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

The challenge for Egyptian leaders is to persuade Hamas to settle on lesser terms without further fighting.

It's hard to persuade Jonathan.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

Sarkozy has adopted a statesmanlike pose, as befits the incumbent, warning voters of the hard grind to come, such as the need to work longer hours for lower hourly pay. But selling to the French public painful structural change as the price to be paid for Europe no longer works.

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.

Egypt s major obstacle is Hamas s insistence on an end to the Israeli siege and targeted killings as part of a ceasefire agreement.

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.

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.

less than

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.

The Jewish community in the United States, and to a lesser extent President Barack Obama s administration, has attempted to convince Chile and Mexico, which have not yet made their stances explicit, that nothing would be gained by isolating Israel (or the US, for that matter) on this issue.

He would have served the country and the world better had he been less of a loyal Republican working the inside game of trying to convince Bush s political advisors that good policy was important, and more of a nonpartisan steward of America s long term fiscal stability.

It is considered less risky because some of its assets are less risky than others.

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.

5. An enthusiastic and optimistic belief in what free discussion and political democracy could do to convince peoples to adopt principles (1) through (4).

Scipio managed to persuade the senators that his plan was the perfect way to force the Carthaginians out of Italy.

Less of an Ass

Here one encounters less collective hope and less individual fear.

5. An enthusiastic and optimistic belief in what free discussion and political democracy could do to convince peoples to adopt principles (1) through (4).