Sentence examples for the only persuasive from inspiring English sources

The only persuasive power to which he responds is 250,000 allied troops on his doorstep.

The only persuasive power it has is if it goes into a context where it is interpreted".

As he evaluates the relevant considerations, he concludes that the only persuasive rationale for that measure includes as a crucial premise the claim that homosexual relations are contrary to a God-established natural order.

In their defense, they didn't have much time to expand on their ideas; the talks were rushed, vague and only persuasive in spots.

Only the ratio decidendi (that is, the legal principle that determines the outcome) of a case is binding according to the doctrine of stare decisis; other legal principles expressed that are not crucial to the final decision (obiter dicta) are only persuasive.

R.C. -- That's the only remotely persuasive argument.

As a result, the central human encounter - in which the sceptical, weary, faith-free Pizarro comes briefly to believe in the Emperor's regenerative powers - is, against all expectation, not only persuasive but moving.

Thus, a deity that possesses both coercive and persuasive power is greater than a deity that possesses only persuasive power (Basinger 1988).

The only time that a persuasive speech might take on a more casual, lighthearted tone is when the speaker is trying to sell an actual product.

Intraamniotic inflammation/infection is the only mechanism of disease with persuasive evidence of causality for spontaneous preterm labor/delivery.

But his defense of his own "frivolity" is persuasive: "It's the only way I know to tell a story that, deep down, makes me feel anger".