And lo ! of his persuasion verily was Abraham

For thousands of years, humans have relied on education, persuasion, social institutions, and the threat of real (or supernatural) punishment to make people behave decently.

This persuasion is not from him who calls you.

This persuasion cometh not of him that calleth you.

Help with the mass persuasion campaign that will start this spring.

Persuasion and education are used among women and girls who engage in prostitution.

But, as I told them, they have a big task of persuasion ahead of them.

Agrippa said to Paul, With a little persuasion are you trying to make me a Christian?

If more persuasion was needed, we could offer rewards for cooperation anything from cigarettes to political asylum.

To the extent that more than persuasion is required, that would be up to the president head of government .

San Marino was a strong believer in the value of persuasion and the importance of promoting education and tolerance.

Lucrative reconstruction contracts in Iraq gave America leverage to coerce its allies into submission Jubilee 2000 had no such weapon of persuasion.

The goal is to support policies that are good for each member country but also for other countries through dialogue and persuasion.

Sometimes likened to a secular Pope, the UN Secretary General can wield the soft power of persuasion but little hard economic or military power.

Many countries will be unlikely to support a military solution until they have seen genuine efforts at other means of persuasion (and coercion) fail.

Emerging markets have resorted to a variety of instruments to limit private sector borrowing abroad taxes, unremunerated reserve requirements, quantitative restrictions, and verbal persuasion.

China must take to heart its newfound dynamism and strength, and write a new scenario for its relations with Taiwan that emphasizes persuasion instead of missiles.

Since people want to be healthy , the apparatus of advertising and other means of capitalist persuasion leads to people internalizing the message of healthism without state intervention.

As independent India s first deputy prime minister and home minister, Patel is credited with the integration of roughly 600 princely states, sometimes by persuasion and sometimes by force.

Whether countries abide by agreements has far more to do with international processes of persuasion, socialization, and capacity building and those can be done by anyone with a good argument.

Each packs the kind of soft, utilitarian powers of persuasion that Chinese leaders are most willing to embrace academic degrees from prestigious universities, advanced scientific and technological knowledge, high office, and a Nobel Prize.

What is needed, we believe, is to address the root causes of terrorism, using the art of persuasion through local approaches while resorting to diplomacy and financial and economic measures, and encouraging moderate trends.

Moreover, while Hamas s long truce with Israel shows that it may be willing to abandon violence given the right amount of persuasion, it can make itself a terrible nuisance if it continues to be excluded.

The Ministry of Industry and Commerce, in its master Proposal of the Sector Plan, has the persuasion of women to raise their literary knowledge and to participate in training courses as one of its master objectives.

But it is an illusion to believe that we can combat the dysfunctional politics at the root of grave human rights violations by military means alone, or even by economic sanctions, without fully utilizing diplomacy and persuasion.

To many Americans, especially of the neo conservative persuasion, Dutch behavior might confirm all their suspicions about perfidious Europeans, addicted to material comforts, while remaining childishly dependent on US military protection. When the going gets tough, they argue, the Europeans bow out.

In business,persuasion is a process aimed at changing a person's (or a group's) attitude or behavior toward some event, idea, object, or other person(s), by using written or spoken words to convey information, feelings, or reasoning, or a combination thereof.

Social conditions and social policies

To the extent that more than persuasion is required, that would be up to the president head of government . Indeed, the CIO would illustrate the power of information s power by using it , rather than legal power, to persuade people to do the right thing.

In a recent letter to the House Energy and Commerce Committee, she wrote, We believe this approach could be a blunt and imprecise instrument of fear, rather than one of persuasion, that will take us down a dangerous path and adversely impact US manufacturers, farmers, and consumers.

The ICTY, by contrast, has no capacity of its own to arrest defendants. It must rely on persuasion to secure cooperation by others cooperation that is still being withheld in the case of the two most notorious defendants from the Bosnian War, Radovan Karadzic and Ratko Mladic..

In social science, a social relation or social interaction is any relationship between two or more individuals.

High social capital, particularly trust, leadership, and social networks.

Design and implement social development and social protection policy

But a tax cut could instead contract the welfare state social assistance and social insurance, which constitute social wealth.

Social services provision in Bosnia and Herzegovina is done, mainly, through local social services activities, called social care centres .

In expected accomplishment (a), replace social issues with social development issues .

Social Enterprises Asia has emerged as a leader in social entrepreneurship.

In social constructionism there is a great focus on social rules.

Social assistance

Social care

social protection,

Social insurance

Social Structures

Social statistics