"It is been a tough journey, first,just to convince people that we should be regarded as serious candidates.

VOA: standard.2010.06.07

Climate Change minister Penny Wong is adamant she can convince skeptics to change their mind and that the plans will get parliamentary approval.

VOA: standard.2009.05.03

Some mental health practitioners have even gone so far as to say that the morbid murals could convince some to take their own lives.

VOA: standard.2010.07.10

If that is what it takes to bring JAL back, he must convince employees that it is a necessary step for the company's future success.

VOA: standard.2010.02.01

And Russia,the U.S.partner on strategic arms reduction and in the effort to convince Iran not to develop nuclear weapons, has not been at all happy about that.

VOA: standard.2010.03.26

The League hopes it can convince skeptics that a vote for a new climate law will be good not only for the U.S.economy but for the planet as well.

VOA: standard.2010.02.25

But that model of touristic development has failed to convince some.

VOA: standard.2009.06.04

He said it would take longer to convince Afghans that the insurgency is going to fail, because they have been disappointed by the international military effort so far and because many view their government as inconsequential or corrupt.

VOA: standard.2009.12.09

"A lot of groups want to send a strong message to foreign governments by targeting foreign nationals who are operating in the country the strategy being to convince the general public of coalition nations that their armies and armed forces should not be in Afghanistan,".

VOA: standard.2009.09.10

(RECORDING) Erekat said President Abbas will tell Mitchell that if the United States does not succeed in convincing Israel to stop the settlement expansion, it will - in Erekat's words mean that no one in the Arab world will believe that Mr.Obama can ultimately convince Israel to end its occupation of the West Bank.

VOA: standard.2009.09.14