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Example sentences for "induce them"

  • On the contrary, it was desired to win their friendship and to induce them to trust us.

  • To the north, Lawksawk and Mongping held aloof, but it was hoped to induce them to come in.

  • He was to be always out and always on their tracks, using every means in his power to make friends with the villagers and induce them to give him information and help against the common enemy.

  • Could he bring any influence to bear on the people at large to induce them to submit peacefully to our rule?

  • He thought the true way of deciding on this subject, was to make the same allowance to both, and let it be such as not to induce them to protract the session on the one hand, or have a tendency to hurry over the business on the other.

  • The business of ship-building being so relaxed, persons of that occupation have turned to other avocations, and some sensible advantage must appear, to induce them to return to their original profession.

  • It is sometimes difficult to induce them to commence a dance; but if they once begin, and enter into the spirit of it, it is still more difficult to induce them to break up.

  • It shews, too, the necessity of altering our present system and policy towards them, to one that will exercise sufficient influence over them to induce them to give up offenders themselves.

  • To induce them to do this, after giving the horses each two buckets of water, I gave two gallons among them also, besides some bread.

  • Every effort was made by General Jessup to acquaint the different chiefs with this arrangement, and to induce them to come in, or send by some sub-chief or warrior an expression of their willingness to emigrate to the western country.

  • Their vanity was flattered, and every effort made to induce them to believe peace with the United States would be important to both parties.

  • These holders of the land, in all probability, had a less exalted notion of its value than their successors have had, but still it is very probable some compensation was given to induce them to part with it at such a rent.

  • Besides, if it should become the great interest of those nations to separate from this, if their happiness should depend on it so strongly as to induce them to go through that convulsion, why should the Atlantic States dread it?

  • The inconvenience of meeting to exercise these powers in person, and their inaptitude to exercise them, induce them to appoint special organs to declare their legislative will, to judge, and to execute it.

  • We have the guns, and the hotties, which would be useful in breaking a path, and those two facts may even induce them to let us go without a fuss.

  • His friend's insensibility alarmed Charteris almost more than the actual wounds, and he gave his horse to the groom, and walked beside the bearers, trying to induce them to keep step, and not jar the patient unnecessarily.

  • The exorbitant pretensions of its leaders alarmed the ministers, but the crisis was sufficiently critical to induce them ultimately to satisfy the demands of their dearly-purchased allies.

  • Thus Bouillon found it easy to induce them to retire simultaneously from the Court; and it was agreed that they should assemble in Champagne, and collectively demand a reform in the Government.

  • I was very anxious to induce them to join the Church, and did all in my power to induce them to do so.

  • Sundry mutterings and whisperings began to be heard among the servants employed about the domicile, and, after a little while it became almost impossible to induce them to remain there for love or money.

  • She distributed alms in a very abundant manner to the poor to induce them to pray for the repose of his soul.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    but had; continued until; cried several; during their; empty room; exercise exclusive; fair weather; forced laugh; grained wood; hypnotic suggestion; induce him; induce the; induce them; induced current; large party; last succeeded; money should; quarrel about; small tube; social classes; south from; spirit photography; the hand; union among; yesterday afternoon