This means, however, that we should reinforce convergence and incentive instruments.

In short, their ASEM membership will require the necessary time and, probably, Europe' s power of persuasion.

He then successfully used all his force of persuasion to convince Montalembert, who at first remained recalcitrant, to imitate him in his submission.

They had won the Cold War, or so they perceived, through hard force and conviction.

I hope that our great strength of conviction will also turn out to have had an effect on the Commission.

Wait, wait, I've got it.

What we need to do is set about convincing them.

Our task is one of persuasion.

But in the European way of thinking, democracy must be spread pacifically, by persuasion, not by force of arms.

This report springs from the presentation of many motions for resolutions during the early days of the present Parliament.

Quite the reverse. It will require courage and powers of persuasion to remove the feelings of uncertainty and fear, particularly at a time of economic decline.

That would be twenty seven words instead of four, and while the bare message of the longer statement would be understood, the persuasive force would be lost.

Instead, thet used the thuggish PAD tactics, the courts and the behind the scenes persuasiveness of the army to come to power.

Aristotle wrote the single most important work on persuasion, lt i gt Rhetoric lt i gt , the 3 means of persuasion

Xu Huang then wrote a letter of persuasion and had it fired into the city on an arrow.

What still matters above all, though, is working at convincing others.

The Member concerned has powerful powers of persuasion.

Isn't persuasion one of the skills of a producer?

Propaganda and the Ethics of Persuasion.

We had no choice but to acquiesce but if we couldn't attain our end through force or cunning, I liked to think we might achieve it through persuasion.

Looks like we'll have to give the gent a sales call.

Its launch was accompanied by a great deal of legal creativity, audacity and lashings of political power of persuasion.

Peru has a parliament which has been elected by universal suffrage and a president who has used the powers of persuasion of the army to violate all constitutional precepts.

Rather, a new dimension has been added to state terrorism, as the latest aeroplane hijackings amply testify.

With this persuasion I now answered

The first is a policy of persuasion.

There must therefore be a presumption in favor of the US line of action, a point made forcefully and persuasively by Britain's Prime Minister, Tony Blair.

Jubilee 2000 had no such weapon of persuasion.

History showed that most democratic countries had achieved their territorial integrity and political unity through a blend of persuasion and force.

If so, then their goal is persuasion or to convince you.

This first challenge is what I refer to as the persuasion challenge.

That is not how political persuasion operates.

Since assuming the chair of that committee Mr Poniatowski has shown great tenacity and conviction in campaigning for the setting up of a European Research and Technology Com munity.

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

Teaching elements of persuasion, it doesn't get any more real than that.

Explanation is not persuasion, or justification, or generalization, or prediction.

Both major parties are appealing to the political center, but they will never be as convincing as a political party that really is in the political center, and that is unencumbered by the scandals attached to the past exercise of power.

Some efforts of political persuasion will be required in the coming weeks.

Persuasion is the order of the day, and it is important, especially in border areas, that the efforts to persuade people are organised in such a way that they are well received by the general public.

Leadership succeeds not by what it says but by how it persuades.

The boys will need a little firsthand persuasion... in order to keep going.

And the soft power of Europe has considerable pulling and persuasive power.

But I cannot hide this fact the Union's powers of persuasion in seeking to achieve this goal are obviously somewhat limited by the remaining difficulties of some Member States in signing and ratifying the Convention.

During a meeting of the Committee on Women's Rights and Equal Opportunities of this Parliament in April, Commissioner Diamantopoulou explained this strategy once again in the penetrating and convincing manner that is so characteristic of her.

But bringing about real change will require more than moral suasion.