But he was unpersuaded and constantly said: "the case has not been made".
Paddy Ashdown would be able to demand that Mr Blair pledge his support for PR as his party's price--even though he remained "unpersuaded" of its merits.This is why the report published on March 5th by the Lib-Lab joint consultative committee on constitutional reform, jointly chaired by Mr Cook and Bob Maclennan for the Lib Dems, is so important.
Nevertheless, most other countries remain unpersuaded, and arrived in Tunis to assert more governmental control, if only to minimise America's dominant role.Achieving this may not be as easy as they expect, even if they eventually get their way.
But, since Mr Blair remains unpersuaded of the case for reform, his willingness to contemplate so distinguished a chairman as Lord Jenkins shows his commitment to fair dealing with the Lib Dems.Lord Jenkins is a former Labour chancellor of the exchequer who later founded the Social Democratic Party, and later still merged it with the old Liberal Party to form the Liberal Democrats.
But the administration remains unpersuaded that the EU will be much help in democratising the Middle East, where European governments worry more about stability than freedom.
When non-Spaniards continued to be unpersuaded, Mr Chopera would dig deeper into history.
For instance, he remains unpersuaded that there is any valid reason for requiring an actress to overcome the same obstacles as a politician if she sues for libel after having been subjected to a sensational and false newspaper report.
Federal judges remain unpersuaded, with cameras still banned from most of their courtrooms.
As evidence, he points to the case of cystic fibrosis: unlike breast cancer, no monopoly patent blocks access to the relevant gene, and dozens of rival testing companies flourish.George Church, a molecular geneticist at Harvard Medical School and a pioneer of whole-genome sequencing, is unpersuaded.
The French seem more fearful than ever and increasingly unpersuaded that Mr Hollande can do anything to protect them.Part of the problem is that Mr Hollande was elected as the temperamental antidote to Mr Sarkozy: a "Mr Normal" after his predecessor's "Mr Bling".
Mr Chomsky is a firebrand, untempted by cultural politics and unpersuaded by the soft social-democracy Richard Rorty recommends.
