Here's another idea: Get the oil industry together and ask it to persuade Conoco.

The two visit Richmond to ask him to persuade Jackson to get them access to the casino.

He had been asked to persuade the cousin to drop the charges, but the young man went forward with the case.

He says Blair asked him to persuade Cook not to resign, which he tried to do.

Is it asking too much to ask you to persuade her?

But he asked me to persuade Brian not to destroy your husband's estate.

Not because they asked me to persuade you to help them.

Mimi was deeply upset at John's defection and asked me to persuade him to move back home.

I asked Corinna to persuade you to stay until my return, but she telephoned me and I came at once.

Jean Sarkozy was asked to persuade the voters to support his father's choice.