He remained for seventeen days outside the National Assembly Building, in an effort to persuade parliament to pass a law against the WTO.

The fresh accident will hamper attempts by Ministers to persuade parliament to lift a freeze slapped on completion of at least three nearly-completed reactors.

Can Boris Yeltsin persuade parliament to abolish itself?

Environmentalists and fishermen combined their efforts to prevent the closure; they persuaded parliament to amend the original plan.

He advocated the termination of the Military Frontier and persuaded parliament to pass on 5 August 1861 the decision annulling any joint business with Austria.

One of the aims of the Society had always been to persuade parliament to conduct a committee of inquiry into the lunacy laws.

He had great success in persuading parliament to pass successive Navy bills authorising expansions of the fleet.

In 1777, John Wilkes tried (but failed) to persuade parliament to buy the collection for the nation.

Mr. Primakov has already persuaded parliament to pass the most austere budget in four years.