But he and his writing partner, Mr. Affleck, did eventually win Mr. Van Sant over, persuading him to take on a screenplay of theirs called "Good Will Hunting".
Finn obliged with two wickets in two balls in the fourth over, persuading Shane Watson to edge to third slip and Ed Cowan to drive sloppily, unthinkingly at his first ball to second.
Drawing on her own experience and the stories of her father-in-law, who had been a doctor in Lancashire, she wrote A Likely Lad, the story of bookish Willy Overs persuading his father to allow him to continue his education rather than work in the insurance business.
A second rain delay, which left Sri Lanka - the World Twenty20 champions - needing 166 off 18.3 overs, persuaded Tillakaratne Dilshan to slash Jordan's first ball of a new spell to third man.
They accuse her of suspending very young children over and over to persuade parents to change schools before state testing begins in third grade.
Mr. Harris joked of having formed a support group called Alcoholics Unanimous that worked this way: "If you don't feel like a drink, you ring another member and he comes over to persuade you".
The realisation that his England days were over helped persuade him to switch allegiance, a process that has also seen England batsman Ed Joyce resurrect his Ireland career.
Each approach will be tailored to the particular agent, or prospective agent and over time persuade them to work with SIS".
So the best anyone can do, so far as I know, is to get a U.S.-formatted DVD sent over or persuade a PBS station to air the program in the United States.
might well say, 'Pay these guys — there is money left over.' " Persuading the holders of Greek foreign-law bonds was always going to be tricky.
