prevails upon

The corporate chieftain prevails upon Beale to “preach” a new “evangel” to his audience in which he decries individualism and embraces what the movie’s narrator calls “the corporate cosmology of Arthur Jensen.”

If Mr. Trump directs his administration to try to drive the value of the dollar lower using Treasury Department authorities to intervene in markets, or prevails upon the Fed to more aggressively lower interest rates in order to depress the value of the dollar, that could embolden not just China but other economic powers, like Japan, South Korea and Europe, to do the same.

Lee prevails upon him to stay.

When Mina prevails upon Sir Malcolm’s paternal love to save her own skin, he calmly and rather cryptically says, “I already have a daughter,” before shooting her dead.

Then Rose prevails upon the wicked relative to relent.