"I am convinced that Haiti has a remarkable opportunity to escape the chains of its past for several reasons."

VOA: standard.2009.09.09

He adds that the global financial crisis has convinced many Irish people that they can benefit from being part of the EU.

VOA: standard.2009.10.02

"We are convinced that that is the most critical underpinning of any success we hope to achieve along with the people and government of Afghanistan,"

VOA: standard.2009.03.26

Not all of the families of the British victims are convinced that Abdel Basset al-Megrahi was responsible for the worst-ever terrorist incident on British soil.

VOA: standard.2009.08.21

Skeptics argue,however, that rising temperatures and warmer oceans are part of a natural cycle and are not convinced the changes are a result of man's pollution.

VOA: standard.2009.05.03

"And this fired my imagination. I thought,'My gosh, we could do something like that.'" Sir Clem Renouf, then president of Rotary International, convinced Rotarians across the globe to unite against the disease by raising money to fight the virus and by volunteering their time toward that effort.

VOA: standard.2010.08.02

It is not clear what it will be able to do to help revive energy talks with Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan, During negotiations in the Czech capital,Prague, the three natural-gas producing nations were not convinced by E.U.offers of more trade and stronger transport links in exchange for their participation in a multi-billion-dollar gas pipeline, known as Nabucco.

VOA: standard.2009.05.11