"You sold it so beautifully, I already know what I want — apart from you, of course!" That morning, Blair and Loomba had made the rounds at the United Nations, whose delegations they hope to persuade to recognize each June 23rd — that's the day, in 1954, that Loomba's mother lost her husband — as International Widows Day.
Tito persuaded Khrushchev to recognize Yugoslavia's independence.
Ravi Raju Tatapudi, a leading nephrologist in the area, worked for years to persuade to government to recognize and take action against the disease.
This principle has made it difficult for journalists to persuade courts to recognize a special privilege to protect them from testifying.
Mr. Tamarin, the union president, voiced frustration that the pressure campaign had not succeeded in persuading Restaurant Associates to recognize the union through a card check.
If this book cannot persuade you to recognize all that is good about musicals, you are either a hopeless curmudgeon or a Tony Awards voter.
For some countries that means persuading governments to recognize vulnerable groups often kept in the shadows, among them gay men and sex workers.
Her military-backed replacement, Nawaz Sharif, extended the first diplomatic recognition to the Taliban in May 1997 and traveled to other Muslim countries in an attempt to persuade them to recognize the student militia.
A region of Somalia that broke away a decade ago voted on whether to remain independent, another step, the government there hopes, toward persuading outsiders to recognize Somaliland as a separate nation.
Mr. Stallkamp was instrumental in persuading Chrysler to recognize People of Diversity, and he oversaw the negotiation of Chrysler's pattern-setting labor contract with the U.A.W. before leaving in a conflict with Daimler's German leaders, Ms. Walters said.
