Sentence examples for it does not persuade from inspiring English sources

Cutting interest rates helps a bit (by reducing the cost of servicing the debt) but it does not persuade people to borrow more money, because they are still trying to repair their balance-sheets.

Although Kass says their attack "reeks of barbaric cruelty," apparently it does not persuade him to retract his contention that the brothers respected "the dignity of woman as such".

In this scenario, the computer facilitates communication; it does not persuade.

It does not persuade rational people.

It did not persuade the left-leaning New Democratic Party NDPP) or the centrist Liberals.

The opinion may have persuaded some Labour MPs, but it did not persuade many states.

It didn't persuade the film's producers to change course.

It didn't persuade her to buy a TV, but she's clearly willing to entertain any idea that catches her fancy, regardless of its origin.

But she must be aware that the explanation she provided for setting up her own e-mail operation — it was all a matter of convenience — was a flimsy one, and that it didn't persuade a lot of people.

"A Better War" is a fine book, unjustly overlooked (until recently — more on that in a moment), but it didn't persuade me that the Vietnam War was ever winnable: I still agree with the view of other historians, especially Neil Sheehan in "A Bright Shining Lie," that the U.S. could not have won in Vietnam because we were fighting Vietnamese nationalism.

That sanguine view does not persuade critics.