It's hard to persuade Jonathan.

And so that's what I would like be able to do convince biology to work with the rest of the periodic table.

I managed to persuade my cousin into accepting my plan.

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

But something went wrong Putin could not be convinced.

Moreover, the IMF has not succeeded in convincing countries to pursue macroeconomic policies consistent with sustainable current account positions.

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

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.

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

Of course, diehard anti Americans will never be persuaded, but they remain a minority, with the possible exception of the Muslim world.

The failure for more than a year to make any progress in negotiations with Israel has convinced Abbas and his colleagues to pursue the UN option.

The confrontations have come at a time when Abbas has been trying to persuade Hamas to moderate its anti Israel stance and ally with Fatah in a national unity government.

Finally, the Chinese and the Russians have been brought along principally by the US to a more robust policy, yet they remain reluctant.

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.

University leaders like me spent much of our time persuading them to recycle a portion of their gains to their old schools.

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

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.

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.

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

Moreover, a deep and prolonged recession implies vanishing support for reforms, as governments fail to convince citizens that current sacrifice will ensure a better future.

MONUC has been working closely with its local partners to raise awareness of the issue of sexual violence and is continuing to impress upon judicial authorities the need to arrest and prosecute perpetrators.

Japan is likely to accede grudgingly to America s request, as it remains dependent on its alliance with the US for its security. But it will be much more difficult to persuade China that it should stand down.

Perhaps most important, they have undermined the basis on which political union rests namely, persuading European Union citizens to identify with the European idea.

Webster later said Webster in turn became increasingly resentful of Thomas, to the point that Thomas attempted to persuade friends to stay with her as she did not like to be alone with Webster.

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.

I still recall the difficulty that I faced, as South Korea s foreign minister, in convincing Bush administration policymakers to negotiate with North Korea instead of merely applying pressure and waiting for the North to capitulate.

Intense Western pressure has been brought to bear on Yar Adua to re consider the January deadline.

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

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

Members may consider contacting their Governments in order to encourage them to approach neighbouring States to promote ratification of the Convention

It also helped some ministries to convince colleagues in the relevant ministries to expedite payment of contributions.

He persuaded the European Union and the United States to allow continued UN oversight in Kosovo while gradually permitting self governance all without triggering dangerous confrontations with the two states which oppose its breakaway, Serbia and its close ally, Russia.

The first purpose is, of course, to persuade the country in question to come around to others views.

We talked the terrorist IRA and their political wing into the political process and the sharing of power.

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

And he was out there with his tape measure going through the trash heap, looking for header material, which is the board that goes over a door, thinking he'd impress his boss that's how we taught him to do it.

Even banishing skepticism and assuming that Hollande could over time persuade his supporters to embrace competitiveness boosting policies, the eurozone crisis is denying France the time that such gradualism requires.