Sentence examples for prevail upon him from inspiring English sources

For all of our daughters and sons, we must now prevail upon him to protect the Grand Canyon before we lose this historic chance.

The writer should ask the co-op board if it has had any past dealings with the owner of the building next door, and can prevail upon him or her to advise the tenants that such actions violate their leases.

Of course, she did not do this; the personal letters are instead filled with concerns over how hard Nabokov is working, how difficult it is to prevail upon him to take a rest.

Dennis prevails upon him to ante up.

But Altidore and other AZ players prevailed upon him not to stop the game.

When her analysis was completed she prevailed upon him to give up Polly & come back home.

The other Beatles prevailed upon him and a Beatles version was coupled with Let It Be.

Mr. Watkins led the rocker life until his wife prevailed upon him in 2002 to change careers.

As the tension grew, Bronfman wanted to leave, but Cooper and Blavatnik prevailed upon him to stay.

But Marshall stood aside as deputy Senate president after Shorten prevailed upon him not to contest the role.

"I remember thinking, what do you tell him?" It was Soldinger, one of the few guiding forces in Gore's life then, who finally prevailed upon him.