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When the Inspector intimates that he wants to continue this interrogation tomorrow morning Stephen tries to persuade him that I should be allowed to go home
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I think she is a fine young woman and hope that you will be able to persuade Wiesse that this is the correct course of action to take
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We reach The Centre in good time – intentionally, as Joris tries to persuade me, so that we can enjoy Friede’s shortbread
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So we married … it wasn’t as simple adapting to the physical side as I thought it would be but I got pregnant fairly quickly and it was easy to persuade Alastair that any physical relationship was unwise during the pregnancy … since then Alastair and I have occupied separate rooms
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It took all of the young man’s guile and persuasion to coax and persuade his new paramour to keep her head above the duvet cover and to accept that it was, indeed, a very beautiful morning
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‘Did she tell you that Peter virtually sat on her doorstep for a year trying to persuade her to marry him? He is a persistent so-and-so, that brother of mine
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He tried to persuade me that he would be okay here on his own with Katie, but I’m not having that responsibility
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however, is that he was only able to persuade her to marry him
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It took me several weeks to persuade her that I was serious when I said I wanted to marry her but in the end I prevailed
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The phones keep me fairly busy and in addition to that, I have to deal with deliveries and the odd caller … and some of them are decidedly odd! The guy who keeps ringing Dave up about crop circles came in and tried to persuade me that I ought to let him speak with Dave
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persuade his new paramour to keep her head above the duvet cover
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“This is hard work,” moaned Tom, as he attempted to persuade
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hard to persuade this time
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When the mortuary technician found him on his knees in the mortuary’s ante-room, he tried to help, making a sustained but weary effort to persuade Billy to sit down and have a cup of tea, assuming that he was related to the girl on the trolley, but there were no handles by which he could get a hold of the flaking singer
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persuade her in the end
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"Generally Nidon-Mlarkile is loyal to a client but if there is any truth to what you say a few million could persuade us
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He was far too fearful of LeCynic's wrath to do the deed himself, therefore, Katrina's only hope lay in the possibility that she could at least persuade him to enlist the services of someone capable of the task, all while maintaining his powers of stealth
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society should direct its steps and to persuade their
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But nothing could persuade me to return and get it
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The pride of man makes him love to domineer, and nothing mortifies him so much as to be obliged to condescend to persuade his inferiors
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Besides, if Helez had set her mind on something, there was no way that anyone could persuade her otherwise
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It puts, indeed, a little more money into the pockets of both, and it will perhaps be somewhat difficult to persuade the greater part of them that this is not rendering them a very considerable service
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As he left, he knew he needed more proof of Sloan’s intentions in order to persuade the Administration to authorize a search
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‘You will not be able to physically interact with anything or anyone, such as yourself, but you can persuade your former self to do what is necessary to stop the mission
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The door did not want to open but he managed to persuade it almost two inches before he gave up
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But in this respect, as well as in many others, nations have not always acted consistently; and in the greater part of the commercial states of Europe, particular companies of merchants have had the address to persuade the legislature to entrust to them the performance of this part of the duty of the sovereign, together with all the powers which are necessarily connected with it
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“I was hoping that you might have a word with her because someone needs to she wont listen to me and she wont like me saying but the work there is killing her and I need you to persuade her to give it up
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me un-arrested, calling round to persuade me that Frank is real?"
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His thesis: that presidential power is the power to persuade
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’ But she knew there was only one thing that could persuade him
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I've been trying to persuade her to go on a study course
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They hoped that they could persuade the staff that somebody had hacked the system and intended telling them that, when they arrived in the morning
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second thought, however!) Their egregious ignorance of its transient nature and uncertain classifications often serve to persuade the misinformed and other well-meaning individuals to support (socialist) custodial policies that do little, if anything, to relieve its harmful effects
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She would persuade the Preceptor to let her out on one last collecting trip
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In the end Brokin managed to persuade the Elders to see sense, but it had been touch and go for awhile
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Pola cried and tried to persuade her to go out with a Jewish doctor, but she would not listen; she just wanted the Lithuanian
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How stupid it was, to allow Les Purvis to bully, con, browbeat, and finally persuade; that a night out wouldn’t hurt once in a while; that they were just good friends and he understood that
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It took a lot of arguing to persuade Karla that he didn’t need her help and was quite capable of coping on his own
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I further believe that they use injurious insult to debate when they lack logical arguments to persuade
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In that time, he could persuade me of almost anything, without even meaning to do so
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If the moral argument will not persuade you, perhaps simple practicality, self interest, and even survival will change your mind
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Casey, I did what I could to persuade him to change his ways
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Perhaps he could somehow persuade the Centron to help them in such a quest
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He had hoped that his father could persuade them, but now he could see that it was not to be
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He tried to calm the machine, persuade it to explain to him what has happening in terms he could understand:
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I should add that this is unlikely to persuade me to change my persuasion
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natural that an organization involved with education would try to persuade others that it is part of an
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21 And there came out a spirit, and stood before the Lord, and said, I will persuade him
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The children grin, then I persuade them to join me in making the funny noises called for
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the same functionality could be just the thing to persuade the vendor that it was a
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18 Beware lest Hezekiah persuade you, saying, the Lord will deliver us
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There is no need to persuade the permanent, please
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- Ana No "He" has the same powers as Arthmes with something else: can persuade anyone
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“I know there have been a number of attempts to persuade her,
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She did her best to try to persuade me to visit the make-up trailer, but I knew I’d never hear the end of it from Shamansky or his cronies on future cases
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would persuade the king that he must needs be a friend to them
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They knew their luck was in if they could persuade these girls that they weren’t short of a bob or two tonight
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charge over all that he had, Go now, and persuade this Hebrew woman which is with you, that she come to us, and eat and drink with
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During intense discussions Frankfurter was able to persuade Warren that separate schools were wrong, whatever the intent or practice had been
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Founder and second President John Adams saw the danger: “There is a germ of religion in human nature,” he warned, “so strong that whenever an order of men can persuade the people… that they have salvation at their disposal, there can be no end of fraud, violence, or usurpation
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But when Justice Black can persuade a Supreme Court majority otherwise, considerations of relevance or absurdity are of no concern
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The greater irony is that black chiefs of identity politics still ardently persuade their tribe to thank the Democrats for doing this to them by regularly voting Democrat by over 90 percent
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Senator Kennedy revealed later that numerous and repetitious phone calls had to be made to persuade (coerce) those who knew better to testify against Judge Bork
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Their mission was to present the facts of a story in a clear and concise manner, without slant or distortion and with the idea that their words were meant to inform, not to persuade
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26 And when she could not prevail over him, to persuade him, and her soul being still fixed on him, her desire threw her into a grievous sickness
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35 And she said to them, I am daily endeavouring to persuade him, and he will not consent to my wishes, and I promised him everything that is good, and yet I could meet with no return from him; I am therefore in a declining state as you see
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80 And when Zelicah was unable to persuade Joseph to listen to her, she left off going to entice him; and Joseph was still confined in the house of confinement; And Jacob the father of Joseph, and all his brothers who were in the land of Canaan still mourned and wept in those days on account of Joseph, for Jacob refused to be comforted for his son Joseph, and Jacob cried aloud, and wept and mourned all those days
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common than seeing the room as yellow or gray, this statistical difference should not persuade a
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Even the presentation of luscious fruit, grapes and figs and pomegranates, milk and honey could not persuade them, life, it would seem, was more precious than all the good things the world has to offer
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26 And when she could not prevail over him to persuade him and her soul being still fixed on him her desire threw her into a grievous sickness
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35 And she said to them I am daily endeavouring to persuade him and he will not consent to my wishes and I promised him everything that is good and yet I could meet with no return from him; I am therefore in a declining state as you see
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80 And when Zelicah was unable to persuade Joseph to listen to her she left off going to entice him; and Joseph was still confined in the house of confinement; And Jacob the father of Joseph and all his brothers who were in the land of Canaan still mourned and wept in those days on account of Joseph for Jacob refused to be comforted for his son Joseph and Jacob cried aloud and wept and mourned all those days
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He said that in his practice of cash acquisitions of businesses, he made it a condition to withhold 10 percent of the purchase price for at least a year—longer if he could persuade the seller—as a reserve against any claims of unforeseen liability
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But I was getting the blame already, and I knew that counter to my mother’s advice, I had to work with the men to persuade them to vote against unionization
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13 Who as he was a man of understanding casting with himself what loss he had had and considering that the Hebrews could not be overcome because the Almighty God helped them he sent to them 14 And persuaded them to agree to all reasonable conditions and promised that he would persuade the king that he must needs be a friend to them
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6 Now then since it is the law which has forbidden us to desire I shall much the more easily persuade you that reasoning is able to govern our lusts just as it does the affections which are impediments to justice
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9 And if you persuade yourself in your mind that they shall be taken let not your countenance fall; I have spoken it and none of my words shall be in vain
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11 Then said he to Bagoas the eunuch who had charge over all that he had Go now and persuade this Hebrew woman which is with you that she come to us and eat and drink with us
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And Misdeus and Charisius when they could not persuade them not to be of this opinion granted them their own will; And all the brothers assembled together for the blessed one had made Syphorus a presbyter in the mountain and Juzanius a deacon when he was led away to die; And the Lord helped them and they increased the faith by means of them
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Unless she’d come to try to persuade Frankel to join her, a mission which had proved unsuccessful, bearing in mind she’d left alone
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Because she understood, more than any of those she had taken so long to persuade and who accompanied her this night, that if the hope of food to come was destroyed and in such a way so none could be in doubt of it, then the people would be forced to forage in the woods and wilder meadows
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It took Annyeke the length of several stories to persuade the elders she could trust how she needed to travel back to Lammas to tell Simon what he needed to know
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that could caress the soul or persuade the listener that all was not as hopeless as it
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I believe they did this in order to persuade him to hand
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n The ad must persuade the prospect that the page this ad points to will hold the answer
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n Write to persuade this is sales writing in a very small space
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persuade its followers that it is easy for anyone to reestablish this balance
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One fact that clearly should persuade us that what advanced meditators have experienced is real is that the reality they experienced and reported over the centuries correlate with scientific theories generated by cuttingedge physics today
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The communications factors: Tools to expand your reach need to be matched with messages that persuade with truth, not spin
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persuade men that nothing difficult, nothing by
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Her role is strictly to persuade the State against pursuing a death verdict and in the event of another wrongful conviction to try to convince the jury that I am worthy of living
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After his return to India from South Africa in 1915, Gāndhiji tried to persuade Indian leaders to organize non-violent satyāgraha to gain independence from the British
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“That shared, be wise and not deceived by what will seem what it is not: Love doth not hide behind half-truths nor levy pressure to persuade; it can’t be used to further greed nor foster acts of selfishness; Love takes no pride in pedigree nor threatens the environment; it neither motivates by fear nor rests where sleeps complacency, but manifests scenarios designed to challenge staid ideals
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Length of a speech doesn’t matter as long as it enthralls the audience; as speeches become lengthy so as to persuade the audience
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Blackthorn continued as if he hadn‘t spoken, ‗then please persuade him to change his ways
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They developed a great affection for each other, and the lad's father many times tried to persuade Jesus to return with them to India, but Jesus always declined, pleading the necessity for returning to his family in Palestine
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‘That explains why her brother was so easily persuaded to co-operate at any rate
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The great bank’s chairman was ready to fire the maid for causing so much confusion and embarrassment, but his wife had extensive experience in the realm of hotels and subterfuge, and she persuaded him to go to work and that she would sort things out with the domestic staff
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Unfortunately, the mood was broken when, over a large cognac, his wife revealed that she had phoned their mutual friend, had told him about her husband’s terminal illness and had persuaded him to make her poor spouse’s final year or two truly comfortable
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called Nikken, that he finally persuaded me to give
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him about her husband’s terminal illness and had persuaded him to
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After much deliberation and, it has to be said, coercion on Sheila’s part, Bunty’s parents were persuaded
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here,” – he indicated Bram with a wave of his hand – “Has persuaded
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Further inspection and a little logical deduction persuaded her it was Chas’s grave
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As he munched Andy persuaded himself that Ozzie and Chrissie would be well clear of the barracks by the time he got there with the Sergeant and, unless the police went foraging outside the barracks, they wouldn’t find the dig either … he should be in the clear
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During the long, pillow tossing watches of the night, between imagined conversations during which Andy persuaded the Sergeant by sheer dint of his charismatic personality that there had been nothing going on, the unwelcome thought had occurred to Andy that the Sergeant was being exceptionally curious about what Andy had been doing since he left Tracey
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But if you've nothing more pressing than touring hill and dale, perhaps you could be persuaded to visit Redditch along with us
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The ocean was as if the starry night sky was persuaded to exchange places with Earth, and was laid out before him
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Jim told of how she’d persuaded Wes into sending the rope back down for him, and Mike sounded dismayed, due to the fact of her fear of height
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villagers - and that he might be persuaded to introduce
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It is by this superior knowledge of their own interest that they have frequently imposed upon his generosity, and persuaded him to give up both his own interest and that of the public, from a very simple but honest conviction, that their interest, and not his, was the interest of the public
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Moses and the prophets, neither will they be persuaded, though one rose from
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She persuaded Eugenia to change into it, then led her back to the horse cart
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persuaded him to excoriate the suitors
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Verios’ reputation was one of an extremely Just man, and only that reputation had persuaded Barrin to go to Saparen after the Thane attacked Lanshire
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The lads were full of questions asking us what had happened but we told them that we were tired out and needed some rest this did not stop them however from bringing us mugs of tea and giving us fags with the hope we could be persuaded to tell them the story
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” He brought his hands up to cover his face as sobs shook his frame and it was this and the terrible look of hurt in his eyes that persuaded me to tell him what had happened, after all were we not all a band of brothers
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The primary intelligence that controlled the device this time did not allow itself to be persuaded by Torbin, despite his continued support from the mind- state of Roidon
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Rosie took me to task calling me insensitive but I eventually made her see my point of view and she persuaded Mabel which put us on a better footing once more but I don’t think she will ever forgive me for what I said
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trust, be persuaded by or yield to
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by the early morning light as he had persuaded himself that if he
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No rational person can be persuaded that a philosopher suffering a toothache has a disconnect between his mind and his body
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I suppose, however, that that is ok, considering that he persuaded a plurality of the American electorate to cast their vote for him in 1992 and 1996
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If he was only to achieve locomotion by crawling on his belly, after having persuaded Eve to partake of the apple, pray tell just what detriment did he endure in becoming the recipient of such crawling, since that had been his process of locomotion, anon
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That was because my boss persuaded the
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If she had not played her part in all but seducing Gerrid Lytum into their scheme perhaps he would not have been persuaded; at least put up a greater objection, after his inevitable capture
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Would you believe that he tried to bite me all the way and for a few minutes afterward we reached land until the choke chain persuaded him to stop such (uncalled for if you ask me) unpleasantness
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If he confided in her about the things he’d been told by Sir Craig then she might be persuaded to help him
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If she could be persuaded to destroy them and keep quiet, he could put an end to this
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Before I could be accused of being a long haired liberal and worse we handed the crocodile over to the local constable for his soon to be father in law and left the scene to explain to the much amused lieutenant that “(1) yes we did indeed arrested a f crocodile and no (2) our pants are not f wet front or rear but torn by the vicious claws (read feet) of the crocodile who (3) did not want to be f arrested and (4) resisted in fact until we (5) fatherly persuaded him f otherwise
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—unless Brock had persuaded his mother to leave him behind so that he wasn't there to protect her
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You planned to use it for your own twisted ends but things went wrong for you, didn't they? And the others sent you back here with this ridiculous tale in the hope that I could be persuaded to turn a blind eye to your misdeeds
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Whether the (Holy) Scriptures should remain subject to generational contentions or modern interpretations, much in the manner that Constitutional Law is persuaded by the (legal) authority of evolving standards of decency, such arguments that otherwise provide recourse to alternative viewpoints, must be equally troubling as arbitrary viewpoints relating to Papal Infallibility or the Divine Rights of Kings!
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She persuaded the United Nations representative to allow the Security Forces to get rid of them which they did
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Disillusioned African Americans, persuaded that the Christian Community has fallen short of its intended promises of a color-blind society; that is to say, that the Christian Community has tacitly supported racist designs over the years while doing little to improve social conditions, have therefore decided to exchange their Christian identities (including their names) in favor of a religion perceived (more) receptive to their social and spiritual needs
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Finally the cat allowed himself to be persuaded to leave
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Because water supplies are often under local control, and state and governments can be pressured or persuaded by corporate interests easier than at the federal level, many more local water supplies remain unsafe and harm children especially
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“It was hard work, but I persuaded them in the end
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He asked if she thought the people aboard the boat could be persuaded to discreetly dispose of the corpse at sea without attracting the attention of the American authorities
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Joshua could see, in his day, some who could be persuaded by others to look at things differently, and he remonstrated mightily against that influence when he challenged, “Choose this day whom you will serve
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She placed him on the table in front of the plate and after some convincing, persuaded him eat the squashed food, but then he ate quickly
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Christina persuaded me to join her in getting a tattoo of the Dauntless seal
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I was persuaded to join the Library, the Lecture Society (addressing everything including History, Anthropology, Medicine and more); to attend a course on Ikebana (the Art of Japanese Flower Arranging) - this notion had annoyed me at first but my friend with the improbable name of Bubbles convinced me that I'd benefit, and I did
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I think, for a moment, that I’ve won, that I’ve persuaded her
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Choosing to work with the most challenging children - those apparently hopeless ones who needed to “come alive,” Maureen and Audrey had persuaded the governing body to establish this Special Unit
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Ahab to Samaria; And Ahab killed sheep and oxen for him in abundance, and for the people that he had with him, and persuaded him
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Maybe this winter I can be persuaded otherwise
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consultants persuaded you to focus testing on "sunny day scenarios" (so they could get signed off for payment) while your actual users had a string of rainy days after you went
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spoken to them, 61 That there should not be such heaviness in their destruction, as shall be joy over them that are persuaded to
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should be “Fully persuaded that God has the power to do what He has promised
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who being persuaded thereunto, and coming to Onias in deceit, gave him his right hand with oaths; and though he were suspected by
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him, yet persuaded he him to come out of the sanctuary: whom immediately he shut up without regard of justice
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20 Now those who were with Simon, being led with covetousness, were persuaded for money through
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seat, said as much as could be in defence of the cause, persuaded, pacified, made them well affected, returned to Antioch; So it went
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Although it is a bizarre twist of ethics and morals to equate humans and animals, some might be persuaded to apply the analogy to those who do
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The guests, against their better judgments were persuaded to stay and listen as they watched Harry writhe in agony on the floor in front of them
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He persuaded any other beings that could
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16 And she coveted his beauty in her heart, and her soul was fixed on Joseph, and she enticed him day after day, and Zelicah persuaded Joseph daily, but Joseph did not lift up his eyes to see his master's wife
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she persuaded the inmates to give up their unrealistic demands and surrender
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Jean Charest, the newly elected Premier of Quebec was persuaded by
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And they were persuaded of them and embraced them and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth
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thinking, how else would I be persuaded to have children?
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So after a brief shopping spree, off I went with a suitcase full of the blue blazers, white shirts, and ties I had persuaded my friend to abandon
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Along about the second semester of my junior year, I persuaded Pops to let me have a car again, one from his antique car collection in Ithaca—a 1952 Nash-Healey sports car
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16 And she coveted his beauty in her heart and her soul was fixed on Joseph and she enticed him day after day and Zelicah persuaded Joseph daily but Joseph did not lift up his eyes to see his master's wife
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Roy persuaded, or possibly bribed, the guide to take him to that nearest phone
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“He would have persuaded me to do it, in the most courteous manner, of course
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He hated me and wanted me away from his family and friends but Jay persuaded him to leave it and not say anything so he didn't but he won't leave me alone
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60 Nevertheless they believed not him nor yet the prophets after him no nor me which have spoken to them 61 That there should not be such heaviness in their destruction as shall be joy over them that are persuaded to salvation
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18 For His works have not taught you; nor has the skill of His creation which is at all times persuaded you
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11 In those days went there out of Israel wicked men who persuaded many saying Let us go and make a covenant with the heathen that are round about us for since we departed from them we have had much sorrow
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“It’ll add punch to your class,” he had laughingly persuaded Youssaf
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34 therefore Menelaus taking Andronicus apart prayed him to get Onias into his hands; who being persuaded thereunto and coming to Onias in deceit gave him his right hand with oaths; and though he were suspected by him yet persuaded he him to come out of the sanctuary: whom immediately he shut up without regard of justice
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27 For I am persuaded that he understanding my mind will favourably and graciously yield to your desires
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20 Now those who were with Simon being led with covetousness were persuaded for money through certain of those who were in the castle and took seventy thousand drachms and let some of them escape
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13 Who as he was a man of understanding casting with himself what loss he had had and considering that the Hebrews could not be overcome because the Almighty God helped them he sent to them 14 And persuaded them to agree to all reasonable conditions and promised that he would persuade the king that he must needs be a friend to them
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22 The king treated with them in Bethsum the second time gave his hand took their's departed fought with Judas was overcome; 23 Heard that Philip who was left over the affairs in Antioch was desperately bent confounded intreated the Jews submitted himself and swore to all equal conditions agreed with them and offered sacrifice honoured the temple and dealt kindly with the place 24 And accepted well of Maccabeus made him principal governor from Ptolemais to the Gerrhenians; 25 Came to Ptolemais: the people there were grieved for the covenants; for they stormed because they would make their covenants void: 26 Lysias went up to the judgment seat said as much as could be in defence of the cause persuaded pacified made them well affected returned to Antioch; So it went touching the king's coming and departing
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15 And having received power to speak he began so to deliver himself: 16 We O Antiochus who are persuaded that we live under a divine law consider no compulsion to be so forcible as obedience to that law; 17 therefore we consider that we ought not in any point to transgress the law
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Peter through their importunity at length persuaded prepared himself to avoid this
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31 "He said to him 'If they don't listen to Moses and the Prophets neither will they be persuaded if one rises from the dead
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She was finally persuaded that she had done nothing wrong
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If she cannot be persuaded, tubes will have to be inserted to force the fluid into them, and we would like to avoid that if at all possible
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" I said to him "Sir I hope that all who have heard them will repent; for I am persuaded that each one on coming to a knowledge of his own works and fearing the Lord will repent
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After a certain time however they were persuaded by the women whom you saw clothed in black and having their shoulders exposed and their hair dishevelled and beautiful in appearance
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Abraham said to him They have Moses and the prophets; let them hear them; and he said: no father Abraham but if one went to them from the dead they will repent and he said to him: If they hear not Moses and the prophets neither will they be persuaded even if one rose from the dead
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It was Dana who finally persuaded me to listen to the rest
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3 They therefore having received the promises having been fully persuaded by the resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ and having been confirmed by the word of God with the full persuasion of the Holy Spirit went out preaching the good tidings that the kingdom of God was at hand
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A reconnaissance flight over the island had captured very detailed images of the layout and Michael had persuaded Bill Findlayson to part with copies of the blueprints from when his company had done the refurbishing and built the new facilities
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persuaded, or self-motivated, but that always leaves the option of uncontrolled non-
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Gāndhi persuaded the Indian National Congress to change its tactics from intellectual discussions on constitution and governance to direct non-violent, action-oriented movement (satyāgraha) of non-cooperation with the British
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He persuaded Indian National Congress to pass a resolution to stop buying imported cloth from Britain and encourage everyone to start wearing home spun and home weaved clothe
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In 1934 some British politicians persuaded Jinnah to return to India to fight for the rights of Indian Muslims
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Do not be persuaded by claims from other print-on-
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Xavier had persuaded Travis to head back to Brooklyn instead of trying to start a one man war with King Tye
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I’m persuaded that it is often
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resolve and persuades us to believe that there is no solution to our predicament and hence no salvation
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persuades him to "marvel not then at the !ove which all men have of their offspring; for that universallove and interest is for the sake of immortality" (Plato trans
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The cares of this world and all that it persuades to offer is represented by the thorns; for the sacrifice the world asks for is at the expense of merited living, and will never suffice
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It is he who goes among heathen nations and persuades them to shed oceans of blood in the worship of idols, or murderous wars
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It is he, above all, who persuades foolish people that there is no such person as a devil, and no future judgment after death, and no hell
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It was not too soon, which would spoil the exquisite pleasure that pervades a couple after sex and persuades them that they have merged and are now one
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He persuades others that he never make mistakes and always right in his lifeless face
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Later, Joel persuades her to live with him
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persuades her husband to usehis authority against his better
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Van Dyke’s orchestration underscored every line of a surreal story in which a faithless girl persuades her lover to take a ride alone on a Ferris wheel, waiting until he is suspended in the stationary carriage before departing the scene with another man
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This crowd cascade can continue so long as the crowd’s successful investment stance persuades new investors to join
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How about on individual shares though? Think of it this way – what sort of philanthropy could it be that persuades some nice people to make you rich instead of themselves? If journalists really knew which share to buy and when, would they still be hacking away at the computer instead of lolling on some Caribbean beach? How can the authors of books like Make a Killing on the Stock Exchange, How to Pick the Winners, Selecting the Soaring Shares and so on afford to spend all those hours writing when they should be too busy becoming billionaires by trading? Indeed if they were good, why would they share the secret when your buying might inflate the shares they would have wanted to buy?
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’ He said, persuading me that he has never seen me on stage
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After a somewhat heated discussion between us, Gilla got her way, this time persuading me to pack several skirts as well as the sensible hosen and shirts which have accompanied me on my journeys so far
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Took some persuading though and, in the end, I had to lie about Dave being in a meeting all day to get rid of him
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They had, it seemed, set their hopes upon persuading Mrs
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persuading Henri to trust his instinct in this instance
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Persuading the man to betray his lord was an irritating task to say the least, not to mention the fact that many of her previous failures to assassinate LeCynic were a direct result of his snooping
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Our woollen manufacturers have been more successful than any other class of workmen, in persuading the legislature that the prosperity of the nation depended upon the success and extension of their particular business
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The light was gradually fading and as soon as Chris came across a boulder with a suitably wide, flat top he brought the party to a halt, not that they took much persuading
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Even after the painkiller injection, Melissa took some persuading before she would eat anything and even then she barely ate half her ration
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I doubt they’ll take any persuading to come here
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Earth was obviously going to take a lot more persuading, but to do that he would have to gather some more compelling evidence
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sure Harwood would assist materially in persuading the men
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The only unresolved problem was in persuading the majority of the population to acquiesce to be placed in a stasis pod, where their body would be frozen, their mind in sleep mode while an enabler program immersed them in an artificial reality (which was about as different to a conventional AR as that would be to a games console)
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Certainly, at the moment, he had no idea how to proceed with the business of persuading this woman to take the higher road, this most difficult, demanding road
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persuading, the wonderful gentleman said he would sell us a used tire
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My father has a way of persuading people without charm that has always confused me
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For example, in Jacksonville, Florida, two Democratic lawyers gleefully congratulated themselves on their success in persuading the local
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I was an early victim of what will be pointed out later as the “Ithaca Trap,” Park’s practice of persuading new employees to buy an expensive home that would keep them tied close to the job as continuing payments came due
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What was Annyeke trying to tell him and how could this help him to meditate? Should he have agreed to the mind-link narration? No, he still believed persuading her to tell him vocally had been the wisest course of action
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The problem is persuading the remaining Lammassers to accept that help
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It looks as if he will busy himself with the task of persuading the old man, who has begun to shake and mutter once more, to sleep, and Ralph suspects this will not be an easy prospect
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From such life departed? And they who gave them in withered and undecayed these also were near to them; for they were hypocrites and introducers of strange doctrines and subverters of the servants Of God especially of those who had sinned not allowing them to repent but persuading them by foolish doctrines
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During his 21 years stay in South Africa, Gandhi organized three satyāgraha-s and was ultimately successful in persuading the Government to give in to the demands of Indians
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Initially Gāndhi had trouble persuading fellow Indians to follow the path of non-violence
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If he, in all those years of patience and persuading had made no impact on the minds and souls of those in his care, if their hearts remained as lecherous and libidinous as ever, then the time had come for the Wrath of God to be unleashed
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Hoyt was always good at persuading people, it was his gift and his curse
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The swamp oak I had chosen was already occupied, and I had a hard time persuading the unfriendly red squirrel family already there to let me stay
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Or could she? Squirrel Girl herself had finally succeeded in persuading the earthfolk of Mapleway to plan how they would save themselves
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I guess I didn’t need much persuading though
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On the other hand, there was no human power capable of persuading him not to take along the three boxes when he returned to his native village, and he unleashed a string of Carthagini-an curses at the railroad inspectors who tried to ship them as freight until he finally succeeded in keeping them with him in the passenger coach
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Feltus noticed a distinct change in their expressions, with the exception of Elizabeth Bascomb whose visage seemed perpetually somber and serious, when he recounted exactly how he had succeeded in persuading Terence to lead him over the exact path of his hunting expedition which just happened to cover the exact area where the rifle shell and the dung had been discovered
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an adamant defence in hopes of persuading Feltus to demand an autopsy, but his attempts had been futile given the detective’s obstinacy over protecting what would be the wishes of the boy’s family
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Be that as it may, when Marshall was eventually tracked down by his intelligence officers, he stubbornly refused to accept their reports and they had difficulty in persuading him that the Japanese were about to strike
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Sadly, Somerville's first duty was that of persuading the French fleet in Algieria to demilitarise itself
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Cash had a way of persuading people
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Halfshaft had some difficulty persuading George and his fellow cave-trolls to follow him into the Forest
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He took a bit of persuading to leave, of course
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The Doctor didn’t believe that Monty would kill him, but realized that his chances of persuading the Guardians were vanishingly small
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The first thing that happens, in Genesis 39, Verse 7, is the master's wife starts eyeing him up, so she starts dressing in scanty clothes, and starts persuading him, saying every day, every day, day after day after day, come on, lie with me, come on, let's have sex
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They assert that the phrase would be more correctly rendered, "In a short time," or "with weak and feeble argument thou art persuading me
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It is he who goes to and fro amongst fallen Churches, persuading them to throw aside the Bible, and satisfy people with formal worship or grovelling superstitions
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�It is he who is continually going to the ears of intellectual and highly educated men, persuading them that the old Bible is not true, and advising them to be content with Atheism, Theism, Agnosticism, Secularism, and a general contempt for the world to come
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Toby’s a crafty bastard, persuading the guy to call in sick
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You’d stand a better chance of persuading them to give up their pensions
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in persuading Tom to spend a few days with her at a friend’s remote
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He came back and stood over her, a man flushed with, agitation, with the necessity for persuading her quickly to do the right, the only thing
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He was chosen because of his great passion and loyalty and Sheridan will have no problems in persuading him that the true worship of Hella Dracon will give both of them eternal life
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once they marry, Sheridan will have no problems in persuading him that the true worship of Hella Dracon will give both of them eternal life
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She had been persuading herself that her little holiday was harmless and natural; and now this business with Herr Dremmel would, she felt, do away with all that, and justify a wrath in her father that she might, else for her private solace and encouragement, have looked upon as unreasonable
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If Tim O'Neil's invention was useless, there was a chance of persuading Josephine to stay in South Africa
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"I was busy persuading a young lady not to commit suicide
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Men feel more coldly towards a system which sends out agents, whose training consists somewhat in persuading them not to think on the question of human destiny; and which discourages the expression of belief, whether at home or abroad, in a sense more accordant with the thought of our generation
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Will it not give to the joyful voice of Christianity a new energy, when it has learned to proclaim through Christ the promise of individual life in conscious union with Deity, as the eternal blessedness of the righteous? You will never succeed in persuading the 480,000,000 Buddhists that man already possesses by nature an indissoluble soul; for it is the first principle of the Buddhist that the soul can be dissolved; and his second that separate existence is so miserable, that the highest object of hope is to lose individual being, and to be absorbed in the all
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Hence apologetic literature is more successful in exposing the weakness of its adversaries than in persuading them to 'repent and believe the gospel
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He stood with the two ladies, seizing both by their hands, persuading them, and giving them reasons with astonishing plainness of speech, and at almost every word he uttered, probably to emphasise his arguments, he squeezed their hands painfully as in a vise
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"schwach" in German with an object of persuading him to take half his translation and half the payment for it
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This being so, thou must remember that I am now labouring under that infirmity which women sometimes suffer from, when the craving seizes them to eat clay, plaster, charcoal, and things even worse, disgusting to look at, much more to eat; so that it will be necessary to have recourse to some artifice to cure me; and this can be easily effected if only thou wilt make a beginning, even though it be in a lukewarm and make-believe fashion, to pay court to Camilla, who will not be so yielding that her virtue will give way at the first attack: with this mere attempt I shall rest satisfied, and thou wilt have done what our friendship binds thee to do, not only in giving me life, but in persuading me not to discard my honour
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Samson's intention in persuading him to sally forth once more was to do what the history relates farther on; all by the advice of the curate and barber, with whom he had previously discussed the subject
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The first part of his history had not yet reached him, for, had he read it, the amazement with which his words and deeds filled him would have vanished, as he would then have understood the nature of his madness; but knowing nothing of it, he took him to be rational one moment, and crazy the next, for what he said was sensible, elegant, and well expressed, and what he did, absurd, rash, and foolish; and said he to himself, "What could be madder than putting on a helmet full of curds, and then persuading oneself that enchanters are softening one's skull; or what could be greater rashness and folly than wanting to fight lions tooth and nail?"
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The head-carver was left with a heart pierced through and through, and he made up his mind on the spot to demand the damsel in marriage of her father on the morrow, making sure she would not be refused him as he was a servant of the duke's; and even to Sancho ideas and schemes of marrying the youth to his daughter Sanchica suggested themselves, and he resolved to open the negotiation at the proper season, persuading himself that no husband could be refused to a governor's daughter
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The priest did not need any persuading; he went out to go and say mass, came back, and then they ate and hobnobbed, giggling a little without knowing why, stimulated by that vague gaiety that comes upon us after times of sadness, and at the last glass the priest said to the druggist, as he clapped him on the shoulder—
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Jennings, that they should both attend her on such a visit, Elinor had some difficulty in persuading her sister to go, for still she had seen nothing of Willoughby; and therefore was not more indisposed for amusement abroad, than unwilling to run the risk of his calling again in her absence
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They were relieved however, not by her own recollection, but by the good will of Lucy, who believed herself to be inflicting a severe disappointment when she told her that Edward certainly would not be in Harley Street on Tuesday, and even hoped to be carrying the pain still farther by persuading her that he was kept away by the extreme affection for herself, which he could not conceal when they were together
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Palmer maintained the common, but unfatherly opinion among his sex, of all infants being alike; and though she could plainly perceive, at different times, the most striking resemblance between this baby and every one of his relations on both sides, there was no convincing his father of it; no persuading him to believe that it was not exactly like every other baby of the same age; nor could he even be brought to acknowledge the simple proposition of its being the finest child in the world
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And there are professors of rhetoric who teach the art of persuading courts and assemblies; and so, partly by persuasion and partly by force, I shall make unlawful gains and not be punished
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At first, I expected there would be sad work persuading you to let me keep my word to Linton; for I had engaged to call again next day, when we quitted him; but, as you stayed upstairs on the morrow, I escaped that trouble
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Catherine was near distraught: still, she persisted that she must go home, and tried entreaty in her turn, persuading him to subdue his selfish agony
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Ned needed no persuading and started our story all over again, most of which I could follow
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Thomas knew that would be even more difficult than persuading the Keepers had been
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While all the images and events he had witnessed remained deeply impressed on his memory, he felt a difficulty in persuading him of their truth
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Three local men, Mukhtar Khan Yousafzai, Khurshid Kakajee and Zahid Khan went from hujra to hujra persuading elders to join together
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After the ladies had departed for the ball, whither all the entreaties of Madame de Villefort had failed in persuading him to accompany them, the procureur had shut himself up in his study, according to his custom, with a heap of papers calculated to alarm any one else, but which generally scarcely satisfied his inordinate desires
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Merthin was casting around for another way of persuading Ralph when Brother
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Persuading them will prove nothing, but three or four dead rabbits will prove you're a fool, when it's too late
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After a time, he fell occurred to him that perhaps he might start his venture from the other end -- by persuading some of the does to join him and working out a plan afterward, sleeping as best he could outside an overcrowded burrow
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When Hazel had told him what he was to do, it had seemed to him that his task would consist of leading the dog on and persuading it to follow him
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persuading him to see a doctor and to go to a wateringplace abroad
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He succeeded so well in persuading his brother, and in lending him money for the journey without irritating him, that he was satisfied with himself in that matter
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"A little more than persuading had to do wi' the coming o't, I reckon
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He stood with the two ladies, seizing both by their hands, persuading them,
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At last Tess grew more and more anxious to know what they were saying, and, persuading herself that she felt better, she got up and resumed work
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At this stage of affairs he was in excellent spirits, which even supported him under large advances of money; for his powers of convincing and persuading had not yet been, tested by anything more difficult than a chairman's speech introducing other orators, or a dialogue with a Middlemarch voter, from which he came away with a sense that he was a tactician by nature, and that it was a pity he had not gone earlier into this kind of thing
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’ What that meant was that if somebody is persuading you to buy a share there is probably some self-interested motive such as having large amounts of that company’s shares on tap
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This is particularly true when the advice is supplied by a bond salesman whose livelihood depends upon persuading his customers to buy the securities that his firm has “on its shelves
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The investment bankers who brought out these issues presumably accepted this assumption, and their salesmen had little difficulty in persuading themselves and their customers to a like effect
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1 shows the daily chart of Lumisys in April 1996 when it came flying out of what looked like a five-week base to me at the time, and because I was already in love with the company’s products, I didn’t need too much persuading to buy what I saw as a perfect massive-volume breakout
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R: He needed some persuading
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On that particular day, the prosecution’s point was that the program was functionally persuading this girl that it was more living than she was
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The one problem is cost and persuading the power industry to do the same
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The Italian police eventually managed to turn the tables on the Red Brigade, mainly by persuading members to turn informer
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At first, I expected there would be sad work persuading you to let me keep my word to Linton: for I had engaged to call again next day, when we quitted him; but, as you stayed up-stairs on the morrow, I escaped that trouble
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He invented an infidelity on the part of the lover, and succeeded, by means of fragments of letters cunningly presented, in persuading the unfortunate woman that she had a rival, and that the man was deceiving her