A common use of direct lobbying is to persuade the general public about a ballot proposal.

I won't attempt to persuade you about this aspect of the matter.

At this meeting, they persuaded about half of the 50 attendees to follow them.

Instead, they were tools to determine how to persuade people about an idea.

If you can't offer people a vision of what government should do, you won't be able to persuade them about the things it shouldn't do.

"If anyone can persuade the governor about the rightness of something for the university, it is me," he said.

If corporations want to try to persuade voters about their point of view, then they should stand behind their words.

Guardian readers are not the ones you have to persuade about this.

He's managed to persuade about half of them to join him, but the other half is still loyal to me.

"I thought you were hard to persuade about such things."