Sentence examples for persuade to be from inspiring English sources

If I didn't know him, he would be the person I would be trying to persuade to be in it.

He wasn't "running this game," as he told his paid lackey, who was the only person CBS was able to persuade to be paid to visit Voldetool in Brazil in last week's episode.

Conceding that the performance was a "catastrophe", Boulez nevertheless insisted that he did in fact participate in the piano rehearsals, together with Stravinsky, whom he had tried in vain to persuade to be more firm with the singers.

Can we be persuaded to be irrationally exuberant?

At the interview he was persuaded to be a pilot.

Name withheld, Sheffield A. Could you be persuaded to be a little less independent?

If companies can be persuaded to be more careful, things would improve a lot.

Can two of my favorite writers not be persuaded to be friends?

He didn't, but was then persuaded to be interested himself.

The US, like Britain and many other western nations, is simply too powerful to be persuaded to be held to the standards it typically expects of others.

Those who refuse to leave Palestinian territory may, if the Palestinians can be persuaded to be flexible, be able to stay under Palestinian authority.