Sentence examples for work persuading from inspiring English sources

Once the Canal treaties were signed, Bob set to work persuading senators to ratify them.

But she is better known for her work persuading the town elders to build a swimming pool.

But the company deployed an aggressive sales force, and went to work persuading owners that dining reservations would eventually go the way of hotel and airline reservations by requiring fewer personnel.

She was instrumental in the Rainforest Action Network's work persuading many food companies — General Mills most prominent among them — to renounce the use of palm oil, which is grown on plantations whose proliferation abets the destruction of rain forests in Indonesia, Malaysia and Papua New Guinea.

So Sony executives went to work persuading Hollywood studios that Blu-ray wasn't the next Betamax.

"I believe that at least 12-14 sthiss this election will be decided by 2-3 pointstage ponets one way or the other, and if we do our collective work persuading LGBT voters to support Barack, I think it can make a big difference".

But environmental advocates and bloggers say that many of those listed as scientists have no scientific credentials and that their work persuaded no one not already ideologically committed.

Authorities initially planned to indict one suspect in the murder, but Steele's investigative work persuaded them to indict a second suspect as well.

And still her work persuaded a jury whose chair, Joanne Trollope, wrote recently that the prize's "abiding principle is about reading as pleasure".

As the team describes in this week's Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, its work persuaded authorities who had been convinced the tusks originated from many countries that they actually came from a single area around the Zambian savannah.

Schneewind's reading (Schneewind, 1977) has stressed this influence, along with the influence of Joseph Butler, whose works persuaded Sidgwick of the falsity of psychological egoism and of the reality of other than self-interested actions (Frankena, 1992).