She had tried to persuade them to release Sym, without success.

All that he had hoped to do was to persuade Percy to release him from it for awhile.

After some time I persuaded him to release a model of his weapon.

But they can count, and it might persuade them to release political prisoners as just not worth the bottom line.

She contacted several record companies in an attempt to persuade them to release the album, but to no avail.

The officials said they had been frustrated in efforts to persuade hospitals to release such data voluntarily.

Our guides jumped off the bus, and were able to persuade the authorities to release her.

If a means of persuading the Russians to release her were to arise, they'd probably take it.

The others managed to persuade him not to release it right away.

The police were finally able to persuade the bank robbers to release their hostages, and give themselves up.