persuade

Though the doctor advised his patient to give up smoking, yet he wasn't able to persuade him to do so.

His mother came to him and wept bitterly, trying to persuade the king to fight.

Another challenge for the United States, the report says, was to persuade foreign governments to "stop paying ransoms . "

Mr Barak is trying to persuade people, not least in his own party, that Mr Netanyahu is sincere.

He said the immediate priority is to persuade China to stimulate its domestic economy, given the global economic slowdown.

Perhaps the next time he suggests a night out, I can persuade him to see a film, so we can sit in blissful silence in the cinema instead.

European leaders had been trying to persuade Mr. Bush to hold global talks by the end of the year.

His endeavors to persuade her to go with him failed.

and yet it should seem by her manner of talking, as if she wanted to persuade herself that he is really partial to Miss Darcy.

She said she wanted to discuss our son's education with me, but she only tried to persuade me to remarry her all night.

What better way of assuring oneself, on the point on which one is mistaken, than to persuade the other of the truth of what one says!

Two priests, one in full robes, were brought in by the police to persuade rioters to allow an ambulance to take her to safety.

I wish you could persuade her to think so.

They are not intended to dominate your way of thinking or to persuade you to conform to the way the writer thinks or feels.

He offered to take me to see Louis Tordella to persuade him to help with the counterespionage of ROC.

Suburban shops exert such a strong allure that it is hard to persuade retailers to open downtown.

She did persuade herself that there were no autocracies save that of Prussia.

" and something would happen and I'd say, " OK, I'll listen to the people who are trying to persuade me to do it again.

He tried desperately to persuade the authorities of his true identity right up to the day of his death, and failed.

Now that he's turned angry, you'd better persuade him for a while.

Sometimes men try to persuade you to go back to their houses or to a hotel room for sex.

To achieve the same end, a woman must persuade him to do so, and no amount of pleading can ensure that this happens.

If he were to survive, he must persuade himself to continue believing some of this.

Now she can try to persuade them to help out in Europe as a way to demonstrate their greater global role.

The debate included a lot of jawboning as each candidate tried to persuade voters to see the issues his way.

Well-connected Kikuyu business leaders are trying to persuade Mr Kibaki to give in and form a government of national unity.

Now they must persuade us all that long Asian cars, not large American SUVs, are the best things to drive.

Jha, the new co-CEO of Motorola, had been talking to Rubin for months, hoping to persuade him to let Motorola build the next Android phone.

The Melians attempted to persuade the Athenians to leave them alone. According to Thucydides, the Athenians would have none of it.

He was unable to persuade the police that he had been elsewhere at the time of crime.

Deng: To be quite frank, I am trying to persuade people to let me retire at the Party's Thirteenth National Congress next year.

It may not be easy to persuade India to make concessions on Kashmir to a weak government in Islamabad.

Every dollar spent trying to persuade a grandmother to see a Quentin Tarantino film is a dollar wasted (Quentin's granny excepted).

Mr Lee said the aim was to persuade Pyongyang to "admit its wrongdoing and pledge never again to engage in such reprehensible action" .

I hope to persuade you of this, by looking at my five favourite traditional dishes from across the British Isles .

Many fired employees now throw in dubious whistleblowing claims, he says, in an attempt to persuade firms to settle out of court.

But it will not be easy to persuade people to vote for a vague promise of civic reorganization, without the powers to match.

I used to ring them and try to persuade them to let me come and inspect their desks, their family photos and their bookshelves.

If you're not trying to persuade people for the kingdom, what would motivate you to do so?

Dawu never imagined such a thing would be, in every possible way to persuade the president, he reluctantly took over his job.

Wharton has begun to talk to young women in high schools as well as colleges to persuade them of the value of a business education.

If someone says dirty words all the time, it shows that something is wrong with his mouth. You'd better persuade him to "watch" his mouth!

Ohno met regular resistance when he first set out to persuade the company to radically change its manufacturing processes.

They keep trying to persuade her it's the right thing to do artistically. They're constantly waiting for her input.

I had no illusions that Barbieri would make that mistake again, so I decided to try to persuade him to endorse McGovern.

Of course, an alternative view might be (that) it's not easy to persuade people to drive less and walk more.

Remember, too, that he would eat no salt with you; and what would you have more to persuade you of his wicked design?

But why should you wish to persuade me that I feel more than I acknowledge?

The opposition candidates face a challenge trying to persuade voters to choose their promises over the president's record.

It would also make it easier to persuade people to come in once a year for testing at their local clinic, even if they felt well.

I'd go round to see Nessie to try to find out what was up, and she'd beg me to persuade him to change his mind.

The third is you've got to be able to persuade other people to go along with the decision you make.

The only thing to do was to persuade him, as early as possible, to marry a nice girl, and then trust to her to look after him.

I'm a huge fan of Twitter, and I've tried to persuade several people to give it a try.

Try to persuade him to let us go with him.

In the U. S. , Gates and Buffett are working to persuade fellow billionaires to give at least half their wealth to charity.

Although his mother had made great efforts to persuade him not cancell his wedding, he insisted to be a bachelor for a life-time.

Harrah's Entertainment, a Las Vegas-based casino, is trying to persuade creditors to renegotiate its payment terms to avoid a default.

The newspapers are full of adverts from Norwegian construction companies trying to persuade Icelandic workers to migrate.

By presenting itself as an international exchange, the combined entity might be able to persuade other bourses to join up.

That you want to forget one thing means you still remember. Wanting to persuade you to forget one thing means both you and I still.

IN DEEPEST Washington state, trooper Dusty Pierpont stands in front of a roundabout trying to persuade motorists to like them.

Persuade gentleman not to have feculent sexual intercourse so, do not taste the forbidden fruit that should not taste.

"It is a long-drawn process because the villagers have to agree to move out. We can't force them to leave. We can only persuade, " he said.

Then she will be a true love for a daughter to good, persuade daughter endure temper, down her mother-in-law.

All our efforts to persuade the old man to leave the dangerous house were in vain.

The Obama administration needs to be at least as determined in its efforts to persuade others to finally speak up.

I shall need Sue by her to keep her simple; and to persuade her, in her simpleness , into the plot.

I reasoned with him for hours, but I couldn't persuade him to change his mind.

On top of this, she said the data from the freely available solar maps can be used to persuade banks to grant financing.

It is likely to be hard to persuade mainstream investors to put money into something so new and with such uncertain returns.

Seeing that he was not able to persuade the other committee members, he gave in finally.

Opponents of the measure had also spent the last week in Albany trying to persuade lawmakers to abandon the bill.

She resembled Miss Hancock attempting by archness and by an assumption of frivolity to persuade her neighbours that she was juvenile.

You try and persuade her (to come out with us).

By playing upon the old lady's fears, the criminals were able to persuade her to give them her money.

Where's the payoff on the humanities? It's not easy to persuade such loving parents that the humanities do indeed payoff.

Many girls wanted to persuade him, but he said he only wanted one love though his heart had four cavities.

I saw the small girl on the playground to cry, so I tried to persuade her to stop crying.

Here's the twist: Kmart is also trying to persuade other retailers to use its stores as a central pick-up location for goods ordered online.

I finally managed to persuade her to go out for a drink with me.

He hopes getting his robotics degree will persuade Volkswagen to hire him for the factory it has planned for Chattanooga, Tenn.

In such a poisonous atmosphere the Europeans and Americans are trying to persuade the Bosnians to agree to modest constitutional changes.

Twenty years of trying to persuade Burma's generals to reform has not secured any improvement.

If I were to shut myself up for ever with the child, I should not be able to persuade him to do anything he did not like.

Presents logical opinions in an assertive way when trying to persuade and convince others.

For now do I persuade men, or God? Or do I seek to please men? For if I yet pleased men, I would not be a servant of Christ.

Now my own kids try to persuade me to give up the samfu. They even buy me modern clothes. But I never consider wearing them.

Mr Wolfowitz then helped persuade the bank's donors to compensate it "dollar-for-dollar" for debt repayments it would no longer receive.

We found it useless trying to persuade him to go with us.

Presents logical opinions in an assertive way when trying to persuade and convince others.

For now do I persuade men, or God? Or do I seek to please men? For if I yet pleased men, I would not be a servant of Christ.

Now my own kids try to persuade me to give up the samfu. They even buy me modern clothes. But I never consider wearing them.

Mr Wolfowitz then helped persuade the bank's donors to compensate it "dollar-for-dollar" for debt repayments it would no longer receive.

We found it useless trying to persuade him to go with us.

Speaking in front of the class and trying to persuade them to vote for our teams was an important thing we learned from this activity.

My mum wanted to chuck it out but after pleading with her I managed to persuade her to hold onto it until I had the space for it.

Why do you think you can persuade him to leave?

He has been trying to persuade Toyota that cars are a dying industry and that it should turn its engineers on to farming efficiency instead.

He's so adamant that however hard I tried to persuade him to join us he did not change his mind.

How the Chinese lawyers managed to persuade the Canadians that the unpopular Mr Lai can be kept safe is hard to see.

Biddy was the most sensible of girls, and did not try to persuade me any more. As we walked home, I felt rested and comforted.

Then they just have to persuade him to be put to, say leadership is not on the spot, not wearing.

You are trying to persuade me that the non-existent exists.

Theother person most nearly concerned has tried up to the last to persuade me to take a different course.

I don't think it of any use trying to persuade Tom to give up smoking.

Cosco Pacific failed to persuade the Greek government to award it a build-operate-transfer contract under a bilateral arrangement.

You are flogging a dead horse trying to persuade him to accept the new concepts-he is absolutely an old fossil.

She did that for three days, with the ministers calling on her, and the doctors, trying to persuade her to let them dispose of the body.

He tried to persuade me of his honesty. = He tried to persuade me that he was honest.

I used to go with him but he had such hard time trying to persuade people even to see him that I seldom had to do any tests.

I used the utmost of my endeavour to persuade him, and joined that known woman's rhetoric to it--I mean, that of tears.

Just stay with me a minute longer; I'm sure I can persuade you to agree with our proposal.

He asked her again in the vain hope that he could persuade her to come(= it was impossible).

One of the most crucial skills to improving your career in the new year may be the ability to persuade people to see things your way.

While you may not be able to do anything to persuade your company to turn up the heat, you can try a few tricks to stay as warm as possible.

The next thing that we had to do is to persuade them that there needed to be spatial correspondence.

So I was trying to persuade the Hondurans, if you build a new city, you've got to start with a site that's at least 1, 000 sq. km.

It's no use trying to persuade her to follow your advice.

Whenever there was a management problem, the Dept Head would persuade those with counter views to quit, and I happened to be one of them.

His second option is to persuade Mr Putin to step down, or to sack him. This would amount to a palace coup.

He always wrote to be understood, to persuade, not to impress or to obfuscate.

He appealed to his sense of justice and tried to persuade him to help the homeless.

After all, they are about trying to persuade others of your opinion, based upon questionable research.

Being a bit of an oddball may be an asset as an investor. It is less helpful if you need to persuade others to see things your way.

I shall try to persuade her to see the doctor.

Declaring himself "protector" of Peru, he spent a frustrating two years trying to persuade the country to liberate itself.

Mr Zoellick said he was trying to persuade Tokyo not to cut further.

"If I won't be able to persuade him to stay then I will follow the theme of the film 'Indecent Proposal', " concluded the patron.

After trying to persuade the United Nations, he won the support of his own House of Commons with the greatest speech he has given there.

It is these guests seem not to have the heart, an effort to persuade her to rest, you anyway, okay, wait will be out of the way.

Maybe not coolest, but certainly wettest, since the dancers were carrying umbrellas and trying to persuade a bus to stop.

Since this is a matter of principle, I cannot forgive him, but I cannot persuade myself to coax her, it's not encourage him in his evil?

It's a waste of time trying to persuade him to go with us.

He did not do his homework carefully enough. I persuade him to do it all over again.

Duhalde is trying to persuade congressmen and local government leaders to support the necessary economic reforms.

In one, a young man gives his girlfriend a rose and tries to persuade her to have premarital sex.

If they do not, then no advice from me or any other will persuade you to overcome cynicism with action.

The more you practice ignoring the thoughts you don't like, the more they'll learn it's no use trying to persuade you.

Despite all my efforts to persuade him to give up smoking, he never made up his mind.

So far, the big broadcast networks have been able to persuade advertisers to spend more for each eyeball they reach.

I was able to persuade her to add some almonds and a protein shake and some vitamin supplements.

A team was set up to try to help persuade insurgents to lay down their weapons, so far to little effect.

The children had all been photographed, and the teacher was trying to persuade them each to buy a copy of the group picture.

He said it might be possible to persuade Hamas to accept a symbolic role in administering the border.

It is often tempting to persuade a developer or a development manager so they agree to reuse a software asset.

As what she said before, it was really difficult to persuade him to go with us.

The Copenhagen accord's weak legal status is another impediment in trying to persuade nations to be more ambitious with their commitments.

For his part, Wen may persuade the United States not to set any more restrictions on Chinese imports.

And, just as important, don't let your parents or college-guidance counselor persuade you to apply under Early Decision.

Palo Alto, Calif. -based company Better Place is working to persuade Congress that it has one of those revolutionary ideas.

'I understand that the main aim of Skolkovo is to persuade entrepreneurs and IT specialists not to leave Russia, ' says Mr. Gaaze.

persuade sb. that. . . It's no use trying to persuade them that you are innocent.

The US and China are trying to persuade North Korea to return to six-party talks on nuclear issues, which Pyongyang quit in April.

I managed to persuade quite a few people to see me, and I must keep the appointments.

To subsidise the banking system as a whole to persuade it to undertake what is but a small part of its activity is grotesquely inefficient.

Yet even then it was hard to persuade a nervous General Musharraf to put Pakistan's nuclear hero out of business.

Until the courts rule, each company is trying to persuade consumers that their coffee is king.

One particular goal was to persuade other Asia-Pacific leaders to take a resolute line over North Korea's recent test of a nuclear bomb .

The Republicans think they may be able to persuade one or two moderate Democrats to join them in opposing some legislation.

God's underlying objective and hope in all of this was to persuade His people to turn back to Himself.

It is a waste of time trying to persuade such a person to join us.

It is no use trying to persuade him not to do that.

It's March 5 today. There is over a week left. We must strike out a perfect plan to persuade the American company.

With a plethora of external influences pulling at retail, what is going to persuade the consumer to zero in and choose your product?

if the water to see the vandalism should be brave to persuade him, as well as damage to water will give us great danger.

Then, the teacher should then move to persuade parents the power of the joint school, to the growth of the children of common concern.

European source said he hoped that the latest ruling would persuade Boeing to come to the negotiating table.

I'm trying to persuade my cousin to form a rap group with me.

CA: Climate skeptics: if you had a sentence or two to say to them, how might you persuade them that they're wrong?

s your wife. You insult her intelligence if you assume that a mere slogan and a few vapid adjectives will persuade her to buy anything.

In theory, being able to withdraw money from a pension scheme may persuade employees to contribute to it in the first place.

My friends advised him to see a doctor, but he refused all of them. Who can persuade him?

Known as " spoofing , " the end game is to persuade consumers to reveal their Social Security numbers or other sensitive information.

I tried to persuade her to stay, but she wouldn't listen.

pray, come and persuade her to go to bed.

Now, he is trying to persuade investors to trust him with more.

But he says to help matters, the government is offering financial inducements to persuade squatters to leave.

He has already made up his mind, it's no use trying to persuade him.

The knowledge I acquired from textbooks is indeed, but it is equally essential to be able to persuade a potential client t to trust you.

but the gentlemen learned that it was useless to try to persuade him to contribute any money, so they left.

Don't you want them to be real sooner? Can't I persuade you to break away now?

It's not easy to persuade such loving parents that the humanities do, indeed, pay off.

It would be to persuade you to invite me for dinner.

I wasn't sure my mother was ready for cyber-Scrabble: It had taken 15 years to persuade her to buy a microwave.

One fruit seller, standing behind piles of fresh fruit, greeted me Warmly, trying to persuade me to buy some.

He really didn't want to let me go. He was desperate to persuade me, but he was not going to drop the patient, understanding manner.

He could only hope by the offer of more money to persuade the headman to carry out his agreement .

Dr Yamanaka's team has, for instance, been able to persuade its stem cells to turn into nerve cells and heart cells.

Larger, well-capitalized vendors are more likely to have the bargaining power to persuade retail partners to pass through the increases.

Get a few drinks into him later on and persuade him to sell it to you?

With luck, Mrs Merkel will have two years to persuade voters, also, to see the brighter side of things.

It was no use seeking to persuade him to give up smoking.

She was such an excellent secretary that her boss tried to persuade her not to resign.

This could well persuade airlines to open some direct routes around the globe that they previously deemed uneconomic.

It has always been more difficult for the rising power to persuade the incumbent power that its intentions are benign.

A nice publicist for local tourism took me to dinner and tried valiantly to persuade me of the town's merits.

Children across America try to squeeze in one last good deed before the night by baking Santa some cookies, in an attempt to persuade him.

Scofield persuade him to tell the truth and ended that disaster before the press.

But they will struggle just as hard to persuade their voters to cut back, to accommodate the rise of a richer Asia.

But if she wants to measure up to Adenauer or Helmut Kohl, she must persuade Germans of the case for change.

Nothing on earth would persuade me to go with him.

He has been trying to persuade civil servants set to retire this year to delay stepping down to ensure he has enough manpower to rebuild.

This experience did not persuade me to try the diet.

Feminism wasted time trying to persuade us that men are tamable , she proclaimed.

He would not hope to persuade the President of the merits of communism.

For do I now persuade men, or God? Or do I seek to please men? If I yet pleased men, I should not be the servant of Christ.

You're better off trying to persuade customers that the price is low.

Romeo would not leave, after the persuade he agreed to leave.

Reform, however, appears to have come too late to persuade the current generation of young billionaires to educate their kids at home.

I am sure, Anne, if you would, you might persuade him that I really am very ill--a great deal worse than I ever own.

Eventually, she used the same approach to persuade her mother to move to California to live near her and other family members.

You'll have to pull out all the stops to persuade your mother to leave her old home.

I could persuade her to make room for you should it be necessary.

fang's dream is to take the 'master course', i persuade her to quit work and follow her dream.

Through time , however , the lottery winner can persuade herself that she deserves the money .

Efforts should be kept up to persuade Hamas to accept a two-state deal and to stop rockets being fired from Gaza into Israeli towns.

He spent weeks trying to persuade members of Congress to approve new legislation.

Mr Obama has made a promising start in his quest to persuade Latin Americans that the United States is "a force for good" in the region.

They often have to enlighten and persuade the patient, so patients feel calm, with the right attitude to look at the child's birth.

Sometimes now I cannot even persuade myself that it was a human being.

A feeling of universal brotherhood has not been enough to persuade rich countries to limit theirs.

The levels of plagiarism uncovered by CrossCheck have been more than enough to persuade publishers to embrace the software.

We tried to persuade her to come, but she didn't.

but when I got to the parlour where Mr and Mrs Linton were, I could not persuade myself to proceed.

Germany and France believed that the assurance would be enough to persuade jittery markets that the EU wouldn't allow Greece to default.

I will use my credit with her to persuade bet to go.

The nuclear industry needs to persuade people that it is clean, cheap and safe enough to rely on without a government crutch.

She tried to persuade me from stopping smoking. She managed to persuade me to stop smoking.

Once again I persuade myself, and then I found, because my rapid growth, Massi began to rely on me.

One way the Education Department is trying to persuade states is with money.

If someone doesn't choose to be part of the elites, it's unclear to me that you can persuade them to change their mind.

It's no use trying to persuade him (that) you're innocent.

Any UK government would have to persuade the public that it was confident all Schengen countries were applying the process properly .

She enlisted former Democratic National Committee chairman Bob Strauss to help persuade the president.

The self promotion business card is a tool you can use to persuade people who need what you are offering to call.

S. -- are trying to persuade North Korea to accept economic aid and give up its pursuit of nuclear weapons.

Mr Leonhardt's life-work was to persuade the world how beautiful the harpsichord was, and how the harpsichord repertoire should be played.

She tried to persuade Hank that it made more sense to buy the boring but dependable car, but he would not be swayed.

The rebel tried to persuade Peter to join the Cossacks, but respected His wish to rejoin His own forces at Orenburg.

I have convinced her that she needs a holiday, but cannot persuade her to take one.

Middle-aged people are at the bottom of the happiness curve so they have to spend thousands to persuade themselves they are enjoying life.

These fundamentals explain why many market participants are able to persuade themselves that huge price rises are justified and sustainable.

Hareton tried, under his breath, to persuade her to go .

Manager Sir Alex Ferguson contacted Tevez during last week to try to persuade him to stay with United.

That might have helped persuade King George not to levy a tax directly on them.

On the Libya vote, there was no concerted campaign to persuade Germany, he notes.

Gordon Brown said the government had to "persuade and cajole" banks into lending at appropriate prices and resume mortgage lending.

Dad is trying to persuade Jim by dangling the carrot of higher allowance.

I cannot persuade my parents that she does not still love me.