In the 14th century, Metropolitan Peter persuaded Ivan I ( Ivan Kalita ) that he should build a cathedral to the Theotokos ( Blessed Virgin Mary ) in Moscow like the Cathedral of the Dormition in the capital city Vladimir.

At the death of Petrus, Pope Benedict XII wished to occupy the archbishop's seat through commission, but following Hemming's election by the cathedral chapter, Hemming travelled to Avignon and persuaded Benedict to ordain him bishop.

Adams persuaded the committee to choose Jefferson, who was reluctant to take the assignment, and promised to consult with the younger man.

Adams persuaded the committee to select Thomas Jefferson to compose the original draft of the document, which congress would edit to produce the final version.

The committee in general, and Jefferson in particular, thought Adams should write the document, but Adams persuaded the committee to choose Jefferson and promised to consult with Jefferson personally.

As a delegate to the National Labor Congress in 1868 Anthony persuaded the committee on female labor to call for votes for women and equal pay for equal work, although the men at the conference deleted the reference to the vote.

However, the Surrey captain and England selector Leveson-Gower persuaded the committee to include Hobbs in the squad, then convinced a reluctant MacLaren to play him in the team.

In 1857, his committee persuaded the Senate to authorize twelve sloops-of-war.

When Brian Close took over from Vic Wilson as captain of Yorkshire in 1963 he persuaded the committee to keep Boycott on, and was rewarded when, on 2 June 1963, Boycott scored 145 against Lancashire.

However, the charges against him concluded that, " while the Congressman's dealings with representatives of the Federal Home Loan Bank Board may have been intemperate, the committee was not persuaded that there is reason to believe that he exercised undue influence in his dealings with that agency.

As a member of the health select committee, she persuaded the committee to hold an inquiry into maternity services.

He came in for heavy criticism for these remarks and mounting public pressure persuaded him, on February 12, 1926, to appoint a departmental committee, the Committee on Evil Literature, to consider and report " whether it is necessary or advisable in the interest of the public morality to extend the existing powers of the State to prohibit or restrict the sale and circulation of printed matter ".

Young persuaded his police authority to fund a building programme that in six years would provide a police house for every married man in the county force ; the design and equipping of these houses was agreed between the county architects and a " housing committee ", recruited through the county Police Federation, not only of men of all ranks but, at Young's insistence, of officers ' wives.

He persuaded the town council to back it, an enthusiastic committee of local citizens to organize it, and most importantly well-known Shakespearean director Tyrone Guthrie to run things.

He persuaded the Kent committee to cancel the return fixture.

In the longer term, he persuaded the club committee to retain and invest for the player two-thirds of his benefit money instead of handing him the whole amount to spend freely.

Beynon, however, persuaded the Board to reverse the decision of the committee and as a result of his efforts hundreds of European scientists have had the opportunity to use the world's most advanced ionospheric radar.

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.

He persuaded cyclotron inventor Ernest Lawrence to let him take back some discarded cyclotron parts that had become radioactive.

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.

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.