Yesterday, Mr. Long, 40, was set free after serving six years, and after his lawyers, from Legal Aid, persuaded prosecutors to reinvestigate the case.
Cynics point out that this was broadly the same line that Ford took at Halewood, until the prospect of state aid persuaded it to trim the job cuts to 900.
In the past, administration officials have said they were skeptical that halting military aid would persuade the generals to put Egypt back on a path to democracy.
But things took an even nastier turn when Masayuki Komatsu, the head of Japan's fisheries agency, admitted just before the opening of the IWC conference that Japan had been using international aid to persuade some Caribbean countries to take its side on whaling issues.
America and South Korea have been trying to disarm it for two decades, using a variety of approaches, but with little success.After power passed to the opposition in South Korea's 1997 elections, the new president, Kim Dae-jung, experimented with a "sunshine" policy, hoping that promises of peace and reconciliation, together with dollops of aid, would persuade the north to shed its hostility.
In particular, the results demonstrated that marketing of the hearing aids attempted to persuade hearing aid users by making the devices more favorably perceived by those who wear them, thus amelioriating the stigma that comes along with the wearing.
By the end of January, however, the ensuing worldwide outrage of donor nations, mainstream Christian denominations, and international and local human rights organizations, combined with warnings of possible sanctions and a reduction of aid, had persuaded Pres.
When his cousin Victor Emmanuel I was restored to the throne of Piedmont, Charles Albert returned to Milan, where the young liberals sought his aid in persuading the King to grant a popular constitution.
In more modern times, hefty dollops of aid have persuaded them to provide military facilities for the Americans in their war in Iraq and to accommodate the region's periodic splurges of refugees, most recently from Syria.
He led the Legislature in overhauling the state's much-criticized workers' compensation program; he negotiated a new formula for school aid; he persuaded lawmakers to revamp the budget process to make it more transparent and efficient.
