The counter arguments it had heard were not persuasive.

There is no persuasive theoretical argument for why this should happen, OK.

Yet environmentalists are overwhelmingly opposed to fracking, evidently for three reasons. None, however, is persuasive.

With persuasive words, she led him astray. With the flattering of her lips, she seduced him.

With persuasive words, she led him astray. With the flattering of her lips, she seduced him.

People use these cues to determine things like how persuasive someone is, how likable, how engaging, how trustworthy.

In terms of dark matter, I said that we don't have any, you know, really persuasive argument for dark energy.

The weak point of this book is that it's less than persuasive when the married author recommends not being married.

He believes the mobile phone, by being location specific, contextual, timely and immediate, is simply the greatest persuasive technology device ever invented.

My speech and my preaching were not in persuasive words of human wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power,

My speech and my preaching were not in persuasive words of human wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power,

A persuasive experiment recently demonstrated the interaction between nature and nurture. A group of employers was asked to hire workers who had been ranked by their looks.

The most persuasive model is that of the ILO, which publishes a List of ratifications by Convention and Protocol in an annual report to the International Labour Conference.

But even though the evidence is persuasive that this unlocks resources which are critical for the Millennium Development Goals, it still falls far short of what is needed.

Cartel cases are much more persuasive if they contain direct evidence of agreement involving the cartel participants, and evidence that the participants knew that their conduct was unlawful.

ROME Increasingly, one hears predictions that the euro will go the way of the gold standard in the 1930 s. And, increasingly, the reasoning behind such forecasts seems persuasive.

The ACABQ report confirmed his delegation's impression that the Secretary General's report was neither comprehensive nor persuasive and did not meet the requirements of General Assembly resolution 59 276.

Most persuasive to us was the fact that the Secretary General himself told us that he could live with this budget, albeit with great reluctance on the part of the Secretariat.

The Court of Appeal reversed the decision, finding the existence of the trade usage not sufficiently proven and the evaluation of the evidence regarding the seller's awareness of the year's catch not persuasive.

(Citations to some of this literature are found in the bibliography at the end of this paper. ) More persuasive to the public than the economic literature, however, is evidence from specific cases prosecuted domestically.

And let's face it, the contract from a major multinational brand to a supplier in India or China has much more persuasive value than the local labor law, the local environmental regulations, the local human rights standards.

But if robots can be engaging, if we like to cooperate with robots, if robots are persuasive, maybe a robot can help you maintain a diet and exercise program, maybe they can help you manage your weight.

Thus, the question was never whether the single currency would break up, but what political reversals, economic sacrifices, and legal subterfuges would occur to hold it together. The good news is that Europe now has some persuasive answers.

But so much communication now is contextual that the capacity for actually nudging people, for giving them better information B.J. Fogg, at the University of Stanford, makes the point that actually the mobile phone is He's invented the phrase, persuasive technologies.

While I share these concerns, others frequently rely on two key arguments to dismiss the fear of a run on the dollar the dollar is a reserve currency, and it carries fewer risks than other currencies. Neither argument is persuasive.

4.2 According to the State party, the above arguments were not persuasive, because the quantities of narcotics mentioned in the Standing Committee's summary tables of 1 August 1995 and 4 June 1997 are at best mere scientific recommendations for experts.

Psychological research has shown that any one of these three can be persuasive, depending on the speaker s attractiveness or the audience s predisposition. For example, star struck female film fans may be especially prone to believe any utterance from Hollywood s most famous silver fox.

However, the Secretary General noted that even though the evidence was persuasive that the HIPC process had unlocked resources that were critical for the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals, it still fell far short of what was needed (A 59 2005, para.

CAMBRIDGE At the United States Federal Reserve s recent and first ever public press conference, Chairman Ben Bernanke gave a spirited defense of the Fed s much criticized policy of mass purchases of US government bonds, also known as quantitative easing. But was his justification persuasive?

We talk about leaders being more energetic, more risk taking, more optimistic, more persuasive, and more empathetic than other people. These traits, however, are affected partly by a leader s genetic makeup and partly by the environments in which the traits were learned and developed.

I said, Well, it's so persuasive, because the purpose of that sign is to get you into the garage, and since most people are so suspicious of garages, and know that they're going to be ripped off, they use the word 'reliable.' But everybody says they're reliable.

The Government of the United Kingdom was also trying to de list the Cayman Islands, but it was imperative that the Committee decisively defeat all such attempts until there was persuasive evidence that that conformed to the democratically expressed aspirations of the people of the Cayman Islands.

In my view, it is difficult to make a strong case for a significant sustained increase in earnings growth in this environment, meaning that growth alone would not justify current equity valuations. But the lower discount rate argument is more persuasive, and is consistent with underlying economic conditions and central banks mandates.

Politicians, however, prefer to couch the objective in more uplifting and persuasive terms than that of crassly increasing consumption. In the US, the expansion of home ownership a key element of the American dream to low and middle income households was the defensible linchpin for the broader aims of expanding credit and consumption.

And these voices became so persistent and so persuasive that I started to legitimately fear for my life, which is the time that I said to myself after 34 days and I will never forget this moment I said, I am either going to kill myself or I'm going to turn this into a game.

In order to preserve national unity, Abbas will obviously need to use all his persuasive skills to convince radical groups (some in his own Fatah movement) to respect that approach. As chairman of the PLO, he will be under extreme pressure not to delegitimize the internationally sanctioned acts of resistance against Israeli military targets.

Saving three innocent lives for every person executed seems like a very attractive trade off, and even two lives saved per execution seems like a persuasive benefit cost ratio for capital punishment. Admittedly, however, the argument in favor of capital punishment becomes less clear cut as the number of lives saved per execution falls.

The State party argues that the Superior Court, on first appeal, held contrary to the trial court's view that it lay on the party challenging the Charter of the French Language to show by persuasive evidence that there was no justification for the restrictions (rather than lying on the Attorney General to demonstrate justification).

According to Phelps, Pope Leo XIII advocated a corporatist view in his 1891 encyclical Rerum Novarum, and Pope Pius XI amplified these ideas in his 1931 encyclical Quadragesimo Anno. But, in reading these works, I do not find a clear or persuasive statement of any economic doctrine, except for basic notions of fairness and Christian charity.

More precisely, it lies in explaining the conjunction of three major global developments a surge in growth (not stagnation), a decline in inflation, and a reduction in real (inflation adjusted) interest rates. Any persuasive explanation of these three developments must de emphasize a pure aggregate demand framework and focus on the rise of emerging markets, especially China.

Another finding in the SAGhE study arouses skepticism about a cause and effect relationship between the drug and the increased death rate the mortality came from causes that are mechanistically and physiologically quite different mainly bone cancers, cardiovascular diseases, and cerebrovascular events. A more narrow, unimodal manifestation of toxicity would be more persuasive in establishing causation.

We all have good reason to be grateful that US Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke is an expert on the Great Depression and the authorities flawed policy responses then, rather than in the finer points of dynamic stochastic general equilibrium theory. As a result, he was ready to adopt unconventional measures when the crisis erupted, and was persuasive in influencing his colleagues.

Moreover, abandoning the Kyoto Protocol s exemption of developing countries from obligations for current emissions, the US has insisted on obligations from China and India that reflect a common form of taxation of emissions. But there are persuasive reasons why these countries insist that the obligations must instead reflect per capita emissions, a criterion that would require far greater emission cuts by the US than its leaders now contemplate.

One can criticize details of Brock s case a deeper understanding of Keynes would have given him a more persuasive response to the objection that, if state financed projects were worth doing, the private sector would be doing them. Before long, we will have to provide answers to these questions, because the pre slump fiscal rules that the Europeans are vainly trying to strengthen were not up to the job.