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Convinced in sentence

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Though conditions in Iraq today are drawing many young men toward violence, I am convinced that we need only to provide decent jobs and housing to save them.
But the culture that Saddam created convinced Iraqis that political connections are the only way to gain authority, money, and knowledge.
If she was convinced that she would have effective solutions to problems that might emerge, then there was little risk in waiting to be tested at the polls.
Even the United States had inflation at 4% last year, though the Federal Reserve is somehow convinced that most people won’t notice.
Many leading Chinese researchers are convinced that that the government will do whatever it takes to keep growth above 8%.
In 2015, Italy’s then-prime minister, Matteo Renzi, convinced the European Commission that his government needed more “flexibility” for deficit spending in order to keep M5S at bay.
Néstor convinced Parliament to allow him to modify the budget.
Moreover, Germans are not convinced that Keynesian policies, with their focus on boosting aggregate demand, are particularly effective in influencing long-term economic trends, despite their obvious short-term impact on output and employment.
To this day, Mitt Romney is convinced that he lost the presidency in 2012 because Barack Obama unfairly gave Latino-Americans subsidized health insurance; gave women free reproductive health coverage (excluding abortion); and gave other groups similar “gifts.”
The bottom line is that Uribe thought Santos would do his bidding as president, and Santos is convinced that his (high but declining) popularity is of his own making, not borrowed from Uribe.
A permanent end to the conflict over Palestine will not be possible until the Palestinian Arabs and their allies become convinced that the failure of colonialism in countries like Algeria and South Africa is not a relevant lesson for them.
They are convinced, according to recently published public-opinion polls, that their new president will not keep some of his “untenable promises,” and they seem to accept this as inevitable.
At the same time, Iraqis need to be convinced that the interim administration has their best interests at heart, rather than the interests of American or British businesses.
Many European policymakers, already convinced that the US-based tech giants are a threat to European security, would welcome the opportunity to pursue stronger actions against them.
Russia's people, whether they are waiters or waiting for service, are convinced that they will be ripped off and treated rudely, and so steel themselves with indifference.
The presidency of Mohammad Khatami, an avowed reformer, who served eight years, beginning in 1997, convinced the Supreme Leader that his authority would be assured only if the presidency was held by a subservient fundamentalist such as the current president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
My numerous meetings with African leaders and visits to dozens of countries across the continent have convinced me that Africa is committed to industrialization.
Though Russia is pursuing its military campaign independently of the Western powers (reflecting its support for Assad), it, too, has apparently become a target, with US and European officials increasingly convinced that the Islamic State was behind October’s crash of a Russian airliner in the Sinai Peninsula.
Muslims are convinced of the absolute superiority of Islam, which is reflected in the constant invocation and desperate desire to revive past glory, as well as a positive duty to convert followers of other religions.
But five years after the brutal suppression of the demands for freedom heard in Budapest, Khrushchev was not fully convinced of the need to divide Berlin.
I am convinced that as the consequences of Brexit unfold in the weeks and months ahead, more and more people will join us.
Indeed, they seem convinced that their only imperative – beyond protecting the unity of the Conservative Party, of course – is to secure as many benefits for the UK as possible.
Europeans are more worried about the future than they were a decade ago, not least because they are not convinced that their political leaders can respond effectively to current challenges.
We are convinced that the concepts that Liu and his colleagues put down on paper in December 2008 are both universal and timeless.
We are convinced that there are moments when exemplary civic engagement, such as Liu’s, requires an exemplary response.
European powers, convinced that it was up to them to “civilize” and modernize Muslim countries, ignored the views of the colonized.
In many regions of Africa, for example, young people are disillusioned with politics, convinced that wealthy older people will always prevail and advance their own interests, often at the expense of younger generations.
Having visited every South American country in my tenure as Defense Minister, I am convinced that, the most effective deterrent on the continent is cooperation.
Rampant misinformation has convinced the majority of Australians that they will suffer.
I am convinced that we need an overall cap on leverage on banks’ balance sheets, regardless of risk asset weightings or value at risk measurements.
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