Sentence examples for persuasion example from inspiring English sources

If the modern makers of European union are constructing an empire, it is of a new and strange variety reliant on persuasion, example and regulation, rather than force of arms.Naturally, it has ambitions.

In "Persuasion," for example, Jane Austen brings the novel to its emotional peak with a letter written by Frederick Went­worth — which we understand is really written by Austen and dependent for its resonance on the world of Anne Elliot, the Musgroves, Lady Russell and the rest.

Those of the scam persuasion, for example, see the absence of any central authority, the wild fluctuations in the value of bitcoins (they were worth more than $1,000 in November 2013, around $235 at the moment), the mysterious collapse of one of the big bitcoin exchanges, the hacking of some of the digital "wallets" in which people keep their bitcoins and so on.

That they wish to express their view by example or by quiet persuasion, rather than an outspoken campaign, does not diminish their right to take a position on moral issues.

The Emperor opted to try persuasion by moral example, setting up his estate at Santa Cruz as a model by granting land to his freed slaves there.

Of course since men are different there are different forms of assent to the truth: the absolute certainty of the man who follows the demonstrative way as indicated by Aristotle in the Posterior Analytics and the persuasion produced by examples and images as indicated by Aristotle in the Rhetoric and the Poetics.

It was in "freedom and the example of persuasion," Justice Murphy wrote, "not in force and compulsion, that the real unity of America lies".

"President Obama will continue trying to lead by persuasion rather than by example," said Eswar Shanker Prasad, an economics professor at Cornell University and a former official of the International Monetary Fund.

It is in that freedom and the example of persuasion, not in force and compulsion, that the real unity of America lies".

For a wildly different example of persuasion, consider the power wielded by Jim Jones, who was so adept at building rapport with his followers that he was able to coordinate, through speech, the agreement among hundreds of followers to commit suicide in protest "of an inhumane world" (Jones et al. 1978).

The behind-the-scenes persuasion is the latest example of Rubio's delicate play in his push for comprehensive immigration reform.