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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

Determined to outbid Gorbachev as a reformer, he persuaded liberals to overcome their distrust of his provincial manners.

Doing so will also help to convince other countries that the government s agenda is economic, not political.

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

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.

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

Sunnis must be persuaded that neither their minority status nor former membership in Saddam Hussein s Ba ath Party will exclude them from political and economic life.

Iran is in no better position than the US to convince them to resolve their differences.

After all, an interrogator's effectiveness depends on convincing the detainee of his omnipotence.