This time, city and state officials are trying friendlier persuasion.

"Your caller is very insistent," he said, trying persuasion where demands had failed.

"You are saying that one person elects to negotiate for a lost key and another will try more violent persuasion?"

They had failed with fear; now they would try persuasion.

He would try persuasion, try not to alarm the thing.

Valentine would have tried further persuasion, but she saw his lips were still moving, though little sound came out.

Obviously the local police had tried persuasion of another sort, all to no avail.

Her wise mother found it desirable to try persuasion next.

Over the years the Government has tried force, persuasion, temptation and harassment to get the land.

After that, American officials tried quiet persuasion to get Moscow to change its ways.