And so Kingsley was persuaded, fairly easily, to write several books about James Bond including the novel, Colonel Sun, shortly after Fleming's death.
The thing is I can be persuaded fairly easily to initiate immune responses by the fake safety signals of national anthems, cleavage, family photographs, country lanes, large-eyed mammals, fireworks, the King James Bible, Nina Simone singing "The Twelfth of Never," cave paintings, coffins, dolphins, dolmens.
Fairly quickly, Mr. Cui persuaded the Chinese government to accede to Mr. Chen's request: that he stay in China as a free person and study law at a university near Beijing, unhindered by security officials as he had been in his home province.
"In the absence of any other material, I would be fairly confident of persuading an employment tribunal that someone who actually worked under a contract on these terms was a worker," he says.
Wu doubts, fairly, that this Congress in particular can be persuaded to act on almost anything.
Effective communication is essential--only if people are persuaded that taxes are being raised fairly and will be put to good use, will they support reform.
The expansive and fairly unbelievable movie follows Frank Hopkins (Mr. Mortensen), who is persuaded to leave Buffalo Bill's Wild West show to participate in the Ocean of Fire, a death-defying race across 3,000 miles of desert.
If family-values, Bible-thumping politicians don't want to treat people fairly on moral grounds, then perhaps they could be persuaded on economic grounds.
A month ago American & other Western diplomats were persuaded that the Berlin problem had entered a fairly manageable phase.
If China and India can also be persuaded to shift to alternative fuels at a fairly brisk pace, the monopoly of OPEC over the world's energy supplies will be broken.
