I found the argument that it is better to have no body, no site that can become a shrine, that it is best to be rid of the physical being of OBL — well, I found it a clever, and somewhat persuasive argument.
If the allegations are true (and the evidence amassed is somewhat persuasive), then the ramifications of the hack and their subsequent release are enormous.
In the role of Amonasro, Aida's father, the baritone Lado Ataneli was somewhat more persuasive, particularly as he cajoled his daughter into coaxing army secrets from Radamès.
In addition, it provides a persuasive if somewhat book-learned portrait of an exotic criminal underworld lately making itself felt in North America, the world of international Chinese criminal gangs.
In journalism, there is usually a great effort made to focus on the pure facts of the story, rather than the writer's opinion, so the introductory passages of a journalistic essay tends to be somewhat descriptive, rather than argumentative or persuasive.
Somewhat stiff at first, Mr. Lithgow grows more persuasive as Jack's conflicted relationship with his father comes to light, forcing him to mediate in an impossible standoff.
"When this building and this room were opened a year ago, I was somewhat perplexed: Yes, it all looks very persuasive, and the Pentagon might even only dream of something like this, if only in a nightmare.
Parker cautions that the monkeys were free to move their hands during the study, which may have activated the AIP region somewhat as well, but he found the experiments persuasive nonetheless: "If this research holds up, it will cause me to change my views on depth perception".
We are now in a new year and since the worst has not happened, I wonder whether it means our commentators were immensely persuasive, or simply that they were somewhat mistaken in their estimate of how India would react.
By devoting her chronicle to correcting such errors, Armstrong has produced a work of history that while somewhat lacking in balance is engaging, provocative and often persuasive.
Nagle may be somewhat biased on this subject — she's the department's official anthropologist in residence (you read that right) — but her argument is persuasive.
