Steve appears to a human being to convince him to abandon the path to Hell.

Perhaps it's not too late to reason with these people, he thought, to convince them to abandon their reckless experimentation.

"And if we can convince people to abandon this project, we've protected the resource."

He convinces her to abandon the plot, and the two end up together.

However, after falling ill of a fever, she convinces him to abandon his plans.

They convince Mary to abandon the Court and go with them.

The black man tried to convince her to abandon her beliefs.

Several prominent Indian leaders tried to convince him to abandon his fast.

Since 1992, we have tried everything in order to convince Milosevic to abandon this policy.

Hume argued that he was seeking to convince republicans to abandon violence.