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In 1940, President Roosevelt called on American industry to become the 'great arsenal of democracy.' Automotive manufacturers in Michigan responded and converted their assembly lines from cars to tanks and helped America win World War II.

My mother's family is Christian: her father was a Baptist lay preacher, and her brother, in a leap of Anglican upward mobility, became a vicar in the Church of Wales. But my mother converted to Islam on marrying my father. She was not obliged to; Muslim men are free to marry ahl al-kitab, or people of the Book - among them, Jews and Christians.

I had a '56 Ford, and my first car was a '49 Chevy. I converted it to a stick and used to race with the other high school kids down along the river.

I went in, and there, in the front room, a converted bedroom, sat the first radio I had ever seen. The equipment was so bulky that it took up one entire wall of the bedroom. The set, which could send or receive signals, was tuned to KDKA in Pittsburgh, and I remember being completely flabbergasted at the thought of sounds coming from that box.

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

'Phantom of the Opera' started in my little 100-seater converted church in Britain with a stage where we did what we did. But it was the score itself was what made it.

My mother's belief in spiritual healers grew stronger after our family went through a rough patch following my father's death. Sufi saint Karimullah Shah Kadri changed our lives, and all of us converted to Sufism. But it wasn't an instantaneous decision - it took us 10 years to convert. The change in religion was like washing away the past.

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

If I may use such a word when I am speaking of religious subjects, it is by voice and words that men 'mesmerize' each other. Hence it is that the world is converted by the voice of the preacher.

After the Spanish Civil War against Franco, a group of us got together: a group of well-to-do people who were sympathetic to the lost cause of a Republican state. We bought a convent in Toulouse and converted it into a hospital run by the Unitarians. It took care of the Spanish refugees who fled to Toulouse.

My favourite Friday treat is to drive out of the centre of Cambridge, where we live, and go for a swim at the health club I've just joined out in the countryside at Quy. It's a lovely pool, inside a converted barn. Usually it's just me and a couple of other swimmers there.

Food production has affected the environment more than any other activity humans have engaged in. Humanity devotes more land to food production than anything else - roughly a third of the surface area of the earth, much of which was once forest but has been converted by humans into farms or grazing lands.

I hope in God, I pray on, and look yet for the answer. They are not converted yet, but they will be.

I was part of a writers' collective with 21 writers and filmmakers called the San Francisco Writers' Grotto. We had our own office space in this old converted dog and cat hospital, and we had a basketball hoop outside. I'd bring my dog to work every day and write.

I'm going to start these art museums that are basically converted homes, and I have one for modern art, and I have one for 19th century European art, and one for French impressionism. I've got Japanese.

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.'

When I took the habit, the Lord immediately showed me how He favours those who do violence to themselves in order to serve Him. No one saw what I endured... At the moment of my entrance into this new state I felt a joy so great that it has never failed me even to this day; and God converted the dryness of my soul into a very great tenderness.

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

I wear the Jewish star, but I'm not - I haven't converted to Judaism, and I'm not - I'm not - I'm not Jewish in the conventional sense because the Kaballah is a belief system that predates religion and predates Judaism as an organized religion.

If we don't do it now, our chances of acquiring beachfront land for beachfront parks will be extremely limited if not curtailed. Right now, as you know, most of the mom-and-pop hotels are being purchased and being converted into luxury condominiums.

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

Obviously I am very happy about my round today. Yesterday I was a little frustrated. I thought I hit the ball really well and I had a lot of opportunities. Today I do not feel like I left that many out there. I feel good about how I put my score together. I feel I hit the ball well and had a lot of opportunities and converted most of them.

Number one, he's got the most experience. Number two, he's the best athlete we have up front. He's a converted defensive lineman. From the get-go, guys aren't playing on the offensive line because they're better athletes.

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.

Since January 2006, we're doing everything on the Internet. We've converted our software to Web-based tools and added mapping capabilities for growers to manage many data layers online. We're totally Web-based.

She plied the waters of Boston Harbor for many years. In 1927, she was sold to the Thames Company, converted to a freighter and renamed the Thames.

I got a couple big offensive rebounds down the stretch that we kind of converted on. So plays like that, a couple tips here and there on defense, things like that ... Coach has been preaching to the team about.

For us it was turnovers. Every time we turned the ball over, they converted it into points it seemed like and that was hard to overcome. We knew going into the game, one of the keys was taking care of the ball and we didn't do that. The bottom line is they are bigger, quicker, more talented and a lot better.

Bart was, like a lot of people who were converted to fundamental evangelicalism, converted to the certainty of it all, of having all the answers. When he found out they were lying to him, he just didn't want anything to do with it.

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

He was outstanding tonight, he really played well. We just converted him to a keeper this year and he has adapted to it extremely well. We've been real proud of him. ... He kept us in it on a couple of plays.

He was converted from third base to second because he doesn't have big power but our scouts say he can hit. He has good makeup.

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

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

Our patience was good as it's been all year long. We were very deliberate and converted at the end. We were good at running the shot clock and then getting something productive at the end.

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.

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.

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.

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 favorite: a former garbage dump converted into a riverside park. I first ran there more than 30 years ago when a marathon passed through this park that later became home to Pre's Trail.

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

I think we just stayed within ourselves and didn't let any of the fans get to us. We got some turnovers and converted ... It is great.

I thought once we got it to 32-30, we were OK. We switched to a little bit of a zone to try to take away some of their dribble penetration. To their credit they stepped up and hit those outside jumpers, which put us into a position where we had to foul. They converted their free throws.

I thought we played good team defense, we caused 28 turnovers and converted those takeaways into points. We came out and asserted ourselves and put the game away in third quarter.

I was born and brought up in the countryside. I used to live in a sort of converted stables on the grounds of a castle, and I spent a lot of my childhood running around with a pretend sword pretending to be Robert the Bruce.

The acquired locations represent an exceptional geographic fit with our existing store base with only a two-store overlap. Additionally, the locations meet our size and market demographics criteria, since the typical B.C. Moore store is located in a market area of less than 50,000 people, is strip shopping center based, and has an average of approximately 14,300 selling square feet. We expect to realize operating synergies as these stores are converted to Peebles stores, incorporated into our existing distribution system and managed from our South Hill, Virginia administrative offices.

You can get a diesel Jetta now that could be converted quite easily, ... In fact, Volkswagen has a biodiesel converter which can be purchased for their cars.

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.

My brother and I have converted to Christianity, and my other brother and sister are still Sikh. So for me, it's not something that I ever want to be judgmental on. I know my parents are two people of a very strong faith. I respect all that they've done in raising their four kids and in the opportunities that they've given us.

We came out, were aggressive, executed our offense, got steals, and converted our shots.

We haven't been a real tremendous consistent team offensively. Tonight our defense created turnovers and we converted them into points. Our defense has been solid all year. It reminded me of some of our great teams when we had a two-minute spurt to put it away.

which could easily be converted into improvised explosive devices.

We had a lot of unforced turnovers. We made bad passes at inopportune times, and they converted off of them.

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

That was the only game where we allowed anyone to score on us. They scored early in the game and converted it, for a score of 0-7.

The exterior is classified as an historical monument, along with the railing in the entrance. The apartment has changed hands many times. When I found it, it had been converted into offices.

There is a plan to convert a lot of these streets to 2-way streets. All the streets going through the Power & Light District will be converted to 2-way with the exception of 13th Street.

We're a Muslim family, but we're also very cultured and we have a mixture of different religions. For example, my brother-in-law is Catholic, and my sister converted and my nephews are baptized. I have an uncle who just graduated and currently he's a priest.

We ran the ball so well and Santana made a huge play in a very tight situation. From that point forward, we rolled pretty well with the running game, hit some short stuff, and converted some first downs. Everyone played so well that it wasn't as difficult as it could have been.

We're here for those 33 million customers a week worldwide that make up a huge part of the disenfranchised customer base, who don't even know where to buy the music if they hear it. But our customers are not going to walk into their favorite Starbucks store and feel as if it's been converted into a music store.

We played with better intensity on defense in the second quarter. Plus, we converted on their turnovers. Overall, I'd say we played good defense.

We played well defensively after the first five minutes, and we converted the power play well. We got a lot of guys involved. Now we go against one of the deepest and most talented teams in the Bay State Conference.

When you see our drives, we took them the length of the field, converted third downs and converted inside the red zone, which was something we struggled on in some of the other big games we have played this year.

We want to help them get the word out that they converted from the Otter to the Beechcraft, ... We want people to experience the aircraft and hopefully the word of mouth will translate into more passengers.

Ty Turner's running strong. He's a converted lineman to fullback. He's done a phenomenal job putting his head down and running the football.

We've converted a lot more than we did last year.

We're still going through some growing pains with the system - as you would anytime you implement a new system. Anytime you have converted data, you're going to have issues to deal with. We're working through some pitfalls associated with that. But we're moving forward - and we're dedicated to getting the city as much as possible on one system.

Whether working with current buildings or constructing new, the energy strategies have converted to dollars saved, resources saved, and pollutants never produced.

We got to the First Baptist Church of Baton Rouge, which had been converted into a shelter for several dozen mothers and newborn infants, and I found the pastor and asked him to put me to work, ... He told me to collect the trash.

We got to the line 29 times, which is a real positive. But we only converted 17.

Through death all life is converted into food for the inconceivably vast maw of eternity.

Dustin was in deep three times, but only converted once. He has to finish those against somebody as good as Cannon.

At the beginning of the game, we made a statement with our defense. It generated the offense. We converted turnovers into points. We just got things rolling.

Does anyone know...does the Christian persecution complex have an expiration date? Because...uh...you've all been in charge pretty much since...uh...what was that guys name...Constantine. He converted in, what was it, 312 A.D. I'm just saying, enjoy your success.

What is really new in the commodity world is the extent to which hard commodities have been converted to financial assets through exchange-traded funds and hedge funds.

Every conversion is very complex, but we have converted these core systems before. We have a lot of people working very hard to make sure this goes smoothly.

At the height of his popularity in 1977, Cat Stevens converted to Islam and dedicated his life to educational and philanthropic causes.

We were down by seven, but our girls saved their best for last. Our girls created a lot of turnovers and converted them into points. We put the game away at the end by taking care of the basketball.

The test scenes that have been converted into IMAX 3D look, sound and feel absolutely amazing. The magic of IMAX 3D will envelop audiences in this story, enabling them to feel the emotion, drama and suspense in a completely new and unique way.

The team was crashing the interior and fighting for every loose ball. Unfortunately, we only converted a handful of those opportunities, and when fouled,we didn't do well from the stripe (12-for-30).

These situations are the biggest thing. We've missed opportunities where we felt like we could have converted third downs. That's something that we spent a lot of time working on during the bye.

It was a one-point game and pretty soon, the lead was stretched to 10. We made seven turnovers in five minutes that Central converted into easy baskets.

The real vote if you're really concerned about fraud, the place to look to see that it is a small part is the fact that you have so many people who have converted their small businesses on line. They're not going to do that and they're not going to stay on eBay if it isn't the healthiest and safest environment to be trading in.

After amassing large amounts of plastic explosives, the terrorists assisted by an as yet unidentified member of Lebanese Hezbollah ... converted a tanker truck into a huge bomb,

The thing is, when you have an inside game you have a greater tendency to draw fouls and contact. Honestly, we don't have an inside game. We don't have back-to-the-basket guys. Our '5' guys are really '3s' and '4s' and I've converted them because you have to play somewhere inside of 10 feet. It may not be fair to them, but that's the situation that we're in.

(The tenant) understood it was a single-family (house) converted to a two-family dwelling without permission to do so,

I want all my stuff to be converted into digital format so I can have my reference library to carry with me wherever I go.

Every time I was driving on the L.A. freeway in a small car, it was very unnerving for me. One time I rented an SUV, and it just changed my whole perspective of driving, and I was converted to SUVs from that day on.

Without the services of Davenport, we have to be able to count on our other two backs as well. Tony Fisher has been a role player for us in the past and has been an excellent player for us, particularly on third down, and has converted many of those on draws, screens and catches he has made.

We believe that a significant majority of them will stay open as Boston Markets. But some will close and some will be converted to McDonald's and to a couple of other brands,

They were converted to a larger-size tank but they just can't get it right. All of a sudden it starts cutting out.

Your body can use only so much protein, and then some of it is just converted into fat instead of going to your muscles.

If Klose had converted the cross in extra time I would have gotten the proverbial pat on the back. It was his kind of situation, but he didn't convert.

I love Massachusetts for a number of reasons. I once loved a magical girl who lived in a magnificently converted barn, a half-hour or so from Boston. I love your winters. I love the snow.

In the Historic Core are some of the most magnificent buildings in L.A.. Some of the upper floors along Broadway may be converted to residential.

If you have an old style non-chip and pin card or present your card at a till that has not been converted then you will still be able to use a signature.

Smell that, ... You hardly smell anything. This is a clean fuel, converted from coal by a chemical process. We can produce enough of this in Montana to power every American car for decades.

The best way to keep forests from being converted is to keep them economically viable.

Once the campus is converted to walking there will be less car traffic and more pedestrians, so the UC can be utilized as a central gathering place.