Petry has done little to persuade anyone otherwise.
Despite the failure of its economy and the sourness of its politics, it has done well to persuade the Russians that they should, by treaty, accept its statehood.
Whether enough voters will agree is unclear, but Mr. Kerry has done much to persuade people to give him a closer look.
More crucially, he must succeed in doing what no other politician in Greece has done before him: persuade Greeks to pay their taxes and get public sector unions to accept the shrinking of the state.
Tiny Goa aside, it has done nothing to persuade regional allies it has momentum or ideas for a strong challenge in 2014.All this, however, may be rather cheering for democracy.
Miliband has managed to exploit government unpopularity as almost all opposition leaders do, but has done nothing to persuade people that he leads an economically competent government-in-waiting.
So did Robben, who had drawn thumbs-up plaudits from his manager for his bright running, but whether the Dutchman has done enough to persuade Mourinho of his suitability for Sunday is a moot point.
Our President has done nothing to persuade this man to restrain his megalomaniacally aggressive impulses.
Will Clarke believes he has done enough to persuade Britain's Olympic selectors he is worthy of a triathlon call-up.
But, as Bruce Merrill of Arizona State University argues, the likely passage of the proposition could do what the debate about it has not done: persuade a lot more Latinos to vote Democratic.In California, Proposition 187 was struck down by the courts.
