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And buckling highways in Alaska and melting snowcaps around the world have persuaded some skeptical lawmakers that global warming may be real after all.

In Herodotus’ history of the glorious conflict in which Athens and Sparta joined forces to confront the Persian invaders, he relates how the Great King of Persia, confident of his military superiority, tried to persuade the Greeks that resistance was futile; and yet they trusted to hope, and fortune, and the gods, and were richly rewarded in their stunning victories at Marathon, in 490, and Salamis, ten years later.

"It used to be that we would be trying to persuade companies to delve deeper, that where there's smoke there's fire," Pergola said.

The trustees tried to persuade Ott to approve their request by invoking the "orphan defense." By then, the tax base from broken or ill-conceived state government programs and other "skimming" legislation will have eroded so badly from corporate defections that all the mountains and good weather in the world won't persuade a company to enter into this highly corroded, untenable morass.

The idea is that all these poets will be able to persuade Avellaneda not to leave the country.

We all want to believe in impossible things, I suppose, to persuade ourselves that miracles can happen.

The Crow Indians run to exhaustion to persuade the gods that they deserve good luck.

Some have been persuaded to bring their children in for therapy too.

Eventually he was persuaded and finally returned in 1935. With little time for preparation, he led the League into the 1937 elections.

By the 1950s some converts had persuaded themselves that their highbrow evangelizing effort was gaining ever more ground and that a demoralized secularist enemy was on the verge of capitulation, ready to throw itself into the arms of the pope.

Someday I hope to get married, and I should feel bound to tell my husband, and that would start married life under a stain...... We should probably end by hating each other ...... Don’t think I don’t want you because my God I do, so much so that at times it torments me...... Maybe if you tried to persuade me, I should change my mind...... I am the type for a home and children, not for a mistress...... My cunt is small owing to the fact that I am a virgin and my hymen is not intact.

If supervisors weren't able to locate absent offenders and persuade them to return to work, they sent warning letters, then notified either the prosecutor or the judge of the default.

His occupation as chief editor of an anti-Nazi periodical, the German American, was better than respectable, for he had persuaded the most illustrious of the exiles to write for it, but his name did not appear on the masthead, and he received no salary.

He used the stagnation to his own advantage: the medical school had appointments for four full professorships, but only three were filled; after one semester as a lecturer, he persuaded his colleagues to appoint him to the last vacancy.

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