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151. The Clinton administration favors paying the debt over several years but has been unable to persuade Congress to appropriate the money.

152. Shaikhs were representatives: bound to hear and to heed, bound to persuade rather than to command.

153. All my efforts to persuade them were beginning to have an effect.

154. It was at this point that police initially peacefully and totally unsuccessfully, sought to persuade the protesters to disperse.

155. Mr Dawkins, the prison chaplain, did his best to persuade Linkworth to confess his crime.

156. It takes time to persuade men to do even what is for their own good. Thomas Jefferson 

157. In democracies, leaders must persuade others of their beliefs to forge a consensus that can move their nations forward.

158. He could do nothing to persuade them to join him and they had left it too late.

159. My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me. Winston Churchill 

160. They will seek to persuade journalists to support their client's case in appropriate newspaper articles.

161. A film producer tries to persuade a famous actress back to the screen.

162. What empirical evidence is there that might persuade us to give credence to this sharp and absolute distinction?

163. Americans love their cars,[http://sentencedict.com] and no-one is going to persuade them to give them up.

164. But Oliver had been unable to persuade anybody in San Francisco to put money behind his demonstrated formula for hydraulic cement.

165. They influence the outcome of discussions and persuade others of their point of view more than women do.

166. In this extract Roddy's parents want him to take up a useful hobby: They tried to persuade him.

167. Helped persuade the Government to spend ￡200m cleaning Britain's beaches and ￡600m cleaning aerial discharges from coal-fired power stations.

168. Book Week sets out every year to persuade children that life is not square and sits in the corner with knobs on.

169. When efforts to persuade them to go proved fruitless(sentencedict.com), the building began to be demolished around their heads.

170. Environmentalists concede that it will not be easy to persuade car drivers to use their vehicles less often.

171. Rather than adopting an inappropriate legislative approach, we must persuade people and affect attitudes.

172. He fails to persuade Hindus to repudiate the divisive and unjust social caste system.

173. If you can persuade her, the others will soon fall into line.

174. But he will have to persuade the Democrats that he is on the level before he can get very far.

175. Crisscrossing the country, trying to persuade institutional investors to buy mortgage securities, Ranieri bumped into Milken.

176. It took longer than he had expected to persuade Floy to agree.

177. This resistance can only be overcome as you gently persuade and cajole subordinates to expand their horizons.

178. The following are some of the tactics researchers have observed in effective managers: Persuasion Use of logical arguments to persuade others.

179. They had tried to persuade Harry to have a bed in their dormitory but he wouldn't agree.

180. His capacity to persuade people to pay attention to the plight of the less fortunate was constant.