Sentence examples for half persuaded from inspiring English sources

Allegations of misogyny should trouble any artist, and interviews suggest that Winterbottom, never a frivolous film-maker, is perplexed by them, and perhaps half persuaded.

The songwriter Bobby Troup ("Route 66") -- who became her second husband -- heard her sing when she was drunk at a party and spent a year and a half persuading her to try it again in public.

It took Ms. Esphahani a year and a half to persuade him to move his operations into Safdico's office on Fifth Avenue, which he did in 2002.

David and Sherri Bergmann spent two and half years persuading Beverly Farms' town fathers to permit a restaurant, opening the doors of their reincarnated Cadillac-Packard dealership in March 1999.

Charbel el Fakhri has been leading an effort over more than a decade and half to persuade farmers to abandon cannabis cultivation in the northern Bekaa valley, Lebanon, and embrace growing grapes.

It took her a year and a half to persuade insurance companies to support the project.

He preached to the choir but never persuaded half of the country of the merits of his agenda.

Then, Mr. Jacobo persuaded half a dozen more people to move into the building until after the visit.

He has now persuaded half a dozen of the world's best business schools to pitch ideas for the foundation project.

He put a school board member on his payroll, managed to infiltrate the school building even after he was banned from it and persuaded half of Locke's teachers to vote to split from the district.

(There is even progress on that front: a new, more affordable Wal-Mart health plan has persuaded half of its 1.4 million workers to sign up for coverage in 2008, up from 45percentt several years ago).