Sentence examples for persuading from inspiring English sources

Speaking to the Guardian ahead of this week's half-yearly meeting of the World Bank in Washington DC, Kim said he had been impressed by the energy of the divestment campaigns on university campuses in the US, aimed at persuading investors to remove their funds from fossil fuel companies.

Perhaps Bono, who has spent years persuading the world that there's an activist inside of each and every one of us, should set aside his pride and give the protesters in the crowd a cheer.

His prediction that his coalition would take power in September 2008 by persuading MPs from the government coalition smacked of hubris and the takeover failed to materialise.

But the coalition, which has ensnared the country in its homemade austerity trap, has done a brilliant job until now in bringing out the masochistic streak in the British character, and persuading people that all these budget cuts are necessary.

What will make the difference between a merely decent election result and victory is their success or failure in persuading the voters that they mean it when they say that we are all in this together.

He called on Moscow to uphold an earlier cease-fire agreement, which calls for withdrawing its support for the separatists and persuading them to release hostages.

Amin had said he would strongly defend his conduct after the Mail on Sunday published a video in which he said he would take the credit for persuading the EDL to call off a march on the eve of the general election against the building of the mosque.

But it is seen as good news by the estate agency which has quoted it approvingly in a marketing brochure aimed at persuading developers to invest in a similar project, the proposed 291 luxury apartment scheme at Vauxhall Cross, on the south side of the Thames.

They also made it more expensive for banks to park money with the ECB – cutting the deposit rate, which was already negative, from -0.1% to -0.2% in the hope of persuading banks to lend more to businesses and consumers.

The development of a nationwide network of Community Learning Champions (CLCs) is considered crucial to persuading some of the most disadvantaged and underachieving adults to return to learning in order to enhance their lives.

Persuading China to loosen its currency peg to the dollar may sound like mission impossible.