Hands on Bible, seaman Lodley and carpenter Staffe swore that Juet had tried to persuade them to keep muskets and swords in their cabins.

Still more time was consumed while the pilot, at the radioed suggestion of Continental president Robert Six, tried to persuade the armed pair to swap the Boeing jet for a propeller-driven Douglas Aj.

Robbie and Beryl tried their best to persuade her to come and stay with them, and Anne and I have told her she's more than welcome here, but I think she feels that she might be an imposition, especially as long as our Rosie is still in high school.

This failed and Hippias again fled to Sardis and tried to persuade the Persians to subjugate Athens.

Later that year Stafford Cripps tried to persuade Attlee to stand aside for Bevin.

After realising the captain of the taken vessel was an Englishman, Kidd tried to persuade his crew to return the ship to its owners, but they refused, claiming that their prey was perfectly legal as Kidd was commissioned to take French ships, and that an Armenian ship counted as French if it had French passes.

He wrote that the Bohemian princess tried to persuade her husband to accept Christianity ( even at the cost of breaking their marriage and with it the Polish-Bohemian alliance ).

Mountbatten tried to persuade Jinnah of a united India, citing the difficult task of dividing the mixed states of Punjab and Bengal, but the Muslim leader was unyielding in his goal of establishing a separate Muslim state called Pakistan.

Tammany Hall looked with alarm upon Kelly ’ s entrance into the campaign and tried to persuade him to withdraw his candidacy and throw his support behind Moran.

Orwell's will requested that no biography of him be written, and his wife Sonia Brownell repelled every attempt by those who tried to persuade her to let them write about him.

The Dominicans in Bern tried to persuade Zwingli to join their order and it is possible that he was received as a novice.

Goebbels instead tried to persuade Hitler to appoint Göring as head of the government.

In the first, from 1938 – 39, he tried to persuade other states to align themselves with Germany for the coming war.

The Government tried and tried to persuade them to move, including even a visit by the Governor himself, which was a disaster.

During this time, Sonny Stitt tried to persuade him to join the Tiny Bradshaw band, then passing through town, but Davis ' mother insisted that he finish his final year of high school.

Many of his new and old friends ( Davis, in his autobiography, mentions Clarke ) tried to persuade him to stay in France, but Davis decided to return to New York.

He declared in an interview that he tried to persuade his interviewers to free the IE code even before Netscape did so with their own browser.

He wrote in his memoirs that he found this period very useful later on, when he entered politics, and that senior civil servant Norman Robertson tried unsuccessfully to persuade him to stay on.

But the papacy left no doubt about the heavenly reward for knights fighting for Christ ( militia Christi ): in a letter, Urban II tried to persuade the reconquistadores fighting at Tarragona to stay in the Peninsula and not to join the armed pilgrimage to conquer Jerusalem since their contribution for Christianity was equally important.

By this time his relationship with the 25-year-old writer Mira Mendelson ( 1915 – 1968 ) had finally led to his separation from his wife Lina, although they were never technically divorced: indeed Prokofiev had tried to persuade Lina and their sons to accompany him as evacuees out of Moscow, but Lina opted to stay.

Cranmer personally tried to persuade him to change his views without success.

Count Peter Alexandrovich ( 1761 – 1844 ) served under Suvorov in wars against Poland and Turkey, was made a general-adjutant in 1797, went as an ambassador to Paris in 1807 and tried to persuade Alexander I to prepare for the war against France, without much success though.

Sonu Shamdasani, a historian from London, for three years tried to persuade Jung's heirs to have it published, to which they declined every hint of inquiry.

Anyone who tried to remedy some of the most glaring defects in our form of democracy was denounced as a traitorous red whose real purpose was the destruction of our government.

I heard of some that tried it back in the States, and he'd knock them clear across the room.

At the rear of the auditorium, upstairs, some men tried to push open the door to the box corridor.

She tried to find some way to draw him out, to help him.

He tried to order the words of the three Union officers, seeking to create some coherent portrait of the dead boy.

During the summer he had tried to repair some of his losses at the track, and the bare trees reminded him that his pari-mutuel tickets would still be lying, like leaves, in the gutters near Belmont and Saratoga.

I tried to do so by calling to their attention some of the problems that a senior departmental policy officer faces.

In the past an orthodontist might have tried, over four or five years, to straighten and fit the boy's large teeth into a jaw that, despite some growth, would never accommodate them.

He considered them with brooding eyes, brows bunched as his brain grappled with the problem and tried to find some solution.

He tried to tell himself that maybe Burton had sobered up enough to get some sense.

I've tried to teach some of the other boys to kick and some of them can't seem to get the feel.

Among the Moliere specialists of some years ago, Louis Jouvet tried to humanize some of the clowns, while Fernand Ledoux, often performing at the Comedie, made them more gross than Moliere may have intended.

Far long ago, some other prisoner than one of these had tried to write a letter.

The Greek sculptors tried to clarify it by looking for mathematical proportions, just as they sought some reality behind appearances.

Other products like hydrogen peroxide have been tried out as stand-alone and in combination with chlorhexidine, due to some inconsistent results regarding its usefulness.

Doubt was also raised about the affinities of Korean and Japanese ; in particular, some authors tried to connect Japanese to the Austronesian languages.

The assembly had four main functions: it made executive pronouncements ( decrees, such as deciding to go to war or granting citizenship to a foreigner ); it elected some officials ; it legislated ; and it tried political crimes.

In some other respects the Athenians were not the old popular rulers they had been at first ; and if they had more than their fair share of service, it was correspondingly easy for them to reduce any that tried to leave the confederacy.

Various Arab and Berber tribes fought each other for varying degrees of power, some cities tried to break away and form their own state, and even members of Abd al-Rahman's family tried to wrest power from him.

Her husband left her no money, so she has tried different kinds of work, and now hopes to find some work that is not too strenuous.

In recent years, the government has tried to attract private investment to this sector, with some success.