Thanks to Mr Mbeki's deft backroom manoeuvring, the unions are being persuaded of the merits of private ownership.
Prime Minister David Cameron has said he is not persuaded of the need for a referendum but would not rule one out.
In the US, regulators have been persuaded of the merits of this approach because they have seen the positive outcomes for older people.
He says their most important allies are black state legislators who do not have to be persuaded of the merits of anti-discrimination laws.
Once you're analyzing it and trying to understand why people do this and why they are persuaded of that, I would have thought that was anti-snobbish.
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Tory former chancellor and foreign secretary Lord Howe of Aberavon also said he was "certainly not persuaded of the case being made for the bill as it stands".
Clearly, even more vigorous congressional efforts may be required if the executive branch and the allies are to be persuaded of U.S. commitment to defend bedrock American principles and values.
It is true that Europe's voters remain to be persuaded of any of these points, but that is at least partly because their leaders have barely begun to explain the case for enlargement.
But even as governments are persuaded of a certain logic in surrendering such heartlands wholly or partly to a European interest, they cannot justify surrendering them to a rival body, the European Commission.
Perhaps the coalition's Quad is concerned that English people need to be persuaded of the benefits of being allied with Scotland as this debate develops, even if they don't get to vote on it.
And we've been persuaded of the merits of financial intermediation, so much so that we think we're investing when we buy the second-hand stock of a company that has been in issue for many years.
Through a campaign of talks and film screenings she persuaded all of the 34 shops in the town to substitute plastic bags with reusable cloth bags.
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That sort of analysis persuaded 42% of voters that the polls were biased against Mitt Romney, with fully 84% of Tea Party members suspecting intentional skewing.
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But they are also a reflection of the hard graft of public-health workers in many countries, who have persuaded millions of people to modify or abandon risky behaviour, such as having unprotected sex, as they have also created the medical infrastructure needed to distribute anti-retroviral drugs that can keep symptoms at bay in those who do become infected.
He persuaded tens of thousands of right-wing paramilitaries to disband, albeit under a flawed agreement.
The American response to the Cuban crisis evidently persuaded Moscow of the futility of nuclear blackmail.
He persuaded hundreds of elected officials to sign his pledge never to raise taxes.
He persuaded most of the unionized workers that avoiding rigid job definitions was in their own interests.
She soon added a second theater and persuaded producers of "The Fantasticks" to let her run it.
Tax laws persuaded some of the global elite to spend at least part of the year in Britain.
He persuaded scores of them to defect, leading to accusations that he had paid them to do so.
He persuaded members of Weston's circle to part with more than 400 prints.
Over the next couple of years, he persuaded a galaxy of Hollywood stars to appear in a documentary about child development.
But two senior Republicans objected to some of its provisions and persuaded a majority of their colleagues to back their stance.
"He persuaded us of the wider picture, that we needed doctors, " said Derek Humphry, founder of the Hemlock Society, which advocated voluntary euthanasia.
Thein Sein, the former general who donned civvies to become president, met her in August, and persuaded her of the sincerity of his reformism.
After being fired, he persuaded some of his clients to hire him as a consultant and founded Bridgewater, operating it out of his two-bedroom apartment.
Once the local priest and bishop had persuaded themselves of the veracity of the apparitions, they faced opposition from local authorities to building a chapel.
More problems meant Brown did not figure in Capello's 30-man provisional squad or the final 23, the right-back role going to Glen Johnson, and Liverpool's Jamie Carragher controversially persuaded out of international retirement as back-up.
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