Example sentences of "convinced themselves " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many Germans seem to have convinced themselves that by ‘ taking Gorbachev at his word ’ ( to borrow a phrase of the currently almost speechless Hans-Dietrich Genscher , the foreign minister ) , they could ensure that things went well in the Soviet Union ; and that Saddam Hussein could be shifted without war . |
| 2 | Signs of this were evident at Christmas and , happily , at Easter , too , Not only did Channel 4 go out in peak time with Granada 's king Lear on Easter Monday but also had the bright idea of showing us on that day , in Are you having any fun ? archive material demonstrating how the British had determinedly convinced themselves they were enjoying themselves as long ago as 1896 and as lately as 1964 . |
| 3 | The significance of all this is that Utah had already convinced themselves that test-tube fusion could be an economic bonanza of unimaginable magnitude , and the first shots in the skirmish for priority had already been fired in February with the accusations that Jones had pirated the Utah chemists ' work . |
| 4 | In pursuit of these rights , people will , because they have convinced themselves that justice demands it , inflict almost any harms on the rest of society and on themselves . |
| 5 | They have convinced themselves and the public that each year they have suffered draconian cuts . |
| 6 | The bosomy metaphor is appropriate , for Clara developed young , to the astonishment of her contemporaries , who had convinced themselves that sexual and intellectual precocity never coincided . |
| 7 | ‘ I think ’ , he says , ‘ that the Germans had convinced themselves that there was something noble in their quest to clean up the world . |
| 8 | The simple consequence is that , being so deeply buried in the human unconscious , any attempt to uncover the repressed foundations of our social life is bound to encounter severe resistances , especially in the minds of those who have convinced themselves that there is no psychic trauma at the origin of human society and no painful consequences of it hidden within every one of us . |
| 9 | They had also convinced themselves that the Chancellor would read the runes and introduce additional tax measures to ensure the PSBR fell well short of £50 billion . |