German officials also calculate that any signs of profligacy by Mr Hollande will be punished by the markets long before the EU has to intervene.Not hailing Hollande?The Franco-German relationship has often worked well when the two countries had leaders from opposite political persuasions (think of François Mitterrand and Helmut Kohl, or Valéry Giscard d'Estaing and Helmut Schmidt).
This included two people from polar opposite political persuasions screaming at one another about whether Giuliani should apologize or whether his comments had merit.
But -- and here's the unexpected part -- appealing to core principles of the opposite political persuasion appeared to help.
Inviting and sitting down with someone of an opposite political persuasion... and each of you inviting two others, for -- literally -- a living room conversation, has the quality of soothing "ill-founded jealousies, false alarms, and animosity".
From the outset, commentators of all persuasions assumed something like the opposite — assumed it openly if their instant impulse was accusatory, implicitly if it was defensive.
Ms. Hall, who organized the "brag" event at J.P. Morgan Chase, said that early in her career she succeeded by doing the opposite of self-promotion: what she calls "persuasion by self-deprecation".
Instead, their views became more polarised to opposite extremes, depending on their cultural identities and political persuasions, as opposed to aligning with the scientific evidence.
Mr. Crouch plays a hypnotist, and to emphasize the power of his persuasion, he recruits a different actor every night to play opposite him.
Dark matter is perceived through its gravitational pull on the more familiar "normal" matter of stars and galaxies, while dark energy is perceived by the opposite effect it pushes ordinary matter apart.Until recently, physicists of both the subatomic and the astronomical persuasions thought that, gravity and the cosmological push aside, dark matter and dark energy tended to keep to themselves.
