Example Sentences

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The administration said it was persuading, not coercing.

From Washington Times • Sep. 14, 2023

They had the site for their car-free housing experiment; the next hurdle was persuading Tempe to approve it.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 6, 2023

Before the American Medical Association defined obesity as a disease in 2013, our main challenge was persuading insurance companies to cover the cost of essential treatments, such as weight-loss medications and bariatric surgery.

From Scientific American • Jul. 5, 2023

Le Mesurier and his team pulled in funding from the British, French, Dutch, Japanese, German and Canadian governments: one of his talents was persuading diplomats to part with their country's money.

From BBC • Feb. 26, 2021

He was a prisoner in the power of thirty men, and yet he was persuading them to become his prisoners.

From "The Pomp of Yesterday" by Hocking, Joseph