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prevailing upon
verb as in persuade, influence
Example Sentences
Reyes said his staff members and others “had to drill down and go into depth,” whether they were taking on neighborhood slumlords or prevailing upon grandmothers and parents to reel in sons who “were creating all this havoc out there.”
After prevailing upon the state to agree to provide 20,000 tests, the county nearly doubled testing over three days by setting up a drive-thru site at Lassen Community College.
He would not, the story went, be prevailing upon one of his personal sponsors to stage the event, as Red Bull reportedly did in 2019.
Friday that the court is satisfied plaintiffs have at least a reasonable chance of prevailing upon, at a minimum, the key question of which set of bylaws constitute the current and valid bylaws.
Ican has “helped to fill this legal gap”, with the committee describing it as “a driving force in prevailing upon the world’s nations to pledge to cooperate with all relevant stakeholders in efforts to stigmatise, prohibit and eliminate nuclear weapons”.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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