Sentence examples for while persuading from inspiring English sources

It wasn't the tacit support that most Israelis lent to the ongoing occupation, all the while persuading themselves that it was such an enlightened occupation that it was barely an occupation at all.

They did this while persuading themselves that watching a rising stock portfolio or living in an appreciating house was a form of saving.

In some cases, the company's workers had access to health information while persuading patients to pay overdue bills, possibly in violation of federal privacy laws, the documents indicate.

She had 1,000km of new electric power lines, new dams and thermal power stations built while persuading citizens to switch off the lights whenever they could.

She admitted that it's hard to build a western fan base while persuading her Indian supporters that she is not abandoning them.

That may require his to employ another stereotypical skill attributed to some Galicians – of doing one thing while persuading people he is actually doing the opposite.

So he tried to reject marriage, but at the same time he didn't believe in divorce and it took a while to persuade him". The marriage wasn't finally annulled until 1985.

That led to a blog and a popular Instagram account, although she says it took a while to persuade publishers that what the world needed was another Italian cookbook.

It took the brothers Roux quite a while to persuade people to, say, eat their fish a little pink, rather than have it boiled to within an inch of its life.

And it took us quite of a while to persuade those gators to vacate the premises".

Then you have to make nice with silver-haired donors while also persuading young professionals you're one of them.