Sentence examples for strive to persuade from inspiring English sources

But counties, cities, teachers unions and Democrats who oppose the plan say they will strive to persuade voters to reject the proposed amendment.

In particular, the new council, based as it is in the east, must widen its composition and strive to persuade Tripolitanians in the west that a decent new order is being built.

Designers strive to persuade users to stay on their web page instead of leaving it for another.

It is to continue to strive to persuade others to embrace their views -- while at the same time not making things worse.

"Right up until that time, police officers were striving to persuade Mr Moat to give himself up peacefully.

Some at the convention will be independent inventors striving to persuade big toy companies to look at their ideas.

In campaign after campaign, Republican candidates vowed to lower taxes (mostly for the wealthy), while Democrats strove to persuade voters they weren't going to raise them.

In recent years, though, many insurers, striving to persuade doctors to join their health networks, held back on any further cuts and maintained fairly attractive fees and generous terms for doctors and hospitals.

church encapsulates the pressure the senator is experiencing from two distinct worlds — the political and the spiritual — as he strives to persuade his colleagues that they should vote to legalize same-sex marriage.

Since then, however, Russian officials have striven to persuade global decision-makers that they could be trusted in coming Olympic competitions, volunteering to go beyond standard eligibility requirements and to send only athletes who have not been disciplined for drug use.

Now, 12 years after the devastating blaze, an Oakland citizens group is striving to persuade voters here to pay to maintain a program to control vegetation before it becomes a lethal hazard.