Sentence examples for nearly persuaded from inspiring English sources

The next morning, her brother, learning that he had been outplayed, dashed into the streets and nearly persuaded a mob to rise against the usurpers.

Coach Paul Pasqualoni of Syracuse, who nearly persuaded Vick to go there, could only shake his head, just like the tacklers who miss Vick.

'I nearly persuaded David Warner (who now lives in LA) to join us but he felt he'd been away from the stage too long.

The Saudis, at the head of the Gulf Co-operation Council, had thrice nearly persuaded Mr Saleh to hand over within a month to a vice-president who, after another two months, would then oversee elections.

Before coming to the Supreme Court in 1979, Mr. Rummel had nearly persuaded a federal appeals court to overturn his sentence as cruel and unusual punishment under the Eighth Amendment.

Relations with Armenia -- always tense -- worsened in recent months after Armenian-Americans nearly persuaded Congress to declare the mass killing of Armenians by the Ottoman Empire in 1915 a genocide.

Others are not nearly so persuaded.

Olusegun Obasanjo fired his education minister and accused the president of the Senate, Adolphus Wabara, of taking a bribe after an investigation disclosed that the minister had paid nearly $400,000 to persuade lawmakers to pass his department's bloated budget.

At a rally at the University of Montreal, he persuaded nearly 1,000 people to sign a manifesto supporting the goals of the Front for the Liberation of Quebec.

Student anti-sweatshop groups persuaded nearly 50 universities to join the consortium as a way to monitor factories, in the United States and abroad, that make apparel under license for colleges.

A startling 64% said that American firms will find it harder to pay high wages and benefits.The survey is from Harvard Business School, which in October persuaded nearly 10,000 of its 78,000 alumni to complete a questionnaire.