Example sentences of "to persuade [noun pl] of the " in BNC.
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| 1 | For instance , if the directors of the smaller company have had to issue consideration shares at a significant discount to the market price in order to persuade shareholders of the larger company to accept the offer the minority may argue that not only have they been diluted unfairly but also that this has resulted in control passing into the hands of third parties and that they are , effectively , investors in an entirely different company without having been given the opportunity to accept an offer or exercise their rights of challenge under CA 1985 , s430C . |
| 2 | He judged that it would be difficult to persuade readers of the artistry of Klee 's art , which appeared similar to children 's drawings , so he stressed the work 's imaginative content . |
| 3 | Any attempts to persuade farmers of the necessity of environmental conservation must take all these factors into account . |
| 4 | It saw itself in a paternalistic role in relation to them , seeking to persuade wrongdoers of the error of their ways and guiding them back to the right paths . |
| 5 | The trial is so entangled with the standing of the ANC that the right-wing Conservative Party has blamed the ‘ state intelligence service ’ for the disappearance of an important state witness ; the party 's argument was that the government wanted to persuade whites of the virtue of negotiations with the ANC , and found the trial embarrassing . |
| 6 | It is difficult to persuade overworkers of the importance of rest and recreation . |
| 7 | The European Commission on Human Rights was of the view that seeking to persuade members of the armed forces to disobey military orders which rendered a particular person liable to prosecution for ‘ incitement to disaffection ’ properly justified a prosecution under Article 10 , paragraph 2 of the Convention . |
| 8 | As regards the Dinka , he suggests that it may be possible to persuade users of the language to reply to questions about the mind — body dichotomy : it is not that the language is incapable , at a formal level , of making such a distinction , but that such usage would be unrepresentative in cultural terms . |
| 9 | When , in One Hundred Years of Solitude , the last Aureliano Buendía tries to persuade others of the truth of his version of certain events , he runs up against the scepticism of the local priest who , ironically , is conspicuously lacking in the certainties which he is supposed to embody : |
| 10 | While there clearly was an ‘ objective ’ discontinuity of subject perspective between selective school mathematics and the practice of some segments , increasingly dominant within some countries , of university mathematics , and had been for some years , it again required interested actors , utilizing the climate of ‘ crisis ’ resulting from the campaign on teacher supply as a major resource , to enter various arenas in order to persuade others of the ‘ need ’ for change . |
| 11 | In May the efforts of V. N. Kokovtsov , the Minister of Finance , to persuade representatives of the industrialists to agree to improve the conditions of labour collapsed ignominiously . |