| The painting's almost panoramic format effectively persuades the viewer to imagine walking through this polychromatic landscape. |
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| Kat thinks that Chrissie's working her too hard, and persuades her to give Little Mo the time off. |
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| In the end, she persuades the beast to unburden himself of the guilt which afflicts him by handing over his wealth to her. |
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| All this tub-thumping will have been useful if it persuades people that Scotland are worth playing for again. |
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| It's the tale of Malcolm, an art school drop out who persuades his hapless friends to join his cockeyed crusade against the system. |
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| There is nothing that we have read or heard which persuades us that the situation has changed since then. |
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| He is so impressed, he persuades him to make a trip to Berlin, where he can guarantee lucrative employment as a Hercules on the cabaret circuit. |
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| None of this persuades me that my preference for poetry over politics is a wrong choice. |
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| He persuades her and she consents, following a ritual play that's been the same since the chromascope was invented |
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| What persuades me that an independent obligation was intended here is the reference in the sale contract, scilicet in its printed form. |
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| Our age is more dominated by scientific theory than was Spinoza's, but only a fond illusion persuades us that it is more guided by the truth. |
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| Usually, therefore, the second mortgagee persuades the first mortgagee to obtain repayment on the same occasion. |
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| His top-rated programme now persuades people to go out and buy satellite receivers. |
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| A quick look at the book's references persuades me that the book provides no support for the fallback position. |
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| And then there's the myth of objectivity, which persuades us that there's nothing out there to believe in any more. |
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| An implicit appeal to eugenics persuades the reader that the innate badness of the suicidal killer can be known just by looking. |
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| This persuades consumers that by buying this product, they are getting something no other product gives them. |
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| The ultimate objective of advertisements is to present products in a way that persuades people to consume. |
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| The Khedive of Egypt persuades himself that the success of the equilateral will silence his local political rivals. |
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| This control persuades also by its easy operation via 3 key pads together with a 5-digit 7-segments-display. |
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| The Store Loader of the SL 80-series persuades with its gentle handling facilities and many extras. |
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| In the court case that follows, Fereshteh's father contracts a debt of honor to the man he persuades her to marry. |
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| If Slovenia persuades her efforts, she is likely to be able to take on the obligations of EU membership in the medium term. |
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| The 80 W micro soldering pencil WP 80 persuades with its short tipto-grip design, being of big advantage for work under microscopes. |
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| There is nothing in the Speech from the Throne or the budget that persuades us otherwise. |
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| In it the producer or the manufacturer or the merchant finds a customer and persuades him to buy. |
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| Or it may be a friend, family member or an acquaintance who persuades the child that relocation offers benefits. |
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| It persuades us to diminish ourselves, by disapproving of certain parts of our wholeness. |
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| All of the three children agree and Salads persuades them to walk off with him. |
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| In any epoch most of what is built is mediocre, though we may not realise it at the time because our neophilia persuades us of merit where there is none. |
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| His trip becomes a living nightmare when he stops off en route to pick up his ne'er-do-well brother Fuller, who persuades him to play a joke on a lonely trucker. |
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| After wangling an entry into Scotland Yard, she persuades detectives to scour a rubbish site for a victim she believes has gone undetected. |
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| Filtering persuades content producers to participate in ratings systems because search engines and, increasingly, browsers may be set to ignore unrated sites. |
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| It can infuse vehemence and passion into spoken words in many ways, and when combined with argumentative passages it not only persuades the auditor but actually enslaves him. |
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| What is it that persuades the designers of exhibitions to present them in semi-darkness? |
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| In the film it is the male shop steward who persuades them to make equal pay the object of their industrial action. |
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| He who dedicates himself with all his heart to saving just one of his brothers and who persuades just one other brother to do likewise will become immediately aware of a wonderful phenomenon: «the common denominator». |
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| Headmaster Albus Dumbledore persuades his old friend Horace Slughorn to return to Hogwarts as a professor as there is a vacancy to fill. |
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| Igi is convinced that all is over, but the good-looking, ambitious Pepona is determined not to waste one farthing of her protector's wealth and she persuades him to kill the blackmailer while she makes love to him. |
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| Nothing persuades like a well-chosen example. |
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| He persuades each of the witches to give him a bit of their old magic, knowing that if he can combine their power, there should be enough for a spell. |
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| As a result of his pleasant nature and animal magnetism, he persuades the humans he encounters to entrust him with their feelings and emotions as Europeans. |
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| Not that I'm suggesting Simon is a smooth-talking chancer who persuades needy middle-aged women to part with their cash. |
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| By exploiting Narraboth's infatuation for her she persuades him to fulfil her wish and bring Jochanaan to her, despite Herod having ordered that nobody should see him. |
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| You withstood the hubris that persuades us that we were much too quick off the mark with the Constitution, had aimed too high, had asked too much of people and had set our sights too high. |
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| It is earned when the Committee persuades its constituency that the Committee's work is defensible, legally and rationally, and that it is rooted in traditions that have gained general acceptance. |
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| Making use of a handkerchief belonging to Desdemona and found by Emilia when Othello has unwittingly dropped it, Iago persuades Othello that Desdemona has given the handkerchief to Cassio as a love token. |
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| Yet, according to DUP and British government sources, the prospect of that very election may be the one thing that persuades Robinson's party to finally agree to a policing and justice deal. |
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| But it's not just the economics that persuades me we should leave. |
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| Some hope the mania persuades Sisi to run for president in Morsi's place. |
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| The chances are that Boeing will not really bounce back until the assumed revival in air travel persuades airline companies to start buying plenty of aircraft again. |
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| Leadership succeeds not by what it says but by how it persuades. |
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| I have not seen or heard anything that persuades me that I should prefer the first of these ways to resolve the potential inconsistency over the second. |
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| He recruits the women folk from the surrounding villages, and persuades those in charge to let him use the prisoners of war, doctors and surgeons to help him care for the wounded, both French and Austrians. |
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| The narrative then turns to fantasy: the cat mounts the stage, and, accompanied by an elephant, persuades mice to dance to the sound of its saxophone. |
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| A salesman turns up at your door and somehow persuades you to make a purchase by aggressive means, such as ignoring repeated requests by you to leave. |
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| Moreover, the absence of a single-party majority promotes a change in Parliament's culture that persuades governments to replace adversarial confrontation with cross-party collegiality and consensus in the policy process. |
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| In basophobia the patient by a sort of auto-suggestion persuades himself that it is impossible to stand upon his legs. |
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| Salvation is granted to individuals by means of the word of God and the Holy Spirit, who persuades them to believe and obey. |
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| He persuades himself of the logicality of the steps he takes to 'look after' Maya, but is unable or unwilling to see the dangers he creates. |
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| But when she ventriloquizes her lover's seductive rhetoric, he persuades her to fall by offering recirculated love tokens. |
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| Strider persuades the hobbits to take him on as their guide and protector. |
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| On the contrary, having picked his side, he persuades himself that it is the strongest and is able to stick to his belief even when the facts are overwhelmingly against him. |
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| Crewe persuades a reluctant Alice into coming up to see his studio. |
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| When Macbeth arrives at Inverness, she overrides all of her husband's objections by challenging his manhood and successfully persuades him to kill the king that very night. |
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