Sentence examples for little convinced from inspiring English sources

From the Gospels themselves it can be recognized that Jesus' development into the preacher of the Kingdom of God took place in sharp opposition to his family, who were so little convinced of his mission that they held him to be insane (Mark 3 21); in a later passage Jesus refuses to recognize them (Mark 3 31).

On the basis of previous 'long-term habituation' studies in humans, I would not expect to see response decrements from day to day but within each experimental day (i.e. within an experimental session); on the basis of the provided data, I am little convinced that there were actually any substantial response decrements from day to day in Experiment 1 (see comment point 4 c).

And he was cosmopolitan, at a time when many of us at The New Yorker were more than a little provincial, convinced that the magazine's then shabby offices, at 25 West Forty-third Street, were actually the center of the universe.

He did well at school but found it a little narrow, convinced the wide world offered a better place to learn and create things.

"After watching the footage I'm a little more convinced they were after cash and not the food". The clever appeal for the public's help has garnered over 2 million YouTube views.

And groups end up becoming, if anything, a little bit more convinced of their original opinions when somebody plays devil's advocate.

It was laudable that Big Sister had used her money, and then raised the additional funds by convinced Little Sister to invest, too.

If I'm an official in Iran's enrichment program, every time a U.S. official says that a military strike on Iran's nuclear program would be counterproductive to U.S. interests, I get a little bit more convinced that I'm never going to need to try to build a nuclear weapon to protect my country from military attack.

Faced with the Great Depression of the early 1930s and the high inflation of the early and late 1970s, monetary policy makers did little because they were convinced that action would be ineffective.

While I've had good, transparent conversations in the last few weeks with CBC human resources and the third-party investigator looking into management's actions, I am increasingly convinced that little will change.

In their classic review of eye diversity and evolution, Salvini-Plawen and Mayr (1977) noted that "it requires little persuasion to become convinced that the lens eye of a vertebrate and the compound eye of an insect are independent evolutionary developments".