Sentence examples for have prevailed upon from inspiring English sources

I could not have prevailed upon a more ardent rescuer.

If, as Cain claims, the association's internal investigation largely exonerated him, the campaign could have prevailed upon his former colleagues to make this clear to the reporters.

As we have seen, governments in the United States and Europe have prevailed upon telecommunications companies to hand over user data.

Artistic observation had first to have prevailed upon itself far enough to see even in the horrible and apparently merely repulsive that which is and which, with everything else that is, is valid.

Earlier this week we saw climate deniers in his cabinet and White House appeared to have prevailed upon the president to the point where he won't even confirm that climate change is not a hoax.

Until Tuesday, the only real beneficiaries of the Baucus-Camp crusade appeared to be Washington lobbyists and public relations professionals who have prevailed upon corporate clients to form a bewildering array of "grass-roots" tax reform coalitions: the Coalition for Fair Effective Tax Rates, the RATE Coalition, and the Alliance for Competitive Taxation, to name a few.

But the general has prevailed upon Mr. Armitage to join him at the State Department, associates said.

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.

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.