Sentence examples for persuade life from inspiring English sources

As a member of the American Society of Magazine Photographers Committeee to End Discrimination against Black Photographers, his attempt to persuade Life magazine to hire more black photographers ended in acrimony when the magazine's only photographer of that description, Gordon Parks, declined to endorse the action.

People who mistake loneliness for a calling must be gently persuaded that life in a religious community is probably not what they are really looking for, Sister Ann said.

Nor are they persuaded when life expectancy tables tell them they stand a good chance of doing just that.

I know you can't persuade someone that life is worth living when they genuinely believe it isn't.

Or at least to try to persuade myself that life can still be worth living, even in shadow of inescapable knowledge.

Yet no one seems to be trying to persuade her that life is worthwhile.

American commanders say providing security is a good first step but that it is vital that electricity and water be quickly restored in order to persuade Iraqis that life is returning to normal and that the United States is committed to restoring the city.

I share this not for sensationalism or sympathy, or to hold your attention for the next 9 minutes as desperate as I am to do so, but to persuade you that no life, not even a successful life, perhaps especially not a successful life, is lived as an unbroken string of successes.

His view of abortion as a moral wrong but an individual right is unlikely to persuade the pro-life wing of the Party that he would not appoint another David Souter to the Supreme Court.

These interviews also mark the moment that "Aló Presidente" finally folds into a house of mirrors: forcing citizens to play the role of engaged viewers while appearing on the show in order to persuade other real-life viewers that the citizens are engaged.

But the way Ellis talks her captor into backing down, while seemingly touching something deep inside him, tells us a lot about her: to save her own life, she needs to persuade another human being that life is worth living -- fast.