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Example sentences for: persuading

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Given the generally negative view of Pakistan on Capitol Hill, the idea of lifting sanctions may have seemed far-fetched, but perhaps no more so than the idea of persuading Musharraf to antagonize the Islamists in his own government and nation.
The European Union's Eurocrats have worthy ideas, such as persuading the continent's governments to agree on harmonious environmental and immigration policies.
4) The Serbs will attack the ethnic Albanians in the hope of persuading them to back the war, which the Serbs would win, instead of the peace talks, which the Serbs would lose.
On Maple Street, a no less handsome statue of Gassy Jack, a distinctly derelict-looking riverboat captain known to his mother as John Deighton, stands on a whisky barrel symbolizing the drinks he served to lumbermen, persuading them to build the town in 1867.
Microsoft appears to have evened the score by persuading the press to link DOJ, Nader, and anti-Microsoft politicians to the company's competitors.