Consider this my last effort to persuade you not to wait.

They were there in an effort to persuade him to retire.

"Not that it helps me in my efforts to persuade you to take better care of yourself."

But today's brief is a final effort to persuade the judge to dismiss the case.

But he conceded that they had made no effort to persuade him to stay.

Much of the effort to persuade them will occur away from Washington.

"There was no effort to persuade the board to adopt one or another view," he said.

It takes some effort to persuade her to sit down.

Despite the gang's efforts to persuade him to stand up to them, he is unable to do so.

But he makes no effort to persuade anyone not yet a believer.