My own experience had made me convinced that grammars are a divisive anachronism and their reintroduction has to be opposed.
This, combined with the fact that an eye-gouging child of incest lives in their walls, made me convinced that someone was going to kill me around Christmas time.
The gene that makes me convinced that I can open a beer bottle with my bare hands.
Perhaps the monarchy is there precisely to make even convinced republicans wonder whether irrational symbolism on an outlandish scale, and an immutability scarcely less immense, doesn't satisfy some deep human need.
It is possible that the environmental factors, such as teachers' attitude, family support and social contexts, could interact with their academic motivation, making them convinced that using eSchoolbag in English learning was important.
'That afternoon I noticed all the rats had disappeared, which was odd and made me more convinced something was up,' he said.
This week, strong demand for a Lehman Brothers share offering and a $19 billion write-down by the Swiss bank UBS made investors more convinced that the worst of the storm in lending markets had passed.
Their eyes are open to the limits of rock-star influence -- after all, Pearl Jam lost that battle with Ticketmaster -- but their defeats have only made them more convinced that the reforms they seek must come on an incremental level, through efforts made toward specific causes that organically coalesce.
And also to Kurt Gödel, whose incompleteness theorem, and reflection that "axioms force themselves upon us as being true", made him a convinced Platonist – though, in the same Platonic spirit, he also recognised that the nature of mathematics is still open to debate.
"There is not a shred of truth in any of the claims but it has made me more convinced than ever that I made the right decision," he said.
