verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
let yourself be beaten/persuaded/fooled etc
▪ I stupidly let myself be persuaded to take part in a live debate.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
easily
▪ This is another rasbora which is quite easily persuaded to breed in aquarium conditions.
finally
▪ A succession of scandals finally persuaded his father that William must seek his fortune overseas.
▪ The group members then went hunting for another buyer, finally persuading media giant Gannett Co. to buy their option.
▪ He finally persuaded Bolton to sell, but the asking price was an unprecedented £13,000, twice the previous record.
▪ Friends said two factors had finally persuaded him to join the contest.
▪ I went to see her, and I've finally persuaded her to see Martin again.
▪ Anya, possibly by waving her gun again, has finally persuaded Riva to change into drier clothes.
■ NOUN
attempt
▪ The union will engage in negotiations with the employers in an attempt to persuade them that the wage claim is justified.
▪ There was no attempt to persuade him to reconsider.
▪ Mr Mullin said that any attempt to persuade clubs to end discrimination by blocking their entitlement to rates relief was illegal.
▪ He had failed miserably in an attempt to persuade a Goan shopkeeper to buy a shipment of canned milk.
▪ April 23-24 Baker fails in his attempt to persuade Assad to moderate his position during talks in Damascus.
▪ There was no attempt to persuade and the result was that I blew up.
▪ The same would apply to attempts to persuade some one to refrain from doing so.
authority
▪ He also persuaded the college authorities that they ought to embark on a class project and construction was started in November 1936.
▪ There may still be time to persuade the authorities to relocate her rather than remove her from the wild.
campaign
▪ The Victorian Society mounted a campaign to persuade us to take it on.
▪ Separate animal rights organisations now work together in co-ordinated campaigns to persuade teenagers that animals should not be used in research.
▪ In Cambridge, there was a campaign to persuade students to register in the city, which was a marginal Conservative seat.
council
▪ How do you persuade the research council or the science supremo of an industrial research outfit to fund your brilliant new ideas?
▪ Joy Holloway lived next door to the kennels until she persuaded the council to rehouse her.
▪ Attempt to persuade the City Council to discontinue its dangerous and extravagant traffic schemes near the Donnington area.
▪ The success of the clubs persuaded Hounslow Borough Council to take them over as part of its educational support service.
▪ Next month he will try to persuade Great Aycliffe Town Council to spend £44,000 on a bus adapted for disabled people.
▪ Now supporters are trying to persuade the council not to go ahead with the plans.
court
▪ He persuaded the court that she must have raped him.
▪ It is difficult to persuade the Court of Appeal to alter a finding of direct fact by the trial judge.
difficulty
▪ The YCs often have difficulty in persuading their members to agree to perform administrative offices.
▪ I had such difficulty persuading him to take Brückner's story seriously.
▪ We had difficulty persuading our kids out of the creche and into their different groups, they liked the wee ones so much!
effort
▪ Fewer than 200 people took part in the trial, despite efforts to persuade more homeowners to get involved.
▪ In an effort to persuade cells to respond, even more insulin is released.
▪ Despite Dycarbas's efforts to persuade Eustathius and command Emilia, they can not moderate their behaviour.
▪ William Reilly's efforts to persuade the Administration to agree to sign was reportedly the prime focus of tension between them.
▪ I shall not abandon the effort to persuade you otherwise.
▪ When efforts to persuade them to go proved fruitless, the building began to be demolished around their heads.
friend
▪ He therefore persuaded a friend to procure him a ticket without disclosing his identity.
▪ Pipkins was so enthusiastic that she persuaded 15 friends and colleagues to go with her.
▪ They also thought it likely that two allies could bring that about - an outraged civilian persuading his powerful military friend.
▪ In vain I tried to persuade friends that even without glasses it was possible to experience the phenomenon.
▪ A woman who persuades a friend to donate oocytes will not get them herself.
government
▪ When Lubbock was returned to Parliament in 1881, he persuaded Gladstone's Liberal government to take up the cause.
▪ Obviously, an organization benefits greatly when its interest group persuades the government to allow it to regulate itself.
▪ Alternatively, a hard-pressed sector may seek to persuade its government to invoke anti-dumping measures.
▪ Perhaps this would be a way of persuading the government to accept the proposal.
▪ By 1833 they had persuaded the government to provide a small grant towards this work.
▪ Helped persuade the Government to spend £200m cleaning Britain's beaches and £600m cleaning aerial discharges from coal-fired power stations.
▪ Eventually public concern for his safety persuaded the New Zealand Government of the day to introduce special protective legislation.
leader
▪ There were strong arguments to persuade Labour leaders to lower their sights in terms of national economic policy.
■ VERB
fail
▪ When he failed to persuade her to cancel it, he asked her for a date - and romance blossomed.
▪ He fails to persuade Hindus to repudiate the divisive and unjust social caste system.
▪ Having failed to persuade Mr Shankly to change his mind, Liverpool's board resisted the temptation to appoint another charismatic manager.
▪ When he failed, Bottger persuaded the king that he could find the formula for making porcelain -- and he did.
▪ To judge from the polls, he was failing to persuade voters that he was chancellor material.
▪ In offhand style we had named him Fred, but had failed to persuade him to eat anything.
▪ They didn't work for the Labour Party, which failed to persuade the voters of the value of self-sacrifice.
▪ So the best lobbyists make a point of never showing anger when they fail to persuade.
help
▪ The prime minister hopes that Mr Peres can help him persuade leftwingers and Arabs that he is still a peacemaker.
▪ Yet they have helped persuade a suspicious population to accept Mr Salinas's much-needed reforms.
hope
▪ The archdiocese still hopes to persuade the city to exempt Catholic Charities from the domestic partners ordinance, he said.
▪ The best he could hope for was to persuade Nev Hodgkinson to give him his money back.
▪ And so he put Sherry on contract, hoping to persuade her to go back to a two-year college.
▪ This won't be obvious yet, but I hope to persuade you of it.
▪ They hope to persuade the new operator to including a stop near the Haslemere Hospital in this route.
▪ The company hopes that it can persuade most of the surplus employees to go quietly, accepting voluntary redundancy.
manage
▪ We managed to persuade them to come and sit with us and she ended up next to me.
▪ Opposition experts have managed to persuade themselves that Bush is hoping to drop the plan.
▪ Only how had Leo managed to persuade him?
▪ So as a sideline I managed to persuade them to put out an album of the more acoustic stuff.
▪ Swiftly she caught him under the armpits and heaved until she managed to persuade him from the ground.
▪ Well, you managed to persuade the young lady to leave the Godstowe road for a spot you had previously chosen.
▪ She managed to persuade Ernest to take a proportion of this to augment his savings.
▪ We managed to persuade him not to perform the whole work during the wedding ceremony.
seek
▪ Alternatively, a hard-pressed sector may seek to persuade its government to invoke anti-dumping measures.
▪ They will seek to persuade journalists to support their client's case in appropriate newspaper articles.
▪ Dozens seized his point and sought to persuade the politicians and the public.
▪ The law should not encourage B to yield to the threat but should seek to persuade him to resist it.
▪ To influence, to seek to persuade, yes: to decide, no.
▪ Monsanto will never repeat the mistake of seeking to persuade consumers that they might wish to purchase its products.
try
▪ They had tried to persuade Harry to have a bed in their dormitory but he wouldn't agree.
▪ Although Bush and Clinton tried to persuade Congress to pay off the debt, the lawmakers have balked at doing so.
▪ The police spent two days trying to persuade the butcher to give them the name or names of his supplier.
▪ Amelia heard the newsmen trying to persuade the fliers to get dressed and have their picture taken.
▪ Using the techniques of forum theatre, the class try to persuade the old man to sell his house and land.
▪ But it takes great courage for a politician to try and persuade voters of that fact.
▪ It would be futile now to think of trying to persuade Jake to rethink his intended marriage to Janice.
▪ I have the onerous job on her father's behalf of trying to persuade her to return.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ After this accident, it will be difficult for the government to persuade people that nuclear power stations are safe.
▪ He eventually managed to persuade me that the documents were genuine.
▪ He was convicted of the murder, but he is still trying to persuade the public that he's innocent.
▪ I tried to persuade his ex-girlfriend to talk to him, but she said no.
▪ Maguire said he was not persuaded by criticisms in the media.
▪ Neil didn't want to come at first, but we persuaded him.
▪ Teachers need ways to persuade more parents to attend parent-teacher evenings.
▪ We want to persuade them of the value of diplomacy and talks to resolve disputes.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ As a result, she persuaded Jeff to seek professional counselling.
▪ In response, the chief executive needs to establish a clear vision and persuade the top team to accept that vision.
▪ Incidentally, how did you persuade Michael Heseltine to write it for you?
▪ It is difficult to persuade the Court of Appeal to alter a finding of direct fact by the trial judge.
▪ It will persuade our big men to turn honest after elections and trust to the mercy of the jury.
▪ Probably these men were persuaded to relinquish their rights for a sum of money in lieu.
▪ Some patients report troubles persuading their managed-care health plans to provide cutting-edge care.
▪ They have to be persuaded to buy a stock, or indeed, sell it.