Sentences with phrase «finally winning him over»

The internal argument that finally won me over, however, was this: I could play a much bigger game.

The fourth season was more divisive, but finally won over its detractors as its ambitions revealed themselves.

At the sprints on Burnaby Lake, coxswains for Cal and Washington needled their opposing crews until matter and mind finally won over mind

Half a lifetime ago, a young Michael Jordan took the All - Star slam dunk title with a performance that finally won over his rivals.

I think Almunia has come on leaps and bounds — he has finally won me over this season.

A Syracuse lawmaker has finally won over the support of his colleagues to toughen city laws on snow removal.

The Metropolitan Transportation Authority and Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo, who resurrected the plan amid local opposition in January 2016, finally won over Sen. John Flanagan (R - East Northport) and other political holdouts in recent weeks.

With all that data in hand, Sillero's team finally won over Ethiopia's Wildlife Conservation Authority in December, receiving an official thumbs - up to move forward.

And once the researchers were actually able to take muscle biopsies from people before and after, and finally provide proof that mitochondrial efficiency (human energy production) could be improved, they finally won over the scientific establishment.

Perhaps comfort and easy just finally won me over.

But Common was persistent and finally won her over,» the source revealed.

He has never really excited me as an actor, starring in a few films that I hate with a passion, but here I was finally won over by his steady charisma and willingness to satirise himself.

Ever since Tom Holland's Spider - Man made a brief (but memorable) appearance in last year's terrific «Captain America: Civil War», Marvel fans were eager to see if this reboot could finally win them over again.

Biblo has finally won over his approval after the events of An Unexpected Journey but Thorin's still a tyrant of a leader.

As I said before, I think by the time I fought my first boss, the game had finally won me over and I couldn't wait to keep playing and seeing what other surprises lay in store.

Now, demons that you've built up a relationship with may actually pick back up the conversation the next time you run into them, giving an easier path to finally winning them over.

Having been slow to take up the touchscreen phone in Asia, it seems iPhone's influence has finally won over, as Casio's CA001 phone... Read more

that I finally won over my husband and we GOT A NEW SOFA!!!

Not exact matches

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After decades of Christian movie flops, the last 30 days have finally proven that faith - based films can both win over critics and make real money.

Finally, the Madisonian devotion to pluralism won out over attempts to legislate metaphysical or theological solutions or to privilege particular traditions.

But what about the biblical notion of a final consummation in complete victory is finally and permanently won over the powers of evil?

Swinburne sets out to defend God's omnipotence and goodness (although he is weak on God's omniscience) by arguing that the evil in the world is necessary to the measure of good in the world, with good finally winning out over evil.

In describing and accounting for the lives of the Religious Right, which we define simply as religious conservatives with a considerable involvement in political activity, the book and the series tell the story primarily by focusing on leading episodes in the movement's history, including, but not limited to, the groundwork laid by Billy Graham in his relationships with presidents and other prominent political leaders; the resistance of evangelical and other Protestants to the candidacy of the Roman Catholic John F. Kennedy; the rise of what has been called the New Right out of the ashes of Barry Goldwater's defeat in 1964; a battle over sex education in Anaheim, California, in the mid-1960's; a prolonged cultural war over textbooks in West Virginia in the early 1970's — and that is a battle that has been fought less violently in community after community all over the country; the thrill conservative Christians felt over the election of a «born - again» Christian to the Presidency in 1976 and the subsequent disappointment they experienced when they found out that Jimmy Carter was, of all things, a Democrat; the rise of the Moral Majority and its infatuation with Ronald Reagan; the difficulty the Religious Right has had in dealing with abortion, homosexuality and AIDS; Pat Robertson's bid for the presidency and his subsequent launching of the Christian Coalition; efforts by Dr. James Dobson and Gary Bauer to win a «civil war of values» by changing the culture at a deeper level than is represented by winning elections; and, finally, by addressing crucial questions about the appropriate relationship between religion and politics or, as we usually put it, between church and state.

When she finally called to tell me I'd won her over with the apple cinnamon «oatmeal,» she also said I had won over her husband and young, notoriously picky daughter.

I didn't know how good this would be until I finally tried it, and I have definitely been won over.

Michigan's offense finally caught fire in the Sweet 16, dropping 99 points in a blowout win over Texas A&M that saw the team shoot 62 percent from the field and 58 percent from three - point range (on 14 makes).

That's way less time than it took the Cubs to win another World Series after their victory all the way back in 1908, so it's no surprise to see them acting like proud papa bears and showing off all these newborns who arrived in the world nine months after the Cubs finally closed the book on over a century of helplessness.

He exudes the fact that he's doing me the favor — and man, he really is — but I forge on, explain my story, and what I want to get out of all this: to finally know what makes Wisconsin college football's great exception, the success story beyond a standard deviation, the one team that has won almost as much as anyone over the last 25 years with talent far below its peers.

It's a telling quote because Rodgers is finally ready to play again, just in time to lead a last - ditch playoff push for the Packers over their last three must - win games.

After making strides over the last two seasons with 86 wins in 2015 and 84 in 2016, the Astros finally appear to have taken their place among the league's elite teams with a 60 - 29 record through their first 89 games.

And, finally, I don't have to write about a first - place vote for Ohio State, because Notre Dame caught up to the Buckeyes» 10 wins over FBS teams, which should logically have ended OBNUG's reign of Buckeye - backing terror... but OBNUG didn't submit a ballot this week.

No. 2 San Diego State over No. 15 Northern Colorado, giving the Aztecs» a tournament win, finally.

It is hard to argue that Arsenal have got what we deserved over the last few weeks, with that late goal by Liverpool denying us a well deserved win and with the injury problems we have had all season finally hitting us hard.

That was the first league win over Chelsea in years and after a slow start to the season it suggested the Gunners could finally reclaim the crown of English champions.

Finally our Chelsea troubles are over Next up Basel, let's keep the winning streak going.

So if our season will be over with our next lose and a win for either L / City or Spurs, can we finally judge you Arsene and your team?

Arsenal love to pretend he is our messiah, and we will win the title after waiting over half a decade for him to finally be fit.

While the Dodgers knocked over the Phillies in four to win the National League title, New York and Kansas City seesawed in the A.L. playoffs, but the Yanks finally pulled it out

We do not need to spend the most to win, we can get richer over time, we need the infrastructure for this and we can finally see changes which appear to address this issue.

Me, when I see the starting line up for the United game: «Well what the fuck still no Joel...» He's done so well to win many of us over with his work rate as well as his decent decision making and creative passes, and when he finally puts in a good name for himself he's back warming the bench.

Finally, and to reiterate an earlier point, the way forward for this club is to stop paying below average bench players so much money and to focus the bulk of the weekly wages on establishing a dominant starting 11... this will require the club to eat some wages in order to ship some players out, get rid of any deadwood over the age of 21, develop a cutting edge scouting service and put your money where your mouth is for once... I would much rather have a starting 11 that was world - class and give some reasonably paid young blue - chippers playing time when injuries occur than have 2 or 3 world class players surrounded by a plethora of overpaid and underwhelming players... management would no longer be able to sell their half - baked plans to the fans under the guise of «winning now», which any intelligent fan knows is a crap - shoot at best, and instead create a a squad that provides hope for the present and the future... this is exactly the model that has been used by Barcelona, Real & Bayern, so it should be good enough for us... by the way, until Messi & Ronaldo re-signed just recently all 3 clubs weekly wages were on par with ours... think about that for a second or two

It had taken the seven - time Cup champion 20 attempts to finally win it, and even a guy as ornery as the Man in Black could get a little misty over that By Ed Hinton

The Chicago Cubs, a franchise with over a century's worth of pain and suffering, finally ended the Curse of the Billy Goat and won the World Series in dramatic fashion last year.

Finally, Oklahoma's football team began obliterating the opposition, winning 47 games in a row over five seasons, from 1953 to» 57.

He rejected a World Cup call up last summer before he finally returned in November last year, scoring a goal in Mexico's friendly win over the Netherlands.

Um pesonal experiments sorry nobody gave him 150million pounds to sign eonaldo or messi or 100 million pounds to sign a player oh plus another 400million to fill out the other ten sorry he was given ants and has still won our record signing 55million i mean other teams are able to spend more on bench sore pine slivered second strings than hes been on starters over the years and hes still won only manager invincible oh and then when the other clubs new we were low on cash and winning started injuring our star players and do nt say it does nt happen cause it does um he still won whole given ants to spend hes done amazing extend please one or to bad seasons compared to twenty great seasons and had our strikers finished their chances this year in 5 or six key matches we'd be sitting pretty reall only 3 or two and a draw or saw and we'd be sittingin the thick of itextend now that the board an owner are willing to spend snails for him finally atleast a little more than ants cause of inflation

With impressive performances and wins over Tottenham Hotspur and Liverpool, United are finally looking like finding their feet under Louis van Gaal.

United are 16 points behind rivals Manchester City in the Premier League title race, with their hopes of finally winning the trophy again after a long wait surely already over before the end of February.

Arsenal are sitting pretty in third place in the Premier League with 8 games to go, and now that we have finally got over our losing streak we just need to carry on making sure that we win all of our games and not worry about our opponents, according to our new Number 9 Danny Welbeck, who opened the scoring against Everton yesterday.