Sentence examples for it has persuaded from inspiring English sources

Perhaps most important for its long-term prospects, it has persuaded a third of its workers to accept severance payments.Whether or not Ford manages to reduce its costs by enough to put it back on track will depend largely on Alan Mulally, who was recently appointed chief executive officer.

It has persuaded its users to voluntarily share a great deal of information about themselves: who they are, where they live, whether they follow basketball or opera, even what their children look like.

In court papers, the Justice Department acknowledges that this position reflects a "change in governmental policy," and it has persuaded some judges to accept its arguments, most recently scoring a victory in the federal appeals court in Philadelphia.

The Conservancy defends its partnerships with loggers by arguing that it has persuaded them to adopt more conservation-friendly methods -- reduced clear-cutting, fewer access roads and wider buffer zones along rivers and streams.

It has persuaded the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals to accept its so-called McQuatters Formula, which compares known credit-card tips with reported cash tips, then makes an adjustment to reflect the higher levels of "stiffing" among the cash customers, and ends up with an estimate for unreported cash tips.

The Financial Reporting Council will today announce that it has persuaded 68 organisations to sign up publicly to its Stewardship Code, the initiative it launched last year following criticism of institutional investors' failure to rein in the excesses of banks and others during the financial crisis.

If the company went under, the bank would be fine, but the people it had persuaded to buy its stock would not.

The UN said it had persuaded Syria to allow its teams to check on humanitarian conditions after the UN secretary general, Ban Ki-moon, personally called the country's president, Bashar al-Assad.

The city, pursuing its long-cherished dream of turning the parkway into a museum row, recently announced that it had persuaded the Calder Foundation to move its sculptures into a new parkway museum to be designed by Tadao Ando, the Japanese architect.

Within 18 months it had persuaded the necessary 15 countries to ratify the Protocol.

It had persuaded him, as a student, to concentrate on literature.