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For example, Trump reportedly launched a devastating trade war because he was “unglued,” and convinced during a meeting with steel executives that tariffs were a good idea.
For starters, affluent northern Europeans have to be convinced that it is in their interest to strengthen the EU, as it certainly is.
Indeed, British citizens who are convinced that there are alternatives to Europe often refer to 1940 – “England’s finest hour.”
I am not convinced.
An absolute majority of citizens in each of the surveyed countries are convinced that their country is heading in the wrong direction.
As a former MP, I can remember times when I had easily convinced Parliament that I was right about some policy decision, only to learn through face-to-face encounters with my constituents that I was not nearly as smart as I thought I was.
In fact, even economists in communist dictatorships could proffer their best technical advice with a comparatively clean conscience, because they were convinced that introducing more market-mediated outcomes would inject efficiency into planned economies and increase the sphere of individual freedom.
Trump seems convinced that the problem is a lack of available private capital, and thus has proposed a tax plan that includes generous credits to encourage private investment in infrastructure.
The Swiss public was so convinced of the benefits of heroin-assisted therapy that, in two nationwide votes, voters endorsed the policy, despite domestic political opposition and criticism from the International Narcotics Control Board.
Americans, on the other hand, are convinced that whatever was lost during the recent recession will eventually be regained.
Khamenei is deeply mistrustful of US intentions, for he is convinced that America’s ultimate goal – regardless of who is US president – is not behavioral change but regime change in Iran.
In India, although economic policy changes have been made, state-level government officials need to be convinced that reforms benefit their communities before they drop entrenched opposition.
Wall Street’s titans, however, had convinced Obama and his team that their continued stewardship was essential to getting the world out of its crisis.
Germany destroyed itself – and the European order – twice in the twentieth century, and then convinced the West that it had drawn the right conclusions.
I am convinced that no development of a country, no success or ambitions, can be achieved through human grief and losses.
By increasing oil and gas prices, or limiting supplies, flexing its military muscles in Georgia, or sending ships to Cuba and Venezuela to parade Russia’s power on the world stage, Putin has convinced many people that Russia is back.
By weaponizing the immigration issue, Trump has convinced his supporters that they could lose their country to people with vastly different identities and tribal loyalties, owing to what he portrays as a kind of ethno-racial spoils system.
Narcissists tend to be convinced of their own magnificence, and believe that other people should be flattered to be in their company – even if that involves unwanted sexual advances.
Few Chinese, even in the top ranks of the Communist Party, are convinced Marxists anymore.
And, if the Israelis are convinced that Abbas is too weak to do anything, they can help the Palestinians by releasing the Fatah strongman, Marwan Barghouti, from an Israeli jail.
These representatives – with whom I've interacted at three congressional hearings recently – are convinced that the US federal government is too big relative to the economy, and that drastic measures are needed to bring it under control.
The government's brutality then, and all my experiences since, have convinced me that without a proper accounting for those crimes, China's future will remain in doubt.
But governments all over the world are always convinced that their expansions can be substantially financed by efficiency gains, and that dream usually proves chimerical.
We do not want to be prescriptive, but we consider it our duty to speak up and call for change, because we are firmly convinced that there is no better answer to the challenges of our times than a vibrant and strong transatlantic alliance.
MBS is convinced that Saudi Arabia’s vast oil reserves will be far less valuable in the future, owing to the rise of alternative fuels and renewable-energy technologies.
While such measures “would not stand the test of American concepts of democratic procedure,” he was convinced that they were necessary.
Despite the president’s renewed engagement, we are not yet convinced that the Ukrainian government will pursue this case with the vigor it demands.
Markets would be convinced that the "Euro" was a pipe dream and will speculate heavily in favor of Europe's strongest currency, the D-mark, driving up its value and driving down Germany's exports.
But Putin needs to be convinced to take the lead.
As a shorter-term response to the epidemic, the Nobel laureates were convinced by research by the economist Lori Bollinger that we could practically wipe out mother-to-child transmission of HIV by 2015 with additional expenditures of just $140 million a year.
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