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Convince in sentence

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I started to speak with the community, and I could convince everybody, and we could start to work.
Upon reaching the village in 2012, I traveled from community to community, trying to convince people of our idea, trying to recruit farmer members.
Next week I'm visiting the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services, and I'm going to try to convince CMS to grant appropriate code language and pricing, so this technology can be made available to the patients that need it.
Right now there's a student who is coming up with a way to convince his mom or dad that he's very, very sick and can't make it to school tomorrow.
What I want to convince you today is that all of us are walking around with an illusion, an illusion that history, our personal history, has just come to an end, that we have just recently become the people that we were always meant to be and will be for the rest of our lives.
This is a clip of Karess Taylor-Hughes and Samantha Masters, two characters in the film, as they hit the streets of Baltimore and try to convince potential voters.
I want to try to convince you here that this is mistaken.
I want to try to convince you that prejudice and bias are natural, they're often rational, and they're often even moral, and I think that once we understand this, we're in a better position to make sense of them when they go wrong, when they have horrible consequences, and we're in a better position to know what to do when this happens.
Now, because of this, we actually even after we have already chosen, like bought a car, endlessly read reviews about cars, as if we still want to convince ourselves that we made the right choice.
This guideline gave a detailed description of every step you have to take if you want to convince human beings to betray their fellow citizens.
The artist must know the manner whereby to convince others of the truthfulness of his lies."
As somebody who finds mass surveillance odious for all the reasons I just talked about and a lot more, I mean, I look at this as work that will never end until governments around the world are no longer able to subject entire populations to monitoring and surveillance unless they convince some court or some entity that the person they've targeted has actually done something wrong.
In later studies, researchers attempted to convince liberals to support military spending with a variety of arguments.
And the result is that neither the internal resistance to the dominant ways of working nor the external shocks have managed to convince international actors that they should reevaluate their understanding of violence and intervention.
Because if your mind tries to convince you you're incapable of something, and you believe it, then like those two toddlers, you'll begin to feel helpless and you'll stop trying too soon, or you won't even try at all.
As I started this work, it was not always easy to convince the women to participate.
They are aiming at young girls early, to convince them that everyone gets PMS and that it will make you a monster, but wait, there's something you can do about it: Take Midol and you will be a human being again.
I went to some low-caste, so-called untouchable, people, tried to convince them, but it was unthinkable for them.
I am going to try to convince you, in the 15 minutes I have, that microbes have a lot to say about questions such as, "Are we alone?"
I think the WorldWide Telescope will convince you that we may be tiny, but we are truly, wonderfully significant.
And so we thought, what will it take to change their minds, to convince people that bamboo is worth building with, much less worth aspiring to?
We use that story to convince ourselves that human trafficking is a bad man doing a bad thing to an innocent girl.
Now suppose I've managed to convince you perhaps that yes, we control the world because we can cooperate flexibly in large numbers.
You can never convince a chimpanzee to give you a banana by promising him, "... after you die, you'll go to chimpanzee heaven ..." (Laughter) "... and you'll receive lots and lots of bananas for your good deeds.
I either convince clients at the end that I solve their problems, or I really do solve their problems, because usually they seem to like it.
But does this convince you that I don't have the same number of fingers on my right hand as I do on my left?
It doesn't matter if you try to match the elements in some way and it doesn't work, that doesn't convince us of anything.
And I tried those one by one by one, looking for the bacteria that would convince corals to settle and attach.
It so happens that sight, sound, and movement already map to one another so closely, that even bad ventriloquists convince us that the dummy is talking.
Movies, likewise, can convince us that the sound is coming from the actors' mouths rather than surrounding speakers.
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