And any such ruling certainly would impede the ability of the Council, the Committee and the Team to persuade Member States to propose names for listing.

It's hard to persuade Jonathan.

Tom tried his hardest to persuade Mary.

I tried in vain to persuade them.

Among the soft power skills are emotional intelligence (self control and the ability to use emotional cues to attract others) vision (an attractive portrait of the future that balances ideals, objectives, and capabilities) and communication (the ability to use words and symbols to persuade both an inner circle and a broader audience).

Most reforms that would guard against macroeconomic risk would also limit the ability of finance to persuade people to commit to long term risky investments, and hence further lower the supply of finance willing to assume such undertakings.

Failing to persuade him, they decamped to mainland China.

Kaufman understands that successful reform requires three ingredients arguments that persuade, the ability to bring colleagues along, and a good deal of luck in the form of events that highlight problems at just the right time.

The panel s findings should help to persuade them to do so.

We were told to persuade them to enter the Provisional Institutions.

I managed to persuade my cousin into accepting my plan.

Efforts had also been made to persuade Parliament to strengthen the Act.

South Korea is trying to persuade the North to make this strategic decision.

Her testimony helped persuade Congress to commit more development aid to maternal health.

I tried to persuade my mother to permit my circumcision, but she refused.

No one may compel or persuade a woman to undergo artificial insemination.

Indeed, official rhetoric has turned once again to trying to persuade markets to ignore reality.

That's where the ability to engineer microbes, the ability to engineer tissues, and the ability to engineer robots begin to lead to a reboot.

Austria tried to persuade the Italian government to accept Venetia in exchange for non intervention.

The term Cyber Monday was created by marketing companies to persuade people to shop online.

Efforts to persuade UDPS leaders to join the electoral process have thus far been unsuccessful.

Naked self interest should persuade the advanced countries as well.

In long conversations on Facebook I tried to persuade him to leave Aleppo and come to Turkey.

But it will be much more difficult to persuade China that it should stand down.

And if this come to the governor's ears, we will persuade him, and secure you.

The challenge for Egyptian leaders is to persuade Hamas to settle on lesser terms without further fighting.

Some degree of investment will add to demand, which may persuade others to invest a virtuous circle.

The first purpose is, of course, to persuade the country in question to come around to others views.

Nothing less will persuade investors to go near debt issues from the eurozone s fiscally challenged members.

Those three trends are the ability to engineer cells, the ability to engineer tissues, and robots.

That will not change until a new consciousness emerges worldwide to persuade states to support binding international law.

In fact, Serbia s government is already trying to persuade the West to postpone a decision until mid 2007.

American diplomats are never going to persuade the UN Security Council to impose sanctions on Iran s energy exports.

They may be applied to signal concern over import surges and to persuade trading partners to reduce export growth.

The example of Poland and that of the other countries of Central Europe shows that the clear prospect of EU membership may be one of the engines of effective reforms and may significantly enhance the ability of local leaders to persuade their people to accept the need for reforms that are sometimes painful.

Should Mousavi persuade Khamenei to reconsider his position, the Supreme Leader s hold on power will be shaken.

Good econometric studies examine secondary effects to persuade readers that the main effect is what it is.

If this comes to the governor's ears, we will persuade him and make you free of worry.

In 1857, English nurse Florence Nightingale used information graphics to persuade Queen Victoria to improve conditions in military hospitals.

They replied , We shall try to persuade his father to send him with us . We shall do our utmost !

They replied , We shall try to persuade his father to send him with us . We shall do our utmost !

These two components are (1) the ability to think clearly and make sense of complexity, which is known as eductive ability (from the Latin root educere , meaning to draw out ) and (2) the ability to store and reproduce information, known as reproductive ability.

Police had, in fact, closed them to try to persuade the spectators to calm down and go back to their seats.

Scipio managed to persuade the senators that his plan was the perfect way to force the Carthaginians out of Italy.

Man has the ability to talk.