The Bush administration is seeking to persuade oil companies to change their contracts voluntarily.

When doing so, lawyers often also seek to persuade their clients whether to take a settlement or risk a trial.

The firm has been seeking to persuade people who have opted out of the settlement to come back in.

The program seeks to persuade young people to withstand pressure from friends and turn down drugs.

Those whom we seek to persuade have certain expectations of teachers.

Nor will we seek to persuade you to change your views now.

Nor seek to persuade for the pleasure of having another share your views.

In doing so, however, the tobacco opponents are not seeking to persuade companies to get out of the cigarette business.

This person said lawyers were seeking to persuade the smaller holders to go along.

The husband came to England to seek to persuade her to return but did not then succeed.