Sentence examples for persuasive role from inspiring English sources

Until there is agreement about this, expert opinion can have no persuasive role in our discussions.

Her candor about the challenges she faces in resolving conflicts among different parts of her life — as an executive, a catalyst for social change, a friend, a wife, a sister, and a mother — and about the non-traditional means she employs for doing so, has made her a persuasive role model and an outspoken voice on women and leadership.

That is important because if the Buchanan forces prevail, their ally, Frank Reid, the Ohio state chairman, would oversee the convention credential process and play a persuasive role in settling more than 40 convention delegate challenges, the resolution of which affects the seating of hundreds of delegates.

The persuasive role of large donors in politics is under frequent media spotlight in this distinctive Presidential election year.

En Guerre reaffirms the persuasive role that art can play in servicing or challenging political and military power.

Known for his persuasive role in shaping the regime's politics following the 1979 revolution, Rafsanjani will leave a power vacuum in his wake.

A second jury might assume that, since our cleverest judges found the new evidence persuasive, their role is simply to endorse a conviction.

Dessay was entirely persuasive in the role of a self-regarding diva rehearsing a notoriously demanding role — "La Sonnambula" is infrequently performed, in part because of its plot and in part because it is technically so difficult — except that she couldn't actually sing.

For reasons stated above, I do not believe that either of these arguments are persuasive given her role.

For a man whose company is now owned by one of Germany's largest media conglomerates, Roger Straus is oddly persuasive in the role of bespoke independent American publisher.

Scott's taut, balletic poise lends Sarah's crisis a quiet agony, and Gunn (who died in 1989) is aptly persuasive in the role of a determined artist: he, too, was a great director, whose films "Ganja and Hess" (Feb. 7-8) and "Personal Problems" (Feb. 7 and Feb. 10) will be screened in the series.