Sentence examples for had prevailed upon from inspiring English sources
And activists had prevailed upon Pence to clarify the 2009 law used to convict her, without success.
Earlier in the case, the company had prevailed upon the judge to exclude such evidence to avoid inflaming a jury.
Their suspicions deepened when senior UMNO members announced an hour later that they had prevailed upon the reluctant Dr Mahathir to change his mind and stay on.
Van Vechten had prevailed upon his friend Alfred A. Knopf to publish Hughes's first collection, "The Weary Blues," and wrote a preface to it.
Maliki was not alone in objecting; President Obama opposed the deal, and his aides had prevailed upon Exxon executives to drop the Kurdish project.
It reverses his previous plan, announced in spring 2014, to cut troop levels to that number in 2015, which US military commanders had prevailed upon Obama to abandon, citing an escalation in Taliban attacks.
But the general has prevailed upon Mr. Armitage to join him at the State Department, associates said.
As we have seen, governments in the United States and Europe have prevailed upon telecommunications companies to hand over user data.
It has prevailed upon successive UK governments to take a series of "facilitative actions" to remove barriers to nuclear development.
She rails against me; I suspect that she has prevailed upon her father more than once to break off our friendship.
