Sentence examples for not only persuaded from inspiring English sources

The government has not only persuaded Microsoft and Google to establish research centres in China.

"They were not only persuaded but almost as supportive as liberals when they perceived the environment as a moral issue".

Mr. Frost not only persuaded Mr. Nixon to end a self-imposed silence, he also extracted an apology from the former president to the American people.

By sticking to the centre, Mr Schwarzenegger has not only persuaded extremists on both sides to stop feuding, but has also rekindled a tolerant, Reaganesque brand of western conservatism.

He said that Mr. Wallace had not only persuaded Jack Ruby to recruit Lee Harvey Oswald, but that Mr. Wallace had also fired a shot in Dallas that hit the president.

Wolfe Tone's An Argument on Behalf of the Catholics of Ireland (1791) not only persuaded its target audience, Belfast Presbyterians, to support the repeal of the anti-Catholic Penal Laws something for which Burke had long argued but did so with verve and wit.

If he is to win this time, he must not only persuade black voters, around 30% of the electorate and overwhelmingly Democratic, to turn out, but he must win some Republican votes too.

In the meantime, he must not only persuade staff to work for no pay but also keep the holding company's major creditors – Aviva Investments and Barclays – on side while the complex deal is negotiated.

But to get any of them off the ground they must not only persuade the NRC of the safety of their designs, but also convince potential creditors that there will be no repeat of the financial meltdowns of the 1970s and 1980s.

After discovering newspaper clippings and Jones's letters regarding these matches, Hunter, the law-school hire, not only persuades the United States Golf Association to assemble a Beau Stedman exhibit in its Golf House headquarters in Far Hills, N.J., but he also uncovers evidence clearing the by now vanished golfer of Mrs. Gladstone's murder.

She not only persuades the reader that the UDHR, though based on earlier human rights thinking traceable back to Magna Carta, is in truth a new beginning, but it exposes the arguments from the political right –who cast the Human Rights Act as inconsistent with core human rights principles and values – as thin and, frankly, misleading.