Her persuasions induced Belisarius to order the execution, and, according to Procopius, the Emperor was seriously displeased at the death of such a capable general.
A second study was produced by the anthropologist Tanya M. Luhrmann in her Persuasions of the Witch's Craft: Ritual Magic in Contemporary England (1989), in which she focused on both a Wiccan coven and several ceremonial magic orders that were then operating in London.
It was at her persuasion that he abandoned his not very exciting journalism career in his home town, Columbus, Ohio, and went back to Europe for a year or so, and it was at her urging that the couple eventually moved to Connecticut, so that she could raise dogs.
Manohar accepts her persuasion on the condition that she marries him.
Because of her diligence, her powers of persuasion, her enormous effectiveness and her adherence to our values, we have provided a portion of the financial resources required to be competitive cycle after cycle.
"Because of her diligence, her powers of persuasion, her enormous effectiveness and her adherence to our values, we have provided a portion of the financial resources required to be competitive cycle after cycle," the donors wrote in their letter, which was shared with HuffPost.
Her voice was velvety; her conversation stimulating; her powers of persuasion matchless; her presence an event, reports the other.
When she could no longer travel to the office, she wove her seductive persuasion from home by fax and phone.
There were earlier piers, built for fishing and freight, and Jane Austen – who holidayed at Lyme Regis in 1804 – used a tumble during a walk along the town's famous Cobb as a crucial plot point in her novel Persuasion.
She had a very broad Yorkshire accent (much broader than mine, mind), yet was unanimously appointed to the head of Oxfam's Brussels office, due to the power of her intellect, persuasion, and passion.
Then I stayed in a house where a modest set of Austen's novels stood almost out of reach on a high shelf, and I took down the last of her works, Persuasion - perhaps because it stood at the end of the row.
