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’ He said, persuading me that he has never seen me on stage
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After a somewhat heated discussion between us, Gilla got her way, this time persuading me to pack several skirts as well as the sensible hosen and shirts which have accompanied me on my journeys so far
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Took some persuading though and, in the end, I had to lie about Dave being in a meeting all day to get rid of him
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They had, it seemed, set their hopes upon persuading Mrs
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persuading Henri to trust his instinct in this instance
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Persuading the man to betray his lord was an irritating task to say the least, not to mention the fact that many of her previous failures to assassinate LeCynic were a direct result of his snooping
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Our woollen manufacturers have been more successful than any other class of workmen, in persuading the legislature that the prosperity of the nation depended upon the success and extension of their particular business
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The light was gradually fading and as soon as Chris came across a boulder with a suitably wide, flat top he brought the party to a halt, not that they took much persuading
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Even after the painkiller injection, Melissa took some persuading before she would eat anything and even then she barely ate half her ration
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I doubt they’ll take any persuading to come here
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Earth was obviously going to take a lot more persuading, but to do that he would have to gather some more compelling evidence
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sure Harwood would assist materially in persuading the men
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The only unresolved problem was in persuading the majority of the population to acquiesce to be placed in a stasis pod, where their body would be frozen, their mind in sleep mode while an enabler program immersed them in an artificial reality (which was about as different to a conventional AR as that would be to a games console)
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Certainly, at the moment, he had no idea how to proceed with the business of persuading this woman to take the higher road, this most difficult, demanding road
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persuading, the wonderful gentleman said he would sell us a used tire
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My father has a way of persuading people without charm that has always confused me
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For example, in Jacksonville, Florida, two Democratic lawyers gleefully congratulated themselves on their success in persuading the local
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I was an early victim of what will be pointed out later as the “Ithaca Trap,” Park’s practice of persuading new employees to buy an expensive home that would keep them tied close to the job as continuing payments came due
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What was Annyeke trying to tell him and how could this help him to meditate? Should he have agreed to the mind-link narration? No, he still believed persuading her to tell him vocally had been the wisest course of action
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The problem is persuading the remaining Lammassers to accept that help
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It looks as if he will busy himself with the task of persuading the old man, who has begun to shake and mutter once more, to sleep, and Ralph suspects this will not be an easy prospect
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From such life departed? And they who gave them in withered and undecayed these also were near to them; for they were hypocrites and introducers of strange doctrines and subverters of the servants Of God especially of those who had sinned not allowing them to repent but persuading them by foolish doctrines
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During his 21 years stay in South Africa, Gandhi organized three satyāgraha-s and was ultimately successful in persuading the Government to give in to the demands of Indians
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Initially Gāndhi had trouble persuading fellow Indians to follow the path of non-violence
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If he, in all those years of patience and persuading had made no impact on the minds and souls of those in his care, if their hearts remained as lecherous and libidinous as ever, then the time had come for the Wrath of God to be unleashed
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Hoyt was always good at persuading people, it was his gift and his curse
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The swamp oak I had chosen was already occupied, and I had a hard time persuading the unfriendly red squirrel family already there to let me stay
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Or could she? Squirrel Girl herself had finally succeeded in persuading the earthfolk of Mapleway to plan how they would save themselves
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I guess I didn’t need much persuading though
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On the other hand, there was no human power capable of persuading him not to take along the three boxes when he returned to his native village, and he unleashed a string of Carthagini-an curses at the railroad inspectors who tried to ship them as freight until he finally succeeded in keeping them with him in the passenger coach
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Feltus noticed a distinct change in their expressions, with the exception of Elizabeth Bascomb whose visage seemed perpetually somber and serious, when he recounted exactly how he had succeeded in persuading Terence to lead him over the exact path of his hunting expedition which just happened to cover the exact area where the rifle shell and the dung had been discovered
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an adamant defence in hopes of persuading Feltus to demand an autopsy, but his attempts had been futile given the detective’s obstinacy over protecting what would be the wishes of the boy’s family
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Be that as it may, when Marshall was eventually tracked down by his intelligence officers, he stubbornly refused to accept their reports and they had difficulty in persuading him that the Japanese were about to strike
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Sadly, Somerville's first duty was that of persuading the French fleet in Algieria to demilitarise itself
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Cash had a way of persuading people
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Halfshaft had some difficulty persuading George and his fellow cave-trolls to follow him into the Forest
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He took a bit of persuading to leave, of course
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The Doctor didn’t believe that Monty would kill him, but realized that his chances of persuading the Guardians were vanishingly small
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The first thing that happens, in Genesis 39, Verse 7, is the master's wife starts eyeing him up, so she starts dressing in scanty clothes, and starts persuading him, saying every day, every day, day after day after day, come on, lie with me, come on, let's have sex
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They assert that the phrase would be more correctly rendered, "In a short time," or "with weak and feeble argument thou art persuading me
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It is he who goes to and fro amongst fallen Churches, persuading them to throw aside the Bible, and satisfy people with formal worship or grovelling superstitions
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�It is he who is continually going to the ears of intellectual and highly educated men, persuading them that the old Bible is not true, and advising them to be content with Atheism, Theism, Agnosticism, Secularism, and a general contempt for the world to come
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Toby’s a crafty bastard, persuading the guy to call in sick
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You’d stand a better chance of persuading them to give up their pensions
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in persuading Tom to spend a few days with her at a friend’s remote
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He came back and stood over her, a man flushed with, agitation, with the necessity for persuading her quickly to do the right, the only thing
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He was chosen because of his great passion and loyalty and Sheridan will have no problems in persuading him that the true worship of Hella Dracon will give both of them eternal life
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once they marry, Sheridan will have no problems in persuading him that the true worship of Hella Dracon will give both of them eternal life
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She had been persuading herself that her little holiday was harmless and natural; and now this business with Herr Dremmel would, she felt, do away with all that, and justify a wrath in her father that she might, else for her private solace and encouragement, have looked upon as unreasonable
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If Tim O'Neil's invention was useless, there was a chance of persuading Josephine to stay in South Africa
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"I was busy persuading a young lady not to commit suicide
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Men feel more coldly towards a system which sends out agents, whose training consists somewhat in persuading them not to think on the question of human destiny; and which discourages the expression of belief, whether at home or abroad, in a sense more accordant with the thought of our generation
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Will it not give to the joyful voice of Christianity a new energy, when it has learned to proclaim through Christ the promise of individual life in conscious union with Deity, as the eternal blessedness of the righteous? You will never succeed in persuading the 480,000,000 Buddhists that man already possesses by nature an indissoluble soul; for it is the first principle of the Buddhist that the soul can be dissolved; and his second that separate existence is so miserable, that the highest object of hope is to lose individual being, and to be absorbed in the all
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Hence apologetic literature is more successful in exposing the weakness of its adversaries than in persuading them to 'repent and believe the gospel
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He stood with the two ladies, seizing both by their hands, persuading them, and giving them reasons with astonishing plainness of speech, and at almost every word he uttered, probably to emphasise his arguments, he squeezed their hands painfully as in a vise
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"schwach" in German with an object of persuading him to take half his translation and half the payment for it
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This being so, thou must remember that I am now labouring under that infirmity which women sometimes suffer from, when the craving seizes them to eat clay, plaster, charcoal, and things even worse, disgusting to look at, much more to eat; so that it will be necessary to have recourse to some artifice to cure me; and this can be easily effected if only thou wilt make a beginning, even though it be in a lukewarm and make-believe fashion, to pay court to Camilla, who will not be so yielding that her virtue will give way at the first attack: with this mere attempt I shall rest satisfied, and thou wilt have done what our friendship binds thee to do, not only in giving me life, but in persuading me not to discard my honour
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Samson's intention in persuading him to sally forth once more was to do what the history relates farther on; all by the advice of the curate and barber, with whom he had previously discussed the subject
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The first part of his history had not yet reached him, for, had he read it, the amazement with which his words and deeds filled him would have vanished, as he would then have understood the nature of his madness; but knowing nothing of it, he took him to be rational one moment, and crazy the next, for what he said was sensible, elegant, and well expressed, and what he did, absurd, rash, and foolish; and said he to himself, "What could be madder than putting on a helmet full of curds, and then persuading oneself that enchanters are softening one's skull; or what could be greater rashness and folly than wanting to fight lions tooth and nail?"
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The head-carver was left with a heart pierced through and through, and he made up his mind on the spot to demand the damsel in marriage of her father on the morrow, making sure she would not be refused him as he was a servant of the duke's; and even to Sancho ideas and schemes of marrying the youth to his daughter Sanchica suggested themselves, and he resolved to open the negotiation at the proper season, persuading himself that no husband could be refused to a governor's daughter
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The priest did not need any persuading; he went out to go and say mass, came back, and then they ate and hobnobbed, giggling a little without knowing why, stimulated by that vague gaiety that comes upon us after times of sadness, and at the last glass the priest said to the druggist, as he clapped him on the shoulder—
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Jennings, that they should both attend her on such a visit, Elinor had some difficulty in persuading her sister to go, for still she had seen nothing of Willoughby; and therefore was not more indisposed for amusement abroad, than unwilling to run the risk of his calling again in her absence
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They were relieved however, not by her own recollection, but by the good will of Lucy, who believed herself to be inflicting a severe disappointment when she told her that Edward certainly would not be in Harley Street on Tuesday, and even hoped to be carrying the pain still farther by persuading her that he was kept away by the extreme affection for herself, which he could not conceal when they were together
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Palmer maintained the common, but unfatherly opinion among his sex, of all infants being alike; and though she could plainly perceive, at different times, the most striking resemblance between this baby and every one of his relations on both sides, there was no convincing his father of it; no persuading him to believe that it was not exactly like every other baby of the same age; nor could he even be brought to acknowledge the simple proposition of its being the finest child in the world
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And there are professors of rhetoric who teach the art of persuading courts and assemblies; and so, partly by persuasion and partly by force, I shall make unlawful gains and not be punished
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At first, I expected there would be sad work persuading you to let me keep my word to Linton; for I had engaged to call again next day, when we quitted him; but, as you stayed upstairs on the morrow, I escaped that trouble
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Catherine was near distraught: still, she persisted that she must go home, and tried entreaty in her turn, persuading him to subdue his selfish agony
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Ned needed no persuading and started our story all over again, most of which I could follow
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Thomas knew that would be even more difficult than persuading the Keepers had been
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While all the images and events he had witnessed remained deeply impressed on his memory, he felt a difficulty in persuading him of their truth
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Three local men, Mukhtar Khan Yousafzai, Khurshid Kakajee and Zahid Khan went from hujra to hujra persuading elders to join together
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After the ladies had departed for the ball, whither all the entreaties of Madame de Villefort had failed in persuading him to accompany them, the procureur had shut himself up in his study, according to his custom, with a heap of papers calculated to alarm any one else, but which generally scarcely satisfied his inordinate desires
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Merthin was casting around for another way of persuading Ralph when Brother
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Persuading them will prove nothing, but three or four dead rabbits will prove you're a fool, when it's too late
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After a time, he fell occurred to him that perhaps he might start his venture from the other end -- by persuading some of the does to join him and working out a plan afterward, sleeping as best he could outside an overcrowded burrow
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When Hazel had told him what he was to do, it had seemed to him that his task would consist of leading the dog on and persuading it to follow him
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persuading him to see a doctor and to go to a wateringplace abroad
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He succeeded so well in persuading his brother, and in lending him money for the journey without irritating him, that he was satisfied with himself in that matter
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"A little more than persuading had to do wi' the coming o't, I reckon
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He stood with the two ladies, seizing both by their hands, persuading them,
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At last Tess grew more and more anxious to know what they were saying, and, persuading herself that she felt better, she got up and resumed work
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At this stage of affairs he was in excellent spirits, which even supported him under large advances of money; for his powers of convincing and persuading had not yet been, tested by anything more difficult than a chairman's speech introducing other orators, or a dialogue with a Middlemarch voter, from which he came away with a sense that he was a tactician by nature, and that it was a pity he had not gone earlier into this kind of thing
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’ What that meant was that if somebody is persuading you to buy a share there is probably some self-interested motive such as having large amounts of that company’s shares on tap
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This is particularly true when the advice is supplied by a bond salesman whose livelihood depends upon persuading his customers to buy the securities that his firm has “on its shelves
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The investment bankers who brought out these issues presumably accepted this assumption, and their salesmen had little difficulty in persuading themselves and their customers to a like effect
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1 shows the daily chart of Lumisys in April 1996 when it came flying out of what looked like a five-week base to me at the time, and because I was already in love with the company’s products, I didn’t need too much persuading to buy what I saw as a perfect massive-volume breakout
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R: He needed some persuading
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On that particular day, the prosecution’s point was that the program was functionally persuading this girl that it was more living than she was
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The one problem is cost and persuading the power industry to do the same
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The Italian police eventually managed to turn the tables on the Red Brigade, mainly by persuading members to turn informer
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At first, I expected there would be sad work persuading you to let me keep my word to Linton: for I had engaged to call again next day, when we quitted him; but, as you stayed up-stairs on the morrow, I escaped that trouble
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He invented an infidelity on the part of the lover, and succeeded, by means of fragments of letters cunningly presented, in persuading the unfortunate woman that she had a rival, and that the man was deceiving her
