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He persuaded cyclotron inventor Ernest Lawrence to let him take back some discarded cyclotron parts that had become radioactive.
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Due to a shortage of skilled craftsmen, Suzuki persuaded, inventor of phototypesetting, to recreate the necessary fonts.
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After this setback, and the 1941 death of his Quebec lieutenant Ernest Lapointe, King sought out the reluctant Louis St. Laurent, a leading Quebec lawyer, to take over Lapointe's role, and eventually persuaded St. Laurent to serve in government.
In the mid 20's he purchased the Maude Hitchcock farm on the east side of the road and persuaded his wife's brother-in-law, Ernest Vogt and family to move over from the farm on Niles Road east of Eagle to operate a dairy farm and provide the Hotel with dairy products.
Ernest Hemingway ( 1899 – 1961 ) saw violence and death first-hand as an ambulance driver in World War I, and the carnage persuaded him that abstract language was mostly empty and misleading.
In 1935 its non-pacifist wing persuaded its pacifist leader George Lansbury to resign, to be replaced by Clement Attlee, and in 1937 Ernest Bevin and Hugh Dalton persuaded the party to oppose appeasement.
To gain part of the wealth, Hale persuaded his nephew Ernest to marry Mollie Kyle, a full-blooded Osage.
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Meyer persuaded ABC to dedicate the film to the citizens of Lawrence and also to put a disclaimer at the end of the film, following the credits, letting the viewer know that The Day After downplayed the true effects of nuclear war so they would be able to have a story.
The producer of the Lawrence film, Sam Spiegel, persuaded Bolt to sign after he had served only two weeks.
Lowell persuaded D. H. Lawrence to contribute poems to the 1915 and 1916 volumes, making him the only writer to publish as both a Georgian poet and an Imagist.
Lawrence Ferlinghetti had been studying for a doctorate at the Sorbonne and, while in Paris, he met Kenneth Rexroth, who later persuaded him to go to San Francisco to experience the growing literary scene there.
Lawrence persuaded the Arabs not to drive the Ottomans out of Medina ; instead, the Arabs attacked the Hejaz Railway on many occasions.
In 2010 he became " completely hooked " on cycling, and goes riding two or three times a week, after Lawrence Dallaglio persuaded him to take part in the ' Dallaglio Cycle Slam ' during the Six Nations Championship in February that year, raising money for Sport Relief.
One night in the mess, he is persuaded to impersonate the commander, General Sir Lawrence MacKenzie Smith.
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In Milan, however, he impressed his captor with his cultured demeanor and persuaded him to let him go by making it plain that it was not in Milan's interest to prevent the victory of the Aragonese party in Naples.
He eventually persuaded his father to let him study law at the Studium in the city.
He persuaded his new boss, Tubby Burnham ( a fellow Wharton alumnus ), to let him start a high-yield bond trading department — an operation that soon earned a remarkable 100 % return on investment.
When Hooke's claim was made known to Newton, who hated disputes, Newton threatened to withdraw and suppress Book 3 altogether, but Halley, showing considerable diplomatic skills, tactfully persuaded Newton to withdraw his threat and let it go forward to publication.
He also persuaded Elrond to let Frodo's cousins Merry and Pippin join the Fellowship.
During a stay in Nice, his progress in painting and drawing impressed Princeteau, who persuaded his parents to let him return to Paris and study under the acclaimed portrait painter Léon Bonnat.
W. D. Jones had been a friend of the Barrow family since childhood, and though he was only 16 years old on Christmas Eve 1932, he persuaded Barrow to let him join up with the pair and ride out of Dallas with them that night.
Gerald du Maurier, who was already playing George Darling ( and the brother of Sylvia Llewelyn Davies ), persuaded Barrie to let him take the additional role instead, a casting decision that has since been replicated in many stage and film productions of the Peter Pan story.
Finally Odysseus persuaded Agamemnon to let the burial happen.
: Chorus Leader-You did the same thing too, in Pheres ' house: you persuaded the Fates to let men hide from death.
He persuaded the cathedral committee to let him start all over again ( a difficult decision, as some of the stonework had already been erected ) and redesigned it as a simpler and more symmetrical building with a single massive central tower instead of the original proposal for twin towers.
In response, Collins persuaded Detective Nelligan to let himself be recruited into MI5.
Putting the strategic situation and his own abdication to good use, he persuaded the Swedish crown prince Carl Johan ( the former Marshal Bernadotte of France ) to let the Norwegians keep their constitution.
In 1799, Constable persuaded his father to let him pursue art, and Golding even granted him a small allowance.
Rumors stated that Lamarr persuaded Mandl to let her wear all of her jewelry for a dinner, then disappeared.
With Reuben and Judah's persistence, they persuaded their father to let Benjamin join them for fear of Egyptian retribution.
During its ATV days the chairman of the station, Lew Grade, was said to have taken a personal dislike to the show but was persuaded to let it continue, even arguing in its defence to criticism from the IBA.
Convinced he had a hit on his hand, Brunner persuaded Freshline to let Hansa release a new version of " Another Night " with Petersen ( miming Karin Kasar's vocals ) and O-Jay to become the male part of the duo " M. C.
Realizing that this would cause serious attendance problems once the college football season started, Williams persuaded the league to let the ' Cudas play their September and October home games on Sundays so as not to compete directly against Alabama or Auburn.
He had persuaded Darius to let him travel to Ionia by promising to make the Ionians end their revolt.
But Louis let himself be persuaded into betraying his own cause and retiring with his family under the shelter of the Assembly.
They also became concerned about the violent temper of Sima Wei and therefore tried to strip him of his military command, but Sima Wei persuaded Empress Jia to let him keep his military command.
The professor of botany was the celebrated Carolus Linnaeus who was soon impressed by young Solander's ability and accordingly persuaded his father to let him study natural history.
Kalugin stated that later he persuaded Stone to lunch with him until after the 1968 Czechoslovakian uprising and subsequent quelling of the revolt when Stone angrily refused to let Kalugin pay for the lunch and stopped lunching with him.
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But Winston had persuaded him.
With difficulty, Hudson persuaded him to rejoin the ship, and they sailed from Iceland.
Alcott persuaded them to come to the United States with him ; Lane and his son moved into the Alcott house and helped with family chores.
In 221, Alexander's grandmother, Maesa, persuaded the Emperor to adopt his cousin as successor and make him Caesar and Bassianus changed his name to Alexander.
It was probably his wife who persuaded him to conspire against his brother again, but when King Emeric, who had realised that Andrew's troops outnumbered his armies, went unarmed, wearing only the crown and the sceptre, to Andrew's camp near Varasd, Andrew immediately surrendered.
Oliver Roy writes that in the following period Massoud's " personal prestige and the efficiency of his military organisation persuaded many local commanders to come and learn from him.
He was persuaded to stay on by Stafford Cripps, a wealthy socialist who agreed to pay him an additional salary.
Rockies first baseman Andrés Galarraga won the batting title, hitting. 370 for the season after Manager Don Baylor persuaded Galarraga to change from a standard batting stance into an open one in which he squarely faced the pitcher, allowing him to see incoming pitches properly.
A " Draft Eisenhower " movement in the Republican Party persuaded him to declare his candidacy in the 1952 presidential election to counter the candidacy of non-interventionist Senator Robert Taft.
In 1799 fellow-student Henry Brougham persuaded him to study the diffraction of light.
Ricordi persuaded him to accept Ruggero Leoncavallo as his librettist, but Puccini soon asked Ricordi to remove him from the project.
However, Merelli persuaded him to write Nabucco and its opening performance in March 1842 made Verdi famous.
In 1883 Wells persuaded his parents to release him from the apprenticeship, taking an opportunity offered by Midhurst Grammar School again to become a pupil-teacher ; his proficiency in Latin and science during his previous, short stay had been remembered.
Greenberg immediately became the favorite to become the new team's first owner and persuaded Veeck to join him as his partner.
of A & R, Dr. George Butler, persuaded him to sign with that label.
Davy's boyhood was spent partly with his parents and partly with Tonkin, who placed him at a preparatory school kept by a Mr. Bushell, who was so much struck with the boy's progress that he persuaded Davy's father to send him to a better school.
He did not want the position, preferring to maintain his quiet life of reading in Massachusetts, and probably would have rejected it if his father had not persuaded him to take it.
Susan Polgár met Bobby with her family and persuaded him to come out of hiding " in a cramped hotel room in a small Yugoslavian village ".
Cooper was impressed with Locke and persuaded him to become part of his retinue.
As a result, Robinson joined a neighborhood gang, but his friend Carl Anderson persuaded him to abandon it.
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