What's the difference between dissuaded and persuaded?
Dissuaded
Definition:
(imp. & p. p.) of Dissuade
Example Sentences:
(1) The day after last Monday's trial, he flew to Switzerland from East Midlands airport to try to dissuade the government there from building a new coal plant.
(2) Michael loyally accompanied his father back, although he said he had tried to dissuade him many times from returning because he did not want him to die in prison.
(3) The senior Labour MP said the issue was particularly acute because the people turning away from politics were "the people who need [to take] political action and are dissuaded from doing so".
(4) The deputy foreign minister, Sergei Ryabkov, argued that the delivery of the S-300 system had been previously agreed with the Syrian government in Damascus and would be a "stabilising factor" that could dissuade "some hotheads" from entering the conflict.
(5) Patients with Crohn's disease should be dissuaded from smoking.
(6) Obviously, workers get disheartened and reduce their demand for work even when they need it; in other cases, the state and local authorities try to dissuade them or do not register their demand because they do not have the funds to provide the required work.
(7) We were trying very hard to stick to the "not being an influence" thing, but I did try to dissuade her from the [life-size] horse!
(8) Both harangued Brian from the outset calling it "a squalid little film" and "tenth rate"; no amount of measured argument on the Pythons part would dissuade the pious double act of their firmly held belief that Life of Brian mocked Christ.
(9) However, Buckinghamshire county council, which has been co-ordinating an anti-HS2 alliance, said "there would appear to be nothing to dissuade us" from dropping a threat to seek a judicial review.
(10) Toon attempted to dissuade him from boxing by explaining its dangers.
(11) Counseling ideas for each of the categories includes approaches to encourage, ignore, dissuade or observe to categorize the belief later.
(12) This case reinforces the fact that hematologic findings should not dissuade the work-up of papular acrodermatitis for hepatitis B or other less commonly associated viruses.
(13) One of them said: “My job today is to make you go away.” Migrants reach the Serbian-Hungarian border - in pictures Read more With Orbán at the helm, Hungary’s populist Fidesz government has reacted to the summer influx by spending €100m (£73m) building a four metre razor-wire fence and launching an anti-migrant billboard campaign aimed at dissuading people from coming to the country.
(14) Fear of a Herxheimer-like reaction should not dissuade clinicians from administering antibiotics to patients with leptospirosis.
(15) Law dropped her like a stone and apologised to Miller, but not enough to dissuade her from dumping him and being branded 'Love Rat Law'.
(16) Though it is possible to list the more common complications seen for each congenital anomaly, the tedious repetitiveness of such an approach dissuaded the author.
(17) Calculations by the Austrian government, which is keen on a transaction tax, showed that even if the number of deals fell by up to 65% as the fee dissuaded people from unnecessary trades, it could still raise $700bn (£420bn) a year.
(18) That skull was buried in 1960 in the courtyard of Cromwell's old college, Sidney Sussex at Cambridge, in an unmarked spot to dissuade ghoulish souvenir hunters.
(19) The supermarkets need more funds to finance millions of pounds’ worth of price cuts, particularly on everyday basics such as milk, eggs and bread, in order to dissuade their customers from migrating to the low-cost chains.
(20) Last spring Barzani tried in vain to dissuade the US from selling F16 fighter planes to Iraq.
Persuaded
Definition:
(imp. & p. p.) of Persuade
(p. p. & a.) Prevailed upon; influenced by argument or entreaty; convinced.
Example Sentences:
(1) Gordon Brown believes that the fact of the G20 summit has persuaded many tax havens, such as Switzerland and Liechtenstein, to indicate that they will adopt a more open approach.
(2) An official from Cafcass, the children and family court advisory service, tried to persuade the child in several interviews, but eventually the official told the court that further persuasion was inappropriate and essentially abusive.
(3) She kept it up for three years, until her son's letters finally persuaded her to cut down to one day a week.
(4) We simply do whatever nature needs and will work with anyone that wants to help wildlife.” His views might come as a surprise to some of the RSPB’s 1.1 million members, who would have been persuaded by its original pledge “to discourage the wanton destruction of birds”; they would equally have been a surprise to the RSPB’s detractors in the shooting world.
(5) That refusal seems to have persuaded Apple's team, which has been core to the development of WebKit since using it for the Safari browser, released in January 2003, to introduce WebKit2 earlier this year which did offer that capability.
(6) It seeks to acquaint them with 'ethical' arguments against their work which, because they are simple and plausible, persuade many people.
(7) Obama will meet with Binyamin Netanyahu and Mahmoud Abbas tomorrow as well, but US envoy George Mitchell has had no luck in recent weeks trying to persuade Netanyahu to compromise on the settlements.
(8) The charity Bite the Ballot , which persuaded hundreds of thousands to register before the last general election, is to set up “democracy cafes” in Starbucks branches, laying on experts to explain how to register and vote, and what the referendum is all about (Bite the Ballot does not take sides but merely encourages participation).
(9) The writer John Lanchester concedes that democracies will always need spies, but reading the Snowden documents persuaded him that piecing together habits of thought from internet searches takes things far beyond conventional spying: “Google doesn’t just know you’re gay before you tell your mum; it knows you’re gay before you do.
(10) But Richard Hall, director of infrastructure at Consumer Futures, a consumer watchdog, said Ofgem had "produced a lot of evidence that would persuade a third party that there is a trend [of rising prices]".
(11) McCain, a former Republican presidential candidate with an influential voice on US foreign affairs, is seen by the Obama administration as a potentially important intermediary in its intensive push to persuade Congress to swing behind the plan for airstrikes .
(12) According to Deborah Mattinson, his pollster, Brown " loved slogans and believed them to be imbued with a mystical power capable of persuading the most intransigent voter", and therefore went a bundle on them – not least " A future fair for all ", the surreal dud with which Labour went to the country in 2010, following 2005's equally idiotic " forward not back ".
(13) For a while North Korea refused to play, but after delicate negotiations the players were persuaded back on to the pitch and the correct flag was displayed alongside the team photos.
(14) When the owners of Manchester City finally managed to persuade Pep Guardiola to oversee the next stage of their masterplan it is fair to say they probably did not expect to be approaching Christmas scuffling with a team of Watford’s limitations for their first league win at home in almost three months.
(15) He has some suggestions for what might be done, including easing changing the planning laws to free up parts of the green belt, financial incentives to persuade local authorities to build, and the replacement of the council tax and stamp duty land tax with a new local property tax with automatic annual revaluations.
(16) Even if nobody switched party, the general election result would look very different to what’s predicted if millennials could be persuaded to vote at the same rate as pensioners, as polls factor in turnout differences and oversample the elderly accordingly.
(17) For some people, free cash will persuade them to take the plunge.
(18) The fact that the leave campaign are getting things as straightforward as this wrong should call into judgment the bigger argument about leaving the EU.” He said out campaigners were trying to persuade people to vote for Brexit solely on the back of an issue “that is not true”.
(19) We had already persuaded him to give us a little extra time, telling him we would both pay him on a particular day, but when that day rolled around, neither of us had the money.
(20) Nonetheless, the NSA persuaded Erwin Griswold, the former dean of Harvard law school, the then solicitor general of the United States, to knowingly lie to the United States supreme court that it was still a secret.