Some seniors say they lament the back-and-forth in the campaign ads, though they recognize that negative ads can be persuasive.
All too often leadership is seen as the ability to speak well in public, to be persuasive, to be loud.
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These arguments would be plausible, and perhaps might even be persuasive, except that alarmists have been saying exactly the opposite for decades.
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Scott Fitzgerald were distant enough from the blithe lives of their subjects to tinge their depictions with tragedy but near enough to be persuasive about it.
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Mr Kenyatta may not have a natural flair for public speaking but he has a powerful voice and can be persuasive when fighting his corner.
That might be persuasive if the full weight of America's common-carrier rules as they apply to the telephone business, with all the micro-management they involve, were dumped on the cable industry.
But the bulk of the book is given over to doctrine, to the author's view of what history is for and how it should be written, and it neither is nor should be persuasive to any but the converted.
Some biotech entrepreneurs wonder if big firms with interests in both agricultural biotechnology and conventional pesticides could ever be persuasive advocates of the new science that their smaller peers are developing, since it could well undermine sales of their most popular chemicals.
"If you are in a situation where you are trying to sell a concept to a venture capitalist you best be persuasive that you are different and have a special idea that justifies a couple of millions of dollar of investment, " says Tragardh.
Iran can achieve its interests of security and international respect and prosperity for its people through other means, and I am prepared to make what I believe will be a persuasive argument, that there should be a different course to be taken.
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Nothing, not even welfare state freebies, is likely to be as persuasive as freedom, growth, jobs and prosperity.
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But in a second vote they might not be as persuasive as they were in the debate of 1992.
But the question for Democrats is whether promoting the early changes will be more persuasive with voters than the Republican arguments.
It requires me to be really persuasive and a very good communicator.
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Client servicers are not required to be as persuasive as marketers and are not compensated based upon how many clients they bring in.
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He can even be quietly persuasive, with his suggestion that government departments could use some of the techniques of credit card companies to fight fraud.
But one would think that state court would consider such a monster case in US jurisprudence to be somewhat persuasive and at least deserving of some consideration.
There is every indication that over the next 15 years China will produce a body of maritime jurisprudence that will be of persuasive authority in other jurisdictions.
Mr. Parris, who is also a practicing personal-injury attorney, says he got interested in ways to affect brain chemistry because he wanted to be more persuasive in court.
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Vendors have started to provide customers with assurances that they are in compliance with security standards and patient-privacy laws, he says, and the advantages of cloud storage are likely to be increasingly persuasive, especially on the cost side.
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If this dramatic statement were true, it would be a pretty persuasive condemnation of Obamacare.
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Sure, successful entrepreneurs and politicians tend to be passionate, persuasive and charismatic.
Democracy would be a far more persuasive model than Chinese or Russian autocracy if some of its main proponents were less eager to believe that the open society comes out of the barrel of a gun.
Despite his current unpopularity, the President should be able to make a persuasive case to the public.
Key points in persuasive presentations can be supported in a similar manner.
Gregg will be an "able, persuasive ambassador for industry" because he is a skillful negotiator and a "master of reaching across the aisle to get things done, " Obama said.
And Americans' exhaustion with wars overseas undoubtedly makes him more reluctant to act, but the president's persuasive powers can be deployed to good effect, especially since meaningful results can be achieved without the proverbial American boots on the ground.
This is true whether you want to be president or just a more persuasive hobgoblin.
As in the novel, the writer (Guillaume Depardieu) is haunted by visions of a dark, haggard, witchy woman (Katerina Golubeva), who soon turns up and claims, on persuasive evidence, to be his half sister.
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