Sentence examples for intention to persuade from inspiring English sources

Probably that was Mitchell's intention: to persuade us to love the world that would produce a man like Rhett.

In the UK, Tony Blair has outlined his intention to persuade the US, India, China and Brazil to sign up to a framework to come into effect when agreements made under the Kyoto protocol end, in 2012.

Aim to persuade the audience.

There has been widespread speculation that American officials like General Dempsey are sent here to get to the bottom of Israeli intentions or to persuade the Israelis not to take what the United States regards as rash action.

"I have no intention of attempting to persuade business leaders to take anyone who's got an MBA.

Although the sides agreed that their ministers of foreign affairs and defense would meet again in six months, the talks did little to dispel Russian concerns over American intentions on missile defense, or to persuade the Kremlin to cancel its threat to suspend compliance with a treaty covering the array of conventional forces in Europe.

CBS and Warner Brothers executives personally met with Mr. Sheen at his home in recent weeks and sought to persuade him of their intention to help him conquer his addictions.

It was difficult for me then, and would be even more difficult now, to persuade readers that my intentions were actually moral.

Mr Murdoch's task is to persuade shareholders that his intentions are more honourable than that analogy implies.In contrast with News Corp's sally for Dow Jones, many of the thorny details of the proposed tie-up between Reuters and Thomson, the second- and third-largest providers of financial data respectively, have already been worked out.

The target would announce the Bank's intention to create inflation; printing money would help to persuade people it was serious.The Bank is thwarting both changes.

Its stated intention was "attrition through enforcement," and it was full of provisions designed to persuade unauthorized immigrants to leave the state, or not to enter it.