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Persuade in sentence

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My Tea Party lunch mate and I came up with these: "Don't persuade, defend or interrupt; be curious, be conversational, be real; and listen."
AK: Well actually I prefer to say that it's an object constructed out of wood and cloth with movement built into it to persuade you to believe that it has life.
So I was trying to persuade the Hondurans, if you build a new city, you've got to start with a site that's at least 1,000 square kilometers.
And just as flowers spend a lot of effort trying to get pollinators to do their bidding, they've also somehow managed to persuade us to plant great fields full of them and give them to each other at times of birth and death, and particularly at marriage, which, when you think of it, is the moment that encapsulates the transfer of genetic material from one organism to another.
So I caught up with my education, found someone I could persuade to give me a job, and I enjoyed my volunteering at Samaritans.
And mostly, I want to persuade you that we have to do better if we're going to continue the project of civilization in America.
And he tried to persuade me to write the browser for it, because his system didn't have any graphics or fonts or layout or anything; it was just plain text.
And this takes the long-term steady courage of the day-in day-out struggle to educate, to persuade and to win acceptance.
They teach us to persuade, they give us our language, which we use to convert our emotions to thought and action.
And you persuade people to go to these great feats of invention, but at a personal level, in a way I can't imagine doing your job.
We could persuade her to take a train, still a lot more efficient than a car, but that might be a lifestyle change.
And in the same way that we cannot not communicate, we cannot not persuade: whatever we do or refrain from doing, whatever we put out there as a piece of design, into the world, has a persuasive component.
And while I tried my very, very best, I was never able to persuade them to get one.
We don't need to persuade them, but we do need to help them, because they haven't really come to this place before.
Chris Anderson: Elon, what kind of crazy dream would persuade you to think of trying to take on the auto industry and build an all-electric car?
It took a long time to persuade them to talk to me, and once they agreed, they were so full of their story that they couldn't stop telling it, and the first weekend I spent with them, the first of many, I recorded more than 20 hours of conversation.
Look, you're trying to persuade us of reason's impotence.
CA: And since this relationship, it's amazing— (Applause) And recently, you and Warren have been going around trying to persuade other billionaires and successful people to pledge to give, what, more than half of their assets for philanthropy.
What I want to persuade you of today is of a very simple claim, which is that these debates are in a certain sense preposterous, because there is no such thing as religion about which to make these claims.
It's quite hard to persuade the scientific community to say, "Yes, we know something, this is true."
And so, to try to persuade you of how totally amazing, excellent and relevant mathematics is, I want to give you my top three mathematically verifiable tips for love.
So I hope that perhaps, for just a couple of you, a little bit of insight into the mathematics of love can persuade you to have a little bit more love for mathematics.
MR: I went to Glaxo Wellcome and after three times being rejected and having the door slammed in my face because they weren't going to out-license the drug to a satellite communications expert, they weren't going to send the drug out to anybody at all, and they thought I didn't have the expertise, finally I was able to persuade a small team of people to work with me and develop enough credibility.
The next thing that we had to do is to persuade them that there needed to be spatial correspondence, which is straightforward, but again, it's something that didn't fall naturally out of a telecommunications or computing style of thinking; it was a very, if you will, architectural or spatial concept.
It took multiple feasibility studies, engaging different partners and stakeholders, business cases, economic analyses, to persuade the government to eventually come on board.
It could also be used at the national level, where one of the great challenges we face is to persuade local communities to accept refugees.
By rallying citizens together, we helped persuade our government to do the unthinkable, and act to fix a problem miles outside of our borders.
Global citizens like Davinia helped persuade the World Bank to boost their investment into water and sanitation.
See, you might be thinking to yourself, how can we possibly persuade world leaders to sustain a focus on global issues?
But he failed to persuade any conventional sources to give him investment to get the project off the ground.
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