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Any hope that the demands of office, or political and economic realities, would persuade Trump to adhere to domestic and foreign-policy norms must now be cast aside as wishful thinking.
If the product helps families save, he hopes to persuade lawmakers to make this type of savings scheme easier to offer in America.
In the United States, for example, the farm lobby has made it difficult to persuade Congress or state legislatures to pass animal welfare legislation to curb even the most extreme forms of confinement of livestock.
At the moment, the electorate is hostile to Euro membership by a large margin; if the government is to persuade the voters to change their minds on purely economic grounds, it must deploy a powerful case.
That will not change until a new consciousness emerges worldwide to persuade states to support binding international law.
In contrast, antifa supporters say that racists and white nationalists are not rational, so there is no point in trying to persuade them that they are wrong.
The Chinese can’t force Kim to disarm fully, but they can persuade him to negotiate with a now more flexible US.
The strategy was to persuade the Kremlin that no such thing could ever happen.
This naturally robs them of the moral authority to persuade others not to acquire nuclear weapons, which continue to be perceived as a source of power and influence, and an insurance policy against attack.
Nothing less will persuade investors to go near debt issues from the eurozone’s fiscally challenged members.
Perhaps it will be possible to persuade the Germans if the alternative is eurozone collapse, which would put the Deutschemark, or a Northern Euro, in the uncomfortable position that the Swiss franc occupies today – too strong for its own good.
The US should help shoulder the burden by accepting 100,000 refugees next year and using its influence to persuade other countries to join an international resettlement initiative.
We need to persuade public institutions to focus on how to work better with their private counterparts, not vice versa, because the public and private sectors have a shared interest in accelerating economic development and ensuring that everyone benefits from globalization.
Some financial advisers in the United States are paid not on the basis of how their clients do, but according to what financial products they persuade them to buy.
According to Jennings, a former chief financial officer of Xing, Europe’s leading social network, “We spent years trying to persuade people that they had a problem we could solve; now I am working with companies solving problems that people know they have.”
The largest 25 firms could easily persuade key governments to act on the Review’s recommendation for a market-entry reward.
Furthermore, economies that have not relied on their citizens’ knowledge and skills in the past may not be able to turn things around unless their leaders persuade the public to change their perception of education.
That was never a good way to persuade a teenage boy to keep his room tidy.
Such critics worry that this will make it harder to persuade countries to cut emissions further when it becomes clear that their collective efforts are not enough, and that it may even allow some countries to use irregular accounting methods.
Fortunately, given the Union’s attraction for most ordinary Ukrainians, there is still hope that simple realism will persuade Yanukovych and Ukraine’s ruling elite to return to a path that would allow for the association agreement to be signed.
American diplomats are never going to persuade the UN Security Council to impose sanctions on Iran’s energy exports.
But undermining his domestic standing by limiting Iran’s revenues stands a better chance of succeeding than diplomatic efforts to persuade the regime to suspend uranium enrichment voluntarily, or coercive sanctions.
These realities helped persuade the scientists Kevin Anderson and Glen Peters recently to call carbon removal an “unjust and high-stakes gamble.”
Extensive lobbying, directly and by proxy, is underway to persuade European regulators to allow long-term supply contracts in the EU – despite their deadening effect on competition.
It also means carrying on with the important role that Europe plays in foreign policy such as attracting Serbia to reach agreement on the future status of Kosovo, or continuing efforts to persuade Iran to give up its plans for the enrichment of uranium.
Indeed, if the euro zone can persuade Great Britain to become a full-fledged member, thereby acquiring one of the world’s two premier financial centers (London), the euro might really start to look like a viable alternative to the dollar.
This is not in everyone’s interest, to be sure: Pointing out the benefits of cheap labor will not persuade people whose wages might be undercut.
"Big corporations don't even have Africa on the map when they consider outsourcing locations," says Sambou Makalou, a native of Mali who tries to persuade US employers to shift service jobs to Africa.
It means engagement whereby America should not seek “to bully, intimidate, cajole, or persuade others to accept our unique values or to share our national objectives.”
But, because we can be manipulated or deceived or even just passively tempted, free markets also persuade us to buy things that are good neither for us nor for society.
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