"If we do get selected and recommended, then clearly the next phase starts, which is persuading the politicians to deliver".
The 200 companies, which still spend billions a year searching for new reserves, are the focus of a fast-growing divestment campaign, backed by the UN, which is persuading investors to sell off their fossil fuel shares.
Unchecked, obesity could be costing the NHS £10bn a year by 2050, said Stephenson, adding: "Suggesting that children in particular can be 'nudged' into making healthy choices, especially when faced with a food landscape which is persuading them to do the precise opposite, suggests this would be best described as a call to inaction".
The ban on tobacco advertising was struck down earlier this week in the courts, which were persuaded by the Irish tobacco companies' argument that the government had not informed the necessary European Union authorities of the move.
Their vulnerability was mitigated by the absence of formal municipal discipline, but their opponents within the Quraysh could apply informal pressures ranging from harassment and violence against the weakest to a boycott against Muhammad's clan, members of which were persuaded by his uncle Abū Ṭālib to remain loyal even though most of them were not his followers.
Finding the money to make that movie proved a little harder, but it all came together with a major investment from two European television networks, which were persuaded on the strength of a one-page outline and some color Xeroxed photographs.
A Citizens UK resource (pdf) cites several examples of innovative ways in which councils are persuading private landlords to rent to refugees.
There are even recordings of genuine 'conference calls' between the mysterious Ibrahim, Cameron and his 'lawyer', Perry Mason, in which the Nigerian is persuaded to say hello to Mr Snickers.
Often, Updike's descriptions of paintings do one of the most important things that art writing can accomplish, which is to persuade the reader to seek out, or take another look at, a painting or sculpture.
Or, if you prefer, it was as though Arsenal were false-pressing, without having achieved the first stage of the hustle which is to persuade the opposition you are good at pressing.
The movie does one of my favorite things, which is to persuade me that I've become an expert in a subject I have no interest in, such as poker or nuclear fission or Nascar.
