Sentence examples for was recently convinced from inspiring English sources

After RBS boss Stephen Hester was recently convinced to turn down a near-£1 million bonus, Mr Costello fears the pressure from Government to moderate pay will also damage the bank's prospects by making it hard for it to retain and attract the best staff.

Like a lot of middle class families in America today, we were, until recently, convinced we would not need financial assistance.

And a plastic bag ban in the State of Oregon was recently defeated because legislators were convinced by the industry that Oregon needed to put more resources into recycling plastic bags.

The Pierre Menard of our time is Lionel Sawkins, an English musicologist, who recently convinced a London court that he had composed several motets by the French Baroque composer Michel-Richard de Lalande. Michel-Richard de Lalande

HAVING spent the 1990s reinventing themselves as whizzy energy traders, America's power utilities have been just as busy recently convincing the world they want nothing to do with the suddenly-sinful business.

To convince the association of this polymorphism with essential hypertension, several meta-analyses were recently published [ 6– 10].

Recently, convincing evidence was presented that peroxisomes may originate from the ER [ 16].

Having said all that, he says, there are some parts he has won recently where he was convinced he was a hopeless choice.

The new First Sea Lord, John Fisher, 1st Baron Fisher had long been an advocate of new technology in the Royal Navy and had recently been convinced of the idea of an all-big-gun battleship.

For a whole day recently I was convinced that December followed October and was genuinely disturbed when I realised it didn't.

We are seeing the first signs of a major fragmentation of this planet that, until recently, the cognoscenti were convinced was globalizing rapidly and headed for unifications of all sorts.