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But Hollande was “insistent,” she writes, and “his strength of persuasion was nuclear.”

Further, creating models for persuasion is “incredibly hard.”

My mom stands there, unimpressed by my attempt at persuasion.

You might be surprised to hear that hidden in Tampa, Florida is a food oasis of the Cuban persuasion.

Let us, through persuasion and education, seek to improve institutions we deem defective.

After an hour's insane remonstrance, he gave in to his own alarm, rather than to the persuasion of his partner.

A year later I found Agoncillo of exactly the same intransigent persuasion.

It also legalised peaceful picketing, that particular form of persuasion with which a democratic age has become only too familiar.

We leave Pernambuco, with a firm persuasion that this part of Brazil at least will never again tamely submit to Portugal.

At his persuasion the pope purchased the vineyard, and the archological commission began the work of excavation.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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