And so if you wanted to convince them to do something they don't want to do, it's very difficult.

This situation often makes it difficult to convince the decision makers to engage in reform, even though benefits are likely to outweigh costs.

Historically, it has been difficult to convince Asians that international trade is not a zero sum game, with Asia invariably the losers.

Both would have to answer a lot of difficult questions and convince others that they are able to live up to NATO s democratic requirements before being allowed to join.

It is even more difficult for those who claim to know this and who want to make large long run contrarian bets to convince others to trust them with their money.

Did you manage to convince Fadil?

It's often too easy to convince Egyptians of some conspiracy or gossip but equally impossible to convince them it's not true.

Did you convince Fadil?

A modern US president certainly remembers how difficult it was to convince voters to put him where he is, and is perpetually campaigning to maintain approval ratings and to preserve his party s prospects in the next election.

Ms. Ngoma (Gabon), referring to the practice of polygamy, acknowledged that it might be difficult to convince the Committee's experts that women in Gabon did indeed have the right to choose and to have recourse to the judicial system.

It took only a 1000 yen to convince him.

Sami can convince anyone of anything.

Weitzman tried to convince that it was in the good of Britain to help the Jews, in contrast with Jabotinsky who tried to use cold facts to convince the British.

I managed to convince Dad that we organize the reception at home.

This may make skeptics the very people European policymakers wanted to convince.

Their storyline needs to convince their electorates as well as the markets.

To convince the public, Feynman demonstrated that conclusion with a televised experiment.

The British believed they could convince Italy to abandon Germany through appeasement.

She had to convince her parents to allow her to act in films, she claimed that she went on a hunger strike to convince her disapproving parents to let her join films, and they finally relented.

Tell them this story. Convince them to tell the story to another two persons.

I didn't want to spend any more time trying to convince Tom to study French.

If concrete measures are not taken to respond to those legitimate Palestinian concerns, it will be very difficult for the President of the Palestinian Authority to convince his people that peaceful negotiations with Israel will indeed lead to the creation of a viable and contiguous State.

The second premise and this was something that was very difficult for us to convince the librarians of at first is that libraries, since the inception of Carnegie Library tradition in America, had a second responsibility, and that was for social roles.

We can t convince people to engage when it s secret, to lead such kind of process.

She had to convince their fellow passengers to make an exception for Mustafa s heavy wheelchair.

His report helped to convince the U.S. Congress to withdraw this region from public auction.

But what if we could convince them to build a solar cell for us?

And you see agenda this is marketing, this is politics trying to convince you to have one model versus another, trying to convince you to ignore a model and trust your feelings, marginalizing people with models you don't like.

They are not constrained by huge assets in the hated West. It would not be difficult for them to convince ordinary Russians, who have already been primed by today s xenophobic propaganda, that Tbilisi, Sevastopol, Astana, and Tallinn belong to Russia and should be taken by force.

Iran is in no better position than the US to convince them to resolve their differences.

NicolaSehnaoui MoNajem I went to see him to plead against the decision but couldn't convince him.

The Provisional Institutions must exert greater efforts to convince Kosovo Serbs to participate in the process.

Keren tried to convince Amit to lead the men out, but Amit preferred to wait until morning.

I tried to convince myself that, No, no, I have worked for the policy changes.

Even so, Selama had to convince her sister that running away was worth the risk.

Bush s interest in running was enough to convince Mitt Romney, who lost the 2012 election to Barack Obama, not to try a third time. But even the supposedly formidable Bush name was not enough to convince younger, scrappier candidates to step aside.

He realizes that I cannot kill, so he didn t even try to convince me to defend myself.

It also helped some ministries to convince colleagues in the relevant ministries to expedite payment of contributions.

But I'll try to convince you that spectroscopy is actually something which can change this world.

Alas, it took another world war to convince European leaders of the validity of Keynes s approach.

The challenge was how to convince States of the added value of a rights based approach.

It is Europe s responsibility to convince Russia that there is no hope of a return to the past.

But proselytizing means only that one tries to convince others of the truths to which one is committed.

Roosevelt initially supported this plan, and managed to convince Churchill to support it in a less drastic form.

One of these young men sought out weak minded peers and tried to convince them to go to Syria.