The British believed they could convince Italy to abandon Germany through appeasement.

It's hard to persuade Jonathan.

The committee succeeded in persuading 353 young men who had returned from Afghanistan that they were in error and that they had misunderstood the precepts of Islam.

It ought to be possible to persuade governments in those countries to curb such behavior by holding out the prospect of substantial rewards.

The parties must be persuaded by a combination of pressure and assurances from influential Member States that it is truly in their interests to respect the ceasefire and to pursue a settlement through peaceful means.

But it is wishful thinking to believe that they can be persuaded to act otherwise by international declarations that lack enforcement mechanisms.

They ought to be persuaded through a judicious mixture of carrots and sticks that strengthening the rule of law and democratic institutions would work to their advantage.

I managed to persuade my cousin into accepting my plan.

I managed to convince Dad that we organize the reception at home.

Efforts had also been made to persuade Parliament to strengthen the Act.

Accepting his 2005 TED Prize, photographer Edward Burtynsky makes a wish that his images stunning landscapes that document humanity's impact on the world help persuade millions to join a global conversation on sustainability.

But it is doing so without addressing the crucial need to bring its citizens along.

In order to remain intact and functional, the country needs a political system and a society that persuade talented young people to stay in Russia and that provides them with the education to develop their talent.

Here, Germany s leaders, in particular, need convincing.

But something went wrong Putin could not be convinced.

Investors in the coming years will need to be persuaded to hold mountains of new debt.

But it will be much more difficult to persuade China that it should stand down.

And Singapore has been persuaded to host four advanced naval ships.

Rather than convince myself that I have all the answers, I reach out.

Yet, by passing the blame for their ongoing terrorist proxy policy to their mullah puppets, the generals have made the US believe that the key is to contain the religious fringe, not the puppeteers.

By increasing oil and gas prices, or limiting supplies, flexing its military muscles in Georgia, or sending ships to Cuba and Venezuela to parade Russia s power on the world stage, Putin has convinced many people that Russia is back.

There is now some pushback on prices, but drug companies are compensating by convincing more people to take more drugs for dubious or exaggerated ailments, thereby increasing volume.

South Korea is trying to persuade the North to make this strategic decision.

Some Liberians therefore have to be persuaded to enter into the process.

Roosevelt initially supported this plan, and managed to convince Churchill to support it in a less drastic form.

However, the Office agrees to continue to try to persuade donors to honour their commitments and to pay their contributions in a timely manner, if possible during the year for which the pledge was made.

I tried to persuade my mother to permit my circumcision, but she refused.

Austria tried to persuade the Italian government to accept Venetia in exchange for non intervention.

These movements use pressure from below to convince political leaders that there is domestic support for international agreement.

Her testimony helped persuade Congress to commit more development aid to maternal health.

One of the first challenges for the new government will be to convince the international community that it respects previous Palestinian agreements.

Governments can help to persuade companies to let go of their cash by removing regulatory barriers such as zoning regulations in retail and a plethora of requirements in the construction sector concerning everything from the height of ceilings to the size of staircase areas.

But proselytizing means only that one tries to convince others of the truths to which one is committed.

GSM phones can be convinced to use the much weaker A5 2 cipher briefly.

Romantic, yes, but most importantly, it's about trying to get people to realize that every one of your individual efforts makes a difference.

American diplomats are never going to persuade the UN Security Council to impose sanctions on Iran s energy exports.

But selling to the French public painful structural change as the price to be paid for Europe no longer works.

Indeed, official rhetoric has turned once again to trying to persuade markets to ignore reality.

We can t convince people to engage when it s secret, to lead such kind of process.

Keren tried to convince Amit to lead the men out, but Amit preferred to wait until morning.

That way, Kosovo Serbs can be persuaded to participate in the institutions of Kosovo and Metohija.

The challenge was how to convince States of the added value of a rights based approach.

It's often too easy to convince Egyptians of some conspiracy or gossip but equally impossible to convince them it's not true.

But Arab and Western players somehow managed to convince themselves that things would not get out of hand.

China s leaders need to be persuaded that conceding this point does not imply letting Taiwan move towards de jure independence.