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It will need to convince Labour politicians that collaboration with Brexit is electoral suicide, and persuade pro-EU Tory rebels that a rebellion would not be futile.
Over the next several years – the medium term – all countries should implement difficult-to-reverse fiscal consolidation, which would persuade the private sector that a gradual or delayed adjustment, primarily on the spending side of the budget, will occur.
The Washington Post journalist Bob Woodward reports in Fear,his book about the Trump administration, that Gary Cohn, Trump’s then-chief economic adviser, tried to persuade the president to focus on services by asking whether he thought workers would prefer to stand all day in a factory or sit behind a desk in an air-conditioned office.
Moreover, he works to negotiate with – and persuade – his opponents.
Likewise, only a new narrative – a new Geist – can persuade the British today that they are really Europeans.
Indeed, this lobbying game is often a race to the bottom, and foreign companies are compelled to establish a local presence so that they can persuade politicians that they are just as beneficial to the domestic economy as their native competitors.
And yet we still must go to great lengths to persuade people to visit it.
Boards of directors, large global investors, and consumers must step up to persuade more companies to join them.
When you persuade others to want what you want, you do not have to spend as much on sticks and carrots to move them in your direction.
The panel’s findings should help to persuade them to do so.
Indeed, strong leadership would be needed to negotiate deflationary measures with labor unions, to persuade Germany to accept some inflation, or to navigate Italy’s return to the lira.
Governments must be prepared to persuade their electorates that it would be money well spent.
While a diplomatic track alone will not suffice to persuade the North Koreans to behave properly, those who focus more on the failure of diplomacy than on the North Koreans’ perfidy have unwittingly aided and abetted the North.
The Commission, as the guardian of the Union’s treaties, must protect these four fundamental freedoms, which means that it must sometimes persuade, and if necessary force, member states to change their laws.
There is an argument, made by Nicholas Kristof in the New York Times, that a swift punishment might persuade Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad to stop using chemical weapons and use “more banal ways to slaughter his people.”
China, the only major Asian emerging economy that is currently meeting the ADB’s spending target, could use its G-20 presidency to persuade its neighbors to increase investment in this area.
But there needs to be a far more concerted effort to persuade Iraq’s Arab neighbors to accept a Shia-governed Iraq.
Circulating such information might increase internal opposition to Putin, persuade him to hold off on further interference in US and European politics, and, over time, buttress more responsible forces within Russia.
Chinese enterprises could reduce their demand for US business services, and the government could persuade companies not to buy American.
It ought to be possible to persuade governments in those countries to curb such behavior by holding out the prospect of substantial rewards.
But Obama has helped to persuade China and India to announce useful efforts, and he will set an American target of reducing greenhouse emissions that should prevent the conference from being a failure.
And it is harder still to persuade those business leaders who do comprehend such risks to talk about them on a public stage.
The real problem is that they have done such a good job convincing the public that inflation is the number-one evil that it is difficult for them to persuade anyone that they are now serious about reflation.
In fact, to persuade high-income countries – and their taxpayers – to increase their development-aid outlays, we will have to be more mindful of costs and benefits, and recognize that not all development targets are equal.
It is the duty of governments on both sides of the Atlantic to persuade their publics of this.
The anti-Qatar bloc could not even persuade its closest allies to follow its lead.
Indeed, the CIO would illustrate the power of information’s power by using it , rather than legal power, to persuade people to do the right thing.
The challenge for Egyptian leaders is to persuade Hamas to settle on lesser terms without further fighting.
But it will be much more difficult to persuade China that it should stand down.
The first purpose is, of course, to persuade the country in question to come around to others’ views.
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