Sentence examples for persuade as from inspiring English sources

To win simple majorities in both houses, Mr. Obama and congressional leaders are going to have to persuade as many as a half-dozen senators and about two-dozen House members to cast a tough vote.

It will be necessary and possible to persuade as much as possible of the 1percentthatat working on everyone's behalf is more in their interest than is the profit-power nexus that they have been taught trumps everything else on earth.

The faux-dangerous contemporary dancing in a sinister nightclub doesn't persuade as the Edwardian period dances do.

We have to persuade as many people as possible to use their vote to get a Labour majority.

("Incentivize" means "encourage" or "persuade," as in "In order to meet our phase 1 deliverable, we must incentivize the workforce with monetary rewards").

Its goal is to persuade as many wealthy individuals and foundations as possible to shore up certain services the city can no longer afford to provide.

Doubtless, they were persuaded – as was I – by the need to repel what appeared to be an imminent threat from Muammar Gaddafi to slaughter the civilians of Benghazi.

People love to be persuaded as long as it fits with their own worldview.

Even Thurgood Marshall's victories were built on decades of unglamorous labor by hundreds of others organizing, educating, and persuading as well as litigating.

So besides the immediate goal of thwarting Trump (and the GOP) in their destructive agenda, there is the longer-term goal of persuading as many as possible of those Americans who supported Trump to withdraw that support.

Another goal should be to persuade Pakistan, as well as India, to sign the nuclear test ban treaty.