Sentence examples for time persuaded from inspiring English sources

Then Annika Billstrom, Stockholm's mayor at the time, persuaded residents to endure a trial period before making up their minds.

This time, persuaded of broad voter furor, Mr. Tasini believes he has a legitimate chance, with his progressive views and a résumé of never having held political office.

Juan Pablo Pérez Alfonso, Venezuela's oil minister at the time, persuaded four nations from the Middle East to join OPEC at a meeting in Baghdad in September 1960.

Edward Walker, on the other hand, began working for " Trading Spaces" as a sewing coordinator but in time persuaded the producers to let him be a designer.

A specialist on the electric telegraph, he laid an underground line for the Prussian army in 1847 and, at the same time, persuaded a young mechanic named Johann Georg Halske to start a telegraph factory with him in Berlin.

After acrimonious negotiations marked by union infighting during the N.B.A. lockout in 2011, Derek Fisher, the union's president at the time, persuaded its executive committee to authorize an independent audit of Hunter's business practices.

As a result, Mason has had a hard time persuading Canadian shareholders to support it.

He will have a hard time persuading a skeptical Congress and an equally skeptical American public.

But Yahoo has had a difficult time persuading entrepreneurs to join.

Nasir spends time persuading parents against sending their children to all-Muslim schools.

The Knicks might have a hard time persuading Smith to sign with them.