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

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

There were efforts to dissuade the neighbouring countries and regions from engaging in forceful refugee return.

The author also challenged the Council's decision of 2 October 2000 revoking his appointment.

The teachers protested yesterday in the Education Minister premises asking to renounce the decision of transferring them a decision they judged unfair.

But much more than that can and should be done to persuade young men and women not to become terrorists in the first place.

It is uncertain whether Tony Blair could have dissuaded George Bush from waging war in Iraq.

In 1977, when I served in President Jimmy Carter's State Department, I was sent to India to dissuade that country's leaders from developing a nuclear bomb.

As the Special Committee had recommended, the international community must find a suitable way to persuade Israel to renounce its illegal occupation of Palestinian lands and leave the Palestinian people free to exercise their legitimate rights.

The Conference believes it is the duty of every NPT party to render all possible assistance to any State contemplating a notification of withdrawal in order to dissuade it from such a decision.

With a view to avoiding any errors that may conceivably occur in electronic contracting, the draft has dealt with this possibility by permitting the party that has made an input error in an electronic communication to correct that error, on the ground that that system does not provide the person with an opportunity to correct the error.

In 2002, Be Inc. sued Microsoft claiming that Hitachi had been dissuaded from selling PCs loaded with BeOS, and that Compaq had been pressured not to market an Internet appliance in partnership with Be.

But much more than that can and should be done to persuade young men and women not to become terrorists in the first place. The aim must be to create an environment in which terrorism is seen as neither acceptable nor necessary.

Last summer, in response to the UN decision, 78 Nobel laureates signed a petition discouraging the adoption of an international ban on human cloning, because it would condemn hundreds of millions of individuals afflicted by debilitating diseases to a life deprived of hope.