Example sentences for: persuading

How can you use “persuading” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Even if Starr focuses public attention on the perjury issue and represents his investigation as a search for truth, Clinton can defeat him by persuading the public--without explicitly saying so--that impeaching the president for perjury in a civil suit is less important than getting on with the nation's business.

  • The United States has been less successful in persuading other countries to adopt financial regulations that would permit the tracing of financial transactions.

  • The pontiff is credited with inspiring the collapse of communism in Eastern Europe, persuading liberal democracies that freedom must be girded by public morality, and opening a dialogue with other religious leaders.

  • Another al-Hayat article said that American "shamelessness is set to make a major comeback" in the region, as, since Kosovo, there is "no prospect of persuading the policymakers in Washington that they are not always right--just as it was impossible to persuade Saddam that he did not win the 1991 Gulf War, or Milosevic that it was his savagery which led to the latest bombing campaign and provided NATO with moral cover for its first dirty war.

  • In fact, a German art historian rescued this tour de force of early Islamic decoration at the turn of the century by persuading the Sultan of Turkey not to use it as building material for a railway link to Mecca.


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