The purpose of the trip to Trinidad and Tobago was simple: Mandela hoped to win Jack Warner's support, persuading him and other officials of FIFA, soccer's ruling body, to hold the 2010 World Cup in South Africa.
Sometimes the patron's promise of support persuades the client to act recklessly, and then the patron ends up backing the recklessness because its own credibility is at stake.
A group of civic leaders, headed by Sewell Avery & Elmer T. Stevens pledged him support and persuaded him to undertake the job.
With Mr. Wynter's support, Ms. Ricciardi persuaded the City Department of Housing Preservation and Development to send an inspector to her apartment last winter to see how conditions had deteriorated.
This is because David Cameron, with the Queen's tacit support, has persuaded the leaders of the sixteen Commonwealth nations that recognize the British monarch as head of state to agree to make changes to the rules of royal succession.
"I was considering not getting back on and the support had persuaded me to get back up and do it," she said then, adding that the online Twitter abuse had left her at the lowest ebb of her career.
"I was considering not getting back on and the support had persuaded me to get back up and do it," she said, adding that a combination of the two disqualifications and the online Twitter abuse, understood to include threats of sexual violence, had left her at the lowest ebb of her career.
Reinvigorated with renewed support, he persuaded the owners to allow him to put sudden-death overtime into the playoffs.
Banza, who was then commander of the Camp Kassaï military base in northeast Bangui, offered Bokassa his support and persuaded the still-worried commander-in-chief to carry out the coup.
