She doesn't gleam and grin, the way Ivana does; she doesn't attempt to mesmerize and persuade, like Ivanka.
The American position, he said in effect, is that trade cannot become freer unless those groups can be persuaded to like it.
With an investment commitment from PricewaterhouseCoopers, Miller persuaded the likes of Kohlberg Kravis Roberts, Bain Capital and Merrill Lynch to cough up $48 million, leaving the founders and management with a 20% stake.
The misses, like "Momma's Boys" on NBC, have been mostly forgotten, but the hits, like "Keeping Up With the Kardashians" on E!, have persuaded channels like Bravo and CMT to buy its shows.
He wasn't about to lure brand-name free agents to Oklahoma City, or persuade the likes of Garnett to trade one small market for another.
With Premier League wages far superior to those that can be offered by a Spanish club of Real Sociedad's size, Moyes could not persuade the likes of Danny Ings and Aaron Lennon to pick Spain over Liverpool and Everton.
Add to that its pretensions to nation-building and the rather woolly hope that this will persuade the likes of South Sudan and North Korea to sign up to the chemical weapons treaty, and the OPCW was a shoo-in.
He started his California-based company Bunchball in 2005, trying to persuade the likes of MySpace and Facebook of the potential of online gaming.
Young men such as Levy persuaded men like Jose Blumenkrantz, 88, to give them religious training.
Marvel, which re-invented Robert Downey Jr as an action hero for the film Iron Man, has since persuaded actors like Robert Redford and Glenn Close to make their comic book movie debuts.
