The men did not object to his sketching them while they went about their work, but no one could be persuaded to come to his studio to pose.

The one way to get around them -- short of knowing exactly what one wants and sticking to it -- is to frequent a single establishment until its wine waiter is persuaded that one is at least as interested in wine as in spending money.

I made them show me their identification before I could be persuaded not to call on Felice Perrin ''.

They borrowed a typewriter, raised about $2,000 in contributions, hired a secretary, persuaded a couple of young men to join them for almost no pay and began mailing out a collection of unstapled leaflets that they called Guideposts.

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.

Why not see if they could be persuaded to keep Russia in the war by appealing to their latent Jewishness and giving them another reason to continue the fight?

Indeed he was never rich, but he staunchly defended the rights of the monks at St. Catherine's Monastery when he persuaded them eventually to send the manuscript to the Tsar.

Lapa went to the Sisters of the Order and persuaded them to take in her daughter.

The organizers invited a number of other progressive artists to join them in their inaugural exhibition, including the older Eugène Boudin, whose example had first persuaded Monet to adopt plein air painting years before.

The meeting of the Latin chiefs then continued, and Tarquin persuaded them to renew their treaty with Rome and become her allies rather than her enemies, and it was agreed that the troops of the Latins would attend at the grove on an appointed day to form a united military force with the troops of Rome.

In 1382, shortly before his death, Louis persuaded them to swear an oath of fealty to Sigismund as well.

Cobb writes, " the revolutionaries themselves, living as if in combat … were easily persuaded that only terror and repressive force saved them from the blows of their enemies.

Ayatollah Khomeini summoned a meeting of the other senior marjas of Qom and persuaded them to decree a boycott of the referendum on the White Revolution.

Prior to ABBA's formation, Björn and Benny were living in a Volkswagen bus and had decided to leave music and gain regular jobs, however Anderson persuaded them to start a new band, investing considerable money in the group.

When they reached New York, the men persuaded him to go with them to the circus in Washington DC, offering him a generous wage and the cost of his return trip home.

Northup persuaded John Manning, an English sailor, to send a letter to his family telling them of his kidnapping and illegal enslavement.

Under coercion, Helenus told the Acheans that they would win if they retrieved Pelops ' bones, persuaded Achilles ' son Neoptolemus to fight for them, and stole the Trojan Palladium.

The queen persuaded her husband not to close them down, but to create a new college.

The Unification Church in 2001 persuaded the North Korean government to relax its restrictions and permit Pyeonghwa Motors, a South Korean automaker with ties to the Church, to assemble cars in the DPRK and advertise them to North Koreans.

Even so, Valens sent two legions to march on Procopius, who easily persuaded them to desert to him.

and E. M. went to Lord's and persuaded Midwinter to accompany them back to The Oval to make up their numbers.

The organizers invited a number of other progressive artists to join them in their inaugural exhibition, including the slightly older Eugène Boudin, whose example had first persuaded Monet to take up plein air painting years before.

Many of the men were angry that a woman was joining them, but Meleager, though married, lusted for Atalanta, and so he persuaded them to include her.

The " bulwark of Christianity " and other slogans put forward by the papal envoy Giuliano Cesarini, together with much more reasonable but only verbal promises of Venetian and papal fleets blockading the Dardanelles Straits, along with an enticing vision of a promise of victory in this glorious crusade carried for the glory of God and against the Turks, persuaded Władysław to engage his freshly victorious forces ( long campaign ) for another season of war, thus breaching the ten-year truce with the aggressive and still powerful Ottoman Empire.

Grant then ordered Sherman to embark his army on steamers and join the Union forces confronting Lee in Virginia, but Sherman instead persuaded Grant to allow him to march north through the Carolinas, destroying everything of military value along the way, as he had done in Georgia.

However, she did get along with Lieutenant Reginald Barclay, so when Data had to leave on a mission at the same time Spot's kittens were due, he persuaded Barclay to take care of her (" Genesis ").

Armed with the results, Knight persuaded Prior and Genocky to rejoin, coaxed Johnson out of a health-induced retirement, and along with Kemp and Knight, they released Present -- The Very Best of Steeleye Span ( 2002 ), a 2-disc set of new recordings of the songs.

The Skeptic simply goes along with the appearance just as " a child is persuaded by ... his teacher.

The President of the Harvard Dramatic Society, Charles Leatherbee, along with the President of Princeton's Theatre Intime, Bretaigne Windust, who together had established the University Players on Cape Cod the summer before, persuaded Sullavan to join them for their second summer season.

He persuaded the double acts and Sayle to move from the Comedy Store along with Arnold Brown, an older standup comic who did not fit so obviously into the alternative comedy scene.

This is not true: Fields persuaded Hawthorne to publish The Scarlet Letter alone ( along with the earlier-completed " Custom House " essay ) but he had nothing to do with the length of the story.

When MacNeill learned about the IRB's plans, and when he was informed that Roger Casement was about to land in County Kerry with a shipment of German arms, he was reluctantly persuaded to go along with them, believing British action was now imminent and mobilisation of the Volunteers would, at this stage, be a defensive act.

However, the purpose of the new highway was to replace the congested, winding and hilly route of Highway 8 along the escarpment ; several groups of collisions throughout the summer gradually persuaded the public in support of the new highway.

He worked for the reform movement along with William Carson and Morris that successfully persuaded the British Colonial Office to institute responsible government in Newfoundland.

It seems to have been Paterson, along with a few other alumni, who persuaded the new president, John Witherspoon, to permit the formation of successors to the Plain Dealing and Well Meaning Clubs.

The movement to desegregate the College was wholly internal, beginning with students who, with the support of the faculty and administration, persuaded a reluctant Board of Visitors and Governors to go along.

Van Doren was persuaded to go along with the fraud by an appeal that his appearance would help glamorize information and intellectualism.

Constantin Stanislavski, the Russian theatre practitioner, had wanted to stage the play in 1895 ; he had persuaded Tolstoy to rewrite act four along lines that Stanislavski had suggested, but the production did not materialise.

Richard Ellmann, in his biography of Joyce, states that, " Joyce spent several evenings with him " ( i. e. McCormack ), practising ; along with Joyce's acquaintance Richard Best, McCormack persuaded Joyce to enter the Feis Ceoil that year.

In the 1965 federal election, Marchand along with Gérard Pelletier and Pierre Elliott Trudeau, were persuaded to run as Liberal candidates.

Alas Saracens ' seesaw existence over the nineties was about to continue in 1995 – 96 when they again found themselves at the wrong end of the table along with West Hartlepool but they were saved by their new CEO Mike Smith, who persuaded the RFU that there should be no relegation for the first season of professional rugby.

In 1932, Warner Brothers persuaded both Francis and Powell to join the ranks of Warners stars, along with Ruth Chatterton.

The sages ' appeal is said to have persuaded Abu-Kariba ; he called off his attack and also embraced Judaism along with his entire army.

Also in 1828, he persuaded the Massachusetts Legislature to charter a society to promote U. S. settlement along the Columbia River.

Once the decision was made to use the Cambie alignment for the Canada Line anyway, residents along the corridor successfully persuaded authorities to put the rail line in a tunnel instead of running it as a surface route, and to dig the tunnel using a tunnel boring machine.

He joined Fianna Fáil when the party was founded in 1926, and along with the 42 other Fianna Fáil TDs he took his seat in the 5th Dáil on 12 August 1927, three days before the Dáil tied 71 votes to 71 on a motion of no confidence which persuaded W. T. Cosgrave's Cumann na nGaedheal government to call a general election in search of a majority.

He persuaded Occom to go to England in 1766 to raise money for the school, along with the Rev.