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"Persuasion" in a Sentence (24 examples)
Finally, he gave in to my persuasion.
Finally, he gave into my persuasion.
Crude persuasion is to persistently egg someone on.
No rational person, of whatever political persuasion, could possibly object to the program.
I was born into the Hebrew persuasion, but when I got older I converted to narcissism.
Persuasion is often more effectual than force.
Tom will need some persuasion.
Vigilante violence against those of a different political persuasion is counterproductive.
The art of speech is, in the end, simply the art of persuasion.
I will never wed man without the consent of my parents, yet neither force nor persuasion shall dispose of my hand till you renounce the right I have given you to it.
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With the base unleashed, the White House was unable to broker a compromise, either by persuasion or by pressure.
Not Hermes Prolocutor to the Gods, Could vſe perſwaſions more pathetical.
Sadie curses, weeps, then, infected by Mr. Hamilton's writhing persuasions, prays and becomes penitent.
Some of the shopowners were resistant to the extortion, so the mafia did some persuasion.
It is his persuasion that abortion should never be condoned.
Social understanding and equality can neither be nurtured through fear, nor intimidation. Surely this goes for people of all sexual persuasions.
As a convert from the Baptist persuasion more than 40 years ago, I still feel like an outsider in the church despite the kindness and acceptance of Catholic friends.
1871 February 14, J.J., "More Solution", Latter-Day Saints Millennial Star, page 105. Let us pray that the next generation be all of the male persuasion.
To say that a woman is of the female persuasion was originally meant for a joke. As such it might pass — once. You might, indeed, refuse to smile; still, you wouldn't feel like invoking the law. But the constant and persistent use of this unfunny bit of fun has grown to be something of a public calamity. It is matter or congratulation, however, that such linguistic lese-majesty is far more common in England than in America.
AND turning for tor the moment from National to local affairs, we note there is a chimpanzee of the female persuasion out at Lincoln Park, of whom it is said that she can do everything but talk.
This plainly implies that an equine animal either is of the feminine gender or is of the neuter persuasion.
Being a discussion between a Swede and an Australian of the medical persuasion, conversation turned to Pehr Edman who, as a Swedish expatriate, spent many years in Australia heading up the School of Medical Research at St Vincent's Hospital.
The moonlight was bright this night; playing the part of a miniature sun as it reflected off the white faces of the Caucasian troops, but failing to reveal those of the darker persuasion. "One thing, Charlie can see them better than he can see me."
She searched for something to say, something other than, So will this New Year's kiss be of the French persuasion?, and then found herself mumbling, “Vive la France.”
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