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How to use the word persuading in a Sentence?

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I've become adept at persuading - read 'bribing' - the children to vacate 'work HQ' when I jump on client or other confidential calls.

– Dominic Epton

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

Christians need to recover what the first Christians faced - they had no power or legislative clout, they just got on with serving, persuading and praying.

– John Dickson

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

You couldn't use this stuff in a court of law. Or if you tried you would not have a very easy time persuading anyone that it was useful, the missing sections clearly contain discussions that would be relevant to any inquiry.

– Glenn Simpson

Found on CNN
8 years ago

You get the sense that there is very little room for persuading Ted Cruz on anything, there is some room where Ted could soften up a little and you get the sense that he won’t.

– Daniel Garza

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

There is a holy, mistaken zeal in politics, as well as in religion. By persuading others, we convince ourselves.

– Junius

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10 years ago

Business today consists in persuading crowds.

– Gerald Stanley Lee

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13 years ago

I do nothing but go about persuading you all, old and young alike, not to take thought for your persons or your properties, but and chiefly to care about the greatest improvement of the soul. I tell you that virtue is not given by money, but that from virtue comes money and every other good of man, public as well as private. This is my teaching, and if this is the doctrine which corrupts the youth, I am a mischievous person.

– Socrates

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14 years ago

I sit here all day trying to persuade people to do the things they ought to have the sense to do without my persuading them. That's all the powers of the President amount to.

– Harry S Truman

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14 years ago

Propaganda is the art of persuading others of what you don't believe yourself.

– Ausonius

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14 years ago

What is politics but persuading the public to vote for this and support that and endure these for the promise of those

– Gilbert Highet

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14 years ago

Truth persuades by teaching, but does not teach by persuading.

– Quintus Septimius Tertullianus

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14 years ago

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