If the S.& P. warning convinces Congressional Republicans not to play games later this spring, when votes will be needed to raise the nation's debt limit, it will have done some good.
Combined with other warnings and incidents, Marwan's warning finally convinced Zvi Zamir of the imminence of war.
So today I am grateful that I am not three-quarters of the way up the Matterhorn, with a storm brewing at the peak and a cocky guide who, in spite of warnings, has convinced our entire party that we should "go for it".
The Yankees were battered, 7-2, in a sobering loss Friday that could serve as a warning to anyone convinced that their playoff aspirations are real.
Mr. McGreevey said he could not reveal details of the plot but said he was absolutely convinced that the warnings were credible.
Gabriele Krugel, 53, for her part, is convinced that the warnings from the health minister and the ensuing panic are unwarranted.
Interviews with many of the people on the pedestrian path suggested that they were fatalistic or defiant, intent on denying terrorists the power to disrupt the city or convinced that the warnings were the overreactions of defensive Washington officials.
"It was not so much a question of the money as it was of actual lives, and the president was convinced that the warnings given by our embassy in Berlin were sound and not exaggerated," according to the diary of Jay Pierrepont Moffat, a State Department official at the meeting.
It was the sort of violent personal assault that's rare in rural areas, so he and others are convinced it was a warning from the company.
Administration officials have warned that such an approach would allow the weakest pension plans to get even weaker for the next two years, however, and their warnings appeared to convince at least a few senators yesterday.
