Second, the High Commissioner's special adviser for Southeast Asia, Alexander Casella, has persuaded the Vietnamese Government toprovide information on the issues of emigration and the camps.

But President Clinton's advisers had persuaded him that this was his big chance to act muscular, so he kept the Republicans at a distance.

It's worth recalling that the hostages were released when the ayatollah's worldlier advisers persuaded him that the standoff was doing Iran more harm than good.

He still wore his German breeches for riding, but his advisers had persuaded him to put his Menaplan bodyguard in Roman gear.

On 13 November they faced the Earl of Essex at the Battle of Turnham Green, with Charles's advisers persuading him to retreat to Oxford and Reading.

When Mr. Florio took office as governor, his advisers persuaded him to push for the tax increase early, so voters would have time to forget before re-election time rolled around.

In this telling, Mr. Dukakis ran because his advisers persuaded him to, not because he had any real zest for the job.

During those negotiations, Hasbro's advisers persuaded Mattel to raise its exchange offer to 1.67 shares from 1.5 shares, an increase of 11 percent, Mr. Amerman said in his letter.

Before 2001, his financial advisers persuaded him to diversify.

His image problems were compounded by his tendency to make campaign-style promises that advisers would later persuade him were impossible and to bicker with his own political party.