Sentence examples for persuaded the first from inspiring English sources

She kept visiting the campus anyway, and persuaded the first black man she met there to talk to her.

Part ego, part curiosity persuaded the first group, like most others, to play from the back tees, the course is listed at 7,468 yards.

Two months later John Allen persuaded the first Congress of the Republic of Texas, in session at Columbia, to move to his town, named for the first elected president of Texas, Sam Houston.

Somalia provides the best example: television coverage of starving people persuaded the first Bush administration to intervene, while a single 2.5-second shot of a dead American being dragged through the streets, played over and over again, caused the Clinton administration to withdraw.

Once a startup has persuaded the first angel or VC to invest, it's significantly easier to get others to join the round.

Alfred Nobel, a chemist, was skeptical of the project, but Robert persuaded the third brother, Ludwig, to come to Baku and help.

Suffice to say that Onodo's two remaining brothers-in-arms met their ends over the next 20 years, and he was only discovered and persuaded the second world war was over in 1974.

Four days later she persuaded the second person to sign up.

In that case, persuading the first consumers to purchase the technology may be difficult.

But its second task was to see if it could persuade the first stage of its Falcon 9 rocket to re-enter the Earth's atmosphere, right itself and land upright on a robotic ocean-going landing pad.

A handful of those men later went to Minneapolis, the official said, and helped persuade the first large group from the Twin Cities to leave for Somalia starting in late 2007.