Housing associations and the government use many misleading arguments to persuade and cajole council tenants into agreeing to stock transfers. |
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She would meet Julius, persuade him to her point of view, and they would beard the lion in his den. |
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Nothing new there, you might reply, you cheeky young scamps, and I'm hardly in much of a position to persuade you otherwise. |
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But I have not heard anything yet to persuade me that what they have is superior to what we Tewas and Hopis have. |
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The British charity has gone on the offensive to persuade British people to stop eating meat. |
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Well-born but impecunious younger brothers kidnap heiresses and roguishly attempt to persuade them into matrimony. |
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Trimble, who said he felt euphoric after the result, vowed to try to persuade all sections of the party to support him. |
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Now maybe I can persuade Natty to let us keep a little bashment at the yard! |
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Its successor, the United Nations, also seeks to persuade member nations to solve their difference by peaceful means. |
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Can you advise me on how I can persuade him to take up a real instrument like say the bass trombone? |
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It took him six months to persuade his doctor to sign the medical certificate allowing him to do the tandem parachute jump. |
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He hoped MPs would be able to debate the issue and persuade the government to change its stance. |
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Then all that remained was to persuade the archbishop of Canterbury to anoint him. |
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We need to persuade Members of Congress who voted no last year to vote yes this year. |
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I'd been fiddling with the beastly thing for an hour and couldn't persuade it to come out. |
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Relatives and friends will always try to persuade the quarreling couple to remain together. |
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Alas, the lead singer's attempts to persuade him to remove his shirt for the ladies went down the toilet. |
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The findings will be a serious setback for Blair and Jack McConnell as they battle to persuade activists to campaign in the coming election. |
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In other words, he has been able to persuade them to view him uncritically despite the reality belying what is projected. |
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The incident was unnerving enough to persuade the correspondent to request a change of posting. |
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It could cover, therefore, a picket aimed to persuade people not to enter a place of work, established as part of a legitimate trade dispute. |
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It will also have to persuade firms of the merits of best of breed rather than all-in-one solutions. |
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They were able to persuade missioners to create settled missions, where there was a sufficiently stable population. |
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It's easy to criticise, but we should put our shoulder to the wheel and do our bit to persuade our clients to get into the sector. |
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I can still remember my very first piggy-bank, which was a bright-red money box, given away by the bank to persuade children to save. |
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In fact, he was so desperate to get back on to his bike that we had to tell the doctor a little lie to persuade him to remove the plaster cast. |
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It should not be enough that he was subjected to blandishments and payment in order to persuade him to give evidence. |
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The students' petition proved unavailing, as were Professor Day's own efforts to persuade the administration to reconsider its position. |
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We live in an imperfect democracy where people can still persuade business and government, if they slog long enough and hard enough. |
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None of this will persuade committed gay leftists to slough off their own political agenda, nor should it. |
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Now the votes are counted, perhaps it can be more outward-looking, seeking not only to persuade the unpersuaded but to listen to them as well. |
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So the facts that Powell deployed, and the pattern they form, will not persuade people determined to be unpersuaded. |
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In order to persuade the unpersuaded to embrace rather than undermine our values, we need to display them as universal and not exclusive. |
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So at the end the police had managed to persuade James into letting his mother unseal the envelope. |
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Should the unwelcomeness of the conclusion persuade us to abandon the verification theory of meaning? |
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For so she is, this High Priestess of Rennon who came to me, all smiles and soft, tender words, and tried to persuade me to her side. |
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Then he managed to persuade two decisive figures in the enterprise to urge other workers to go back to their posts. |
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This time we were able to persuade her that this was not a useful tactic and to amend the behaviour. |
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I love what I do, so it would have to be something really amazing to persuade me to stop. |
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The parish council has tried in vain to persuade another building society to open a branch in Pewsey. |
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A last-ditch attempt to persuade an Amsterdam court to stop the company's supervisory board from vetoing the sale yesterday came to nothing. |
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Of course, this was Michael I was dealing with, and there was no way I was going to persuade him to bug off. |
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Imagine you are the captain of a sports team facing an important match and you want to speak to everyone to persuade them to do their best. |
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If we can persuade a few more to stay on rather then retire if they are fit and able to do the job, then that is a good thing. |
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He is currently travelling around Australia, trying to persuade people to let him have a go in goal. |
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Try as she might, she could not persuade the knights and burgesses of the Commons to leave such royal matters to her. |
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He reminded her of the wonderful gift of her voice raised in song but he could not persuade her to sing again. |
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We hope to persuade them to help serve and cook and wash up at the bush breakfast in return for free food. |
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If they manage to persuade the likes of White and Laporte to keep it buttoned, it will be one of the miracles of the age. |
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Bush hopes a fresh resolution can persuade other countries to contribute troops to support stabilising efforts. |
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The healthy eating campaign to persuade Scots to eat more nutritious foods will be launched in January. |
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And if there are states and regimes, nations, that support terrorism, we hope to persuade them that it is in their interest to stop doing that. |
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When he found it too tiring to persuade by talking, he collected as much information as he could about smoking and printed it out as handouts. |
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They can persuade us to spend thousands on high-tech hardware that becomes obsolete the moment we sign the credit card chit. |
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McEwan may persuade readers to believe in his harmonious little clique, but as a social allegory, his image of family life is hard to swallow. |
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That is what I think is the situation here, unless you can persuade me otherwise. There was a negligent omission on the part of the employer. |
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He's the man who helped persuade hawkish editors at influential Newsweek magazine to oppose the Vietnam War. |
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I'm trying to persuade Truth Decay to get back together for a gig so we can play with them. |
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The best never try to persuade the reader to believe them, only to hear them out, as Fort himself once did. |
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It exercised its option to sell and tried to persuade Time Warner to pay in cash instead of stock. |
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My other half and I are constantly trying to persuade each other to try something new, but to no avail. |
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We all want to get our points across and to persuade our readers that we have got things right. |
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The series coincided with a push by programme makers to persuade a reluctant BBC to let them leave the studio and film on the streets. |
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If you want a certain party to win, it is better that you persuade many others to vote for them than vote yourself. |
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The best we can do is to use moral suasion and seek to persuade the U.S. from its chosen path. |
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He has boasted he can persuade enough government MPs to change sides to topple the regime by September. |
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Nor do passionate Republicans come to do missionary work to persuade me to change sides. |
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There was substantial concern and it took years to pacify and persuade people these weren't a risk. |
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It will take more than exhortation to persuade him or his successors to do otherwise. |
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The world and his dog was trying to persuade me to come to the Christmas party tonight. |
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It's hogwash to try and persuade the third world of football that ambition will see them through some day. |
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Is offering home shopping going to persuade a supermarket's customers to spend more? |
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Parents in South Lakeland are being offered cash sweeteners to persuade them not to take their youngsters out of school in term time. |
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What sort of sweet talk is possibly needed to persuade a 14-year-old to enter the room of a complete stranger and, presumably, a foreigner? |
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Kent tries to persuade him to shelter in a hovel, and they go off to look for it. |
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Prior to the gig we met up in Comptons for a swifty with Paul but failed rather miserably to persuade him to join us. |
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Then it has to persuade some of the millions still drinking the swill sold at most convenience stores and gas stations to trade up. |
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Many more people own cine cameras of some kind these days and we are trying to persuade them to include sound with their films. |
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When these men appear in leet records it is often to intervene in cases to persuade bailiffs to pardon offenders. |
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The mayor, Badar Uddin Ahmed Kamran, is trying to persuade Sylhetis living abroad to look beyond shops and set up factories. |
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Organisations such as Samaritans have long sought to persuade the media that reporting suicide calls for particular care. |
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For some, this wins time to persuade patients to switch to a newer, patented product. |
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Every week they would perform a half-hour show in a pub, each ending in a cliffhanger designed to persuade the audience to return the next week. |
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Watts and his fellow pedologists helped persuade the Corps to make changes in the standards. |
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The older children are writing letters to the council to persuade them we need a pelican crossing. |
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Their aim is to persuade his hearers to pursue the better and safer path by alerting them to the danger of eternal perdition. |
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The submissions made to us do not reach the minimum cogency required to persuade me that we should direct a re-hearing of the issue. |
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We are digging in for a long fight to persuade government never again to embark on such a foolhardy and immoral venture. |
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She tried to persuade him not to undertake the work because of its subject matter, but of course he was immovable. |
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Her dad's efforts to persuade her to buy a computer have fallen on deaf ears. |
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You have no idea how difficult it was to persuade him to move it back into the kitchen. |
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It tends to persuade people who may be otherwise inclined to carry out a preventative maintenance service once a year. |
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The arguments and results may persuade you to change the way you coach this critical skill. |
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He believes this would persuade many motorists to switch to a second-hand purchase. |
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His agent has been trying to persuade him to move down to London, so that he will be closer to the jobs. |
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How could I persuade her to believe me and not think I was being mental or playing a joke? |
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No human voice can persuade the man who believes that God is speaking in his other ear. |
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Why would individuals expend effort to persuade an audience about something that it already believes? |
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But the supposed need for an early revolution did persuade many to accept violence as a temporary necessity. |
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If the moral case won't persuade everyone, perhaps the practical case will. |
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Once again, I have concluded that the evidence does not persuade me that this event occurred. |
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Laurel and Hardy's best performances persuade you that humiliation is not all it's cracked up to be. |
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A more modern party may finally persuade them out of their armchairs and into the polling booth. |
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Nor do I think a slippery slope case would persuade anyone who can see nothing wrong with banning such views. |
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If this means that the professor is open to persuasion, I certainly hope to persuade him. |
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There are some very vocal proponents who would persuade whoever will listen, that same-sex sexual orientation is inborn. |
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There are all kinds of methods of professional interrogation, of ways to persuade people, incentivize people, motivate people. |
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Strikers held up banners as they tried to persuade office staff, delivery workers and postmen not to cross the picket line. |
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In effect these new finances represent the inducement required to persuade developing countries to conserve their genetic resources. |
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However, luckily for May, it seems possible profit was inducement enough to persuade them to open the door. |
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But whether that would be enough to persuade me to pick it as my company car is difficult to say. |
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Each group must argue their case and each must try to persuade the other to comply with its wishes. |
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Those involved hope to persuade people to inform on drug dealers, putting them out of business and behind bars. |
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We can begin a concentrated effort to persuade United Way campaigns to exclude local Boy Scout troops as funding recipients. |
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And you wouldn't believe how fiddly it is to persuade Windows 98 to use only the left hand side of a computer screen. |
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I need to persuade my Dad to dig that book out as I am pretty sure it is not in print or even available second hand. |
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It is playing on xenophobia to persuade people there is a fifth column in this country and show that something is being done. |
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The trainer, unfazed by Dansk's apparent aggression, manages to persuade the animal to kneel, walks on its backside and performs pirouettes. |
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His customary difficulty in fighting his way across a room was compounded on this occasion by his wife, who intervened to persuade him to stay. |
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We launched a campaign to persuade the Government and UK Coal to keep the pits open, but it seems to have failed. |
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You have to persuade them that they are insignificant and powerless so they will live their lives in accordance with that. |
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Other writers on the centre left say that it is no longer a name to conjure with when trying to persuade their readers of anything at all. |
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An African sugar farmer has visited Manchester to try to persuade traders and politicians to play fair when buying his produce. |
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I tried to persuade the referee that it was still playable, but he wouldn't have any of it. |
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In a certain way, the desire to persuade can also be interpreted as a means of commanding others. |
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Can't we persuade the journalists busy inveighing against poor Harry to take on that cause instead? |
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Smith said that he found out where the villagers had fled to in Serbia and went there to try to persuade them to return. |
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And bishops must now persuade their flocks, since they can no longer command adherence to church teachings. |
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In order to affect city government one had to persuade powerful city councilors who headed up committees. |
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The only course of action is to persuade him to resign or to hold a primary. |
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An attempt to persuade the Court of Appeal to grant permission to appeal failed. |
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No bullying nor entreating of the forewoman could persuade the women to return to work. |
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A campaign has begun in earnest to persuade The Vatican to declare a former curate of Clonmore Parish Holy. |
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It has now become so much harder for a Tory leader to persuade a dubious electorate that his policies are practicable and viable. |
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Thomas had to persuade his brothers and father to take a gamble in this new trade of distilling, an enterprise they were unsure of. |
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However, I will not stay quiet when a preacher gets on his soapbox and tries to persuade us to buy what clearly amounts to simple gaudery. |
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I don't think this will persuade my gentleman's gentleman that brown suits are ever acceptable. |
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The magazine glorifies a procession of vaunted rebels for struggling to persuade a corporate hierarchy to let them generate profits. |
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The film represents a high water mark in the art of product placement, where companies persuade studios to feature their wares on screen. |
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Police had been trying for two days to persuade Carl Roland to give himself up. |
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He tried to persuade organized labor that free trade and not protectionism was in its interests. |
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He will need to persuade Northern Ireland communities on both sides of the fence that he is acting in good faith. |
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An advocate has a goal in mind and, in pursuit of this goal, searches for legal arguments that might persuade a court. |
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It's also difficult for alternative candidates to persuade the electorate to vote for them. |
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Stage a reunion with a former flame and persuade him that you're not the dimwitted blond you once were. |
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France has supported more diplomatic efforts be made to persuade Iraq to allow the return of weapons inspectors. |
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They think human eloquence and argument can persuade unbelievers to repent and believe. |
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A few weeks ago he sought to persuade the emir of Qatar to close it down, without success. |
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Through the night, Rais received emissaries sent to persuade him to call off the demonstration. |
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Between 1960 and 1968, various emissaries were sent to try and persuade him to join government service in the new government but he refused. |
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To succeed as art, sci-fi and fantasy have to persuade us to suspend our disbelief in the world being conjured up. |
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Otway is doing all it can to persuade local fishermen to cut penguins free from their nets when they get entangled with a catch. |
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This approach is clearly exemplified by current campaigns to persuade parents to choose the MMR vaccine. |
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What he needed more than anything, though, was an early goal, to persuade the crowd that their exhortations were worth it. |
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He added that his greatest concern was about how they would be able to persuade Johnny to drink liquids after his procedure. |
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The chief problem for artists working on copper is to persuade the paint to adhere to the very smooth surface. |
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He was convincing enough to persuade Wall Street, thus abating the nervousness of the market. |
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Hindenburg also used his huge influence to persuade Kaiser Wilhelm to abdicate and to go to Holland. |
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There's argument over whether he should try to persuade opposing batsmen to walk when he's convinced they're out. |
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You must have the ability to persuade and inspire our friends to communicate and convince, to listen, to absorb the ideas of others. |
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It is important to persuade the patient to abstain completely from alcohol. |
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If Millfield Park is not accessible by public transport, persuade someone to take you there. |
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However, there is enough help for the seamers to persuade both teams to play three frontline quicks. |
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Finally, quid pro quos and veiled threats were utilized in an attempt to persuade. |
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Metro drivers spend the day jiggling in air-conditioned cabins, sitting on fold-down chairs small enough to persuade many to stand. |
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He jiggles the key in the lock on the front door, trying to persuade the tumblers to shift, which they finally do, reluctantly. |
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It has paid lobbyists to persuade government ministers to lift restrictions on operating casinos. |
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The continuous running is hard on the hobbits, but the orcs persuade them with lashes from a whip. |
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Maybe his new book will persuade experts to sit their keisters down in those chairs and see what actually goes on in those schools. |
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The agony aunt's first quest is to help golf widow Joy to persuade husband Martin to spend more time with her and their three children. |
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Sit on this porch, persuade the few tourist cars that arrived that they really ought to turn back. |
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Instead she decided that she would reason with him, apologise to him, then persuade him to go to bed. |
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Having to reason with a human and persuade her by the subterfuge of logic was exasperating. |
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Students will be asked to describe a character from a book they have read and persuade their keypal to read the book. |
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In this letter, Reading Wood Black proposes to negotiate a treaty to persuade the Kickapoos to leave the area. |
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John is a man on a mission to persuade more of us to compost our garden and kitchen waste. |
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Some very recent examples will suffice to persuade us that piety and knavery are incompatible. |
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I am about to try and persuade mum to take me to Sainsburys to change up all my billions of coppers for actual usable cash. |
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I try to persuade them that holistic medicine need not be, indeed must not be, woolly and imprecise. |
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Charles attempted to exploit the rift between army and Parliament and redoubled his efforts to persuade the Scots to assist him. |
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Many Japanese think they can do nothing to persuade the Chinese and Koreans to relent. |
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Steele also hopes to persuade young Scots now living in London to think of joining a Scottish regiment. |
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While waiting for our main courses, Jackie O attempted to persuade us that she had interests beyond fashion labels. |
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Even an online petition of more then 50,000 signatures demanding his reinstatement failed to persuade the producers to change their minds. |
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Public pressure can persuade the federal government to reinterpret its immigration policy toward those who refuse to fight in an illegal war. |
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Offers from Khartoum of federal autonomy failed to persuade the increasingly active guerrillas to lay down their arms. |
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Normally I could persuade my employers to cough up for this, but I'm increasingly hopping between companies where that's not an option. |
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Twenty thousand libertarian activists should be able to persuade the remaining necessary voters to vote for a libertarian candidate. |
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I continued to argue with my mother to try and persuade her that it is too soon and that I didn't want to leave just yet but it was no use. |
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But the sites are not yet comprehensive or cheap enough to persuade users to go legit. |
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In either case, we can see that both argument and rhetoric are designed to persuade and impress. |
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Young Athenian democrats needed rhetoric to persuade the democratic assemblies. |
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In the second phase it will be necessary to be practical as well as rhetorical, to persuade as well as instruct. |
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Hence the rhetorician who wants to persuade by arguments or proofs can adapt most of the dialectical equipment. |
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Obviously, its quality is partly a function of its power to persuade, but its persuasiveness is in the eye of the beholder. |
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It is possible that cosmetic concessions such as these will be enough to persuade potential rebel MPs to stay in line. |
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Now she is to go before a panel of Home Office officials to try to persuade them to grant her mother asylum. |
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Meinertzhagen went into overdrive, working day and night to persuade staff and clients to stay. |
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The marketer's task is to persuade people to make a transaction on the basis of the product's features, price, and attractiveness. |
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Lobbying by the organisations failed to persuade the government to change tack, however. |
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I had to convince them that my plans to renovate it weren't just pie in the sky and persuade them that I'd actually finish it. |
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The move was to come into effect in tandem with a policy to persuade car owners to shift from low-cost fuel to Pertamax. |
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She managed to persuade commissioning editor, Anna Home, to award Scotland a commission for a new programme. |
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I have to say, if the idea was to persuade any of us that her followers are sane and rational people, the plan backfired in spectacular fashion. |
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The brilliant scarlet sky which provided a backdrop to the ship's arrival helped persuade the five judges the picture was tops. |
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The farmer, seeing the birds he raised for food being killed, tried to persuade the hunter to stop. |
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His employers at Guthy-Renker were making it even tougher by sweetening his package to persuade him to stay. |
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It even seemed possible that they could improve the conditions of slaves and persuade ever more planters to manumit their bondsmen. |
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Despite the tenuous nature of these links, professionals are obliged to advise and even persuade parents to follow the campaign's advice. |
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Her husband, parents, and in-laws had also counselled her but could not persuade her to terminate the pregnancy. |
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It has been known for years that the test is illogical and is a joke, but they have enough clout to be able to persuade a weak government and feeble ministers. |
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Between now and the next general election we have to persuade millions of people up and down the country that this Conservative party is fit for government. |
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And that in itself will persuade the allies to fall into lockstep. |
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Wild horses, however, would not persuade me to recount the precise sequence of events that led up to this happy, if somewhat indecorous, conclusion. |
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It makes it an offence to attempt to commit any such offence, or to solicit, incite or endeavour to persuade another person to do so, or to aid or abet its commission. |
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It was easy enough to throw dust in his eyes and to persuade him that the interests of respectable citizens, be they bailiffs or ex-dukes were identical. |
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Unable to persuade Craigslist, Saar and her allies in other anti-trafficking organization enlisted government support. |
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Efforts to persuade teenagers to stay at school had also been increased. |
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The bar tender was very funny, teasing me when I ordered a white wine spritzer instead of the Scotch he was trying to persuade everyone to imbibe. |
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There is little evidence the party is developing a coherent argument that would persuade voters the centre-right is attractive or even relevant to them. |
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I try to persuade myself they're wholesome by buying ones made with free-range eggs and ignore the fact that the sausage meat is made from the scrapings from pigs' skulls. |
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Yet he and his family claim they have evidence that he was duped into joining a heroin smuggling role which they cannot persuade a Bangkok court to hear. |
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His big election idea is to persuade Highland lairds owning more than 5000 acres to part with 10 acres of land for housing to benefit surrounding local communities. |
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Two predatory chancers wander the casual labour markets in large towns and persuade individuals to accompany them to find work in unregulated coal mines. |
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So would he attempt to persuade an individual who had always harmlessly derived comfort and consolation from his faith that his life was based on a falsehood? |
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A stay of execution may be granted but even then the defendant will have to persuade the court that there is a good reason why the claimant should not be paid. |
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If a committee reports a bill that the majority leadership opposes, central leaders may even persuade the Rules Committee to deny a rule altogether. |
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At a meeting in South Africa tomorrow, campaigners trying to protect the gorillas will make a last-ditch attempt to persuade Congolese government ministers to intervene. |
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It was revealed on Wednesday this week that Meatco's management and employee representatives have failed to persuade employees of the Windhoek abattoir to work overtime. |
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These appeals persuade not through the give-and-take of argument and debate, but through the manipulation of symbols and of our most basic human emotions. |
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Kramer has long believed Lincoln was gay and quickly began trying to persuade Kushner to include this in the screenplay. |
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Diffuse reciprocity can take many forms, including concessions and derogations, or going out on a limb to persuade the capital for changes or a compromise. |
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The record industry has reached a strange pass when it makes more economic sense to give away an entire album than to spend the money needed to persuade people to buy it. |
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It is their job to lobby politicians and persuade them to suppress, depress, repress, oppress, or do what ever it takes to maintain a grip on the price of silver. |
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Don't send me to some swing state to persuade undecided voters. |
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Normally it would take a lot to persuade me to eat horse meat. |
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These images are visual panegyrics in the Erasmian spirit, designed to persuade the sovereign to emulate the symbolic role that the images portray. |
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Before an audience of people who supposedly spend their days pursuing the truth, he joked about misstatements he had used to persuade the American people and the media. |
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It's hard to say what's causing this traffic, but you may be able to persuade your admin that it will not happen again by filtering outgoing multicast traffic. |
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The Church hopes that providing rent-free or subsidised facilities will cut the overheads of running a rural post office and persuade the Post Office to replace postmasters. |
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He's working to head off future suits by trying to persuade Oregon's high school sports governing organization to draw up guidelines about proper conduct for coaches. |
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It was his task to persuade us that the Big Bang was a lot of hooey. |
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The lord chief justice has used all his skill and pragmatism trying to persuade the government not to take asylum and immigration issues out of the courts. |
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Write letters to the Environment Ministry to persuade officials to protect elephants in their own homes, stop visiting animal circuses and avoid elephant rides. |
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In one telegram, I describe the Alice-in-Wonderland quality of a meeting with him in which I tried to persuade him to cleanse the security forces of their worst offenders. |
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Both disciplines understood their purpose to be the evocation and presentation of intended affections, thereby to persuade and to edify the listener. |
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Yet behind the scenes, the whips' office is making all sorts of threats in a bid to persuade them not to gut the Bill and turn it into an outright ban. |
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In the play, Babcock tries to persuade Lovelace to leave the abusive Chuck Traynor. |
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He has to persuade middle Americans that they have a stake, say, in a carbon tax. |
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They are hoping that changing circumstances will persuade local authorities to reassess their reluctance to green-light road safety investment in Myshall. |
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In colonial America, Puritan preachers often used a special sermon form to instruct, persuade, or convince their hearers to change their actions or thoughts. |
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With the millennium approaching, his aim was to persuade the human population of the entire planet that, for 24 hours, they should stop killing each other. |
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Mentioning that other conditions, such as thyroid disease, can mimic the symptoms of depression may help further persuade your loved one to seek treatment. |
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Ferguson has also confirmed that his efforts to persuade the United board to sign a striker before the transfer window closes at the end of the month have failed. |
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He raised the money to go to the Maldives, and he hoped that he would be able to persuade the president to allow him to stay. |
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Ballybunion, for instance, has 36 holes in the dunes, but 18 of them are great and 18 are such that you couldn't persuade me to play them even with a shillelagh. |
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Then he decided to sneak into Biafra and persuade its leader of his position. |
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By showing these new machos turning themselves into cartoons, the writers try to persuade people not to take them seriously or follow where they lead. |
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They have been recruited to persuade citizens to report local villains. |
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As with heritage, life histories become coherent and credible only by invention, often in defiance of known fact. They persuade us not as vero but ben trovato. |
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His fellow clansmen try to persuade him to join them for a swift saki or two but he always declines, earning him the nickname of The Twilight Samurai. |
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Unstoppable or not, John H has seen little in his 38 years to persuade him progress is benign. |
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He says that Blair tried to persuade him the Middle East and the whole world were under threat from Iraq's supposed long-range weapons carrying dirty warheads. |
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I'm trying to persuade Internet Girl to go for a dirty weekend. |
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In trying to persuade the audience of a perspective that could be viewed as favourable to Maori, he courts the risk of being judged as partial, radical or extreme. |
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In his new book, Roberts seeks to persuade his readers that napoleon was not an evil monster. |
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When I tried to persuade him to drop the title The Short Night, I proposed calling the picture Pursuit. |
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He never fails to persuade Jones to follow him into the lion's den. |
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Reasoning that he and Jean Carrel ought to join forces instead of competing, Whymper tried to persuade the Italian mountaineer to work for him as a guide. |
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Yesterday, President Runningbear began talks with Apache and Sioux tribes in an effort to persuade other Native American nations to join the cause. |
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A bunch of old, white, rock titans come together with young, white, X Factor hotties to persuade Britain to heal Africa. |
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The three have now formed a campaign group under the banner of Exhibiting Societies of Scottish Artists to persuade the National Galleries to cut the rental costs. |
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During one point in the movie, recognizing the Tennessee woodsman's talent as a marksman, two of his commanding officers try to persuade him to accept a promotion. |
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A haven of genteel entertainment might persuade local residents that there were pleasurable and respectable alternatives to a knock-down drunken blowout every weekend. |
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Committee members said ministers were not doing enough to persuade people to use less fuel and must be prepared to use tax to change ingrained habits. |
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When it came to politics, Robbins and Sarandon tended to espouse and admonish rather than try to persuade. |
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Although Hairston, Young, Becker and Pike take for granted that Rogers' theories are appropriate for use by rhetoricians as a means to persuade, this is not the case. |
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If you're eager to have the duomo to yourself, or to stroll through the Villa Mansi with a glass of something fortifying in your hand, persuade a friend to marry in Lucca. |
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The police were overhead in a helicopter trying to persuade the young man to come down. |
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But previous attempts to persuade the duke to cut back on his workload have fallen on deaf ears. |
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Alone, Iago speaks of his hatred of Othello and a rumour that the Moor has cuckolded him, and hatches a plan to persuade Othello that his wife is unfaithful with Cassio. |
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Michaels says he had been trying for decades to persuade the comedienne to come on. |
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A Boston matron he met during his trip north tried to persuade him to remain in that city in the hopes of making a match for a marriageable daughter. |
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And he remains on a mission to persuade more people to sign donor cards. |
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Uncle David always had been a soft touch, and it was a lot easier to persuade him and Auntie Marianna to let me stay up late than it ever was with Mum and Dad. |
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His hands, which he'd put lightly on his wife's shoulders to persuade her to go home, felt something very irregular underneath that sensible, dowdy dress. |
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We urge him to persuade the president to help mediate the situation. |
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But his tireless energy, his matchless ability to persuade advertisers that space in his pages was worth buying, transformed the Digest's fortunes in India. |
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So I feel that not enough is being done to persuade people to give up because the government know that they're on to a good thing with the tobacco trade. |
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To persuade Iran to abjure weapons, the United States will have to make some kind of deal. |
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Turner managed to remain fit by playing pickup basketball and some times as an extra softball team player when his friends could persuade him to give them a hand. |
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It took Trotsky to persuade him that the rising must be called in the name of the soviets, which represented the different currents of the workers' movement. |
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Actor Richard E Grant and newsreader Fiona Bruce are two of the famous names who will try to persuade viewers to vote for their favourite architectural treasure. |
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When implemented correctly, a firm that employs the marketing concept will not have to rely on hard-sell campaigns to persuade consumers to buy the goods it produces. |
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How on earth does the party hope to persuade voters it is not an apartheid relic when a third of its sitting MPs still have names harking back to the Verwoerdian era? |
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I am quite satisfied that she is refusing to give evidence and that no inducements or protection which the court could afford would persuade her otherwise. |
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It will not be easy to persuade militias to disband with payback sentiments like those. |
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At she Twiggy is standing up for older consumers by backing a drive to persuade companies to tailor their advertising and products to this wealthy group. |
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Without jobs, it will be harder to persuade young men to give up their weapons and to disband their militias. |
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The Government used to talk about a carrot and stick approach to persuade us to use our cars less. |
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