He had to be persuaded — "over and over and over again" — to allow the editors to put the focus on his fractured relationship with his father and to record the wistful first-person narration that sets the film's tone.
In Britain many a small building society (a mutually owned mortgage bank) has been persuaded over the years to absorb one of its smaller competitors.
But there will also be Americans influenced by the teachings of John Paul II, who have been persuaded over the years to support Republicans mainly on the pro-life issue.
The first national campaign to persuade the over 50s to practice safe sex is to be launched next week, after figures showed an alarming rise in sexually transmitted infections among older people.
Surely this explains why Monsanto and its allies have fought the labeling of genetically modified food so vigorously since 1992, when the industry managed to persuade the Food and Drug Administration — over the objection of its own scientists — that the new crops were "substantially equivalent" to the old and so did not need to be labeled, much less regulated.
With single-minded determination and the backing of the United States, he reduced the FARC guerrillas from a mortal threat to Colombian democracy to a scattered irritant and persuaded over 20,000 of their brutal opponents, the right-wing paramilitaries, to disarm.
Nonetheless, preservationists are clinging to the idea that Mr. Wagner might be persuaded to turn over the contract to them for an undecided sum.
The Italian-born widow of Rajiv Gandhi, a fourth-generation leader of Congress and of India who was murdered in 1991, Sonia was persuaded to take over the party in 1998.
Assurances of complete confidentiality, and the promise of an e-mailed copy of the final department rankings, persuaded over 6500 students to air their opinions between April and July 1999.
It's very much a long-shot and Greg Dyke's words that he could be "persuaded" over a bid speaks a lot of the lengthy pre-conditions that would need to be fulfilled first.
In Muslim communities in the Netherlands, recruiters have persuaded over 100 young men and women (some of them under-age) to fight with Islamic extremist groups against the governments of Bashar Assad and Nouri al-Maliki.
