But that investment of time and money was not enough to persuade them to stay.

Can you suggest how I might persuade it to stay in one place?

The board members have done what they can to persuade parents to stay.

He sent his young daughter over to try to persuade us to stay.

Often, they would try to persuade us just to stay in the hotel.

We persuaded her to stay here at the university for a few days.

But the guy hadn't even tried to persuade him to stay, that was the thing.

Is there any way you could persuade him to stay in the administration?

But its growing success may have helped persuade him to stay.

I persuade her to stay for another glass of wine, then a second.