It took only a 1000 yen to convince him.

I tried in vain to persuade them.

We tried to get him to change his mind, but couldn't.

Failing to persuade him, they decamped to mainland China.

But the story didn't end when police officers managed to talk him down.

In long conversations on Facebook I tried to persuade him to leave Aleppo and come to Turkey.

NicolaSehnaoui MoNajem I went to see him to plead against the decision but couldn't convince him.

Does the United States support Putin in the elections, or, by recognizing Putin s historic importance, do the Americans mean to convince him to leave power? No one knows.

I have I left the country, I have a meeting with George Soros, trying for the third time to convince him that his foundation should invest in something that should operate like a media bank.

The Chinese can t force Kim to disarm fully, but they can persuade him to negotiate with a now more flexible US.

During his teenage years, he played as a central defender for a local team, but was persuaded in 1977 to take a referee's course, where it was discovered that he had a particular aptitude for the job.

When Hazare ended his 12 day fast, his vital signs had shown dangerous indications of deterioration, leading to serious worry that if he were not persuaded to abandon his protest, his life could be imperiled, with incalculable consequences for public order.

Myself and Jay Vacanti from Harvard went to visit with him and a number of his directors of his institute just a few months ago, to try and convince him that it was time to take just a little piece of that 27.5 billion dollars that he's going to get next year and focus it, in a strategic way, to make sure we can accelerate the pace at which these things get to patients.