Sentence examples for rationally convinced from inspiring English sources

All of us might agree with Professor Skinner that a well-run, conditioned society is an excellent thing for a new race — a breed of men rationally convinced of the need to be conditioned, so long as the conditioning is based on rewards and not punishment.

From the late nineteen-nineties onward, the Fed stubbornly refused to recognize that speculative bubbles encourage the spread of rationally irrational behavior; convinced that the market was a self-regulating mechanism, it turned away from its traditional role, which is — in the words of a former Fed chairman, William McChesney Martin — "to take away the punch bowl just when the party gets going".

From the late nineteen-nineties onward, the Fed stubbornly refused to recognize that speculative bubbles encourage the spread of rationally irrational behavior; convinced that the market was a self-regulating mechanism, it turned away from its traditional role, which is in the words of a former Fed chairman, William McChesney Martin—"to take away the punch bowl just when the party gets going".

Don't Bet on It | The more Wall Street is convinced that Washington will act rationally and raise the debt ceiling, the less pressure there will be on lawmakers, writes Andrew Ross Sorkin.

Andrew Ross Sorkin wrote about "the perversity of Wall Street's psychology: The more Wall Street is convinced that Washington will act rationally and raise the debt ceiling, most likely at the 11th hour, the less pressure there will be on lawmakers to reach an agreement.

Here's the perversity of Wall Street's psychology: The more Wall Street is convinced that Washington will act rationally and raise the debt ceiling, most likely at the 11th hour, the less pressure there will be on lawmakers to reach an agreement.

Not convinced?

I am not convinced.

I am really convinced.

The challenge is now to convince politicians to keep up both the national and international funding, and to target allocations both more rationally for HIV control and to the rest of the sector with a wider health perspective in mind.

Nothing convincing.