Suffice it to say that a common passion was born between the two cousins, and my father persuaded them to flee with him. I managed to convince him that it wasn`t his fault. There was no way to convince him of his innocence. Raderman had never faced such a situation before, but after talking for 10 minutes, she managed to persuade the caller to go home and calm down before confronting his girlfriend. It later became clear that he had persuaded Eisenhower to leave SHAPE and run for president in 1952. To convince his skeptical colleagues, he mixed healthy platelets of his own blood with blood samples from his patients and demonstrated the effect. Facebook`s post is intended to convince users not to opt out of tracking. When I tried to persuade him to drop the title The Short Night, I suggested calling the painting Pursuit. His car was driven to a private gate on a side street; and Ripperda was finally persuaded to enter.

Some of us believe or convince ourselves that we believe miracles happened a few thousand years ago. Or has the attitude of the Republican House of Representatives convinced him that he is clear? Find out which words work together and create more natural English with the Oxford Collocations Dictionary app. Convincing means winning, winning the argument, convincing the group to see your favorite movie, asking your parents to lend you the car. You convince with language, with carefully constructed argumentation and with the power of your conviction. The word is sometimes used ironically to describe the exact opposite of a carefully worded argument. A movie gangster could “persuade” people with the gun he keeps in his pocket. I am very happy that you have had success with your portable steam engine and I am convinced that they will be more and more accepted. The latter provision could convince more multinational companies to localize their supply chains in the RCEP region. His big breakthrough came in 1992, when an aging cardinal pulled him out of his outback and persuaded the Vatican to appoint him bishop. For God`s sake, write to him and persuade him to go to Davos immediately – and imagine the joys of a beautiful, devoted nurse.

If you are persuaded to do something, you have been persuaded. When your friends try to persuade you to dive a dangerous canyon, it`s time to make new friends. I do so, convinced of the relevance of the approach and convinced that everything will be fine with him. Does the old crook think of convincing me that C.F. Garman is running out of money? He finally came with us, although it took a long time to convince him. And they are the ones who need to be convinced if climate protection measures are to become a reality. Reagan pleaded for his speech, and Goldwater was convinced. It details what it took to convince voters to pass marriage equality at the ballot box in four states in 2012. What, although Maurice wanted to convince me in Paris that I had better take a Britska because it`s more fashionable? It is difficult to convince people to leave, learn a new tool, and restore the ease of gathering such a variety of people. But first, he had a whispered conversation with the princess, whom he asked or persuaded to get back into his magnificent vehicle. “My mother tried to convince me and told me about the cover-ups on the university campus,” he says.

Unstoppable or not, John H. has not seen much in 38 years to convince him that progress is benign. In mid-November, Larson convinced the girl they were in love, though he admitted her age, according to court records. The desire to persuade people to change their minds is not new, says Marcello Ienca, a bioethicist at ETH Zurich. A group of old white rock titans gather with young white hotties from X Factor to convince Britain to heal Africa. It is said that the breeder traveled to Chicago several times to persuade her to return. The president has continued a wide-ranging pressure campaign to persuade Republican officials in Michigan, Georgia and elsewhere to reverse the will of voters. Micro-influencers are particularly effective at persuading their audience, as they tend to be experts in a niche and topic, making them a natural source of referrals for that topic. In 1997, Glenn announced that he would retire from the Senate at the end of his term in 1999 and immediately lobbied to convince NASA to bring him back into space. Find the answers online with Practical English Usage, your go-to guide to problems in English.

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