"There's nowhere to go for information [on the vulva], so someone can easily be persuaded for surgery..
Robert Bridges, the future poet laureate of England, informed his friend Hopkins that he'd managed to read all 280 lines of "The Wreck of the Deutschland," but would not be persuaded for any amount of money to read it again.
The reader reminds me, reminds us all, that, "It has even been known that someone is persuaded, for instance to cast a vote, without being convinced".
With his ever supportive wife Pat and their children he moved to work in Lancashire, and in 1983 he was persuaded – for his hospital responsibilities were very demanding – by Jack McCann, the Labour MP for Rochdale, to stand for Rochdale council.
"The army were persuaded, for political reasons, to follow a Beau Geste strategy – putting our people out in forward forts largely because the politicians were persuaded by [Afghan president Hamid] Karzai that this was where his supporters and family lived.
He said he was pardoned by Mr. Karzai during Ramadan last summer, but then returned to a madrasa in Pakistan where he was persuaded for a second time to carry out a suicide bombing.
For example, Mr. Ban was persuaded for two years in a row to keep powerful countries off a list of those whose military forces had killed and maimed children.
Robert is sleeping with Jacqueline, Bernard's wife, but Suzette, who sleeps only with her husband, George, has been persuaded (for two hundred francs, and that's just the beginning) to pose as Robert's girlfriend so that Bernard's mistress, Suzanne, can play her, and Jacqueline won't suspect a thing.
Voters are not likely to be persuaded of the need for another election in those circumstances.
