Sentence examples for not to persuade from inspiring English sources

Their purpose, however, is not to persuade the Episcopal Church but to replace it.

Mansplaining, patronising and hectoring, he trolled the questioners, seeking not to persuade but pummel.

They compete fiercely with each other, not to persuade merchants to accept their cards, but to convince banks to issue them.

"It took a lot of discussion, not to persuade Peter and Dan but to be clear that we were going to do it properly.

This is, of course, a hopelessly subjective judgment and I seek not to persuade you of the rightness of my position, simply of its sincerity.

The objective is not to persuade others how the group feels about the candidate, or to reveal whether the group is for or against this candidate.

I do not remember any case when we did not manage to persuade a patient to apply.

"If I can't persuade people at this point, I'm not going to persuade them with another book," he said.

I'm not trying to persuade you.

But he knows that's not enough to persuade them.

But that was not enough to persuade Ford, apparently.