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Persuasion in sentence

159 examples of Persuasion in a sentence

So if that's the case, that's difficult, because persuasion is really difficult.
Following some persistent persuasion from her friends, Xena agrees to take her father's spaceship for a ride.
After some persuasion, Heifetz agreed, on the condition that his acting be kept to a minimum.
The current version of Jane Austen's PERSUASION shows us what happens when you don't have a good foundation in a well-written adaptation.
This wasn't PERSUASION, but they didn't know what else to call it.
Shades of the old wit occur rarely, such as when he, as Sid, the Great Splendini magician, responds about his background: "I was born into the Hebrew persuasion, but when I got older I converted to narcissism."
This time Woody leaves behind the arriviste murder mystery genre and returns to comedy, and is himself back on the screen as an amiable vaudevillian, a magician called Sid Waterman, stage moniker The Great Splendini, who counters some snobs' probing with, "I used to be of the Hebrew persuasion, but as I got older, I converted to narcissism."
He plays a diplomat, a man who gets things done through words and persuasion rather than physical action.
I didn't buy the hype surrounding 'Jaane Tu ya Jaane Na' (a film of similar persuasion) and thankfully this one was not hyped up (at least not in the part of the world where I reside) so it is easier to just watch the film as a time-passer rather try to figure out why I'm not feeling what other people are feeling.
A neighbor recommends a bond slave (Young) and after persuasion, he reluctantly marries her.
This one was of the former persuasion.
His powers of persuasion soon get the Brazilian singer a job as a featured performer at the Copacabana - twice over.
It requires persuasion, alliances, and compromise.
The role of a referendum in a region seeking to secede can therefore only be a form of persuasion aimed at the government of the existing state.
They are susceptible to persuasion, experience, and changing circumstances.
America’s policy of “strategic patience,” like China’s policy of “friendly persuasion,” has succeeded only in allowing North Korea to advance its nuclear ambitions.
Trump’s suspicion of multilateral institutions – and his unwillingness to absorb the costs of persuasion, side payments, and organization that centralized leadership demands – makes that shift all the more pressing.
In a recent letter to the House Energy and Commerce Committee, she wrote, “We believe this approach could be a blunt and imprecise instrument of fear, rather than one of persuasion, that will take us down a dangerous path and adversely impact US manufacturers, farmers, and consumers.”
China must take to heart its newfound dynamism and strength, and write a new scenario for its relations with Taiwan that emphasizes persuasion instead of missiles.
In retrospect, the Cold War’s end heralded the coming of a messier arrangement of global power and persuasion.
But other actors, including potential future creditors, could be more open to persuasion.
Acting at the behest of the member states, the ECB has sufficient powers of persuasion: it could close its discount window to the banks, and the governments could seize institutions that refuse to cooperate.
The normal sequence would be assistance, persuasion, and non-military pressure like sanctions and criminal prosecution.
The reaction of Boot, and others of his persuasion, points to a genuine dilemma that always occurs in authoritarian systems that use some semblance of democracy to bolster their legitimacy.
At the risk of offending many friends of a democratic persuasion, I have now concluded that the rule of law should come first when constitutionalism is brought to an ex-dictatorship, and democracy second.
Of course, the US and Russia will be indispensable to guide the reshaping of the political and military landscape, through sanctions, military force, or the power of political persuasion.
But, as I told them, they have a big task of persuasion ahead of them.
Each packs the kind of soft, utilitarian powers of persuasion that Chinese leaders are most willing to embrace: academic degrees from prestigious universities, advanced scientific and technological knowledge, high office, and a Nobel Prize.
Whether countries abide by agreements has far more to do with international processes of persuasion, socialization, and capacity-building – and those can be done by anyone with a good argument.
But in the European way of thinking, democracy must be spread pacifically, by persuasion, not by force of arms.
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