For a time, urging Breasted to give up his public relations work and take up writing instead, he hoped to persuade him to become his assistant in research for the labor novel ; ;

`` And '', I was ticking off the items on my fingers, `` swears too much and goes out with the boys, whoever they are, too much, and who ever goes to church and won't even listen when I try to persuade him to come back to the fold ''.

He misses his wife who is in Paris, and he uses all his ingenuity and resourcefulness to persuade the city bureaucracy to allow him to leave.

The day following, when he was performing divine service in the basilica, the prefect of the city came to persuade him to give up at least the Portian basilica in the suburbs.

He tried to persuade some of his crewmates to desert with him, remaining on the island ; he was counting on an impending visit by another ship.

Meanwhile, an official from Dr. Vornoff's home country, Professor Strowksi ( George Becwar ), arrives and tries to persuade him to return to their homeland in hopes that his research will benefit their nation.

Coyote tries to persuade Virginia opossum | Opossum to let him have some persimmon s, in a Caddo story.

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.

** Hippolita in The Castle of Otranto-Hippolita is depicted as the obedient wife of her tyrant husband who “ would not only acquiesce with patience to divorce, but would obey, if it was his pleasure, in endeavouring to persuade Isabelle to give him her hand ”.

Eventually, Ko-Ko must persuade Katisha to marry him, in order to save his own life and the lives of the other conspirators.

By hiding beside the grave of Alcestis, Heracles was able to surprise Death when he came to collect her, and by squeezing him tight until he relented, was able to persuade Death to return Alcestis to her husband.

Sherf's request was initially refused but he managed to persuade the driver to take him.

In 1500 she met King Louis XII of France in Milan on a diplomatic mission to persuade him not to send his troops against Mantua.

Bormann exploited the disaster at Stalingrad, and his daily access to Hitler, to persuade him to create a three-man junta representing the State, the Army, and the Party, represented respectively by Hans Lammers, head of the Reich Chancellery, Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel, chief of the OKW ( armed forces high command ), and Bormann, who controlled the Party and access to the Führer.

Goebbels hoped in this way to persuade Hitler to give him and his ally Speer control of domestic policy for a program of total commitment to arms production and full labour conscription, including women.

This time, Judah spoke to his father in order to persuade him about having Benjamin accompany them, so as to prevent Egyptian retribution.

Phoebe calls him trying to sell him toner and she learns about his problem and tries to persuade him not to commit suicide.

A deputation of leading barons led by Bishop Orleton was then sent to Kenilworth to first persuade Edward to resign and, when that failed, to inform him that he had been deposed as king.

Cardinal Richelieu himself, preceded by lesser dignitaries, condescended to visit Amyraut privately, to persuade him to kneel ; but Amyraut held resolutely to his point and carried it.

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.

Sinclair tried to persuade the NPA to allow him to stand again in New England, but they had already chosen another candidate and Sinclair had no choice but to retire, which he did at the October 1998 election.

By 1891 he had become disillusioned with Parnell's political leadership, although emotionally loyal to him he tried to persuade him to retire after the O ' Shea divorce case.

In 1947, amid a growing economic and political crisis, Cripps tried to persuade Attlee to retire in favour of Ernest Bevin ; however, Bevin was in favour of Attlee remaining.

In the 50th anniversary live-action Snow White Disney special hosted by Dick Van Dyke, the Queen, played by Jane Curtin, cast a spell on Grumpy in an attempt to get him to persuade the other Dwarfs to retire.

As Pereira approached, the Castilians sent an emissary to him, attempting to persuade him to retire.

In early 1939, when Supreme Court Justice Louis D. Brandeis was about to retire, some of Allen's supporters tried to persuade President Roosevelt that it was time to name a woman, and they reminded the president that Judge Allen was extremely qualified.

After two and a half months of working on the Danish king, Bertie got him to offer to try to persuade the Spanish king to retire from the Low Countries.

The Orthodox Jewish community made every attempt to persuade Rabbi Zweigenhaft to remain, even offering to fund his weekly journey from Switzerland.

I shall endeavour to persuade you, that He who is said to have appeared to Abraham, and to Jacob, and to Moses, and who is called God, is distinct from Him who made all things, I mean numerically, not in will.

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.

Army General George C. Marshall made a persistent effort to persuade Dewey not to touch this topic ; Dewey eventually yielded.

White Americans who made up the KKK hoped to persuade black voters that a return to their state of repression and near-slavery, as it existed before the war, was in their best interest.

His friend, John Tankey, caught up with him and attempted to persuade him to stay, but Slovik's only comment was that his " mind was made up ".

His audience is made up largely of the " Suitors " ( Proci ), who live in the house while attempting to persuade Penelope to marry one of them.

Disney made this film primarily to persuade and encourage American industry and various corporations to opt in and help Walt Disney Productions in the creation and running of EPCOT.

When the Golden Argosy crew is made aware of Guerrero's presence and intentions, Captain Vernon Demerest ( Dean Martin ), acting as a check pilot to evaluate Captain Anson Harris ( Barry Nelson ), goes back into the passenger cabin and tries to persuade Guerrero not to trigger the bomb.

In saving the girl's life, Bookman has willingly sacrificed his own ; he has now made that last great sales pitch-" one for the angels ", one that could persuade even Death, thus fulfilling the original agreement.

Home's cabinet colleagues Enoch Powell and Iain Macleod, who disapproved of his candidacy, made a last-minute effort to prevent him from taking office by trying to persuade Butler and the other candidates not to take posts in a Home cabinet.

In what was seen as a reference to the close interest in the Dome from Mandelson, known at the time as so-called " Dome Secretary ", and his successor Lord Falconer of Thoroton, Ms Page told the committee: " I made several attempts to persuade ministers that standing back from the Dome would be good for them as well as good for the Dome ".

Examples of companies that have made use of these techniques in order to persuade their clients:

The first record Dickinson recalls owning was The Beatles single " She Loves You ", which he managed to persuade his grandfather to buy him, which made him more interested in music.

Subsequently, it was reported in books by authors Stephen O ' Byrnes and Raymond Smith, and by many political journalists in newspaper articles ( some of whom had Lenihan as their source ) that Lenihan had been one of the people who had made phone calls to Áras an Uachtaráin, the President's official residence, on the night in question, in order to persuade or pressurise Hillery to refuse a dissolution.

Graham was a strong supporter of Scottish independence and in 1886 had helped establish the Scottish Home Rule Association, and while in the House of Commons made several attempts to persuade fellow MPs of the desirability of a Scottish parliament.

He made some progress with this in the summer of 1892 but he was unable to persuade the Conservative and Unionist government, headed by Lord Salisbury, to allocate time for the Bill to be fully debated.

Anyhow, Veblen had been trying to persuade me that it made a difference which you used, three minuses and a plus, or its negative, three pluses and a minus.

Alī's cousin and a renowned Islamic jurist, Abdullah ibn Abbas, pointed out the grave theological errors made by the Kharijites in quoting the Qur ' an, and managed to persuade a number of Kharijites to return to Alī based on their misinterpretations.

However, Einstein made this proposal to persuade a reluctant Marić to agree to divorce him, and under the terms of the agreement the money was to be held in trust for their two boys, while she was able to draw on the interest.

He opposed James ’ s return from Scotland and, about this time ( September ), made a characteristic but futile attempt to persuade the Duke to attend the services of the Church of England and thus to end all difficulties.

He made some excellent speeches but failed to persuade any of the major parties to support bills beneficial to Ireland, nothing worthwhile reaching the statute books.

However, she managed to persuade her husband to respect her vow of perpetual virginity that she had made prior to their marriage.

On the accession of Queen Anne the Whig leaders made an ineffectual attempt to persuade Shrewsbury to return to office.