Sentence examples for persuasion about from inspiring English sources

He personally never needed persuasion about the greatness of pool checkers, as the game is known in the United States.

None needed any persuasion about the danger to west Africa if the fundamentalist menace were not contained, rapidly.

Christine Lagarde is one such possibility, not least because the scale of the Eurosceptic challenge in France means she needs less persuasion about the inevitability of reform.

But persuasion about what exactly?

Still in the Gorgias (453e-454a) Socrarguesrgues that calculation produces as its ergon persuasion about the amount of the odd and the even — a result separate from the activity of calculation.

In like manner, Averroes describes Aristotle's interest in rhetoric as an interest in "the means by which man is able to effect persuasion about each and every one of the particular matters and to do so in the most complete and most artful manner possible with regard to each thing" (CAR 78).

For anyone still in need of a little persuasion, how about we make a deal: I'll take back my foie gras flippancy and promise to, generally, behave myself, if you give it a go.

But as he begins his campaign for re-election in 2012, his challenge will be less about persuasion than about delivering tangible results on the issues that Americans care about the most.

We have long argued that all the talk from politicians of all persuasions about their outrage at the terrible statistics of family violence means nothing without a real and ongoing commitment to address this crisis.

This month, the Booth School of Business at the University of Chicago surveyed a panel of economic experts of different political persuasions about the impact of the president's stimulus package: eight out of 10 said it had contributed to lower unemployment by the end of 2010.

As the cardinals of the Roman Catholic Church gather in Rome this week for their "congregations" that precede the papal election conclave, they're getting plenty of advice from people of all persuasions about what kind of pope the Church and the world expect at this moment in human history.