Sentence examples for persuading for from inspiring English sources

It would not take a lot of persuading for the public to blame Congress and – as Obama recently pointed out – voting is the best revenge.

"It took a good bit of persuading for me to try them again this summer," she says, "as I was so in mummy mode.

I was the only person in my entire faculty who wanted to add an exchange year to my course, so it took a bit of persuading for the course director to let me go.

And, since we're dealing with the least productive congress is U.S. history, privacy advocates could be persuading for a long time.

It took little persuading for her to agree to focus on a co-op or condominium instead.

They say their "Team2015" includes thousands of volunteers primed and ready to tour all those key seats with a charm offensive of their own - persuading, for example, black and minority ethnic voters running small businesses that the Conservatives are more business-friendly than Labour.

I saw the Wild Bunch version first, and it had me persuaded for several reasons.

"There's nowhere to go for information [on the vulva], so someone can easily be persuaded for surgery..

The reader reminds me, reminds us all, that, "It has even been known that someone is persuaded, for instance to cast a vote, without being convinced".

With his ever supportive wife Pat and their children he moved to work in Lancashire, and in 1983 he was persuaded – for his hospital responsibilities were very demanding – by Jack McCann, the Labour MP for Rochdale, to stand for Rochdale council.

"The army were persuaded, for political reasons, to follow a Beau Geste strategy – putting our people out in forward forts largely because the politicians were persuaded by [Afghan president Hamid] Karzai that this was where his supporters and family lived.