Sentence examples for on persuasion from inspiring English sources

Second, my new book on persuasive communications -- Language Intelligence: Lessons on Persuasion from Jesus, Shakespeare, Lincoln and Lady Gaga -- examines effective messaging, political gaffes, and the role of the figures of speech.

Periodic revivals — notably in England in the nineteenth century, promoted by A. W. N. Pugin, John Ruskin, and the Pre-Raphaelites — have been longer on nostalgia than on persuasion, unless anti-modern reaction is a persuasive cause.

Now he has to rely on persuasion.

Her son, Jackson, plays the guitar on "Persuasion".

It relies largely on persuasion instead of coercion.

Admen resent its emphasis on "persuasion", which predicts short-term sales but seems deadeningly rational.

This was the price of a foreign policy based on assertion rather than on persuasion.

Since mediators have no enforcement power, Mr. Maggiolo relied on persuasion, perseverance and mutual trust.

If that's reassuring for democracy, if that ultimately puts a premium on political skill, on the art of persuasion, on one person one vote, it's also how hope turned to nope.

This study first aimed to identify imagery-eliciting Web site features, and second to test their influence on persuasion-related outcomes such as attitude strength, confidence, and attitude resistance.

No one should be involved in messaging or strategy in a Democratic campaign who isn't intimately familiar with the 60 years of research in social psychology on persuasion--on what works and what doesn't.