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    Use "persuasion" in a sentence

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    persuasion


    1. Besides, people of the Type A persuasion will create their own stressful situations


    2. It took all of the young man’s guile and persuasion to coax and persuade his new paramour to keep her head above the duvet cover and to accept that it was, indeed, a very beautiful morning


    3. " she asked with all the persuasion she could, squeezing his hand helped


    4. Since she was a professional actor, her powers of persuasion are honed, and it would not surprise me to see that she has persuasion over both solid objects now and eventually people


    5. The donkey seemed to sense we were nearing a place of rest because he walked more rapidly, with little persuasion


    6. For though management and persuasion are always the easiest and safest instruments of government as force and violence are the worst and the most dangerous; yet such, it seems, is the natural insolence of man, that he almost always disdains to use the good instrument, except when he cannot or dare not use the bad one


    7. The French government could and durst use force, and therefore disdained to use management and persuasion


    8. She was far too busy arranging time to „work a deal" for Lady Gaga (a muddle-headed entertainer of the transvestite persuasion) to engage in an appearance at Europride, a homosexual-rights festival


    9. " The instructor, also of the liberal persuasion, pounced


    10. On the off chance that you would employ one who happens to be of the nihilistic persuasion, to empty urine from a boot, you would be well-advised to write the instructions on the heel prior to giving him the boot

    11. There just happened to be more whites in the vicinity at the time, which is understandable, given that the majority in this country is of the white persuasion


    12. With some persuasion, Abbott had agreed to it, and at twelve o’clock on Friday, the guards came to unlock Raven’s door


    13. When I was stationed aboard USS Enterprise, I would not have appreciated, nor would have I condoned, a butt to butt encounter with any Chief of a homosexual persuasion on my way to the shower


    14. If you don"t understand the concepts, or, more probably, choose to ignore them, then you are of the modern liberal persuasion which, of course, would, in all its manifestations, bring us back to the Stone Age


    15. She’d told Dave that the fact her fist was approaching the poor sweet young lad’s testicles at a rapid speed of knots was all part of her feminine persuasion techniques


    16. She knew his psychology and thus had the power of persuasion


    17. Have you ever had a colleague who used “fear” as their primary persuasion tool? In the long


    18. His level of persuasion, deal making, and even intimidation were legendary, and he had practiced politicking since the New Deal, as his father had done for decades before that


    19. Captain Howard-Smythe, ‘The Adj,’ applied all of his powers of persuasion in writing a letter to Foreman


    20. It had taken a lot of persuasion but Lyra had finally agreed to go to the party with him

    21. Her sudden acceptance apparently astonished Caroline: she obviously had thought that persuasion was necessary, because she carried on yammering about how she needed to make time for relaxation in her fast-paced life, that she had such a talent for art and shouldn’t ignore her friends, blah, blah, blah…


    22. I should add that this is unlikely to persuade me to change my persuasion


    23. But Randal continued his persuasion, “Really Gina, get with it; after you give me my birthday present tomorrow … and we both know what that is,” he said with a lecherous grin, as he grabbed her hips, drew her in closer, then kissed her on the lips, and continued his wantonness


    24. Fox told an audience in California that his government would, “use all our persuasion and talent to bring


    25. my mental persuasion to convince myself that the Holy spirit did not


    26. Eventually, after much persuasion and threats from Ash, they let her be


    27. It was a tad hard to eat, with the mille-feuille taking a little persuasion to break free and I felt there could have been a touch more zing in the lemon element, but I’m knit picking


    28. He had needed some convincing, but Ganesh’s trade was persuasion


    29. I used my powers of persuasion and proclivity for bullshit to get seated in the section staffed by the waitress who served the band


    30. 26 He, in his hardened mood, insensible to all persuasion, was going onwards with the view of

    31. Views such as Singer and others of his persuasion profess may be shocking to many Americans, as well as to many of their fellow scientists, but not to the administrative hierarchy of Princeton University


    32. To the neuroscientist of this persuasion that temporary remission from nonexistence is emptied of any metaphysical connotation, as is most everything else having to do with the “brief candle” of human time


    33. Some aficionados suppose that artists of this persuasion are on the trail of perfection


    34. To advance their interests, Stern says, the SEIU uses “the power of persuasion


    35. ” But if that doesn’t work they turn to “the persuasion of power


    36. His enforcers, the SEIU logo prominently displayed on their purple shirts, have been caught on video using the persuasion of power to beat up dissidents, both black and white


    37. encounters had included men of the darker persuasion, and by that I do not mean to


    38. ” He said, “Besides I have other means of persuasion


    39. in the art of persuasion and manipulation have developed techniques to


    40. The way to victory, however, will be through persuasion, not violence

    41. 26 He in his hardened mood insensible to all persuasion was going onwards with the view of carrying out this design


    42. Tony knew that very well and his persuasion capacity was


    43. “Stay with me! We are the only hope that they have of safely moving out from here!” I must get to where I can regain command of all the men that we have trained! he thought as he shouted the words of persuasion


    44. 14 Now they having listened to these words of persuasion and seeing the fearful instruments not only were not afraid but even answered the arguments of the tyrant and through their good reasoning destroyed his power


    45. thought as he shouted the words of persuasion


    46. His wavy brown hair, hazel brown eyes and Hollywood smile not to mention his quaint Italian accent made the other Truth Seekers, mainly those of the female persuasion, rush to his assistance when he needed help in the game


    47. 3 They therefore having received the promises having been fully persuaded by the resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ and having been confirmed by the word of God with the full persuasion of the Holy Spirit went out preaching the good tidings that the kingdom of God was at hand


    48. quarters of government, they feared the benevolent power of persuasion he had over


    49. They believed they could attain their goal by education, persuasion, and the gradual addition of piecemeal reforms


    50. “I prefer to think of it as friendly persuasion










































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    Synonyms for "persuasion"

    opinion persuasion sentiment thought view suasion creed faith tenet religion conviction idea influencing conversion bribery temptation allurement enticement

    "persuasion" definitions

    the act of persuading (or attempting to persuade); communication intended to induce belief or action


    a personal belief or judgment that is not founded on proof or certainty