Sentence examples for need much persuading from inspiring English sources

I didn't need much persuading.

The adults of Mirwais did not need much persuading.

"When we recommended the mandate of the intervention brigade, the security council did not need much persuading.

As he pushed open the door with one hand and held back his dog with the other, Joe Wilbert did not seem to need much persuading.

And with some fearful of being swept from Westminster in a gooey torrent of Cameroonian charm, Labour MPs with slim majorities wouldn't need much persuading.

You can imagine that they don't need much persuading.

Andrew Strauss, Michael Vaughan, Nasser Hussain, Alec Stewart and Mike Atherton all resigned, but that happened after failed World Cup campaigns at a time when they would not have needed much persuading to go.

Gramm, who thinks Wall Street a "holy place", was the main cheerleader in Congress for financial deregulation, putting pressure on the Clinton administration to ease restrictions – not that it needed much persuading.

It's been claimed that his testimony swayed the jurors into sending two old women to the gallows, though a town that had been caught up a few years earlier in the murderous frenzy of Matthew Hopkins, witchfinder-general, hardly needed much persuading.

Neither the French nor the British needed much persuading, but the Americans needed to be convinced that Hitchcock was a great director rather than a minor entertainer.

"At that time," he said, "people objected to the fact that I treated Hitchcock as a major artist". Neither the French nor the British needed much persuading, but the Americans needed to be convinced that Hitchcock was a great director rather than a minor entertainer.