An energetic effort to persuade local governments to rehabilitate old buildings.

If we were smart, we'd join the efforts to persuade corporations to be socially responsible for the benefit of their bottom line.

When efforts to persuade them to go proved fruitless, the building began to be demolished around their heads.

The challenge manufacturers face - along with all those gathered in Oxford - is persuading you that it's worth the effort.

Improved efforts to persuade people living in the streets to seek shelter are working, the outreach workers said.

Today, two liberal groups made it plain that they would undertake efforts to persuade the Senate to reject the nomination.

An earlier effort coordinated through the caucus persuaded the Administration to spend $2.5 million on the Sound in 1988.

So far efforts by United Nations officials to persuade the refugees it is safe to return have had little success.

The Prince made one last despairing effort to persuade his father that he should ride with the chariots.

A sustained legal effort may persuade the Supreme Court to overturn itself.