothy Hamill haircut.
