Sentence examples for has been prevailed from inspiring English sources

Now that global bank Barclays is in the spotlight and Whitbread has been prevailed on to spin off cafe chain Costa Coffee, both excitement and concern are growing.

Virtual planning has been prevailed as a method used to evaluate risks and costs before the concrete realization of production processes.

Even though State Department representatives have been touring the world for the last three years in an attempt to relocate some of these men, the only third country that has been prevailed upon to accept any of them is Albania, which took eight former prisoners in 2006.

Almost always, the holdouts have been prevailed upon to toe the line in the end.

People had been "prevailed upon to take their evidence out", he said.

If there is any man in history who could not have been prevailed upon to strip in front of cheering women, that man is A. E. Housman.

They take place in vast mausoleum sets in which dozens upon dozens of nude porn stars have been prevailed upon to romp listlessly in long-shot.

I wish the President had been prevailed upon to tell us whether it is a situation of two wars, against different opponents and for different purposes, that we are proposing to wage".

He was a Bostonian, but he had been prevailed upon to move out and practice in Norwood, Massachusetts, and he and my mother had been living there only a few months when I was born.

It is hard not to conclude that Kelly had been prevailed upon by her Fox bosses to make nice with a man who had continually been insulting her for nine months in public statements and on Twitter.

"I... have been prevailed upon to do so on the grounds that some at least of their contents may come in handy when some future Gibbon is doing research work for his 'Decline and Fall of the British Empire'".