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Our pressure defense really started to work. We didn't let Morgan settle into their offense and when we forced a turnover, we converted on the other end.

Our press has been good to us most of the year. We used different types of presses ? we used a diamond-and-one and a we switched to a 2-2-1 ?Êand I thought our kids read it real well. What was really big off the press was that we converted some easy lay-ins. Those were some big points for us.

Really, we failed to convert and in the second half there was no execution. For Essex, they played a great game. Our defense was lackluster, but they just out-played us.

Michael Burkett

Manufacturers must streamline the innovation engine with a greater collaboration and knowledge-sharing environment. They must ensure great research converts to competitive products by responding quickly to evolving market needs and do more than increase R&D spending.

Jeremy is a player we did our homework on. He's a defender, but is actually a converted forward. There are a lot of things we liked about him.

That was the turning point, for sure. The rebounding gave us second and third chances, which we converted into points.

That was the final dagger when it was 60-56 and we were not able to convert a couple times. They are a mature team that got a second life in the NCAA to make some things happen. We had to play at the top of our game to win this.

Michael Perry

The 10-0 run put the game away for us. We got some transition opportunities and converted on them. It really ignited our play in the game.

That was a crucial score for us before the half. I kind of stuck my neck out there by going for two, but once we converted it put them in a position where they had to score twice.

That's what it will take to move, but that's not even counting the estimated $500,000 it's going to cost to convert the station into a museum.

I think those two turnovers which they converted into points down the stretch made the difference.

I think that was the big difference because they just dominated on the boards. We had trouble scoring. We didn't get very many good shots and when we did, we didn't convert them.

Eric Heitmann

I think our problem right now is that we're not getting the opportunity to run. What we need to do is convert on third downs. That's something that's been our emphasis this week.

I think I've converted a lot of Washingtonians to Pittsburghers. (But) there will be some Seahawks stuff (on the walls). It's not just Steelers.

Just nine months ago we were living in this three-bedroom converted house, and look at us today.

He was able to convert a great idea into a commercially viable machine.

The purpose of zoning land for agricultural preservation is so that prime and unique farmland may be converted to urban use last,

When he threw the rock, I just converted on it.

One of the things we haven't converted yet is news, but we're experimenting in Raleigh (N.C.) and a few other locales.

One of the statistics you look for in pizza is trying to establish a loyalty rate. If you get someone to try your pizza, can you get them to convert to you?

New converts feel they have to prove themselves. Those who seek more extreme ways of proving themselves can become extraordinarily easy prey to manipulation.

We made a lot of mistakes and have to learn from those mistakes. They converted four fourth-down conversions. We have to play better in those crucial situations if we are going to keep playing for the next 10 games and hopefully further.

You have not converted a man because you have silenced him.

Many of these ships still have 20 or 30 years of life left in them and can accommodate several hundred passengers in great comfort. We will take a retired cruise ship and convert every two to three cabins into luxury suites and sell them to investors.

Samantha Shannon

I often look at places and kind of mentally convert them to fantasy versions of themselves.

Zubin Mehta

I would convert to Judaism if the operation didn't hurt so much.

Becky G

When I was nine years old, my family lost our home, and the six of us moved into my grandparents' converted garage.

V. S. Naipaul

To be converted you have to destroy your past, destroy your history. You have to stamp on it, you have to say 'my ancestral culture does not exist, it doesn't matter.'

Tim Wise

I don't think the job of the antiracist is to convert the far-out heathen racist, or give them their 'come to Jesus' moment, as it's called. They'll either have those or they won't, and usually, when they have them, it's not because of something someone said per se; it's because of some life crisis that makes them rethink.

Gordon B. Hinckley

Every convert is a son or daughter of God.

Gordon B. Hinckley

Any investigator worthy of baptism becomes a convert worthy of saving.

For Jews, the paradigmatic convert is the biblical Ruth, who sought not only a new relationship with God but also a new nationality.

Tom Hollander

My father was ethnically Jewish, but his family converted to Catholicism.