How am I to convince you that we believe your story, when past experience would persuade us to believe the opposite?

He said that experience had persuaded him to become a lawyer, because he did not believe that the law should sanction such injustices.

Recently, his positive experiences working with what he refers to as "professional ethicists" have persuaded him to soften his views.

The experience persuaded her to race seriously.

But our corporate experience persuades us that change is inevitable.

His harrowing experiences during the war have persuaded him to try for a closer relationship with his wife.

But my older girls' experience had persuaded me that 14-karat was the lowest grade of gold that would protect Clementine's ears against a reaction.

His experience persuaded him, according to his diary, to "have no more to do with these series of little books".

But his experience, especially with young people in job training programs, persuaded him that an economy based on low-wage mass production would stagnate.

Previous experience has persuaded me that teachers do not want to be corrected by a parent.