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This text is a recipe for disaster, and many developing countries will not be able to convince people back home that they have come back with a good deal.

What they are doing is putting their best foot forward and trying to convince the SEC that some of the potential allegations don't hold water.

We tend to think that since Mark Baker didn't get it done, it can't get done. I think the biggest obstacle is to convince Republicans this can happen.

We have to find a way to win with what we have. If you start playing those games in your head, you convince yourself you don't have a good enough roster to win, and I certainly don't want our guys thinking that way. We have a good enough team, so maybe we'll have to win a little differently.

We have to convince the unions that lower pay is advantageous for them, as only profitable jobs are secure jobs. We have to negotiate with the unions. It is not easy. Not everyone understands how much a large company like Lufthansa has to earn to be secure.

We have to convince the public that the group that came together with Sharon will fill the political, ideological, societal void, which is needed for the country to go on.

We will try to convince him that it would be to his advantage to play with us.

We will not intervene in any aspect of Palestinian life ... except to convince people in a polite way.

We convince people they have only one talent, or usually there's only one subject that's not beyond their grasp. And I think that's totally unnecessary. From my work with kids I'm quite convinced that kids are born almost universally with abilities in both areas, if we would nurture those abilities.

There have been more surprises on the upside than the downside, and the outlook statements have been encouraging enough to at least convince investors to stay in the market.

Virginia, being a red state, has seen moderate candidates like Mark Warner - like Harris Miller sort of appears to be, in the early stages - see some success. James Webb is almost carrying that trend even further - as a former Republican administration official, as a person with a strong military background. It's something that has worked for Democrats so far - but he has to figure out a way to convince Democratic voters that he can be the one who gets the job done.

We have done a lot here even if we have not done enough, ... We will use the next three weeks to convince the Serbs and to convince the Albanians that the agreement is a good bargain for both sides.

Boston has many questions to answer. They have to convince me that they were working completely in good faith. Now they have the knowledge that they have acquired stolen artifacts. Are they worried? I don't know. Do they want an agreement? I don't know. But, they do have a moral obligation to give back the items to the victim, which in this case is Italy.

Bribing physicians has long been held to be illegal. This advertisement essentially pays teenagers to convince adults to procure this drug for them, with the size of the payment in proportion to the amount of drug prescribed.

Brandi is the most competitive girl I've been around for her age. I think she'd try to convince everybody she was running no matter how much pain she was in.

Every time I hear a Republican talking about health care reform, they say the American people don't want it. They say it so much that I think they're beginning to try to convince themselves that it's true.

Even if there has been a delay, it is compatible with the efforts exerted to convince our Sunni Arab brothers.

Either way we lose. So we might as well take the strike and attempt to apply some leverage to Northwest and convince them that they really can't do it without us.

Every Friday, you get on the phone to the weekend producers to influence them. You attempt to feed quotes and information to convince them that they'll make news on their show.

Baseball, I think, is a good channel for reaching children. And at the same time, to convince them of the importance of education. In other words, you can combine education and sports.

As the campaign gets under way and voters take a closer look at the candidates, property taxes will be at the forefront, ... have to convince the voters that they are serious about lowering the property tax burden and that they can do it without significantly raising other taxes.

At Oxford it took me weeks to convince the man on the gate that I was the manager. He always gave me the third degree before he let me in.

Computers have very tight profit margins, making it difficult to convince manufacturers to be more environmentally friendly in the manufacturing process.

Disintegration of the family is the greatest problem facing the African-American community, ... And there are no simple, easy answers to this. Government has a role, but you have to be careful. How do you get into someone's family and try and save it; convince young men that they have responsibilities, young men who often feel they have no future and no hope.

Cost is a big challenge. It's not like hospitals aren't used to paying a lot of money for important things like medical equipment, but it's a little more difficult to convince them that money is better spent on information technology rather than new medical technology.

Do whatever you can to convince him to do the movie.

Convince a man that he is an animal, that his own dignity and self-respect are delusions, that there is no 'beyond' to aspire to, no higher potential self to achieve, and you have a slave. Let a man know he is himself, a spiritual being, that he is capable of the power of choice and has the right to aspire to greater wisdom and you have started him up a higher road.

English cricket must convince cricket's new fans that a day at a county match can be just as engaging a spectacle as watching the Ashes on TV.

There's only one way you can convince the customer and that's to give him the experience of driving a diesel car.

There's a great opportunity here, and we continue to work hard to convince others to pursue it,

Is there risk if they don't live up to the hype? Yes. But there's dramatic upside if you can convince someone who is 13 or 14 to start wearing your shoes or get their parents to get them your cell phone because of that endorsement.

I spent nine months trying to convince him he was a baseball player.

I've been talking to Martina about playing for a couple of years. Maybe I can convince her to play some doubles.

The worst thing for a coach is to try to convince him to come back. After all he's meant to this university, how ungracious of us to be to force him to make a selfish decision.

The whole world is worried and we want to convince everyone, starting with the European Union, to coordinate measures in the face of a possible pandemic.

It would be absolutely huge, as it would be for 95 percent of the Premiership clubs. I've spoken to him and tried to convince him. We're in there fighting for him.

It was absolutely crazy. They kept asking us all these questions, (and) I was trying to figure out who I have to convince here to make my movie. There's a fine line between staying true to what you wrote and being flexible.

These bond markets seem determined to convince everyone that interest rates are going a lot higher than expected.

These automatic influences of memory can mislead the elderly person and make them mistakenly think that they remember something that actually didn't happen. What's more, our studies show that older adults often are extremely confident about the accuracy of things they think they remember. They're more likely to make mistakes, and more difficult to convince they're wrong.

These young women aren't going to convince their boyfriends to go see chick-flicks and watch Lifetime,

The situation could have spun out of control and the international community is working very hard to convince both parties that war is not an option.

The strategic challenge the Bush administration faced was to convince the rest of the world that Iran is more dangerous than the United States.

The stability of Asia, the future of Japan and the security of America will be determined by our ability to convince the North Koreans once and for all to dismantle their nuclear program, ... That is the goal of the six-party talks which I support and that is the message I will be carrying.

The simple fact that the trade sector has ceased to be a significant drag on growth will be enough to convince the Bank of Canada to move on September 7 (and beyond).

The sight of cancer-ridden lungs and yellowing teeth may reinforce a non-smoker's decision not to light up, but does nothing to convince those already addicted. The reason for this is a mixture of denial and familiarity.

The SPD has to eliminate the doubts about our unity. We can only convince the public of the force of our ideas if we cooperate and stay together.

I wanted to convince you that you must learn to make every act count, since you are going to be here for only a short while, in fact, too short for witnessing all the marvels of it.

I wanted to convince them there's a better way to do stuff, and they've been great about it.

I wanted to convince him (the security) problem was real. And these were the probable reasons.

President Chirac has told him to back down as he was leading the country to the wall. He tried to convince himself he could be France's Margaret Thatcher, but forgot he was only the number two.

Samuel said he didn't want to continue but we wanted to convince him that he should not let them (the racists) get to him.

Prove to yourself that your business, in micro-scale at least, creates value. If you believe it, you'll find it that much easier to convince potential investors, partners and employees, too.

Radio wasn't so bad because you didn't have to memorize the lines. But you did have to do everything because your own character was in your voice-that took a little doing. Most people thought that if you could speak English or read then you could be a radio actor. Well, that wasn't so. You had to put a great deal into your reading to convince somebody who was just listening that a certain character is speaking.

People can say all types of stuff, ... When I lived in Peoria before, people tried to convince me to run for things. I had an opportunity then and I didn't. I will say I'm never going to rule that out in the future. Politics is a lot about being in the right place at the right time.

Now, if that's how she reacted to the arrival of a new television set and having to learn how to use a new remote control, how is she possibly going to cope with digital switchover? Who is going to convince her and thousands of old people like her that, in the interests of greater viewing choice (choice that she has made very clear to me she doesn't want), her viewing life will be totally disrupted?

Coking coal producers will have a hell of a fight on their hands trying to convince steelmakers they need to pay more in (fiscal) 2006.

As being a Washingtonian I just think that Howard is a great institution. I mean this Gym was built in what 1963, so of course there are some things that need to be improved upon. So I need to get the student-athletes that have graduated to give back, because that is what is going to get us going. I have to convince the alumni to get on board, because there are some things that the university can't do alone.

As a matter of fact, religious differences are actually exploited to convince people to participate in primarily political conflicts.

As an actor, I think it's really important to be as anonymous as possible. It's your job to convince people that you are somebody else, and so any recognition I'd get away from the screen - well, it's not something I actively seek. To be honest with you, I'm surprised anybody does.

The bottom line is really that although you can never convince a CTO or CIO that security is as good as it needs to be, the truth of the matter is these vendors can pretty much deliver a high level of security if you need it. Enterprises will have to come to grips with that and realize that they can in fact provide good enough security.

That's fine. Let them try to convince themselves that they're going to put pressure on us.

... Your ideas for the operation of the police department - one of the primary responsibilities of the mayor, and of critical importance both to borough residents and me - convince me that Phoenixville will be a safer community with you as mayor,

You're going to have to convince me it doesn't work,

You need to convince the international community that there is a looming crisis before there are pictures of starving babies. What we're seeing, emergency after emergency, is that the international community does not get mobilized before there is an actual crisis.

This is both a substantive and a stylistic problem for Bush. Stylistically, he needs to convince people that he is in charge now and he gets it now .

This is a service targeted at a device that millions of people are buying, and the mobile phone is a good vector for audio, but manufacturers and carriers still have to convince consumers that the phones are not just communications devices.

This isn't going to convince a believer not to believe, and nobody's trying to do that. At least, I'm not trying to do that. I personally believe that all these biblical stories are based on some truth.

The way we did it was really through trench warfare and really hard work. It wasn't easy, and we had to help convince the airlines that they could make a buck here.

The way to get higher growth is to have lower inflation. The success of the Fed and the Bank of England has done much to convince people that that's the way to go.

This could help convince some of the people on the fringe, who are not hard-core about not paying child support, that we aren't kidding around,

This defense is not used often, ... I think it's a defense that's disavowed. ... Essentially, (the defense attorneys) have to convince a jury that they have the better case than we do.

This case failed due to the absence of material facts needed to convince this judge.

They must either fix what people consider to be a problem, or else convince these people that this isn't really a problem,

This phenomena makes those of us in Washington really angry, because it has been so difficult to convince some members of Congress that we need new housing resources. The guidelines were put in place to protect the same families that these students have displaced.

This is the market. If you think this is not right you will have to convince all the biggest health employers in the country to drop their salaries.

They're positioned to be able to grow. They just need to convince people that their assumptions make sense.

They're going to have to convince people to go for this. It's to the benefit of the school department if we understand this.

They're faster, quicker. Are they better? It's hard to convince me of that after the way Padgett played against us.

There is sufficient upbeat news on the economy to convince the FOMC to tighten. If the economy warrants a rate hike, the Fed would be doing a great service by delivering.

There is such a thing as a nation being so right that it it does not need to convince others by force that it is right

It seems like every year, I've been able to convince (the team) it's time to go to work when the region tournament comes around no matter how we did before we got here. I'm just so proud of them. This is like I thought we should be playing all year long. And with all the injuries and move always we had, this makes (tonight's win) even better.

It's as important to sell yourselves as much as the service. The business model's going to change 50 times, and the market's going to change, but you need to convince that investor that you are smart enough and excited enough about the opportunity that you'll figure it out.

It was the first time he had run in two weeks. He took two weeks off to heal (from a severe blister on his foot) and we are very pleased to see how he did. It was hard to convince him to take the time off.

It was supposed to be an Asian girl, so when I read the script I said, 'How am I going convince John Singleton that what he needs is a crazy Latin woman?' But I did. I got lucky.

It was really hard to convince the Tribal Council to spend $500 on bingo equipment.

It is reasonably valuable if you can convince someone to steal from other people.

It means ... (we have) somebody at the table who could basically convince ... Russia that peace-making pays off ... we are working closely with the Americans on our peace plan and with the Russians on our peace plan.

It's an interesting and potentially far-reaching deal, but we don't know what the ultimate economic consequences will be yet. If they can convince a significant number of people to take these offers, it would be money well spent.

I tried to convince them to come in here and fight their hearts out and play together and believe in each other. But I think any coach would do the same thing. So what I did was nothing. What they did is unforgettable.

I tried to convince him to stay, but I understand his reasons and I support his decision. The doors are open if he ever wants to return.

I tried to convince him to let me miss a couple of days of school. It wasn't happening.

I tried to convince him I was going deep, ... Then I put my foot in the ground and came back to get the ball.

It is with great regret that Southwest must take the extraordinary step of legal action, ... But we were not able to convince Orbitz to cease and desist from its misleading, untrue and harmful representations with respect to Southwest's service, schedules, and fares.

It's tough right now trying to convince developers to do something in these older spots, because no one's really sure what's underneath all the asphalt.

For a bishop must be blameless, as the steward of God; not selfwilled, not soon angry, not given to wine, no striker, not given to filthy lucre; / But a lover of hospitality, a lover of good men, sober, just, holy, temperate; / Holding fast the faithful word as he hath been taught, that he may be able by sound doctrine both to exhort and to convince the gainsayers.

It's not that they can't be successful, ... It's just that the bulk of the market in the U.S. tends to be middle- and low-price brands. You really have to tell a compelling story to convince people to pay more.

It's more of the same today. How can you step in front of this freight train? How can you convince anyone to buy anything? There are lower prices ahead and I don't know what's going to turn it.

It's going to take a lot more than one month to convince me we are in a worrisome trend.

It's going to be really hard to convince citizens that in addition to all time we already ask them to give up, they are going to have to take classes and pass a test.

It's going to be hard to try to convince him anyway with a new baby on the way. That's something he has to decide.