He said the Federal Highway Administration was already persuaded that red-light cameras work.
She's already persuaded Livingstone to increase the congestion charge for 4x4s (having said he didn't think it was workable).
Dr. Stephen Reingold, vice president for research programs at the National Multiple Sclerosis Society, said he was already persuaded from previous indirect evidence that nerve cells were dying in patients with multiple sclerosis.
Political observers of both parties are already persuaded that some 1986 Republican Senate and House candidates will conduct campaigns that do not emphasize their identification with the President and the party, notably those in farm states where Administration agricultural policy is considered responsible for bad times.
What he had to say — beginning with his opening statement, delivered directly into the camera — was clear, fluent, well reasoned, and accessible, making a persuasive (so I imagine; I'm already persuaded), many-levelled, albeit imperfect, case for reform, as opposed to the alternative, which is the status quo.
While many are already persuaded of the need for such a national strategy, some simply throw up their hands and say there is nothing that can be done.
The media has fragmented so much that only those who are already persuaded come within the ambit of any new message, so in essence they have pounded their way into their own irrelevance.
At an official level the American Council for Cultural Policy is already persuading the Pentagon to relax legislation that protects Iraq's heritage by prevention of sales abroad, arguing that antiquities will be safer in American museums and private collections than in Iraq.
Our Afghan feats are already persuading terrorist havens such as Yemen to start cracking down on al Qaeda and other murderous groups.
When people saw the leadership he demonstrated — in which victory wasn't assured, and which depended on persuading people who were not already persuaded — they saw what was possible when politicians were willing to take a chance.
