Persuaded
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385 examples of Persuaded in a sentence
Prime Minister Berlusconi has
persuaded
the Italian Parliament to pass legislation which primarily benefits him and his business interests.
Moreover, in October, Congress was
persuaded
to give it Trade Promotion Authority, enabling the completion of the 12-country Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP).
China could still be
persuaded
to take a more active role in constraining the Kim regime.
But I am
persuaded
that the need for lasting choices cannot be swept away, and I hope will soon become comprehensible for most people.
They should be
persuaded
that it is in their self-interest to do these things.
For a price, low ranking officials, who have considerable discretion in applying the conditions, can be
persuaded
to reach favorable interpretations.
Angry people cannot easily be
persuaded
by luminous reason.
But congressional rejection of an international agreement that the president had painstakingly
persuaded
the rest of the world to accept is not a new pattern.
Such an assessment requires acknowledging that the election was far from flawless: Hamas and Islamic Jihad boycotted the poll, and Marwan Barghouti, a fellow Fatah member with Abbas and the one candidate who could seriously have challenged him, was ungently
persuaded
by the movement's leadership to withdraw his candidacy in order to present a unified front.
Meanwhile, it is sponsoring the new Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) – an international institution that threatens to rival the World Bank in Asia – and has
persuaded
countries like the United Kingdom, Germany, and France to join, over the vocal objections of the United States.
Last year, Saudi Arabia’s King Abdullah, worried by Shi’a expansionism, was
persuaded
by Prince Bandar bin Sultan, the head of his National Security Council, to coordinate policy with Israel to counter Iran’s growing influence.
Concerns about the deleterious effects of competition have always existed, even among those who are not
persuaded
that government diktat can replace markets, or that intrinsic human goodness is a more powerful motivator than monetary reward and punishment.
As a result, for years, many US policymakers
persuaded
themselves that the key to peace in Afghanistan lay in pressuring India to resolve the Jammu and Kashmir dispute and thereby somehow allay Pakistani insecurities.
Five years later, this tactic seems unlikely to work again: nowadays, Russians no longer seem to be
persuaded
by anti-Western discourse and militarist rhetoric.
Clearly, China and the US (if it can be
persuaded
to step off the sidelines) must play a leading role in this effort.
And while Trump is hardly the first US leader to criticize Europeans for not contributing enough to common defense, he is the first who seems actually to need to be
persuaded
of NATO’s importance.
Decades of anti-EU propaganda might have
persuaded
many Britons to put up with the privations that will follow a hard Brexit.
They
persuaded
themselves that rather than trying to remove Trump from office, they could instead control him and thus perpetuate their own power.
Tang
persuaded
top primary and middle schools in Beijing and other large Chinese cities to have video cameras installed in their classrooms, and to let schools in poor and remote rural areas audit their lessons via online video links.
Applauded by the IMF, the World Bank, and the international and domestic financial press, the authorities persisted with austerity,
persuaded
that fiscal contraction was expansionary, even in the midst of a recession, because, by reducing expected future taxation, it would encourage entrepreneurs to increase their present investments.
But NML Capital – an Elliott subsidiary – held out on the rescheduling and
persuaded
a judge to rule that unless Argentina repaid NML in full, it could not repay anyone else.
Libya was
persuaded
to abandon its nuclear ambitions, Israel thwarted Iraqi and Syrian nuclear development, and South Africa relinquished its small nuclear arsenal.
Perhaps the story would be different if Trump had
persuaded
the Ukrainians to arrest Joe Biden while sightseeing in Kyiv.
To resolve the problem, the STRIDE district coordinator, having first consulted local citizens,
persuaded
the education department to build extra rooms in the school for use as a teachers’ hostel.
For example, it
persuaded
five other countries to follow it in severing diplomatic ties, reducing the number of countries that maintain formal relations with the island to just 17.
The creditors have already
persuaded
legislatures to allow them to buy a bond for pennies on the dollar and then sue to collect the full dollar (technically known as the Champerty clause), and pushed back New York Governor Andrew Cuomo’s effort to void the usurious 9% interest rate charged on pre-judgment interest, which provides the creditors an incentive not to negotiate in good faith.
The Trump administration’s peremptory and categorical response to the potential threat posed by Huawei has
persuaded
several other governments to follow suit, on the grounds that democracies must protect access to data about their citizens, and prevent it from being used in ways that undermine democracy.
President John F. Kennedy was finally
persuaded
to intervene and subsequently introduced the Civil Rights Act in response to the “Children’s Crusade” of May 2, 1963, hundreds of children were arrested in Birmingham, Alabama for taking part in protests.
But they probably will remain in place, because it was these Mexican concessions that
persuaded
US unions and Democrats to back Trump’s deal.
In Poland in 2016, well-organized protests
persuaded
the country’s parliament to reject a proposed near-total ban on abortion.
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