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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

Romanist friends were persuading him to his father's faith.

From The Closet of Sir Kenelm Digby Knight Opened by MacDonell, Anne

He told those who were persuading him to abandon it that, if the silver of the Indias was not enough, he would send what was needed from España.

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 Robertson, James Alexander

Only one dog remained alive; but there was a human being within it whom the sailors were persuading to enter the vessel.

From Frankenstein by Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft