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Warning that "advances in biomedical technology must never come at the expense of human conscience," President Bush today delivered his strongest condemnation of human cloning experiments in a speech designed to persuade a sharply divided Senate to ban the research.

During 1967 Westmoreland was active in the Johnson administration's Progress Offensive, a public-relations campaign designed to persuade an increasingly restive public that the United States was winning the war.

He is in Germany for a round of vital meetings with German ministers designed to persuade Berlin to adopt a less cautious approach.

I would have to sit through a sales pitch designed to persuade me to actually buy a time share rather than freeload in one.

Entire clinical trials are run not as trials at all, but as under-the-counter advertising campaigns designed to persuade doctors to prescribe a company's drug.The bad behaviour extends far beyond the industry itself.

People can put in large denominations of cash; touch screens take the physical effort out of playing and the machines are often designed to persuade players that they have had a "partial win" (better known as a loss).

Was it all a front, a carefully arranged plan designed to persuade doubting Thomases in the City that old wounds have healed?

We present a study that investigates the effectiveness of self-serving versus other-oriented motivational framing of messages designed to persuade people to sign up for a prosocial peer-to-peer (P2P) service.

Gordon Brown is to highlight Scotland's age "timebomb" on Tuesday as he makes his first public foray into the struggling Better Together campaign with a speech designed to persuade the country's pensioners that they will be better off staying part of the UK.

Far from it: this preposterous white elephant could scarcely be better designed to persuade people that nuclear energy is an expensive and dangerous distraction from the decisions we have to make.

Her ongoing hunger strike is designed to persuade the British government to give her a ticket to the April wedding of "Príncipe Guillermo" and Kate Middleton.