Like a man who's trying to convince himself of something he doesn't believe in his heart.

At the same time, the solution to the problem involves, to a large extent, persuading motorists many of us to change our behaviour.

And we try to convince ourselves we really try to convince ourselves they're wrong.

It's hard to persuade Jonathan.

Fortunately, we've been able to convince Congress.

And I think I can convince you.

We tried to get Quinn to change attorneys.

Let's go and try and talk to the headmistress.

You want to convince yourself that you know it.

Doc, will you talk some sense to this girl?

I managed to persuade my cousin into accepting my plan.

Here, Germany s leaders, in particular, need convincing.

But something went wrong Putin could not be convinced.

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

But it will be much more difficult to persuade China that it should stand down.

And Singapore has been persuaded to host four advanced naval ships.

Efforts had also been made to persuade Parliament to strengthen the Act.

How do you have people realizing that they have a vision problem?

There's no conviction in your voice.

I'm having a hard time convincing them that I'm not an idiot.

South Korea is trying to persuade the North to make this strategic decision.

Some Liberians therefore have to be persuaded to enter into the process.

All the boats were covered up but we persuaded the man.

Well, get dressed quickly and I'll try to persuade the others to be patient.

Do you think you can persuade the court that you're not responsible, by reason of lunacy?

You can talk a man into trusting you, a woman into wanting you.

But it is doing so without addressing the crucial need to bring its citizens along.

I tried to persuade my mother to permit my circumcision, but she refused.

Austria tried to persuade the Italian government to accept Venetia in exchange for non intervention.

If you could not persuade the House of Lords then they effectively had a right of veto.

I wonder if Mr. McDougal expects people to think that Dracula's really in there.

I couldn't convince the priest. He said that he will not open, and I believe him.

Whereas Sarkozy has managed to impose himself on the right without the support of Jacques Chirac, the Socialist heavyweights cannot fully convince themselves to come out behind Royal.

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

GSM phones can be convinced to use the much weaker A5 2 cipher briefly.

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

You might convince this jackass, but you'll never convince me.

Indeed, official rhetoric has turned once again to trying to persuade markets to ignore reality.

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

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

That way, Kosovo Serbs can be persuaded to participate in the institutions of Kosovo and Metohija.

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

The Contact Group apos s proposal has our full support,and the Bosnian Serbs must be persuaded to accept this package deal.

But how could he convince the public that the millions of volts required to make it work were safe?

Aveling was a militant atheist who failed to persuade Darwin to accept the dedication of his book on atheism incidentally, giving rise to a fascinating myth that Karl Marx tried to dedicate Das Kapital to Darwin, which he didn't, it was actually Edward Aveling.