Sentence examples for considerable persuasion from inspiring English sources

However, it is believed she would need considerable persuasion to take the job as she would be reluctant to move from her current position.

After considerable persuasion by the Reserve Bank Retired Employees Association they are being given a small ex-gratia payment.Most of the retirees of the early 1980s are in poverty.

While the concept of surface antigen loss was recognised many years ago, and tumour cells became useful tools to evaluate this process, its acceptance as a bona fide mechanism of tumour escape required considerable persuasion.

In 1946, Miss Falkenburg and Mr. McCrary pooled their considerable powers of persuasion and talked radio station WEAF in New York into giving them their own show.

The considerable powers of persuasion Mr Zirin regularly deploys in court are disappointingly absent from this ode to his favourite place of business.

Mr. Kahn, drawing on considerable gifts of persuasion and media insight, led the struggle for enactment of the Airline Deregulation Act of 1978, the first total dismantling of a federal regulatory regime since the 1930s.

Around 70% of Britons say they do not want to join the euro.Even for a man with Mr Blair's considerable powers of persuasion, that is a big number to shift.

In "Gertrude and Claudius," Mr. Updike uses all his considerable powers of persuasion to turn the woman Shakespeare's Hamlet accuses of foul lust (living "in the rank sweat of an enseamed bed,/ Stewed in corruption, honeying and making love/Over the nasty sty") into a modern romantic who finds true love with her husband's brother.

Simon Rake says, bewilderingly: "Much as I love golf, and believe me I do, it does have certain longeurs does it not, in the meantime, could I persuade you to lend your considerable powers of persuasion to the support of my campaign to reintroduce the doffing of one's hat to those (particularly the ladeez) one meets on country walks.

He was kind enough to lend his considerable powers of persuasion to sell health insurance (video above).

Still, Pelosi did not use her considerable powers of persuasion to get fellow Democrats to vote no.