Israel says that only decisive Palestinian action against violence can persuade it to suspend its operations.
He did persuade it to abandon its formal "equidistance" between the Conservatives and Labour, and to adopt a stance of "constructive opposition" to the new government.
In mid-March, environmental groups and beekeepers sued the Environmental Protection Agency to persuade it to withdraw its approval of two of the most widely used neonicotinoids.
Bill Hemelt, Matrixx's president, said company officials would meet with the F.D.A. to try to persuade it to reverse its decision.
He called on the British, Irish and American governments to apply "maximum pressure" on the republican movement to persuade it to dismantle its arsenal.
The worm requires a powerful purging medicine to persuade it to leave its cozy cave and exit the gut into the light.
Its paramount concern regarding North Korea is to preserve stability, more than to punish it for truculent behavior or persuade it to give up its nuclear weapons.
In June, the negotiating countries offered Tehran a package of incentives designed to persuade it to give up its enrichment activities.
Is there nothing that President Obama could have offered China to persuade it to not devalue its currency?
The Russians are also courting the country, hoping to persuade it to ship more of its oil and gas northwards.
Even so, Mr Putin used its sense of vulnerability to persuade it to apply for membership of the Eurasian union, his pet project.
