He had to be persuaded — "over and over and over again" — to allow the editors to put the focus on his fractured relationship with his father and to record the wistful first-person narration that sets the film's tone.
Clegg says he became persuaded over time that accepting some Syrian refugees would be a good thing.
In Britain many a small building society (a mutually owned mortgage bank) has been persuaded over the years to absorb one of its smaller competitors.
With single-minded determination and the backing of the United States, he reduced the FARC guerrillas from a mortal threat to Colombian democracy to a scattered irritant and persuaded over 20,000 of their brutal opponents, the right-wing paramilitaries, to disarm.
In Muslim communities in the Netherlands, recruiters have persuaded over 100 young men and women (some of them under-age) to fight with Islamic extremist groups against the governments of Bashar Assad and Nouri al-Maliki.
"All these traits can be found in your [speech]." Ashton cites the fast-growing and UN-backed divestment campaign, which has persuaded over 180 organisations to sell off their investments in fossil fuel companies, as a threat to Shell.
It was an improbable choice — a professor had recently pronounced Wang to be the worst actor in the class — but Jia liked Wang's low-key approach, and he rounded out the cast with other nonprofessionals, including one guy who had to be persuaded over a bottle of Erguotou, China's cheap grain alcohol.
Heather Smith of Rock the Vote, which aims to get young people to the polls, says that her organisation, having persuaded over 1m young people to register in 2008, should be able to get many of them to vote again this year.But Mr Cook dismisses all this as wishful thinking.
It's very much a long-shot and Greg Dyke's words that he could be "persuaded" over a bid speaks a lot of the lengthy pre-conditions that would need to be fulfilled first.
Assurances of complete confidentiality, and the promise of an e-mailed copy of the final department rankings, persuaded over 6500 students to air their opinions between April and July 1999.
