Persuaded
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A not-so-generous interpretation of modern aid history is that rich countries’ legislatures were too cheap to give outright grants to the poorest countries, and could be
persuaded
to help out only if they were told that the money would be repaid.
According to this view, Netanyahu's right-wing coalition might be
persuaded
to accept the continuation of the partial settlement freeze, but only if the Israeli public sees President Mahmoud Abbas and Netanyahu publicly engaged in negotiations.
The political community of the 1950’s that France had
persuaded
its five European partners to accept was supposed to absorb both the European Coal and Steel Community and the EDC.
These partnerships will require the cooperation of a broad variety of interest groups, all of which will have to be
persuaded
to support efforts to improve the water supply.
Moreover, as people’s incomes rise, they might more easily be
persuaded
to adopt healthier and more environmentally friendly diets than those taken up in the developed world.
Though questions about the peace agreement’s durability remain, with full disarmament yet to take place, the political autonomy granted to the country’s Muslim areas seems to have
persuaded
most MILF fighters that the time has come to end the carnage.
And yet many Americans are
persuaded
to support such policies, not because it is in their interest, but because they do not understand the economics.
But bankers strongly reject this approach (because it would likely lower their pay), as do central bankers (because they are too much
persuaded
by the protestation of bankers).
If the protests boost international attention and support, Western governments may be
persuaded
to offer Nigeria’s government the night-vision equipment, helicopters, and air cover that it desperately needs to show Boko Haram that official forces have regained control of Borno’s forests and that the group cannot escape with impunity.
Not surprisingly, African-Americans and Latinos consider his comments insensitive and patronizing; white women – his real target audience – haven’t yet been persuaded, either.
Second, short-term capital flows usually would strengthen rather than weaken upward pressure on the RMB’s exchange rate, because speculators,
persuaded
by China’s gradual approach to revaluation, bet on appreciation.
Its unstated premise is that enough senior officials in the regime can be
persuaded
to change course, with enough safe exits for the most divisive figures, to enable the situation to stabilize and reform to start.
The last time the Fed raised interest rates was in 2006, before the growth-sapping impact of the global financial crisis
persuaded
it and other central banks to lower rates effectively to zero and to employ so-called quantitative easing (QE) to pump money into advanced economies.
They ought to be
persuaded
- through a judicious mixture of carrots and sticks - that strengthening the rule of law and democratic institutions would work to their advantage.
Moreover, Ghani has been
persuaded
that he needs Pakistan’s help on both fronts.
To drive this point home to the general public, which, in the US, is still easily
persuaded
by Cheney’s point of view that torture is justified if it saves lives, liberal commentators and politicians have called for a special commission to investigate fully the last administration’s record.
Whereas some German companies
persuaded
workers to accept wage cuts to help weather the financial crisis, wages across the southern periphery have been marching steadily upwards, even as productivity has remained stagnant.
He
persuaded
voters with his promise of a Scandinavian-style combination of economic liberalism and a flexible welfare state.
For example, Qatar
persuaded
the Taliban to release the American soldier Bowe Bergdahl in May 2014; three months later, it helped secure the freedom of Peter Theo Curtis, an American journalist held by al-Qaeda’s Syrian affiliate, the al-Nusra Front.
Whatever hope exists that they can be
persuaded
to withdraw support or sanctuary from terrorists rests on the certainty and effectiveness with which they are confronted.
To advance his own political ends, Papen
persuaded
German President Paul von Hindenburg to appoint Adolf Hitler as Chancellor in 1933.
We should not be deterred from doing right now by the fear that we may later be
persuaded
that we should do right again.
Trump won largely because he
persuaded
voters in Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin, and elsewhere that his policies will yield better outcomes in communities where manufacturing is declining.
Tougher sanctions can continue to delegitimize the regime, and Turkey might be
persuaded
to take stronger steps against its neighbor.
Persuaded
that clean energy is good for the environment and the economy, China has committed $367 billion through 2020 to the development of renewable power sources – a level of investment that is expected to generate 13 million jobs.
Could a majority of the 99% still be
persuaded
to vote against their self-interest?
Germany then
persuaded
the rest of the European Union to agree to unprecedentedly tough sanctions against Russia to deter further aggression.
But they also recognized that the country's sizable, and economically powerful, Chinese and Indian minorities, among other groups, were critical to the country's development and should be
persuaded
to accept the new Malay-led state as their own.
Despite wearing his Malay nationalism on his sleeve, Mahathir ultimately
persuaded
most non-Malays that he was not simply a communal leader but someone who cared for all Malaysia's communities.
And Singapore has been
persuaded
to host four advanced naval ships.
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