Sentence examples for he failed to persuade from inspiring English sources

He failed to persuade investors that this would work.

That had a certain logic, even if he failed to persuade Spaniards of it.

And he failed to persuade Congress to create a national gun registry after the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy.

But he failed to persuade the British leader to sever ties with the Palestinian president, Yasser Arafat.

When Nixon returned from Washington, he failed to persuade even the board of an apartment building to approve his residency.

But he failed to persuade a sufficient number of colleagues to go along with his proposal, and the I.M.U.

Is not his duty to press his views privately on politicians, to resign if he fails to persuade them, and to keep silent in public?

But if he fails to persuade Mr. Mandelblit to back down, he would become the first sitting prime minister in Israel to face criminal prosecution.

Not only did he fail to persuade Mr Kocharian of the plan's wisdom, but the prime minister then used the president's support for it to bring him down.

Mr. Roumain's interests are diverse, his taste for collaboration admirable, but he fails to persuade us that his collaborators belong alongside one another and that his interests jell.

But even if he fails to persuade him, there are other allies who would still respond to his leadership - even if this means opposing the US until such time as it no longer has an oilman for president.