Example sentences of "to dissuade him from " in BNC.
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| 1 | Why , otherwise would the EC investigating lawyer be bombarded with phone calls all trying to dissuade him from a site visit ? |
| 2 | You tried to dissuade him from telling that particular story , in his own interests . |
| 3 | Schlesinger 's agent tried to dissuade him from taking it on , advising him rather to direct Jack Lemmon in The April Fools . |
| 4 | The weather was terrible and his friends tried to dissuade him from flying . |
| 5 | A brief outline of the events is that the editor of a major medical journal ( a ) republished a previously published paper solely in order to attack it in an editorial ; ( b ) did this without the authors ' permission , while stating the opposite ; ( c ) initially refused to allow the original authors the right to reply in his editorial criticism ; ( d ) published a further editorial attack when ( a year later ) he published an edited version of the authors ' response ; ( d ) refused to publish any other correspondence about the editorial attacks ; and ( f ) gave another editor a dishonest account of events to dissuade him from publishing our account of the affair . |
| 6 | On April 2 Anania Bartolomeu , a founder member of a study group for the renovation of the Orthodox Church , had reportedly visited Teoctist in an attempt to dissuade him from returning . |
| 7 | Guo 's comments , and other remarks by Chinese officials earlier in the month , were interpreted as reflecting China 's intention of stepping up pressure on Chris Patten , Hong Kong 's Governor-designate , in order to dissuade him from considering any major changes in the colony or attempting to amend clauses in the Basic Law which would determine Hong Kong 's position under Chinese rule from 1997 [ see p. 37248 ] . |
| 8 | Had I known that he intended to throw his claim to the leadership into the ring within a matter of hours , I would have tried to dissuade him from it then and there , for people never like being bounced , and least of all at a time of emotional stress . |
| 9 | George V tried to dissuade him from this course and indeed went so far as to register a formal protest : |
| 10 | All that he could do would be to advise him strongly against resigning , and , as he had done when attempting to dissuade him from dissolving Parliament , back up his advice with a formal protest , allowing Baldwin to tell his colleagues that the King objected to the course he was taking . |
| 11 | There 's a quotation here from one of the ladies ' magazines at the time : ‘ woman was given to man to be his better angel , to dissuade him from vice , to stimulate him to virtue , to make home delightful and life joyous , in the exercise of these gentle and holy charities , she fulfils her high vocation ’ — pretty inspiring stuff ! |