HALFWAY through the first episode of the new MTV reality show "Gone Too Far," the star, Adam Goldstein, better known as DJ AM, is shown speaking to a heroin addict named Amy, a 23-year-old from Philadelphia he is trying to persuade to enter rehab.
I recall one man whom I was desperately trying to persuade to enter treatment.
Not that anyone needs persuading to enter.
Military experts say Namibia was persuaded to enter the fighting in Congo by Zimbabwe.
It was after that meeting with him that I was persuaded to enter representative politics, as a Tory.
In 1992, he was confronted by family members, friends and associates in an intervention and persuaded to enter the Betty Ford substance-abuse clinic in Rancho Mirage, Calif.
According to Mr. Spano, at least 20 men from the Court Street drop-in shelter have been persuaded to enter the county system.
In dystopian films, the hero usually starts out as a rube who wants no part of the rebellion, but is finally persuaded to enter the lists.
Now, it claims to have reprocessed enough plutonium for five or six more.In August, Kim Jong Il, North Korea's president, was persuaded to enter into six-way talks in Beijing with America, China, South Korea, Japan and Russia.
The real problem, it seems to me, is one of access early on – and until more black dancers can be persuaded to enter ballet in the first place, things are unlikely to change.
Finally, under international pressure, the Palestinian president, Mahmoud Abbas, was persuaded to enter a four-month period of shuttle diplomacy, led by Mitchell and due to start in the coming days.
