1.   But Arizona may change if Rep. Mark Anderson, R-Mesa, persuades lawmakers to use some Lottery revenue to finance services for addicted players.

2.   She has almost single-handedly persuaded lawmakers to appropriate millions for research.

3.   That makes it harder for him to persuade lawmakers, as he may soon want to do, that they should show faith in his Bosnia policy.

4.   The measure is expected to pass, after President Fernando Henrique Cardoso entered the fray to persuade lawmakers of the need to reduce state expenditures.

5.   The other would bar cigarette company lobbyists from trying to persuade lawmakers from diverting settlement away from anti-tobacco and public-health measures.

6.   The president did not go nearly that far, and there was no immediate evidence that his remarks were persuading lawmakers sitting on the fence.

7.   The other lobbyist looks after the less fortunate, attempting to persuade lawmakers by doing basic research on how legislation will affect the poor.

8.   To try to persuade state lawmakers, Clinton plans to visit a roster of state legislatures, starting with a Monday visit to Annapolis, Maryland.

9.   Chernomyrdin tried to persuade skeptical lawmakers that the ailing Russian economy is finally on the rebound.

10.   Finance Minister Hans Eichel spent the last two weeks persuading lawmakers from the Social Democrats and their junior coalition partner, the Greens, to back the project.