Sentence examples for essential to persuade from inspiring English sources

Several senior American officials have said Pakistani help is essential to persuade the Taliban to negotiate for peace.

Retailers have found that persistent price cuts have proved essential to persuade bargain-hunting households to part with cash, meaning the value of sales in July was down 0.2% compared with June.

A year later, speaking to the European Movement, he said also it was essential to persuade the Commonwealth that its "interests as well as ours lie in a United Europe".

That's why in "Focusing Capital on the Long Term," we insisted that it was essential to persuade institutional investors, whose ownership position makes them the cornerstone of our capitalist system, to be a counterforce.

General Shalikashvili and other recent military leaders have argued that the United States' ratification is essential to persuade other nations to accept the treaty and strengthen other measures to curtail the spread of nuclear arms, like the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty under which nonnuclear states forgo the right to develop nuclear weapons.

Reiman said that working with the California Society of Addiction Medicine is part of an effort to win support from California's medical community, which she said is essential to persuade the public.

The perception of American evenhandedness is considered essential to persuading the militant groups to agree to a cease-fire.

Knowing how black cohosh works, of course, will be essential to persuading American doctors to recommend it.

But in the pamphleteer's upside-down world, switching sides is essential to persuading your readers of the infamy of what you used to hold dear.

Establishing the link is essential to persuading the public that Iraq represents an imminent threat, and President Bush insisted that hard evidence in the shape of "intelligence sources, secret communications, and statements by people now in custody" proved the connection was real.

Ministers still believe sanctions are an essential tool to persuade claimants to take work experience and job placements seriously.