Did you convince Fadil?

The European Commission has convinced the European Council to support this drive.

The government convinced the Turkish Cypriots to make a leap of faith and vote in favor of the Annan plan in order to reunite the island.

I convinced my 10th grade English teacher to allow me to do my book report on Stephen King's Misery as an animated short.

But the culture that Saddam created convinced Iraqis that political connections are the only way to gain authority, money, and knowledge.

The Asian financial crisis persuaded China s leaders to shelve plans, launched in 1994, to liberalize the capital account.

On 19 April 1828, she persuaded her husband to go to the Red Barn and dig in one of the grain storage bins.

Germany destroyed itself and the European order twice in the twentieth century, and then convinced the West that it had drawn the right conclusions.

The recent emergence of a United States India partnership appears to have convinced China s rulers that India has become an instrument for the containment of China.

For so long, I told myself that I couldn't have an adventure because I wasn't six foot tall and athletic and bearded.

Second, a year ago the US convinced Israel to give its non military approach to Iran s nuclear weapons ambitions time to bear fruit.

I have convinced myself it is the strongest weapon humankind possesses, way more powerful than the trail of power games, bomb craters and bullet holes in our collective memories.

They have launched a divestment campaign that has now convinced, I think, 55 universities in 22 states to divest their holdings of stocks with regard to companies doing business in Sudan.

Indeed, the vast popular protests that took place during the Orange Revolution in Ukraine five years ago convinced the Kremlin that they could not allow any spontaneous outburst of public emotions.

The political community of the 1950 s that France had persuaded its five European partners to accept was supposed to absorb both the European Coal and Steel Community and the EDC.

The perception of military parity has altered. With Azerbaijan having spent extravagantly on armaments in recent years it may now have convinced itself that it now holds the upper hand.

Resistance to sanctions from Russia, China, and France has persuaded US officials to allow more time for diplomacy before pushing for punitive action in the Security Council.

Most telling in Russian eyes has been EU countries competition for oil and gas contracts, which has done much to convince the Kremlin that Europe is not a political force to be reckoned with.

These sacrifices have convinced many Westerners that the Middle East is not beyond redemption, and that the region s people should be given a chance to enjoy the same liberty that they do.

Seemingly dramatic changes in weather patterns including the melting of glaciers in Greenland and the thawing of the Siberian permafrost have at last convinced most business leaders that the time for action is now.

Kennedy certainly can be blamed for the bungled Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba and the subsequent Operation Mongoose the covert CIA effort against the Castro regime that convinced the Soviet Union that its ally was under threat.

For example, while she was in Turkey she had prevailed on the Turkish Government to cancel deportation orders against three Iranian women asylum seekers whose claim had been denied but who said that they could face domestic or other violence if returned to Iran she had then convinced UNHCR to review their files and two of them had been granted refugee status.

And so then, around that time, I persuaded a woman named Nineveh Caligari, a longtime San Francisco educator she was teaching in Mexico City, she had all the experience necessary, knew everything about education, was connected with all the teachers and community members in the neighborhood I convinced her to move up from Mexico City where she was teaching.

Capital controls enabled China to emerge from the Asian financial crisis of 1997 1998 largely unscathed, even though its financial system was at least as fragile as those of the affected countries. The Asian financial crisis persuaded China s leaders to shelve plans, launched in 1994, to liberalize the capital account.

It remains to be seen whether Abu Marzouk s view is merely a tactic intended to encourage the Obama administration to reach out to Hamas, or whether the war convinced Hamas that the two state solution is the only viable option to settle the conflict with Israel.