Sentence examples for purpose to convince from inspiring English sources
"I lost 18 games on purpose to convince these guys I was coming back," Lanier cracked.
Last week, when the White House scheduled this speech, it had a straightforward purpose: to convince the American people, and their equally reluctant representatives in Congress, to support the use of force against the Assad regime.
The contention is that Moore's is unsuccessful because it is useless for the purpose to convince the idealist or the external world sceptic that there is a material world.
Col. Roth said that he and other military officers frowned on the use of smoke, because it could be used for propaganda purposes to convince Iraqis that the United States was using chemical weapons.
Daugherty's purpose is to convince us that this was not Barthelme's intention.
The purpose was to convince me that I should not get a dog.
"Threads" doesn't want to say that; its whole purpose is to convince us to change our ways.
On March 27th GitHub's administrators said they believed the purpose was to "convince" them "to remove a specific class of content".Whoever was behind the attacks, they are part of a wider Chinese challenge to the existing online order.
The more important purpose was to convince the financial markets and depositors that federal regulators could, with a few phone calls, assemble in one room, overnight, the executives who controlled an enormous portion of the nation's banking assets and fix their banks' balance sheets (whether they needed fixing or not) and get them home before bedtime.
It might be called a power lie: its purpose is not to convince the audience of something that isn't true but to demonstrate the power of the speaker.
