Sentences with phrase «takes persuasion»

Though it takes some persuasion and outright pleading from the bird - loving Tulio, Linda finally agrees to head south with her beloved pet.

That takes persuasion, he's got to persuade people to come along with him.

It should be noted that the Italians took some persuasion: The core of their national team had perished in the Superga plane disaster, which decimated the great Torino side of the 1940s, and they eventually agreed to attend but travel by boat.

In 1967, it took some persuasion to recruit academic types.

I wasn't supposed to be in charge — it had taken some persuasion beforehand.

The comprehensive change in our political, economic, and industrial mode of existence that greens want to create will take some persuasion.

Take persuasion and negotiation, or formulating legal arguments in court, or assessing the credibitility of a witness for example.

Not exact matches

A fractured political climate takes center stage, where candidates use emotions like fear and anger as «weapons of mass persuasion.»

So take a quick tour across North America with the pitches below — and if all the persuasion wears you out, check out Little Rock's video rejection letter at the end.

It takes the power of persuasion.

Whether you're convincing someone to invest in your startup or your boss to let you take on a project, persuasion is a skill that's instrumental to your success in life.

A good deal of persuasion depends on establishing trust over time, but the kind that takes place in an instant — defusing a tense situation, or changing somebody's mind — is particularly powerful.

It took a great deal of persuasion to get him to write his memoirs in the first place, and the retelling churned up dormant memories.

Ordinary Christians like me (of the Catholic persuasion) take morality to mean honesty and fairness in financial dealings.

Instinctively we know that our best preaching comes about when we have discovered the ways in which the biblical writers sought to change minds, hearts, and lives and then have taken those «available means of persuasion» with us into the pulpit.

Another example was alluded to before: the fact that our world seems to have taken shape over a period of many billions of years, rather than having been created in essentially its present form a few thousand years ago, provides evidence against the view that the creation of our world required omnipotent coercive power; this fact is much more consistent with the view that the divine creative power is solely the power of persuasion, the kind of power we can experience working in our own lives.

Disorienting, because it protests my deeper persuasion that success as an entrepreneur, or any professional, requires that career takes the throne of my priorities and remain there for, at the very least, a couple of years.

It appears that there is general though only implicit recognition of the fact that a call to the ministry includes at least these four elements (1) the call to be a Christian, which is variously described as the call to discipleship of Jesus Christ, to hearing and doing of the Word of God, to repentance and faith, et cetera; (2) the secret call, namely, that inner persuasion or experience whereby a person feels himself directly summoned or invited by God to take up the work of the ministry; (3) the providential call, which is that invitation and command to assume the work of the ministry which comes through the equipment of a person with the talents necessary for the exercise of the office and through the divine guidance of his life by all its circumstances; (4) the ecclesiastical call, that is, the summons and invitation extended to a man by some community or institution of the Church to engage in the work of the ministry.

He takes the fundamental conflict to be that between force and persuasion.

It is likewise written in 1 Corinthians 3:9 that all mankind labors together with its» embodied Godly beings and our physiologies are but buildings built and maintained and taken residencies by those of Godly persuasions.

It is likewise written in 1 Corinthians 3:9 that all mankind labors together with its» embodied physical Godly beings and our cellular physiologies are but buildings built and maintained and taken up residencies by those of Godly persuasions.

But rhetoric is not to be confused with dialectic: the techniques of persuasion, in fact, can not be reduced to the art of proof; they take into consideration the dispositions of the audience and the character of the orator.

But precisely because it is a movement made up of many races and ethnicities, many worship styles, and many political persuasions, it hasn't taken much for one group of evangelicals to become embarrassed at the unseemly views and behavior of other evangelicals.

While this is a matter of some dispute among theologians, those of the process persuasion tend to take Lynn White's criticism with the utmost seriousness, and respond with the development of a relational, ecological vision that goes beyond the encouragement of responsible stewardship in external relations to the non-human natural world.

God has taken that risk upon himself in creating us with freedom through persuasion.

Several questions or persuasions and answers or defense took place and here are some of them:

Several other psychologists that I took seriously and learned from were also of this persuasion.

For in this case Christians did not take the land by might of arms but by persuasion, and ruled not as foreign conquerors but as inhabitants and natives, harvesting the fruit of earlier centuries during which the bulk of the local population gradually adopted the new religion as its own.

When this persuasion takes the form of love (as process thinkers assume it normally does), I would argue that it is the supremely valuable form of acting.

The belief that the Bible takes precedence over any command of government is shared with people of very different political persuasions, including some on the left.

When persuasion failed, coercion did not take over.

The voice of Peter is now, as it ever has been, a real authority, infallible when it teaches, prosperous when it commands, ever taking the lead wisely and distinctly in its own province, adding certainty to what is probable, and persuasion to what is certain.

I tend to take everything I hear on the subject of the corporate food industry for face value, so am glad I had Hugh to remind me of the art of persuasion.

It takes a lot of persuasion, some sneaky recipes and a lot of patience.

But this thinking is still fundamentally applying the traditional model to new technology: what it takes to win a campaign is spending a bunch of money on advertising and persuasion.

Florida politics: taking late - cycle persuasion advertising to the limit!

WHEREAS thousands of Ghanaians from all walks of life and different political persuasion protested in Accra yesterday in a mammoth Put Ghana First Demonstration demanding that President Akufo - Addo stops the betrayal of Ghanaians and takes Ghana out of the infamous GHANA - US Military Cooperation Agreement.

The statement reads in part: «For the avoidance of doubt, Gov. Ahmed swore to an oath of Office as the Governor of the state to be impartial to all, irrespective of ethnic, religious beliefs and other persuasions, he can, therefore, not take sides on the matter at hand.

In theory, campaigns should prefer persuasion to mobilization, since persuasion takes voters out of an opponents» column at the same time that it adds votes to their column.

The chances of a government, of whatever persuasion, taking another look at the legislation any time soon are slim.

«One Profession, Multiple Careers» is only a year - and - a-half old, and the bottom - up approach used to develop instruments like this usually takes a long time to develop, since its main mechanism of action is persuasion via discussions at conferences and workshops.

When I asked if they tasted good on the grill, it didn't take much persuasion for Chapman to organize a barbecue at CERC during the lunch hour.

As simple as it sounds, I know that it takes a lot of courage and persuasion.

We call it «pnwasion,» short for Pacific Northwest Persuasion, and it's taken from our dominant Asian and Nordic cultural influences.

When real cougars show them their persuasion to be taken in their moment of heat, entices men greatly.

This may require some persuasion on your behalf but you and your partner can take a step back in time to the chilling days of the Cold War.

«It just takes a little persuasion to tell people that they need to get rid of their initial perfect match and just let their guard down.

Her uncanny intuition, dogged determination, and gift for persuasion have helped her convert allies, thwart plots, and take out terrorists, often using controversial methods that are uniquely her own.

Best known among her close to 100 film appearances, most for MGM, are Stella Dallas (1937), Test Pilot (1938), Too Hot to Handle (1938), The Women (1939), Another Thin Man (1939), I Take This Woman (1940), Susan and God (1940), Honky Tonk (1941), Heaven Can Wait (1943), Meet Me in St. Louis (1944), Murder, He Says (1945), The Harvey Girls (1946), Summer Stock (1950), The Long, Long Trailer (1954), Rose Marie (1954), and Friendly Persuasion (1956).

It takes considerable persuasion («It's about closure»), and one shameless pitch for sympathy, but soon the game is on.