"persuade" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Mr. Rendell persuaded residents to see hope where none seemed to exist.
- The students knocked on doors and tried to persuade wary residents to take back their county.
- Later he knocked on doors to persuade residents living near the ocean to leave for higher ground.
- They persuaded nearby residents, including prominent ones, to open their homes and allow strangers to dine with them.
- Money spent on improving services avoids the difficult reality of persuading residents that Norilsk, like other northern cities, cannot sustain a large population.
- City officials trying to persuade residents the law will not be abused have been unable to extinguish the fire ignited by its passage.
- Part of his job is to persuade local officials and residents to allow a 150,000-barrel-a-day refinery in their backyard - no small task.
- Unfortunately, Fern died in 1920 of diabetes before he could persuade residents of the need for a permanent city hall.
- Industry officials are trying to persuade jittery residents that the stations in their midst are not dangerous.
- Eleanor Fisher persuaded local residents to come in and read to kids during school holidays.
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