Sentence examples for end persuading from inspiring English sources

But he applied the high voltage of modernist prose to a deliberate end — persuading his liberal, literate readers to join the cause of the dispossessed.

Her son was in the end persuaded to call off his hunger strike.

Deputy Governor Danforth betrayed the trust his office afforded him in order to win fame as the scourge of what he pretended - and perhaps, in the end, persuaded himself to believe - were evil influences in the community.

The lawyers begin by assuming their clients might actually be dangerous terrorists; they usually end persuaded that a large majority of them never had anything to do with terrorism at all.

However not even the junior sized boundaries at either end persuaded them and with the exception of Jonny Bairstow replacing the wounded Kevin Pietersen they opted to field the same side as in the previous two Tests.

Among them was a single sheet of paper that in the end persuaded the judge to reverse the conviction: a police report, never introduced into evidence, in which the other witness, Jon Jackson, said he had not seen the suspect and the victim together.

He said that a truly great city needed a public face, and to that end persuaded the citizens of Phoenix to pass a billion-dollar bond issue, a quarter of which was set aside in the unprofitable name of great civic architecture.

"We took our time, did lots of due diligence and, in the end, persuaded Vern to spend the next stage of his career in Scotland.

After 32 K-N3!, the ease with which Spassky was winning the ending persuaded Seirawan to give up.

So too many people end up persuading themselves that the most lucrative one is the best one.

He did end up persuading one skeptic, Mr. Berlinger, the director, that the extraordinary measures he took were necessary.