8 sentences with 'persuaded'
Example sentences and phrases with the word persuaded and other words derived from it.
• « A new Athenian general, Themistocles, persuaded his countrymen to spend the money from a silver mine they had discovered on a navy. »
• « In 415 BC Athens suffered a disaster when a young general persuaded the Athenians to send thousands of troops against the city of Syracuse (a Spartan ally) in southern Sicily, hundreds of miles from Greece itself, in the hope of sacking it. »
• « An expansionist faction of the Roman Senate successfully persuaded the Centurion Assembly to declare war. »
• « The initial Gothic uprising that triggered the beginning of the end for the western Roman Empire was in the Balkans, but the Goths were then persuaded to go west. Subsequent invasions of Central Europe were directed westwards. »
• « However, radical elements in the National Assembly anticipated war and persuaded the Assembly to declare pre-emptive war on Austria in April 1792; Prussia soon joined in an alliance with Austria against France. »
• « Much of the credit was due to an astute diplomat, Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord, himself a former official under Napoleon, who persuaded the other representatives to include France as an equal partner rather than an enemy to be punished. »
• « Significantly, however, Bismarck persuaded the Prussian king not to order a march on Vienna and the occupation of Austria itself; Bismarck's aim had been to eliminate Austria from contention as a potential ruling power in Germany, not to attempt to conquer and control it. »
• « Unfortunately, in January 1933, Hindenburg was persuaded by members of his cabinet led by a conservative Catholic politician, Franz von Papen, to use Hitler and the Nazis as tools to help dismantle the Weimar state and replace it with a more authoritarian political order. Thus, Hindenburg appointed Hitler chancellor, the second most powerful political position in the state. Hitler seized the opportunity to launch a full-scale takeover of the German government. »