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.

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

Tony said that it's a lot harder to convince people you're sane than it is to convince them you're crazy.

It is hard to convince John.

Fortunately, we've been able to convince Congress.

Then you have to convince your colleagues.

I tried to convince Tom to come home.

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.

Do the smiles convince?

I can't convince them.

And you have to, first you have to convince yourself.

She was asked to convince him to paint the house.

And that's what I'd like to convince you of today.

We weren't sure at all. And we managed to convince him.

And, you know, we thought well, we tried to convince them.

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.

So, I hope to convince you that complex doesn't always equal complicated.

Let me try to convince you of that in a few seconds.

They target poor families and convince the parents to send their children.

We have to convince our audience that what we're talking about matters.

I could not convince him of his mistake.

I want to convince you that humans are, to some extent, natural born essentialists.

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

We talked to the parents, tried to convince them about sending their children to school.

It's never going to convince anybody to do something that they don't want to do.

And our job is to convince the authorities that these forests have to be protected.

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.

And, secondly, to convince you that every home really ought to have a scanning electron microscope.

So really, any of these angles should have been enough to convince me to go vegetarian.

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

She was asked to convince him to get his son or someone else to paint the house.

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

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.

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

That's when we convince ourselves that a lie is the truth.

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

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

It's difficult to explain to people now that it was difficult then.

Francis can attract attention by opining about social justice outside the church, but it is difficult for any pope to influence the habits and theological views of Catholics themselves, who think and act as they please. He can scold a tack that Francis has so far tried to avoid but he cannot convince.

So we do quite a lot of work at IDEO trying to convince our clients of this.

If we know people who are planning to support orphanages, we should convince them to support family services instead.

And I want to convince you the brain does make predictions of the sensory feedback it's going to get.