His subsequent business career -- including his early efforts to start an oil company, the financial favoritism that allowed him to buy part of the Texas Rangers baseball team with hardly any of his own money, the political favoritism that allowed him to persuade the city of Arlington, Texas, to subsidize a new stadium -- was due in large part to his family and social connections.
I'm grateful that I allowed her to persuade me.
It appears, with some irony, that the scale of the economic weakness triggered by the previous excesses of the banking system, has allowed bankers to persuade regulators to push back the kind of regulation that would limit future excesses.
Pre-contracts agreements with free agents allowed them to persuade four players to step down from top-flight clubs in return for higher wages, while last season's top scorer in the division, Nicky Clark, switched from promoted Queen of the South.
Over the long term, though, it hoped that TomorrowNow would act as a kind of stalking horse, allowing SAP to persuade its new customers to abandon Oracle entirely and switch to SAP's expensive suite of software applications.
The deal to be done is for Britain to lead Europe into cooperation with America's inexorable adoption of missile defense; in return, the U.S. would allow Britain to persuade us that the independent European rapid reaction force, so eagerly sought by France, would not undercut the Atlantic Alliance.
The United Nations has said that delaying the conference might allow time to persuade several reluctant Iraqi groups to attend the conference, which is aimed both at a broad national dialogue and at the selection of members of a 100-seat national council.
More significant intentional or unintentional psychological dissociation, labeled by psychologists as "self-delusion" or "self-deception," allows people to persuade themselves to believe (or accept) what they rationally "know" is not so (Fingarette 1969; Audi 1988).
It's super simple, that's the whole point".
His popularity allowed Mr Uribe to persuade Congress and the courts to approve a constitutional change allowing him to run for (and duly win) a second term in 2006.
