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were persuading

  • past progressive
    of persuade.
    persuade
    verb (used with object)
    to prevail on (a person) to do something, as by advising or urging.

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“I remember one conversation in particular where a number of his colleagues were persuading me of why they had to do this,” Sacks said.

From The New Yorker ● Mar. 18, 2019

Students were persuading their universities to withdraw their money from fossil fuels – the richest companies in the world.

From The Guardian ● May 19, 2015

He professed, through spokeswoman Lisa Lewinson, that money-seeking deprogrammers were persuading former disciples to fabricate accusations.

From Take Me for a Ride: coming of age in a destructive cult by Mark Eliot Laxer

He often says that when he was in Madrid he knew that certain religious were persuading the king to conquer Japon, but that our fathers dissuaded him from this.

From The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 19 of 55 1620-1621 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century. by James Alexander Robertson

The dogs were being led back to their kennels, and as they were in a savage mood, the men were persuading or forcing them on.

From Chatterbox, 1906 by J. Erskine (John Erskine) Clarke