Des Grieux declares his love to Manon and persuades her to go to Paris with him.

That evening, Kate approaches Jack, but the Others capture Sayid and her.

Richie, frustrated with Tony's authority over him, entreats Junior to have Tony killed.

They target poor families and convince the parents to send their children.

She gets the women to plant new trees and water them, drop by drop.

Edmund exposes the plot, but his wife Isabella convinces Henry to pardon her son.

After Bilbo, as a prank on his guests, put on the Ring and disappeared, Gandalf strongly encouraged his old friend to leave the Ring to Frodo, as they had planned.

Uncle Karl K.'s impetuous uncle from the country, formerly his guardian.

After Valjean steals some silver from him, he saves Valjean from being arrested and inspires Valjean to change his ways.

After meeting Kiba, he goes along with the idea of searching for Paradise without much argument.

Confiding in Judas, he persuades the latter to give him to the Romans, despite Judas' inclination otherwise.

Fleeing from her, he then finds his best friend, Billy Kopecki, and convinces him of his identity by singing a song that only they know.

Yakuza trick girls from impoverished villages into coming to Japan, where they are promised respectable jobs with good wages.

Bond convinces Milovy that he is a friend of Koskov's and persuades her to accompany him to Vienna, supposedly to be reunited with him.

In the hours that follow, she convinces Obama not to bow to his anti interventionist secretary of defense, Robert Gates.

However, as Schaffer explains, no convincing synthesis of his work has yet been expounded.

After Mewtwo destroys the laboratory where it was born, Team Rocket's leader, Giovanni, convinces it he can help it control its powers.

Karenin forces Anna to hand over some of Vronsky's love letters, which the lawyer deems insufficient as proof of the affair.

This leaves behind a small child, who will be put to death if left alone, so Bliss makes the decision to keep the child as they quickly escape the planet.

In 1885, the Tampa Board of Trade enticed Vicente Martinez Ybor to move his cigar manufacturing operations to Tampa from Key West.

When Vronsky leaves for several days of provincial elections, Anna becomes convinced that she must marry him to prevent him from leaving her.

Levin and Stiva pay a visit to Anna, who is occupying her empty days by being a patroness to an orphaned English girl.

And you persuade people to go to these great feats of invention, but at a personal level, in a way I can't imagine doing your job.

In their final confrontation in Comodo, Maya nearly kills Jiltus for revenge but Alice's spirit comes to Maya and convinces her to forgive Zealotus.

But, somehow, none of that adds up to me, to what I think India really can aim to contribute in the world, in this part of the 21st century.

When the police arrest Laszlo on a minor, trumped up charge, Rick convinces Renault to release him by promising to set him up for a much more serious crime possession of the letters of transit.

Ruth Carter Stapleton, a Christian activist and sister of President Jimmy Carter, seeks out Flynt and urges him to give his life to Jesus.

At the Oblonsky home, Anna talks openly and emotionally to Dolly about Stiva's affair and convinces her that Stiva still loves her despite the infidelity.

In 1926, after the brief War of the Stray Dog, the Tsar persuaded Tsankov to resign, a more moderate government under Andrey Lyapchev took office and an amnesty was proclaimed, although the Communists remained banned.

Sub Zero then destroys Scorpion's mortal form in a quick battle, and Scorpion (now an apparition) is then driven off by Raiden, who then declares that Sub Zero was now under his protection.

On the selection of Leigh for the role of Lexie, Rhimes said Chyler stood out...It felt like she could be Meredith's sister, but she had a depth that was very interesting.

Filmmaker Sharmeen Obaid Chinoy takes on a terrifying question How does the Taliban convince children to become suicide bombers? Propaganda footage from a training camp is intercut with her interviews of young camp graduates. A shocking vision.

He walks slowly, pausing frequently for breath, until a volunteer convinces him to accept a lift, reassuring him that his children will be safe and will follow him to the nearby rest camp.

I find myself overwhelmed by the mere idea of the resignation it symbolizes, and yet the reality that prevails when you convince yourself that you should continue, that you need to find a certain sense of normalcy.

Displeased at the Vorlons' lack of direct action against the Shadows, Captain John Sheridan browbeats Vorlon ambassador Kosh Naranek into launching an attack against their mutual enemy.

He convinces her that it's not worth destroying her life by the desillusion that she is suffering, and willing to give her a chance to have a new life, asks her to marry him.

Now, you may say, but surely, what we've seen on television about Saudi Islam convinces us that it can't possibly be compatible with what we consider the core of democracy namely, free political choice, basic liberty and basic equality.

This mission is complicated by La Clown, an expert mimic who impersonates Solid Snake's contact Teliko, and subtle brainwashing that nearly convinces him that he is Hans Davis, a ruthless scientist that worked at the Lobito facility.

Some nights, after dinner, the master would compel Alvarenga to stand by his side and read oppositor newspaper editorials such as Sendero or El Pueblo, and persuade her not to believe what the official media said regarding the dictator's regime.