Sentences with 'persuading'
Example sentences and phrases with the word persuading and other words derived from it.
• « Louis XVI reluctantly agreed to revive France's old representative assembly, the Estates General, in the hope of persuading that body to provide more revenue. For the first time in the history of French absolutism, a king had to formally negotiate with his subjects to avoid bankruptcy. »
• « Have you ever noticed... that we spend 18 months trying to get our children to stand up and talk, and the next 18 years persuading them to sit down and listen? »