convencer
convince ; persuade ; sell + idea ; sell + notion ; win over ; coax ; speak + sense into ; talk + sense into ; rope in ; cajole.
I am convinced, from my experience in an undergraduate library, that subject cataloging is as important as descriptive, and that all library users are serious library users.
Teachers of other subjects should also be drawn in to persuade their pupils that life-long use of libraries would also contribute to the country's scientific and technological advancement.
The author outlines some methods of selling to adolescent pupils the idea of reading fiction for fun.
We are having to undertake a programme of effectively selling the notion to various schools within the university, to ensure some acceptance of ejournals when they duly arrive.
It is the latest incentive being offered to attract the Web user and win over their loyalty of custom.
Quite clearly there could be no hope of coaxing such a variety of users into a uniform behaviour pattern.
And the news coverage of the girl named Katrina Kivi, who'd risked her neck to speak sense into a crowd of angry students, had just begun.
You cannot talk sense into someone who is willing to do that to you.
How this matron got roped in I don't know but she agreed to work a late shift.
After some cajoling, Summer agreed to record a demo of the song.
convencer a Alguien
prevail on/upon + Alguien
'Well, I'll see if I can prevail upon the head librarian to dispense with her services for a while'.
convencer a Alguien de que haga Algo
talk + Nombre + into
put up to it
After jazzing up her appearance with a new blonde hairdo, she turns up in his office and talks him into taking her out for a meal.
In May 2009, both her attacker and the man who put him up to it were gaoled for life.
convencerse
come (a)round
Although he does not support our organization today, we think he will eventually come around.
convencerse de no Hacer
talk + Reflexivo + out of
Children talk themselves out of their convictions as they grow up and become distracted by their huge selfish selves.
convencerse de renunciar a
talk + Reflexivo + out of
talk + Reflexivo + out of
Children talk themselves out of their convictions as they grow up and become distracted by their huge selfish selves.
Children talk themselves out of their convictions as they grow up and become distracted by their huge selfish selves.
convencer una idea
be keen on + an idea
be sold on + an idea
He was keen on the idea, and gave us a list of ten other falconry enthusiasts in his town to put in our directory.
She is not exactly sold on the idea that mobile technology will make online music a profitable business, when so many people have become used to getting their music free.
estar convencido
there + be + strong feeling
Furthermore there is a strong feeling amongst the journalists that information retrieval is not part of their job but should be carried out by trained librarians.
estar convencido de la idea de que
be committed to the idea that
Most librarians were committed to the idea that the capabilities of men varied and were controlled by 'nature's laws'.
estar muy convencido de
have + strong feelings about
Of the 17% using libraries, the majority (11%) do not have strong feelings about the library as an information provider.
intentar convencer
work on + Persona
I went to work on Patterson this morning, and he's given me until two this afternoon to let me know.
