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But as the public less and less believes in European institutions, it is also each time more difficult to convince the public that we need more Europe to solve these problems.
Or, perhaps worse, is it just a construct, some fake concept we all convince each other to try to live up to for a fake sense of purpose?
He said, "It will not be easy to convince my company to do larger quantity shipment."
Ethos is how you convince an audience of your credibility.
The point is to use factual knowledge to convince the audience, as in Sojourner Truth's argument for women's rights: "I have as much muscle as any man and can do as much work as any man.
Furthermore, he thought that society should be divided into three groups: producers, the military, and the rulers, and that a great noble lie should convince everyone to follow this structure.
And then I waited again, but this time I read through almost every tweet I had ever tweeted to convince myself, no, to remind myself that I'm really funny and that if nobody gets it, that's fine.
And this was done to convince them that they were much better off under crushing white rule than they were living in a black and free nation.
Now, glassy-eyed is a fundamentally awful thing when you are trying to convince an audience that a robot has a personality and he's capable of falling in love.
As a "why" kid, I thought I could change the world, and it was impossible to convince me otherwise.
The main editor guy sat me down and talked to me for a long time, trying to convince me I had a book in me about my life as a swimmer.
Everyone in his village tries to convince him to give up his lunacy, going so far as to burn some of the lurid books in his personal library.
And it took around four and a half years for me to convince my lovely Indian mother that actually, this is worthwhile.
As the leader of the NGO there, I spent most of my energy trying to convince people about the capabilities of people with disabilities.
So, the first time I stood on top of the mountain and I looked at the neighborhood, I asked myself, how on earth will I convince all those owners to let me paint on their buildings?
He told me the only person I needed to convince was Father Samaan, who is the leader of the community.
But to convince Father Samaan, I needed to convince Mario, who is a Polish artist who moved to Cairo 20 years ago and who created all the artwork of the Cave Church.
And if I were to convince you in this talk that we were likely to suffer a global famine, either because of climate change or some other catastrophe, and that your grandchildren, or their grandchildren, are very likely to live like this, you wouldn't think, "Interesting.
And then the cellular repair processes kick in, and then we convince those repair processes to make the edit that we want, and not a natural edit.
Now, I believed in art therapy, but I was going to have to convince service members, big, tough, strong, manly military men, and some women too, to give art-making as a psychotherapeutic intervention a try.
We need hipsters, and we need companies like Adidas, and what we need most is for investors to convince other companies to behave like Adidas.
Fortunately, we've been able to convince Congress.
We have to find a way, somehow, to compel, to convince billions of these particles to assemble themselves into the technology.
Jeffrey Alan Carnegie: I've tried to convince progressive friends that they need to understand what motivates Trump supporters, yet many of them have given up trying to understand in the face of what they perceive as lies, selfishness and hatred.
I wrote poetry to convince people to hear and see us, and that's how I learned the thing that changed me.
But it's hard to convince people that they deserve to be seen.
This, like, tantalizing possibility that you could convince someone of your point of view, just with the power of your words.
If you know what you're saying, you'll feed off the crowd's energy instead of letting your hypothalamus convince your body it's about to be lunch for a pack of predators.
Took them another five years going back and forth and back and forth to convince the FDA that this would not harm people, and it would not harm the environment.
What O'Brien says is the point, is that he wants to convince Smith that whatever the party says is the truth, and the truth is whatever the party says.
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