Some of those who can, it seems, are swayed by style rather than substance.
Defense attorney Kirk Nurmi had urged them not to be swayed by passion or emotion.
He nodded, swayed, bounced, and once (when discussing social security) rose to his tiptoes.
They said their Qatari partners were swayed after the prince complained about the scheme.
Before Sunday's developments, Mr. Walker said he would not be swayed by the polls.
Charles Schumer, D-New York, said the report swayed his decision on the Patriot Act proposal.
Goode said he was not swayed by the conventional wisdom that the Strip had been overbuilt.
Stuart Newberger, a partner on the firm's terrorism team, believes the government can be swayed.
On both sides of the issue, he says, he's not swayed by all the attention.
Even if congressional Republicans weren't swayed, early indications were that at least some average Americans were.
Behavioral economics has shown that people are more swayed by anecdotes than by statistics.
In the fields of Somerset County, onlookers watched as the plane rocked and swayed before crashing.
In municipal elections in Brazil, voting is swayed mainly by local issues and personalities.
But, because congressmen are making a show of being unpolitical, they are not swayed by this.
However, when market forces shifted such that numerous players suppressed LIBOR simultaneously, rates swayed downward.
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Of course the doom-sayers are unlikely to be swayed by this argument because they never are.
It was also unlikely the judge would be swayed by the other issues raised, they said.
But Mr Greenspan is unlikely to be swayed by the force of their example.
People in wheelchairs, walkers and with canes moved their arms and swayed to the music with her.
But it was the opportunity to dig deep into agricultural economics abroad that swayed him toward Tufts.
The FDA was swayed by some prominent cancer researchers who wrote letters saying the data were lousy.
Granite State voters can be swayed by the Iowa results, as former presidential candidate Howard Dean learned.
"Voters were not swayed by outsiders and their millions, " said United Teachers Los Angeles in a statement.
Less happily, religious leaders may have swayed some voters against Ms Rousseff, who once backed abortion rights.
But there's another issue that may have swayed many people to the Democrats, and that's corruption, right?
That was an important issue of principle, to be sure, but hardly one that swayed many voters.
Hughes denied that industry funding swayed the group's judgment when developing the nutrition guidelines for the program.
Those who think it could be useful may not, therefore, be swayed by moral or legal arguments.
It is swayed by clout -- and on this issue, it is the banks who have the clout.
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