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By that time, the German economy will also be weakening, so that Chancellor Angela Merkel will find it even more difficult than today to persuade the German public to accept additional European responsibilities.
What is perhaps harder, they must first persuade the media-glutted voters to tear themselves away from entertainment - or, these days, "infotainment" - long enough to attend to a political message at all.
In order to persuade voters, candidates mount multi-media pageants costing tens of millions of dollars.
Iran must persuade the world that it does not want the Bomb.”
Perhaps the hardest challenge has been to persuade the public, impatient for rapid growth, of the need to ensure stability first.
The attempt to change US policy while arguing that little had changed did not persuade many.
The hope in the Trump administration is that the Saudis will use their financial resources to persuade the Palestinians to agree to make peace with Israel on terms Israel will accept.
The steepest part of this increase occurred after April 17, when OPEC failed to agree on a new price target and persuade the Saudi, Russian, and Iranian governments to coordinate the output cuts that would be required to achieve any such target.
Even if politicians have perfect foresight of the disaster that awaits if nothing is done, they may have little ability to persuade voters, or less insightful party members, that the short-term costs must be paid.
But satire and ridicule will not work to persuade people who love Trump precisely because of his weirdness.
If Syria in turn accepts Lebanon’s sovereignty, and if it helps force Hezbollah into becoming a political force shorn of its military power, Israel and America ought to persuade Lebanon’s government to accept that Syria and Lebanon need to consult each other in security matters.
For its part, Europe needs to mount a charm offensive to persuade Putin and Medvedev that Russia’s real interest is in improving bilateral relations.
In the Middle East, it needs to persuade Iran to hold in check the military elements of the nuclear program that Russia has made possible.
It would be far better to persuade China to intervene to bring Kim’s regime to heel.
Kaufman understands that successful reform requires three ingredients: arguments that persuade, the ability to bring colleagues along, and a good deal of luck in the form of events that highlight problems at just the right time.
Currently, Putin’s top priority is to persuade as many countries as possible to join the customs union, but so far only Belarus and Kazakhstan have done so.
Indeed, official rhetoric has turned once again to trying to persuade markets to ignore reality.
The next chairman will have to move decisively to persuade colleagues when needed; but, first and foremost, he or she will need a heavy dose of humility and respect for the views of his or her peers.
Russia has offered to use what it calls its “limited influence” to persuade the rebel governments to cooperate.
To persuade wavering Asian countries to band together, rather than submit to China, Japan will have to adopt policies that demonstrate its willingness to absorb the high costs of keeping itself and its partners outside of China’s orbit.
As a result, factional strife is unlikely to panic the rulers and is even less likely to persuade them that the king must abdicate to save the country.
So Carter worked the phones, trying to persuade Iowa’s farmers to endorse an embargo on grain exports to the Soviet Union.
Beyond that, Americans should try to persuade Vice President Mike Pence that it’s time to invoke Section 4 of the 25th Amendment, which provides for the removal of a president who has been deemed unfit to serve by a majority of his or her cabinet.
The task now is to persuade Palestinians and Israelis to begin the process, to start taking steps to improve the situation on the ground so that they can tackle more far_reaching matters at the negotiating table.
Complex communications skills entail understanding ideas, how to evaluate their social significance, and how to persuade – tasks that no computer can accomplish.
Since then, this remarkable young woman from rural Malawi has helped to persuade her government to raise the minimum age of marriage across her country, and is blazing a trail for girls that we all should follow.
It may be too late to persuade voters not to reject the existing systems, but there is still time to build effective alternatives.
A better alternative for Trump would be to persuade China to import more from the US.
Instead, Turkey must try to persuade third countries with which the EU has concluded trade deals to do so.
What the Conservatives did succeed in doing, and doing brilliantly, was to persuade English people that they were only “cleaning up Labour’s mess,” and that, but for austerity, Britain would have “gone the way of Greece” – exactly Ferguson’s view.
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