Sentence examples for a hard time persuading from inspiring English sources

He will have a hard time persuading a skeptical Congress and an equally skeptical American public.

As a result, Mason has had a hard time persuading Canadian shareholders to support it.

The Knicks might have a hard time persuading Smith to sign with them.

Nor did the United States have a hard time persuading the rest of the U.N. to back off.

But the President might have a hard time persuading Silicon Valley companies that it's their problem, too.

Mr Péladeau claims, without much evidence, that independence would make the province richer.He will have a hard time persuading voters.

But Mr. Baliah said that because the cyclone was not as severe as predicted, officials would have a harder time persuading large numbers of people to evacuate in the future.

As an international student, he might have had a harder time persuading employers to file the paperwork required for a work permit if he hadn't already had work experience in the United Kingdom, says Rebecca Dowsett, the manager of the University of Nottingham's Engineering Graduate Centre.

Another notion that is about to be put to the test is the industry belief that tabloid newspapers, specializing in celebrity gossip and other news with a short shelf life and aimed at lower-income readers than broadsheets, might have an especially hard time persuading readers to pay for digital editions.

The political significance is obvious: if the shortage has been formed by millions of additional discouraged job seekers, Mr. Bush will have a much harder time persuading voters that the economy is heading in the right direction.

A National Book Award winner in 1979 for his nonfiction work "The Snow Leopard," Mr. Matthiessen said, "I've had a hard time over the years persuading people that fiction was my natural thing," and then raised his bronze statue above his head.