Late last night, the government also persuaded the three remaining provincial governors, who had been bucking the government's fiscal reform plan, to agree to the accord.

It is hard to see how the central government will persuade him to do so: it has no economic leverage over him.

The government could not afford it, and was persuading the unions to accept a sharp drop in real wages.

In relation to Iraq, he admits that the government could not persuade the Americans to take post-war planning seriously enough.

Mr. Fox's government, he said, persuaded him to take the risk.

Entrepreneurship was lacking in the 1940s; the government could not persuade the industry to upgrade its plants.

The Austrian national government carefully persuaded the Americans to save Linz.

Two years later, the government persuaded him to run Expo 74, the world's fair in Spokane, Wash., for six months.

During the 2006/07 "people's IPOs", the government persuaded the population to become retail investors in the country's 'national champions'.

The government has not persuaded all madrasas to register.