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

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

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

Try to convince donors to give you a couple thousand dollars to glue a satellite tag on the back of penguins.

So I want to try and convince you in about 15 minutes that that's a ridiculous and ludicrous thing to do.

For now, let me try to convince you of the plausibility of this hypothesis, that it's actually worth taking seriously.

But the good news is I don't think I need to stand here and convince you to care I'm not even going to try.

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.

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.

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.

DUBLIN Both sides of the austerity debate that is now gripping economists and policymakers cite Ireland s experience as evidence for their case. And, however much they try to position the country as a poster child, neither side is able to convince the other.

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.

And please try to create that through your clapping. Try. Just please try.

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

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'm going to explain what it is and try and convince you in just 15 minutes that this isn't a flimsy idea, or a short term trend, but a powerful cultural and economic force reinventing not just what we consume, but how we consume.

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.

Other governments can continue to try to convince Russia that its interests are better served by getting rid of the current regime than by permitting the continued radicalization of his opponents. Tougher sanctions can continue to delegitimize the regime, and Turkey might be persuaded to take stronger steps against its neighbor.

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.

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.

In other words, Greece's new government must now try to convince its European partners that it deserves more financial support, while pushing for a reduction of its existing debt and resisting the austerity policies on which previous lending was conditioned. For Syriza and its voters, the political honeymoon could be short.

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

And so if you wanted to convince them to do something they don't want to do, it's very difficult.