Sentence examples for persuasive tools from inspiring English sources

But the persuasive tools he had used all of his professional life -- analytical charts and graphs, written reports -- weren't working.

Since then, social media has only grown in size and influence, and the persuasive tools available to advertisers, spies, politicians, and propagandists have only become sharper.

Beyond the levels, badges, reward points and promised engagement increases, there are many behaviourist game designers who see games as persuasive tools for social change.

The conceptual model provides further knowledge of key aspects to consider when developing persuasive tools that aims to encourage more sustainable modes of transport.

Figures of speech are powerful persuasive tools especially when you need to inspire a skeptical audience to embrace a new idea or act on your call to action.

I replaced nagging with the following persuasive tools: wordless hints (for example, leaving a new lightbulb on the counter); using just one word (saying "Milk!" instead of talking on and on); not insisting that something be done on my schedule; and, most effective of all, doing a task myself.

It is surprising that ministers, in the age-old task of moving parishioners to high ground, are pining for a mythical past rather than considering every persuasive tool in the book for the task at hand.

"In terms of this being any sort of persuasive tool, I don't think it will have any impact, for the simple reason that people will have to self-select to watch the show," said Ken Goldstein, a political science professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

It indicates the use of marked thematic structures, in headlines and bodies of the reports, as a persuasive tool to draw Syria positively.

The study provides a foundation for further tourism research investigating the Internet as a persuasive tool, and suggests strategies for website designers.

Regardless of which party ends up controlling the Senate, the research community is unlikely to abandon its embrace of the innovation deficit as a persuasive tool in funding battles.