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They even sent liberal imams into the jails to persuade the jihadists that terror is un-Islamic.
If you're debating something, you can't persuade the person with reasons and evidence, because that's not the way reasoning works.
The goal, of course, is to persuade climbers to clean up after themselves, so maybe local not-for-profits will pay climbers who bring down extra waste, or expeditions might organize voluntary cleanup trips.
Overall, we found that 69 percent of liberals invoked one of the more liberal moral values in constructing their essay, and only nine percent invoked one of the more conservative moral values, even though they were supposed to be trying to persuade conservatives.
All these studies have the same clear message: if you want to persuade someone on some policy, it's helpful to connect that policy to their underlying moral values.
You know, it turns out that when we go to persuade somebody on a political issue, we talk like we're speaking into a mirror.
We don't persuade so much as we rehearse our own reasons for why we believe some sort of political position.
If you can tap into that, you can connect and you might be able to persuade somebody in this country.
It's symbolically important to me, and that metaphor is so meaningful, so purposeful to me, and I'm not going to try to persuade you of it," now you've moved it from outer truth to inner truth, from science to art.
Am I going to persuade you by saying, "Well, you're kind of a bigot, you're supporting bigotry, you're supporting sexism.
And we'll work tirelessly to persuade governments to make community health workers a cornerstone of their health care plans.
So last year, Donald Trump's social media manager disclosed that they were using Facebook dark posts to demobilize people, not to persuade them, but to convince them not to vote at all.
And all I had to do was persuade the public authorities that shutting the city for four days was something completely normal.
CA: I mean, what would it take to persuade our culture to downplay it?
I only get to fly this vehicle occasionally, and only when I can persuade my stockholders to let me do so, but it's still one of those wonderful experiences that reward you for all that time.
CA: Have you been able to persuade biologists, doctors, that this is a safe approach?
Weren't these the dreams people in its early stages had about the World Wide Web? Can't pictures and videos like these persuade people who have become insensitive to facts to rethink?
Eliminate can either mean, like, incarcerate or kill, or it can mean persuade them to a better view of the world.
And if you want to do it by persuasion, you are competing against all other powerful forces that are trying to persuade people, parties, religion, education system.
NB: I think it's all good to try to deter and persuade people, but we shouldn't rely on that as our only safeguard.
I want to use my images to persuade millions of people to join in the global conversation on sustainability.
One of the reasons why an institution is not in itself enough is that we have got to persuade people around the world to change their behavior as well, so you need that global ethic of fairness and responsibility across the generations.
You would not believe how easy it is to persuade people to do things with their computers which are objectively not in their interest.
GB: Well I think we can persuade people that what is necessary for Britain's long-term interests, what is necessary for America's long-term interests, is proper engagement with the rest of the world, and taking the action that is necessary.
And I believe that if you look at the biggest challenge we face, it is to persuade people to have the confidence that we can build a truly global society with the institutions that are founded on these rules.
CA: Climate skeptics: If you had a sentence or two to say to them, how might you persuade them that they're wrong?
There's nothing that one should be able to say to the other that should persuade the other."
The goal of my Talk here is not to persuade the people in this room to embrace your xenophilia.
And that's one of the reasons why Arthur Andersen chose to launch Accenture rather than try to persuade the world that Andersen's could stand for something other than accountancy.
It explains why Hoover found it very difficult to persuade the world that it was more than vacuum cleaners, and why companies like Unilever and P&G keep brands separate, like Ariel and Pringles and Dove rather than having one giant parent brand.
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