Sentence examples for rather than persuade from inspiring English sources

These tend to antagonise MPs rather than persuade them.

Under Baghdadi, it raced for territory in Syria and Iraq, and was willing to coerce, rather than persuade, Sunnis to join its realm.

As Daniel Mendelsohn might point out, the traits that make her a lively critic — her irascibility and unsparing eye, her predilection to pronounce rather than persuade — doom her as a personal essayist.

Indeed, in Europe, where people still think of themselves as patients rather than as health-care consumers, the sort of promotional frenzy that has enveloped the United States would probably repel rather than persuade.

The motivation to entertain consumers, rather than persuade them through traditional advertising, stems from a changing media landscape in which consumers increasingly avoid, tune out or fast-forward through marketing messages.

As a qualified enthusiast of No Child Left Behind, or what the cognoscenti call N.C.L.B., I am hoping that these setbacks will nudge the discussion in a healthier direction rather than persuade the administration to cut and run.

But the book's polemical punch gets lost in layers of unnecessary padding and repetition, so that by the end the reader is exasperated rather than persuaded.

Rather than persuading the public that immigrants weren't to blame for low wages, the Democrats sounded like they saw nothing wrong with declining living standards.

Often families were angered rather than persuaded when Fenayrou pointed to physical differences -- height, age, teeth, missing scars and the like -- between Mangin and their missing relative.

What I don't support is the overkill, the illiberal clamour for outlawing her, rather than persuading and pressuring Mohan and Rupert Murdoch to call time on her outdated presence.

Rather than persuading his customers to make negative bets on Abacus, Mr. Egol kept most of these wagers for his firm, said five former Goldman employees who spoke on the condition of anonymity.