"It's what we call a persuasion flight," Ferrer said. From Wordnik.com. [TheState.com: The Buzz] Reference
'' It's what we call a persuasion flight, '' Ferrer said. From Wordnik.com. [Democratic Underground Latest Breaking News] Reference
persuasion What comes to mind when you hear the word persuasion?. From Wordnik.com. [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference
Second, irrationality does not imply that persuasion is impossible. From Wordnik.com. [Is Voter Irrationality a Catch-22?, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty] Reference
Lastly, are the conservatives even really interested in persuasion?. From Wordnik.com. [Matthew Yglesias » Doing It With Twitter] Reference
Older males of a certain persuasion feeling emasculated or unempowered?. From Wordnik.com. [Apology not accepted, lawmaker says of McDonnell] Reference
Whereas Sabine had her illusions, Lanthes innate sorcery was called persuasion. From Wordnik.com. [Kiss of a Demon King] Reference
Political persuasion is reduced to rooting for your team, good, bad, indifferent. From Wordnik.com. [Think Progress » Using Double Standard, Conservatives Absolve Bush For ‘Domestic Attacks’ On His Watch] Reference
Homemade bread, whether yeasted or of the flatbread persuasion, is such good fun. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-01-01] Reference
(Well, technically, cops can order witnesses to testify, but persuasion is often necessary in dangerous cases). From Wordnik.com. [Superhero Nation: how to write superhero novels and comic books » 2009 » June » 24] Reference
Are we not led by a bunch of people whose primary expertise resides in persuasion and their understanding of the rules?. From Wordnik.com. [Waldo Jaquith - The rate of reelection of congressional incumbents.] Reference
It seemed to me that only voters of a certain persuasion got to resign their ballots or revote during the '04 election. From Wordnik.com. [Sound Politics: The legislative coup against the citizens' constitutional right of inititiave (I)] Reference
Denial of critical care based on gender, orientation, intelligence level, income, race, or political persuasion is wrong. From Wordnik.com. [Loaded as a Logan's Baked Potato] Reference
The indelicacy of this persuasion from a Hawaiian point of view will be understood by those who have studied our national customs. From Wordnik.com. [Hawaii's Story, by Hawaii's Queen] Reference
The same simple power accompanies divine truth now, producing certain persuasion and conversion, when the Spirit demonstrates by it. From Wordnik.com. [Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible] Reference
She left to pursue acting in Los Angeles and, after some persuasion from a significant other, ended up auditioning for American Idol. From Wordnik.com. [Katharine McPhee: America’s Sweetheart] Reference
Yet in reality such a persuasion is a mere delusion. From Wordnik.com. [A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive (Vol. 1 of 2)] Reference
Who shall affirm that the persuasion is a groundless one?. From Wordnik.com. [Edgar Huntly or, Memoirs of a Sleep-Walker] Reference
His persuasion is a work of preconception rather than of perception. From Wordnik.com. [An Inquiry Into The Nature Of Peace And The Terms Of Its Perpetuation] Reference
Not only is it easier, but it is often more effective in persuasion. From Wordnik.com. [Critical Thinking Skills] Reference
“Dickeyville” + “Grotto” = A redundancy — if one is of a certain persuasion. From Wordnik.com. [Quote for the day | clusterflock] Reference
And for us girls, to change a man’s persuasion is a powerful evidence of real self-worth. From Wordnik.com. [On Jane Austen « Tales from the Reading Room] Reference
You’re acting like persuasion is impossible, and that’s not only illogical, it’s also just LAZY. From Wordnik.com. [Matthew Yglesias » The Right’s Civil War] Reference
Unless your political persuasion is 100% aligned with the interests of major corporations, you’re SOL along with the rest of us. From Wordnik.com. [Think Progress » GOP Is Overjoyed At The Unprecedented Influence Corporations Will Now Have In Federal Campaigns] Reference
He is of the Rational persuasion, meaning he is smart rather than telepathic. From Wordnik.com. [Pet Peeve]
After much 'persuasion' I agreed to join but I said I wouldn't pay the political levy. From Wordnik.com. [Labour don't want union members to know about the political levy] Reference
Every kind of persuasion was brought to bear on journalists — dinners, flattery, and presents. From Wordnik.com. [A Distinguished Provincial at Paris] Reference
And if that doesn't work, he can always call Xe (Blackwater) to apply extra legal 'persuasion' as neessary. From Wordnik.com. [Michael B. Laskoff: America Occupies Itself] Reference
John Grueby added no entreaties, but he adopted a different kind of persuasion, by putting his arm through one of Mr. From Wordnik.com. [Barnaby Rudge] Reference
But I'm -- if it's up to me, if I got any kind of persuasion ability here at all, I'm going to try to persuade him not to go. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Apr 13, 2003] Reference
Many pass courses only because the athletic department has exercised its power of "persuasion" on individual faculty members. From Wordnik.com. [Myles Brand: Why The Capitalism Argument on Pay for Play Doesn't Work] Reference
Realizing he'd really screwed up now -- he was supposed to have used his powers of "persuasion" to make the girl write a note. From Wordnik.com. [Alone]
The danger is that the U.S., rather than using diplomacy, is committed to using military "persuasion" to achieve its objectives. From Wordnik.com. [Afghanistan: only the first move in the grand chess game for control of Central Asian resources] Reference
What kind of persuasion is the effect of them, or what is the assent which we give unto the truth of the Scriptures on their account; 4. From Wordnik.com. [Pneumatologia] Reference
As for the "persuasion" argument for why negative ads work -- I tend to think it underestimates some of the darker aspects of negative ads. From Wordnik.com. [Obama Has Narrow Lead In Today's Tracking Polls] Reference
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