Corporations have been set up to persuade the government to allow this.

By 1833 they had persuaded the government to provide a small grant towards this work.

That helped persuade the government not to send the refugees back.

A further twist in the argument might finally persuade the government to change its mind.

He did, and quickly persuaded the newly elected Government to go along.

In this store, he persuaded the government to rent space for a small post office.

But the bank may have trouble persuading the government of its merits.

Liddell-Grainger wants to persuade the government to do a deal to keep the building of the schools going.

Perhaps this would be a way of persuading the government to accept the proposal.

I first became aware of this many years ago and tried to persuade the then Government in the 1980s to change the rules.