Effect
Win over
Win over verb - To cause (someone) to agree with a belief or course of action by using arguments or earnest requests.
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This epitomized everything that was going wrong (in Kurtz's point of view) with the American war effort: over-reliance on science; cultural ignorance; blundering efforts at "humanitarianism" to win over the Vietnamese, which has the exact opposite effect.
Source: Film / Apocalypse Now
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