For example, if trying to persuade a young person to vote, an adult would provide reasons to the why they must take voting seriously as a citizen.

Moreover, exposure to military life and its demands can persuade a person of poor character to change his ways.

In order to persuade a person not to use a substance, the pitfalls of addiction are sometimes overstated.

If it's hard to get people to give up their organs upon death, consider how much harder it is to persuade a living person to donate a kidney.

The individual motives which persuaded a person to become a witch, other than those to whom witchcraft was an old religion, must have been fairly complicated.

During the 1970s and 1980s a series of techniques called deprogramming were developed to persuade or force a person to abandon allegiance to a religious or political group.

This is a carefully planned meeting in which family, friends, and coworkers try to persuade a person who has a problem with alcohol to get treatment.

That a vampire could persuade a person that the bad things hadn't happened.

No, there was little doubt that Sarek had the requisites to persuade a vulnerable young person to do what he wanted-one way or another.

I always look upon her as able to persuade a person to anything!