prevails upon
Example Sentences
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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.”
From Washington Post • Jun. 16, 2021
Now one, now the other, according to the temper of the times, prevails upon thought.
From Time Magazine Archive
For this purpose the priest intercedes with his divine tutelars, and prevails upon them, by offerings and promises, to rescue the captive.
From The Manóbos of Mindanáo Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume XXIII, First Memoir by Garvan, John M.
This seemed to John in the easy optimism that prevails upon the borders of sleep an excellent joke, and he passed with a chuckle through the ivory gate.
From Poor Relations by MacKenzie, Compton
It is with some difficulty that the major prevails upon him not to write to Miss Winthrop, and overwhelm her with reproaches.
From A War-Time Wooing A Story by King, Charles
