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Persuaded in sentence

385 examples of Persuaded in a sentence

AK: So in 1981, I persuaded Basil and some friends of mine to form a puppet company.
At his open prison, he came under the influence of financial fraudsters, and those financial fraudsters persuaded him to work for them on his release.
One of them happened to be "Earth Fortune," and I was ready to put "Earth Fortune" on the App Store, and so I persuaded my parents to pay the 99 dollar fee to be able to put my apps on the App Store.
TED has already persuaded me to change my life in one small way, by persuading me to change the opening of my speech.
He didn't so much appropriate it as kidnapped it and debased it and corrupted it and turned it into something it was never meant to be, and then persuaded all of us that it always was a global jihad.
You'd persuaded Wall Street that you were right to make the kind of radical shift away from just sending people DVDs, so you were doing it by streaming.
For too long, I believe, we've allowed ourselves to be persuaded of the false notion that human nature cannot change, and as a society, it's costing us dearly.
So I was persuaded, I was convinced, and we went to work on what became Verdana and Georgia, for the first time working not on paper but directly onto the screen from the pixel up.
Public opinion polls consistently show that significant proportions of the American people don't believe the climate is warming due to human activities, don't think that there is evolution by natural selection, and aren't persuaded by the safety of vaccines.
So DemocracyOS is about persuading and being persuaded.
When eventually I was persuaded to go, the optometrist fitted me with the trial lenses and was shocked at just how poor my sight was.
Local scientists must play leading roles and governments must be persuaded to buy in.
She was the youngest concert promoter in Germany, and she had persuaded the Cologne Opera House to host a late-night concert of jazz from the American musician, Keith Jarrett.
Are you persuaded?
If you aren't, good; if you are, even better, because by being persuaded, you would prove that you're a persuaded being.
We launched the Global Citizen Festival in the heart of New York City in Central Park, and we persuaded some of the world's biggest artists to participate.
But the simplest thing cannot be made clear to the most intelligent man if he is firmly persuaded that he knows already."
DB: How are any of us persuaded?
And so the way any of us are persuaded is by: a) some basic show of respect for the point of view, and saying, "I think this guy is not going to get you where you need to go."
With the power of this platform, we believe countries can be more persuaded that a health care revolution really is possible.
It's almost like a new period of human history, like the Enlightenment, but almost a kind of self-aware Enlightenment, that we can be persuaded, and there might be something we want to protect.
There's the persuadability that we're trying right now of reason and thinking and making an argument, but I think you're almost talking about a different kind, a more visceral type of persuadability, of being persuaded without even knowing that you're thinking.
If you're persuaded by the arguments, take on the myths when family or friends or workmates repeat them.
I mean, I know I'm with a sympathetic audience here, but, as we know, a lot of people are not entirely persuaded by this logic.
He persuaded Einstein, as his last act, to sign the famous memorandum of Bertrand Russell.
Even the king and queen of France were persuaded to wear potatoes, potato flowers, pardon me.
Now, even if I persuaded you to do something, it's hard sometimes to actually get action as a result.
It's a story about us, people, being persuaded to spend money we don't have on things we don't need to create impressions that won't last on people we don't care about.
Unfortunately, I thought the movie was terrible and I'm still left wondering how she was ever persuaded to make this movie.
Persuaded by the 7.0 points in IMDb, which is pretty good, i decided to watch this movie.
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