Persuade
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In the contemporary American workplace, employers use their court-protected free-speech rights to spread millions of dollars worth of anti-union propaganda, to intimidate individual workers, and to
persuade
employees that joining a union would mean losing their jobs.
President Putin enjoys a relationship of trust with Kim and thus may be able to
persuade
him that only by abiding by international law will he ensure his country's future and that this, indeed, is the only option left open to him.
Sanctions alone, even those supported by the United Nations Security Council and backed by military force, could not
persuade
Saddam Hussein to withdraw from Kuwait, control of which was a major prize for him.
In the case of Iran, the first Iraq war teaches us that economic sanctions will likely not be enough to
persuade
the Revolutionary Guards (who increasingly dominate the country) to accept verifiable limits on their nuclear program.
Sanctions may, however,
persuade
some other powerful constituencies within Iran, namely the clerics, the businessmen of the bazaar, and political conservatives, to turn on President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and his Revolutionary Guard base.
Let us be very clear, too, about “renegotiating the terms of membership,” the refuge of those who want to leave but want to
persuade
people that it really is just an adjustment of the relationship.
The policy “did not
persuade
householders that energy efficiency measures are worth paying for,” according to the auditors, and “failed to deliver any meaningful benefit.”
An effective UN leader needs to be able to
persuade
member states to cooperate, manage the organization well, and deliver results.
Unfortunately, it is highly unlikely that the ECB will do enough to
persuade
investors that membership is unequivocally forever, not least because Germany’s Bundesbank opposes any open-ended commitment to capping borrowing costs.
Such peaceful assurances, against the backdrop of growing tensions in East Asia, may or may not be enough to
persuade
Japanese voters that it is time to expand their country’s armed forces – 75 years after their great but fateful triumph in Pearl Harbor.
Successful models and effective policies can be shared and emulated more easily than ever, which will
persuade
more people than ever that there is no alternative to the rule of law if China’s modernization is to continue.
As my colleagues at the University of California, San Francisco, have reported, the Sugar Research Foundation – the industry’s trade group – even sought to
persuade
clinical medicine to focus on saturated fat instead of sugar, and pushed clinical dentistry to focus on a vaccine for tooth decay rather than sugar reduction.
But perhaps the biggest challenge facing Macron will be to
persuade
Germany’s next chancellor, to be elected in September, to work with him to reform the eurozone.
Public diplomacy and the power to attract and
persuade
become increasingly important, but public diplomacy is changing.
To put pressure on Manafort, Mueller even staged a pre-dawn raid on his home in northern Virginia and let him know that he’ll be indicted – presumably to
persuade
him to give up information about Trump.
At first the Europeans, and their American allies in NATO, believed or hoped that they could, by negotiation,
persuade
President Milosevic to back down from his policy of repression and massacre in Kosovo.
Even banishing skepticism and assuming that Hollande could over time
persuade
his supporters to embrace competitiveness-boosting policies, the eurozone crisis is denying France the time that such gradualism requires.
Will this environmental disaster
persuade
Americans to look harder at their incontinent use of energy?
Kerry’s formidable task is to
persuade
the Palestinians to accept a smaller state than they want and the Israelis to accept a smaller state than they have.
Good econometric studies examine secondary effects to
persuade
readers that the main effect is what it is.
Chancellor Angela Merkel may not be able to
persuade
her entire coalition of its merits, but she could rely on the opposition to build a new majority in support of doing what is necessary to preserve the euro.
Higher trade figures may
persuade
Vietnam to maintain friendly bilateral ties, and perhaps even to adopt more accommodating positions on thorny regional security issues, such as the South China Sea dispute.
The European Union had joined an agreement initiated by the two Koreas and the US within the Korean Energy Development Organization program, the objective being to
persuade
North Korea to freeze and later dismantle its nuclear program.
This kind of House seat can easily flip to the Democrats in 2018, if a candidate like Min can
persuade
voters that Walters is out of touch – and too close to Trump.
But, so far, the US has relied on threats, such as halting $650 billion in bilateral trade, to
persuade
China to cooperate.
And both French President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Angela Merkel have now visited the White House to
persuade
Trump that it is better to build on the deal than blow it up.
But to
persuade
him of that, Europe must show that it is willing to go it alone.
Attempts by Obasanjo’s supporters to
persuade
the National Assembly to amend the Constitution to enable Obasanjo to continue in office beyond two terms met a solid wall of opposition.
Regulators and governments view the main purpose of financial stress tests as being to
persuade
some institutions of the urgent need to improve their capital ratios.
This approach mirrors that of Russian President Vladimir Putin, who uses the sumptuous trappings and immense resources of his office to claim credit for restoring his country’s national pride, particularly when he is trying to
persuade
ordinary Russians to make economic sacrifices.
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