Sentence examples for year persuaded from inspiring English sources

Matthews's career year persuaded the Angels, normally shrewd judges of talent, to give him the lucrative contract.

The death of Mr. Obuchi's father during his freshman year persuaded him to switch his interests to politics.

Who has signed up an extra 100,000 organ donors a year, persuaded 20% more people to consider switching energy provider, doubled the number of army applicants – and will certainly be consulted on the spending review that calls for £20bn cuts to Whitehall budgets?

Cisco Chairman John Chambers spent nearly a year persuading Warrior to move to Cisco from Motorola, a company where she had spent most of her career.

Skip E. Lowe, who hosted a weekly celebrity talk show in Los Angeles for more than 35 years, persuaded several well-known personalities to appear on the TV program, usually in the twilight of their careers.

From the age of 14, Murray spent two years persuading Jack Straw to release Bosie's prison correspondence.

Because synesthesia contradicted existing theory, Cytowic spent twenty years persuading colleagues that it was a real and important brain phenomenon rather than a mere curiosity.

The architect Carlo Scarpa spent the wartime years persuading the Venini factory there to turn glass into simulations of lacquer, hammered metal, white porcelain, jade and lava.

Ambrose B. Wyckoff, who spent 14 years persuading the Navy to select Sinclair Inlet as the site for a shipyard to serve ships in the North Pacific.

It is counter-intuitive only because a vast and well-funded denial industry has spent years persuading us that environmentalism is a middle-class caprice.

It was in the mid 1990s that he first contacted the company's owners, only to spend more years persuading them to sell.