Sentence examples for could not persuade anyone from inspiring English sources

For several years, he could not persuade anyone to pay for his research.

He could not persuade anyone to give him the steel for the hull free, but he negotiated the price down to about 80,000 Polish zloty, a little more than $27,000.

In fact, Elster would also agree with this view since he writes: "if all appeals to the public interest were hypocritical and were known to be so, they could not persuade anyone and nobody would bother to make them" (1998, 104).

I say "seems" because I couldn't persuade anyone at the company, Reserve Solutions, a unit of New York City asset manager The Reserve, to comment for this column.

This evidence did not persuade anyone, least of all Spike Lee, who could be found on CNN the next night begging the president, "One time, go off!" Not going to happen.

"We could not persuade him to stay".

But she could not persuade Ramirez to sign.

Yet, she could not persuade the Embassy officials.

But even that could not persuade investors that the deal was a bargain.

But I can't persuade anyone in government.

Don't persuade anyone to do something that isn't conducive to their well-being.