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When Bo appears in court, his pleas will not be so persuasive.
Persuasive explanations of the crisis point to linkages between today’s tepid demand and rising income inequality.
The good news is that Europe now has some persuasive answers.
Nor can we afford to become captives of those with the best-paid and most persuasive lobbyists.
The velvet glove is in evidence at the SWP’s meeting, which is animated by the German intelligentsia’s persuasive and thoughtful approach to EU affairs.
Western central bankers need to become much more vocal and, one hopes, more persuasive in placing pressure on politicians and other policymakers.
They were especially persuasive in Britain’s former colonies, notably in newly independent African states.
The Fed’s position is more persuasive.
Indeed, it is hard to find any persuasive analysis of today’s crisis from the left beyond anti-capitalist slogans.
But many, although dubious or altogether worthless, easily become established in medical practice and produce a torrent of income for persuasive doctors serving well-insured patients.
What most voters want is political leaders who have a coherent guiding philosophy, a persuasive policy narrative, and a genuine commitment to a decent governing process.
Politicians, however, prefer to couch the objective in more uplifting and persuasive terms than that of crassly increasing consumption.
None, however, is persuasive.
None of these objections is persuasive.
The most persuasive hypothesis is that – like former FBI Director James Comey and Dean Baquet, the executive editor of The New York Times – they ignored polling that did not underestimate the risk of a Trump victory.
At the same time, Silva will not be able to win the run-off without an enthusiastic and persuasive endorsement from Neves and the PSDB.
But those who recognize the far-reaching benefits of an open and forward-looking EU are struggling to make their case in a persuasive way.
So we shouldn’t be too quick to dismiss the suggestion that science might help – in the first instance, by helping us design more effective institutions, more inspiring moral education, or more persuasive ethical arguments.
Third, Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras must use his persuasive powers to convince the public, in the style of US President Franklin D. Roosevelt, that the only thing they have to fear is fear itself.
But the lower-discount-rate argument is more persuasive, and is consistent with underlying economic conditions and central banks’ mandates.
Saving three innocent lives for every person executed seems like a very attractive trade-off, and even two lives saved per execution seems like a persuasive benefit-cost ratio for capital punishment.
But, in reading these works, I do not find a clear or persuasive statement of any economic doctrine, except for basic notions of fairness and Christian charity.
As a pluralist society with a free and thriving mass media, creative energies that express themselves in a variety of appealing ways, and a democratic system that promotes and protects diversity, India has an extraordinary ability to tell stories that are more persuasive and attractive than those of its rivals.
And not only the right: liberal intellectuals like Mark Lilla of Columbia University are making the increasingly persuasive case that identity politics is bad electoral politics.
And, increasingly, the reasoning behind such forecasts seems persuasive.
In fact, that argument was never backed by persuasive evidence.
Indeed, there is a growing body of persuasive evidence (for example, recent work by Alan Taylor and Moritz Schularick) that the aggregate level of leverage in the real economy – private sector as much as public – is a crucial macroeconomic variable.
With no viable recourse – and no avenue for peaceful appeal – such language has grown increasingly persuasive.
To be effective and persuasive, however, such fear often requires a rational, seemingly credible argument.
This is tragic, because Germany should be driving the development of a persuasive vision for Europe’s future.
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