But could Chad be persuaded?It would, of course, be possible to intervene in Darfur without going through the UN.
Maybe because the company's culture — and the style and the attitude it marketed — persuaded it that its exclusionary policies would seem acceptable.
He owns 3% of Britain's Cadbury and successfully persuaded it to separate its confectionery arm from its soft-drinks operation.
He signed the group to his Bad Boy label, altered its name (originally the Warlocks), persuaded it to tone down its hardcore style and coached its members in writing radio-friendly songs.
AT&T said that consumer trials over the last six months had persuaded it to shift its strategy to a more eclectic and open approach.
And in the Middle East, she pointed out that ostracizing the Iranian government had not persuaded it to give up its nuclear weapons ambitions.
Dolly came about when researchers at The Roslin Institute got a sheep egg, removed its nucleus and persuaded it to accept one from another cell.
The Kremlin said it would sign after being persuaded it could cheaply destroy its existing stocks of up to 60 million mines and still protect key sites, like nuclear installations, with other defenses.
It's admittedly a long shot even in hindsight, but a powerful dissent four years ago might have been the clarion call that just might have shaken Congress out of its torpor and persuaded it to immunize the Voting Rights Act from the charge that the application of Section 5 was, in the chief justice's words, "based on decades-old data and eradicated practices".
You would have thought gratitude and common decency would have persuaded it to go easy on its euro crusade, if only for a week.
Before his first arrest, in the A.T.M. lobby, Gonzalez made his way from Miami to the Northeast after he hacked into a New Jersey-based Internet company and then persuaded it to hire him to its security team.
