The phrase "authorities persuaded" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing how officials or governing bodies influenced someone's decision or action.
Example: "The authorities persuaded the community to participate in the safety program through various outreach efforts."
Alternatives: "officials convinced" or "government bodies influenced".
The authorities persuaded two New York-based steroid dealers to cooperate with Mitchell in exchange for not going to prison.
The Ugandan authorities persuaded the media that replacing subsidies with cash payments would help the poor.Depoliticising the issue helps, too.
Even better, the local authorities persuaded residents to take the trouble to separate the stuff that was worth recycling from all the rest and met their target.
So to force her into anger management and parenting classes, the authorities persuaded her to accept an "adjournment contemplating dismissal," a probationlike status, a law enforcement official said.
A former Army soldier seeking help for mental problems at a Georgia military hospital took three workers hostage at gunpoint Monday before the authorities persuaded him to surrender peacefully.
In 365 the emperor Valens, who favoured Arianism, ordered his exile once more, but this time the popular bishop merely moved to the outskirts of Alexandria for a few months until the local authorities persuaded the Emperor to reconsider.
Can the Saudi authorities persuade publishers that it is time for another?Not for the first time the Saudis say they want more visitors.
After 11 bruising years in the National Football League, an unmistakable voice of authority persuaded Kansas City Chiefs center Tim Grunhard to retire.
Last month, when a reporter asked Jeffrey Rosen, the director of the real estate department at the transportation authority, how the authority persuaded Apple to pay $5 million to take over the space, he said it took "a lot of arm-wrestling".
The authorities have persuaded him not to go".
For the occasion the cathedral authorities were persuaded to rehang 17th-century tapestries that were there in Mozart's day.
