Sentence examples for upon persuading from inspiring English sources

The legal opportunity depended, however, upon persuading the defendants to go along with an unusual strategy.

Among the onlookers at the San Blas festivities was an American, Joe Kissack, a forty-four-year-old former television executive from Atlanta who had arrived earlier that week, intent upon persuading the fishermen that he was the best person to help them tell — and sell — their tale throughout the world.

Moses said: "Even those who argue for fiercer sanctions to persuade the press to submit to the system they advocate must recognise that any system which depends upon agreement and not compulsion does depend upon persuasion, persuading the press that it is in their own interests to agree, and not upon coercion".

Yet for Mr. Protic (pronounced PROH-titch), a lifelong anti-Communist and opposition leader, selecting new carpets was a welcome diversion from the diplomatic task immediately thrust upon him: persuading American policymakers that his government was cooperating with efforts to prosecute Mr. Milosevic and other former officials at the war crimes tribunal at The Hague.

This component of the deal is contingent upon the N.B.A. persuading cable systems to provide the network with 13 million subscribers at a monthly fee of 50 cents each, which is expensive by today's standards.

The scheme depended upon the scammers persuading banks that they had a legitimate business so that they could secure merchant accounts through which the credit card charges were routed, the suit says; false storefronts were set up on the Web, pretending to sell electronics or office supplies, in case a bank investigated.

Another of the young women he had befriended, Mandy Rice-Davies, was leant upon and persuaded to implicate him.

Now a nation's pride depends upon its musical figurehead persuading the world that "Gentleman" isn't a novelty single too far.

Jones and Ellickson felt that Leslie would be hard to buy as the put-upon sister and persuaded Feig to switch her for Natasha and Vayntrub for Tina.

Persuading surgeons he might be able to improve upon their techniques was not easy.

persuading more employers to take-on apprentices is dependent upon reducing the financial risk for employers either by: (a) reducing the costs that employers incur in training apprentices; or (b) increasing the costs faced by non-trainers of apprentices.  .