I love that, getting persuaded to empathize with culty murderers.
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Some workers were persuaded to leave their employers, he said.
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Soon Keurig was persuaded to reverse course, at least in part.
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Perhaps Conduent can be persuaded to work in concert with Propel.
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How are the guerrillas going to be persuaded to accept it?
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And what if the bondholders were persuaded to forgive this debt?
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Americans must be persuaded to stay home, the experts told Donald.
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How will foreign forces-Iranian, Russian, and others be persuaded to leave?
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But they were persuaded to return guilty verdicts on virtually every count.
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Even the mild-mannered Bing Crosby was briefly persuaded to try one.
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A man who needed to be persuaded to educate his daughters, sure.
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Al-Jubeir said he hoped Russia could be persuaded to support the measure.
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In the show, Hilton is persuaded to take an aerial tour of Dubai.
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European leaders seem to hope that migrants can be persuaded to stay put.
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Rival parties may be persuaded to desist, and a tenuous stability take hold.
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Others were doubtless stolen or locals bamboozled or persuaded to sell under duress.
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"I may be persuaded to give it to Joanna should she ask me."
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Not even Italy, that soft underbelly of Europe, has been persuaded to spill.
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But Blunt wasn't so easily persuaded to come aboard her husband's project, either.
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Most recently, it seems New Zealand could be persuaded to let Huawei in.
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But I am not persuaded to the same extent by the other arguments.
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Dr. Brown was the one black friend they persuaded to try for membership.
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To avoid pain, she can be persuaded to accept her lot, to obey.
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At one center, forty-four children ran away before being persuaded to return.
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If only those blue-collar defectors of 483 can be persuaded to listen.
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The reformists debated whether their opponents might be rationally persuaded to tolerate greater pluralism.
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How can conservative elites be persuaded to think and communicate differently about climate change?
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These customers are also frequently persuaded to pay monthly fees to maintain their accounts.
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Like many of the plaintiffs that Hernández and Molina persuaded to join Madrigal v.
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But Kaine said some of Trump's supporters will never be persuaded to back Clinton.
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Dao was then persuaded to leave so his injuries could be treated, Rodriguez said.
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Carter appears to have incessantly cajoled Roy until he was persuaded to kill himself.
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But there's no indication that Mueller has been persuaded to stop investigating possible obstruction.
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The games are prerecorded, and Redstone is persuaded to bet on the winning team.
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Can any of the captured foreign fighters be persuaded to assist in propaganda efforts?
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Many of the people interviewed said they would not be persuaded to stay anyway.
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The automakers wagered that California could be persuaded to go along with their list.
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There are some signs, however, that parents and millennials could be persuaded to act.
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Could someone be persuaded to make a movie about this episode of his life?
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Some cat owners looking to surrender their pets were even persuaded to keep them.
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As a result, they say the board may be persuaded to make the change.
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Though Facebook hopes you'll be persuaded to vote for manipulation by corporate interest instead.
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After spending time with Culp, Langone said he was persuaded to buy back in.
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People are persuaded to do wacky stuff that stops them from doing the right stuff.
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Hierholzer said Hawkins was eventually persuaded to take the girls to the hospital, KABB reports.
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City council meetings were pretty informal, when enough people could be persuaded to show up.
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Va., but was persuaded to stay on to try to see the tax push through.
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Many prosecutors rejected the idea that women could be persuaded to testify against their relatives.
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But I could be persuaded to make Florence Fabricant's recipe for mushroom soup gratinée instead.
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It is fantastic if the Taliban can be persuaded to join official conversations with Kabul.
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One day the glove box fell open and could not be persuaded to close again.
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Mor was persuaded to reject an offer from Liverpool over the summer after Tuchel's intervention.
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Back in the 1990s, doctors were persuaded to treat pain as a serious medical issue.
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Mr. Lynch had previously hinted that he could be persuaded to vote for Ms. Pelosi.
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He tries to get people to laugh; many relax when persuaded to share a meal.
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Black pollsters see them as swing voters that must be persuaded to support a candidate.
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However, it remains to be seen whether the Houthis could be persuaded to leave the city.
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In keeping with President Trump's line, Thae says China needs to be persuaded to do more.
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I'm persuaded to grab a rose hand cream at checkout, and omg this stuff is amaaaaaazing.
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In a 103 study, executives said that profitability increases when workers are persuaded to collaborate more.
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Mr Trump was briefly persuaded to order an air strike on Iran under their belligerent guidance.
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Scripted Trump appears when the President is persuaded to accept a little discipline -- and a teleprompter.
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But its success, he added, hinges on whether new businesses can be persuaded to open there.
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The S-300 decision shows Moscow can be persuaded to act against Iran, albeit with difficulty.
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But, even if Ortega was persuaded to step down, it was unclear what would happen next.
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How can red states be persuaded to sign on and give all their citizens a voice?
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One in four could be persuaded to vote for either party's candidate, according to its analysis.
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He ultimately had to be persuaded to keep Mr. Comey, the person close to him added.
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"Getting the big tech companies persuaded to participate isn't the end, it's the beginning," O'Brien says.
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A few years ago, Residente had been persuaded to test his DNA to trace his ancestry.
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Yet there are over 1 million print customers, many of whom might be persuaded to convert.
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The New York Times reports that Stamos wanted to quit but was "persuaded to stay" until August.
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There are other rich men also keen on space flight, who might be persuaded to cough up.
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Eventually, Altschul said he was persuaded to return to the Apt Pupil set by director Bryan Singer.
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Traffic police can be persuaded to let you break the rules for just a few Egyptian pounds.
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It's also a sign that those same voters may be persuaded to line up behind his candidacy.
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If the voters are persuaded to take the country in a different direction, then so be it.
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He said he's convinced that the next president can be persuaded to back a robust trade agenda.
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Those delegates could be persuaded to vote for Mr. Cruz or Mr. Kasich after the first ballot.
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Maybe MoMA can now be persuaded to acknowledge its spirit, and their genius, in its expanded home.
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But on Friday, AT&T said it had been persuaded to resume advertising on the video platform.
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Federal officials were persuaded to drop the deportation proceedings and grant Mr. Ly a foreign student visa.
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They could barely be persuaded to pose for a photo before they were down, up, down again.
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Mr. Kim's brother was eventually persuaded to instead visit the shop when it opened the next day.
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I guess I can be persuaded to change my mind and vote for a president in November.
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New Mexico's Republican governor is not yet persuaded to support the latest GOP effort to repeal ObamaCare.
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Could the key opposition figures be persuaded to join a government still led by their sworn enemy?
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Earlier this year he ordered U.S. troops out of Syria but was persuaded to leave some in.
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All this has prompted some Malaysians to wonder whether the country's several sultans could be persuaded to intervene.
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"It remains to be seen if Brexiteers in her party can be persuaded to sign on," Lignos said.
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" Asked whether he thought Harry could be persuaded to join in, he said, "I'm sure he would do.
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But she was still plagued with questions: How had she been persuaded to leave her home and family?
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Most importantly, over half of WeChat users have been persuaded to link their bank cards to the app.
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In their favour, they both have vast numbers of customers who could be persuaded to embrace renewable energy.
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If patients can be persuaded to take a chance on cheaper treatments, then surely business travellers can too.
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Eventually, those new WeChat and Alipay users might be persuaded to use other services too, the companies hope.
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They stole cell phones from opposition lawmakers, threw punches and vandalized the building, before being persuaded to leave.
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On Thursday, Mr. Tusk also visited Turkey hoping that it could be persuaded to do more to help.
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I get an email from Starbucks about its new rewards system and am persuaded to reload my card.
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About two-thirds of likely caucus-goers (183%) say they could be persuaded to caucus for another candidate.
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In the title story, a woman is persuaded to return to Shanghai from Korea by a mysterious stranger.
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Although Mr. Hiseman initially called the band Ghosts, he was persuaded to use the name Colosseum II instead.
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We know it's a desperate betrayal, though, that he's let himself be persuaded to import big-city strikebreakers.
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Whether or not you will be persuaded to buy one will probably hinge on your affinity for Alexa.
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For example, Oscar the Grouch had to be persuaded to adapt to recycling, in accordance with changing sensibilities.
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If there was a Republican who could potentially be persuaded to turn on Trump, it might be Rep.
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Already in Syria the president has shown he can be rapidly persuaded to completely reverse his past policies.
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Mr. Obama was persuaded to impose sensible constraints on the use of drone strikes between 2013 and 2016.
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Ever more unwelcoming Australian governments declared that even those found to be legitimate refugees would never be admitted to the country, yet few other states could be persuaded to take them, and few of the asylum-seekers could be persuaded to settle in the countries that would, such as Cambodia.
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If governments across this difficult region could be persuaded to back this, you never know where it could lead.
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Several lawyers who know Durham personally have said he would not be persuaded to pursue politically driven criminal charges.
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When your side prevails, the foe might be persuaded to formally surrender on the deck of the battleship Missouri.
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His new counterparts, Trump believed, could be persuaded to help him pursue a longstanding fixation: discrediting the Russia investigation.
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As president-elect in 2016 he was persuaded to talk by telephone with the island's president, Tsai Ing-wen.
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Carter might be persuaded to take the job in the coming months, Sky said, also citing the unnamed friend.
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McConnell held out hope Monday afternoon that some of his Democratic colleagues might be persuaded to change their minds.
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On secret Facebook groups, she said, people can be persuaded to turn to unproven treatments instead of proven ones.
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The hope was that the committee could be persuaded to stage the competition in a quickly built Slater pool.
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Notably, 62 percent of respondents indicated that they could be persuaded to support another candidate as their first choice.
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Trump spent most of his professional career building things and may be persuaded to prioritize infrastructure over tax cuts.
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The Dohertys were eventually persuaded to make the same journey, winning the Cup for Britain at Longwood in 20213.
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Republicans had less to give, and they were not persuaded to give more to reap a bigger tax deduction.
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The Post reported that the book reveals how several Republicans who previously opposed Trump were persuaded to his side.
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They also thought he could be persuaded to extend his run, juggling "Great Comet" and "Homeland" after Labor Day.
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With a heavy focus on retail investors, it's ordinary Japanese who will need to be persuaded to pay up.
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Cleaver, 15 years younger than Leary, had to be persuaded to take him into the Panthers' "embassy" in Algeria.
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A few were persuaded to board the buses and officials said they hoped everyone would leave voluntarily by Sunday.
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While his father doted on him in secret, he was persuaded to send Kim Jong Nam overseas for his education.
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Typical is Aliher Silah, a 21-year-old Gambian who was persuaded to set out by a relative in Oslo.
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Police believe she was persuaded to fly to Syria after falling in love with an ISIS fighter she met online.
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More damningly, as the data came in, it became clear that in 2017 few men had been persuaded to migrate.
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There have been other flash points like this before, but they've all faded once Trump was persuaded to back off.
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Once the lights were turned back off, the alleged victim was persuaded to come to the back of the bus.
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Aside from doing McConnell a solid, there's no good reason for Collins to be persuaded to be for this bill.
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But Sanders is betting that after a decade of disappointing economic performance, voters can be persuaded to broaden their horizons.
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Whitman, a non-executive director on the board, said she had to be persuaded to take the job of CEO.
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When Monique's owners were persuaded to relinquish their pet, Dement managed to convince an airline to fly her to California.
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When Stanley heard he had died, she collapsed in grief and was persuaded to get engaged to a devious suitor.
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And even hoteliers who place guest satisfaction well ahead conservation may be persuaded to act to reduce their energy use.
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The video's American branding, he added, destroys any chance that a potential foreign fighter would be persuaded to turn away.
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Then they must be persuaded to accept family members who they may not recall or have been taught to reject.
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Can Rachel be persuaded to perform in the concert, though she thinks it's morally wrong that her parents never married?
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To be persuaded to make a personnel change at the EPA would be a disastrous mistake for his policy agenda.
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Surveys have found that politically inactive minorities are easily persuaded to get off the sidelines when cultivated by political parties.
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Many were persuaded to make monthly payments to buy a house sight-unseen for $22020 down and $23 a month.
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It often takes victims years to seek help, and they frequently have to be persuaded to testify against their assailants.
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Flake has argued to McConnell in meetings that if the Senate passes legislation, Trump can be persuaded to support it.
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I also wondered whether Bloomberg could be persuaded to help underwrite the movement, much like he does the anti-gun effort.
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The lack of your friends' endorsements for links means you're never persuaded to click something you didn't think you cared about.
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At trial, several said they were persuaded to go when the group&aposs spiritual leader, Ali Al-Timimi, said after Sept.
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Nor does it lay out actionable strategies for viewers who could be persuaded to change their habits, but don't know how.
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With the implementation of this feature and the fancy font, I'm more persuaded to restore my Tumblr app from my iCloud.
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Can second- and third-generation Labour voters, who have a congenital dislike for the Tories, be persuaded to vote for UKIP?
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But there's a real question of how much dynamic scoring even a Republican-appointed CBO director can be persuaded to do.
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But she was persuaded to stay on and see through the organization of the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting of April.
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They stole cell phones from opposition lawmakers, threw punches and vandalized the building before being persuaded to leave Timing is key.
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On the verge of the new release, Wong doubted a multinational conglomerate like Penguin would be persuaded to change its position.
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The Russian president did not say how the radical groups would be persuaded to cooperate, or where they might be sent.
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Eventually, Morgan was persuaded to climb back out through the prize door (the store didn't have the key to the machine).
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Given their relatively small size, however, this might not be a problem if enough Democrats are persuaded to come on board.
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Rather than incur his wrath, he says, American companies would be persuaded to keep more of their factories close to home.
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At some point, when they are tired, and have forgotten what they are doing there, they are persuaded to go back.
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While Robling was not persuaded to support the candidate, he was impressed by Trump's knowledge of the situation in the city.
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I stayed at Google for about two weeks and got persuaded to join this company called Square, which hadn't launched yet.
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They may start out supporting the incumbent but be persuaded to change their minds when they learn more about a challenger.
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He believes the EU can be persuaded to renegotiate if Britain shows it is properly prepared for a no-deal exit.
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Maybe a few of our local real estate people, along with the politicians, could be persuaded to help instead of hinder.
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The opposition and the United States must be persuaded to grant Mr. Maduro and his closest cronies safe haven in Havana.
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Nearly 40 percent of likely caucus-goers said they could be persuaded to support a candidate who isn't their first choice.
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It now appears that President Trump, rather than speaking out with honor against Moore, has been persuaded to tacitly support him.
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He said its profit margins, a large potential market, and solid executive team were all reasons he was persuaded to buy.
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A total of 6900 percent are either completely undecided or say they could still be persuaded to vote for another candidate.
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Because people do not know much about the high court, they can be persuaded to think many different things about it.
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Before he was sent home, McCartney — temporarily known as Prisoner 22 — was persuaded to take a communal bath with his fellow inmates.
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That's despite the numerous Democratic senators holding down seats in red states who might be persuaded to back a nominally bipartisan bill.
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Otherwise the centres would become magnets for fresh migrants from across Africa—irritating the countries that must be persuaded to host them.
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Presented with an uncompromising Democratic champion of abortion rights, pro-lifers hope they might be persuaded to make an exception to that.
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Police arrested several men, included a Uighur whom the Indonesians had persuaded to be a suicide bomber, but several remained at large.
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Beyond mobilising their own voters, they also tried to identify others who might be persuaded to change their mind (with limited success).
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It's no wonder many small companies like ours are persuaded to pay unjustified settlements to trolls simply to stop the financial bleeding.
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I think the president could be persuaded to sign the [Department of Homeland Security] bill that's already been agreed to without it.
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But if he is not persuaded to give up, it is all Americans who must prepare to pay for his trade crusade.
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That campaign would likely target victims that could be persuaded to visit the Ministry site, a group that might include U.A.E. officials.
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The Democratic Party is also betting the general electorate will be more easily persuaded to counter Trump than registered Republicans have been.
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Rodriguez was eventually persuaded to cooperate with US authorities, and gave them access to Guzman's private conversations with lovers and cartel associates.
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Within that thought, of course, is the deeply pessimistic notion that blacks and Hispanics could never be persuaded to vote for Republicans.
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And in recent days, most Democrats in both the House of Representatives and the Senate have been persuaded to take that stance.
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They may have to be persuaded to risk angering their constituents by voting to send money to a New York City agency.
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But it's a guilty pleasure because self-righteous ridicule is a lousy way to persuade anyone who's not persuaded to begin with.
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Producing lithium-ion batteries at scale is challenging, and manufacturers have to be persuaded to add new materials into their assembly lines.
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Ms. Hussein was eventually persuaded to return home, and her parents forced her to move in with Mr. Hammad in April 2017.
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The commission said that so far 40 have returned to China, most of them who had been persuaded to give themselves up.
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Johnson&aposs team believe he could remain in post, with another Conservative MP persuaded to step down and hand over their seat.
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Former U.S. Republican congressman Joe Walsh, now a conservative talk radio host, said he was persuaded to do an interview on Israel.
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The purpose is to see if reluctant businessmen can be persuaded to sell the Africans desperately needed drugs at a modest price.
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In Selzer's November 2344 poll, 2155 percent of respondents said they could be persuaded to support someone other than their first choice.
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But when another boy goes missing, Eva is persuaded to stay and confront the mysteries of the forest — and her darkest fears.
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But when another child goes missing, Eva is persuaded to stay and confront the mysteries of the forest — and her darkest fears.
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If Bourne could tear himself away from the mirror for a moment, could he not be persuaded to go and right them?
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In this case, Republicans likely to vote in a special election who have abandoned Moore or can be persuaded to do so.
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Nor has any Tory Remainer MP been persuaded to defect, even as the government's handling of Brexit has gone from bad to worse.
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Though sometimes persuaded to decentralise economic decision-making (which usually boosted output) he always ended up concentrating power in his own hands again.
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Some welcomed it as a sign that President Trump, despite his bluster, could be persuaded to act in line with standard American practices.
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Now AMS says it has evidence that at least four women were persuaded to undergo surgeries that their own doctors did not recommend.
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At best, this China can be persuaded to behave as America hopes when it sees that policy as coinciding with its self-interest.
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The proposal horrified some people, and the family of a local shipping scion, William M. Roth, was persuaded to buy the plot instead.
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It was no small coup, therefore, when François Blanc — by then, his brother had died — was persuaded to apply his formula to Monaco.
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Guzman later ordered Valdez himself killed because he wrongly thought he was stealing money, but was persuaded to drop the order, Valdez said.
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Now Democrats hope that Republicans in addition to McCain, such as Corker or Burr, might be persuaded to back a special independent investigation.
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Then some opposition lawmakers would need to be persuaded to vote for her plan for fear of a disastrous exit without any deal.
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Maybe she was looking for a particular recipe, too, hoping I might be persuaded to cook a dish she remembered and suddenly missed.
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Recently, investigators from the office went to visit Mr. Russo in prison, hoping that he could be persuaded to testify against Mr. Giuca.
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Whether the administration can be persuaded to use the full extent of the authority Congress gave it last year, however, is another matter.
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With a bad first half, Epstein said, he might be persuaded to break up the group that brought the Cubs their greatest victory.
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Mr. Moon contends that North Korea can be persuaded to forsake nuclear weapons through a combination of deft diplomacy and tough economic sanctions.
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On a trip back home to Calcutta, Deen is persuaded to visit a shrine associated with a local legend in the nearby Sundarbans.
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In an interview, however, he said he had not asked for the job, but was persuaded to take it because of his qualifications.
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" Later in the conference, Trump indicated that he would be persuaded to withdraw the nomination "if I thought he was guilty of something.
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Services and security need to be restored if people are to be persuaded to stay -- but the price tag is likely in the billions.
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Perhaps a little if the British and European establishment can be persuaded to listen to the EU vote and adjust their policies in consequence.
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Diaz-Balart and other Miami Republicans like him appealing spokespeople for Latino voters, especially those who do or might be persuaded to vote Republican.
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But each new bank needs to be persuaded to participate, and so salesmen like Mr. Prasad can't promise customers financing from the get-go.
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Instead, campaigns try to find sporadic voters who, if they could be persuaded to go to the polls, would vote straight down the ticket.
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And these are voters who can still be persuaded to save our country from a disastrous second term of a corrupt and unstable president.
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In many cases, the employees said, customers were persuaded to purchase classes they could not afford, by opening credit cards or borrowing the money.
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The savings on energy costs would easily boost a 2.3 percent rate to 3 percent, so the consumer had to be persuaded to spend.
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In a brief notice on its website, the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection said that Li Shiqiao had been "persuaded to return" and surrender.
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But it is possible that members may have second thoughts, under pressure from the administration and foreign governments may be persuaded to change positions.
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I argued that those voters could be persuaded to vote Republican, and because of their numbers, it could be enough to tip the balance.
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In light of the planned rule and exemptions, broker-dealers may be persuaded to stay away from providing options execution services to retail investors.
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She was recently persuaded to take a stroll along the waterfront walkway, which is open to the public though largely hidden from the street.
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Obama was persuaded to issue the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals executive order in 2012, which issued Dreamers a renewable two-year deportation deferral.
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Even Manchin, one of the most conservative Senate Democrats, who sometimes sides with Republicans, could not be persuaded to vote yes on the package.
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One official said Hagin had wanted to leave some months ago, but was persuaded to stay by White House Chief of Staff John Kelly.
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Her subjects, mostly strangers she persuaded to pose for her, in locations from the United States to Jamaica to Ethiopia, are here made immortal.
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Ms. Ross said she was a longtime registered Republican who was persuaded to vote for Ms. Kelly in part because of those Republican endorsements.
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Some African-American lawmakers, in particular, could not be persuaded to embrace legalization, believing it would bring more harm than good to their communities.
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But they said Mr. Sanders could not be persuaded to do so: He and Jane liked the Bidens personally, and their word was final.
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Perhaps those living in mansions could be persuaded to set an example and spend some of their billions to build housing for the homeless.
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Though relatives must be persuaded to come so far, the Joyners are happy they found "the courage to leave our childhood boroughs," KaRon said.
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While President Trump, in his own words, was persuaded to not pull out of Afghanistan, we may next have a president who won't be.
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There were two photographers there—maybe friends of Benji's, he had no idea who else would be persuaded to come out, but who knows?
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By contrast, a quarter of Biden's supporters are firm in their choice, with 22016 percent saying they could be persuaded to pick another candidate.
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The deal created a windfall for him, Mr. Weiss and Mr. Timberlake, whom Mr. Oza had persuaded to invest in and endorse the brand.
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New Yorkers had to be persuaded to accept the statue, and when the original installation went up in Madison Square Park, there were skeptics.
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We could be persuaded to think, given the last third of this excerpt, that an author sometimes writes with her future acrosticization in mind.
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Ms. Haley was persuaded to lend her support as Mr. Rubio tries to rebound from a disappointing fifth-place finish in the New Hampshire primary.
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Perhaps the hard Brexiteers will be so star-struck that they will be persuaded to vote for a cosmetically altered version of Mrs May's deal.
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Given the rally to $50 a barrel, non-OPEC members may not be persuaded to cut output, said Tim Evans, energy futures specialist at Citigroup.
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Yet "there are hundreds of millions of Americans who don't really know about plant-based diets or haven't been persuaded to follow one," he says.
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Brussels officials hope Orban can be persuaded to seek a compromise, a possibility highlighted by Timmermans' repeated expressions of gratitude for Orban's readiness for dialogue.
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That said, I might be persuaded to treat myself to a nonalcoholic cocktail with this drink at a bar if I weren't on the booze.
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But, she was persuaded to compete in last year's Louisiana State Games by her children, and that is what led to her record-breaking performances.
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Such shareholder votes are common at German companies, but it is far from certain that shareholders will be persuaded to sign off on Stadler's decisions.
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In 2014 Mrs Merkel was persuaded to accept it only by a prolonged campaign by influential Germans in Brussels and, especially, the powerful Bild tabloid.
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The stigma and disability faced by sufferers meant that many were hidden within their communities; they had to be found and persuaded to accept treatment.
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Maybe insurance companies could be persuaded to sponsor a free-bike scheme so that they would not have to pay out for as many thefts.
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It is not just in Romania that locals and tourists can be persuaded to part with cash in exchange for tickets to survey their past.
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Then he was persuaded to honour it out of respect to military veterans, by bending a knee during the anthem, instead of sitting it out.
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" Cha, however, said China might be persuaded to work with the United States as they "are desperate for some kind of diplomacy to take place.
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Olam was persuaded to come to Gabon by the combination of fertile soil, political stability and a flexible government, says Gagan Gupta, the local boss.
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I'm not talking about children taken by necessity from abusive or neglectful homes, but those whose loving families were wrongly persuaded to give them up.
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But many were persuaded to vote for Trump because he was the lesser of two evils, not because he knows how to organize a rally.
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Mr. Trump supports nuclear energy, and could well be persuaded to extend federal subsidies to keep the nation's teetering string of nuclear plants in operation.
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He spent many years living in Europe and playing for Italy before he was persuaded to move back to the United States and switch federations.
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If people can't be persuaded to see a woman's right to control her own body as a moral issue, it's most definitely an economic one.
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The prospect of revenue is exactly why Tennessee lawmakers were persuaded to pass felony expungement legislation in 2012, said State Representative Raumesh Akbari, a Democrat.
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One of them, Liu Gang, said he had been persuaded to give up a job as a teacher in 2009 to pursue an Amway fortune.
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"To be honest with you, I think some [running mates] could be persuaded to support this policy," Potter said in an interview with the Hill.
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Because it's learned that the American public, while it's generally supportive of law enforcement taking down extremist groups, can be persuaded to think twice. Sometimes.
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If all who today practice female genital mutilation can be persuaded to substitute the pinprick, as some groups have done, much good will be achieved.
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He thought, If only more professionals—engineers, doctors, agricultural experts, plant biologists—could be persuaded to work in rural areas, then India would really change.
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Smith turned down the job in November, but a report in South Africa's Sunday Times said that he had now been persuaded to accept it.
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A Des Moines Register-CNN poll last week indicated that 45 percent of caucusgoers said they could still be persuaded to support a different candidate.
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In the second half of Trump's first term, some white Catholics who originally approved of Trump's performance have indeed been persuaded to question their support.
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If Cosgrove could be persuaded to keep out of the way for five years or so for a reasonable sum, all might still be well.
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The UAE agreed to broker the meeting in part to explore whether Russia could be persuaded to curtail its relationship with Iran, the Post said.
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Still, one adviser noted Trump relishes his time spent holding court at Mar-a-Lago and may not easily be persuaded to give that up.
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The statements also implied that Kim Jong-un could be persuaded to not go ahead with the tests near Guam if the bomber flights stopped.
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A Republican elections lawyer unconnected with the case, Jason Torchinsky, predicted the three-judge panel was unlikely to be persuaded to throw out the ballot.
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China has in the past been persuaded to change its policies "where coordinated international pressure and the real threat of public embarrassment" has been employed.
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Griffin had to be persuaded to join the show by UFC president Dana White after accepting a role with his local sheriff's department in Georgia.
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The source close to him says Chris had to be persuaded to plead but realized he had no other option, given the damning evidence against him.
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The goal: Per the Post, "to explore whether Russia could be persuaded to curtail its relationship with Iran, including in Syria," which would require US concessions.
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Ahead, click through to meet the risk-takers, see the magical transformations, and, hopefully, be persuaded to pick up the phone and make that salon appointment.
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In Baton Rouge, an audience member said that since Mr. Obama could not do that under the Constitution, could Michelle Obama be persuaded to run instead.
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The bank then assumed the national debt; investors were persuaded to swap the bonds for shares in the Mississippi company, which would exploit France's American possessions.
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Perhaps Mr Trump will be persuaded to keep advanced kit in Asia by his pick for defence secretary, James Mattis, a much-respected former marine general.
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Governments and other donors might be persuaded to do more to cut post-disaster fraud if it is framed as part of making aid more effective.
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He made a special trip to New York City, asking people in Times Square whom he should vote for and was persuaded to vote for Obama.
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And though he was persuaded to go because the "Nats" were appearing in their first World Series, he was not invited to throw the first pitch.
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Some bankers might be persuaded to move but want to keep their big city life, meaning the quieter charms of Germany's financial capital are less attractive.
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If that can be replaced by machines, leaving the guards do perform more high-value skills, more people could be persuaded to stay on, he said.
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In the case of the Nixon inquiry, it was not until the House Judiciary Committee voted for impeachment that most Americans were persuaded to support impeachment.
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He said that he hoped that the mayor could be persuaded to join forces with the Council so that there could be a single charter review.
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Mr. Arreola works at the Phoenix high school from which he graduated, with 200 DACA recipients, many of whom he persuaded to apply for the program.
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That's a dynamic that is true of all ballot measures, where voters must be persuaded to overcome a normal bias in favor of the status quo.
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Mr. Kelly was persuaded to issue a second statement expressing shock, and White House officials made clear that Mr. Porter would be gone the next day.
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She was persuaded to run by another Conservative who told her that people would warm to her because she has a friendly demeanor and kind eyes.
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A native of Taipei, Taiwan's capital in the north, he was persuaded to return to Taiwan in 2013 by the island's culture minister, Lung Ying-tai.
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Lawmakers "are already mostly persuaded" to act, said Matt Tait, a cyber fellow at the University of Texas at Austin who testified at the December hearing.
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Dershowitz, a lawyer Trump personally persuaded to join his defense team, Sekulow and Bondi have all proven themselves adept performers over years of cable news appearances.
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Lagerwey said Lodeiro was persuaded to come to M.L.S., in part, by his positive experience playing in the United States during last summer's Copa América Centenario.
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If voters can be persuaded to focus on the long-term implications of Mr. Trump's actions, the eventual Democratic nominee will have a shot at victory.
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Nearly half said they could be persuaded to support another candidate as their top choice, and 13 percent said they did not have a first choice.
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Politico, citing sources, first reported that Trump was persuaded to terminate the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program following conversations with Attorney General Jeff Sessions.
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Current and former employees told the New York Times Stamos said he would leave the company back in December, but was persuaded to stay through August.
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During the fight, Clary revealed that she and Savage had been persuaded to lie for Kelly on multiple occasions, including the now infamous interview with King.
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But it may not be enough: Democrats were not optimistic that enough Republicans had been persuaded to support hearing from new witnesses in the trial. 26.
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However, in Brazil and other countries, government officials still need to be persuaded to approve Oxitec's technology as part of their national emergency public health response.
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Mr. Tusk points out that the last mayoral election had extremely low voter turnout, and that more voters could be persuaded to show up this time.
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Trump initially balked at keeping Obama's pledge to take in the migrants Australia was seeking to offload, but was eventually persuaded to stand by the deal.
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Getting Khashoggi to the consulate appears to have been a backup plan, the source said, because he couldn't be persuaded to fly back to Saudi Arabia.
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His mother needed convincing, but was eventually persuaded to meet with Ms. Pillet during a preplanned trip to New York in 2014 (to see theater, naturally).
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Empowerment is the issue, said Ms. Mullins, 23, who prosecutors persuaded to remain silent after she reported being raped in 2013 at the age of 18.
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Usually he conducts his reconnaissance under the cover of night, but he was persuaded to take a visitor for a tour on a recent balmy afternoon.
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Still, Republican leaders are hoping enough of their colleagues can be persuaded to get on board with the measure as a result of the new amendment.
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But officials in Kabul have expressed hopes that at least some parts of the movement and other insurgent groups affiliated with it can be persuaded to join.
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Kasich, who has previously voted against it, signaled that he did not have a strong opinion on the matter and could be persuaded to support voting rights.
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Trump was reportedly persuaded to abandon his plans to host next year's G-85033 summit at his Doral resort after Republicans warned him of the political downside.
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Only with substantial housing investments can politicians be persuaded to prevent poor constituents from building in potentially deadly areas — and be held legally responsible if they fail.
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Zachary Norris of Ella Baker points to elected officials who have been persuaded to help both ethnic minorities and immigrants in "freedom cities", such as Austin, Texas.
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Mr. Dickerson was eventually persuaded to make the transition to TV, and by 2011 he had become CBS's political director, serving as a regular on-air contributor.
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The Greens or the pro-business Free Democrats might be persuaded to make up the numbers, perhaps supporting the government in crucial votes without formally joining it.
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He had finally been persuaded to stand for a seat on Samsung Electronics' board at next year's March shareholder meeting, people familiar with the matter told Reuters.
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More likely, the president is betting that Trump can be persuaded to change—and there's no better way to get Trump's attention than appealing to his ego.
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But after he was persuaded to join the club by Hawks coach Mike Budenholzer, it seems like a great fit for both the player and the team.
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In an age of instant gratification, can even larger groups of young people be persuaded to be patient and pay extra for something of style and beauty?
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Then there's the fact that 23 percent of Iowa voters who named a first-choice candidate said they could still be persuaded to caucus for someone else.
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Speaking to reporters afterward, Lynch said he told Pelosi that he can be persuaded to support her and that they're going to have a conversation later Wednesday.
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The majority of lawmakers want change, he said, and just a handful need to be persuaded to defy party lines for the Marriage Act to be revised.
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In Register polls released last week, 56% of Republicans and 40% of Democrats said they could still be persuaded to support another candidate as their first choice.
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Indonesia and Peru have been persuaded to release their VMS information into Global Fishing Watch, and Malarky hopes to see more make that choice in the future.
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When she was persuaded to do interviews with the president at her side, she was so careful with her words that she seemed to have no personality.
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But for the rest of the countries, the problem is not that voters can't be persuaded to change their minds; it's that they cannot make them up.
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He added that he would be polite in discussing the budget with European Union officials but would not be persuaded to reinstate the previous government's pension reductions.
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Well, put simply, if aging is framed as a problem, we can be persuaded to buy stuff to "fix it" or "stop it," air quotes around that.
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Trump said he had told his advisers, "let's get out of Syria," but was persuaded to stay, before deciding last week to bring the 2,000 troops home.
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As such, Democrats should focus their efforts on older women, who may be persuaded to abandon Trump given their concern for some of his actions, Lake said.
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Thirty-nine percent of caucusgoers said they could be persuaded to back a different candidate, with a bit over a week to go until they actually caucus.
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A man who identified himself only as Peter took one bag out, then another, and had to be gently persuaded to yield the snagger to someone else.
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Persuaded to quit ballet as a teenager — she was repeatedly told that she was too big and too strong — she has reimagined it on her own terms.
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But none of the most senior generals of the Turkish armed forces could be persuaded to join, which may have left the plotters without a military leader.
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The poll found that just 20% of likely caucus-goers have a first-choice candidate and say they are unlikely to be persuaded to support someone else.
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Bela Pinter and Company ("The Peasant Opera") present a fictional take on the phenomenon with the tale of a compromised dancer persuaded to spy on his friends.
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If gamblers betting on illegal sites can't be persuaded to bet legally, much of the windfall that investors and politicians like Terry Link are anticipating won't materialize.
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Their clout can be seen in Haizer, where Yahya's house is a gathering point for youth, neighbors and other ex-fighters he persuaded to lay down arms.
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At some point after the war Europeans decided to take more time off, while Americans opted (or were persuaded) to keep their shoulders to the wheel for longer.
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William Zarit, chairman of the American Chamber of Commerce in China, said Wednesday that companies hope Beijing can be persuaded to ease curbs on investment and business activity.
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To me, that indicated that perhaps the person didn't have much of an interest in Twitter, and that he could potentially be persuaded to give up his account.
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Arguably, part of the explanation for Trump's victory last fall is that some white working-class voters who had previously voted Democrat were persuaded to vote for Trump.
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Second, there's a small number of people who will never believe vaccines work and will never be persuaded to accept them, and I spoke to some of them.
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Kazerooni said that when the cost of an exoskeleton becomes comparable to the price of a powered wheelchair, health insurers could be persuaded to pay for exo-suits.
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But legislators were persuaded to override the veto by research showing that people who have voting rights are less likely to commit new crimes or return to prison.
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The Iowa senator rejected any notion he could be persuaded to drop his opposition if Obama were to nominate a candidate previously confirmed by him and other Republicans.
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As the ultimate guarantee of regime survival, it is unrealistic to expect that Kim Jong Un can be persuaded to deal his nuclear ace out of the pack.
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" Even without that, Frankel said there's a chance Republicans could be persuaded to support her package, particularly "if it looks like their party did terrible in the election.
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She said she was persuaded to visit Epstein's $50 million Manhattan townhouse, where she said he groomed her over the course of several visits and "forcefully" raped her.
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If couples could be persuaded to take a more sympathetic, less catastrophic view of infidelity, they would, she proposes, have a better chance of weathering its occasional occurrence.
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" Asked when he was persuaded to change his mind, Baker said: "Pretty late in the process, because we were arguing about it, I think, up until the end.
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Despite denials from Ryan and his aides, some establishment-minded Republicans remained convinced that the once-reluctant Speaker could similarly be persuaded to run for president this cycle.
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Mexico's armed forces and law enforcement have often had to be persuaded to coöperate with the United States, and he will probably be less willing to pressure them.
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Trump has previously been persuaded to back off of trade threats with the argument that states that backed him in the 2016 presidential campaign will be hard-hit.
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He might ultimately be persuaded to scuttle the filibuster on Supreme Court nominees and even on legislation if he felt it was justified and the time was right.
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The military was so annoyed by the order to stand down that the President was almost immediately persuaded to sign a special proclamation permitting the operation to continue.
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It initially planned to go into opposition, but was persuaded to consider a new coalition after Merkel failed to form a three-way government with two smaller parties.
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We imagine that our system of representative democracy is ultimately good, but we consistently see evidence that people can be persuaded to vote against their own best interests.
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"The dancers were half — no, a quarter of — my age," said Ms. Weinrauch, who nevertheless was persuaded to stay by a young instructor, who showed her basic steps.
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The answer will say a lot about whether the president can be persuaded to rally behind candidates, even those he might not adore, if congressional leaders nudge him.
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Not with Los Angeles, the only other bidder, dropping hints that it could be persuaded to accept I.O.C. concessions in exchange for waiting four more years for 239.
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President Donald Trump publicly and privately trashed the pact with Australia as unfair to the U.S. but was ultimately persuaded to stifle his objections and let it proceed.
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Only 40 percent of Democrats who picked a candidate said their minds were made up, while 45 percent said they still could be persuaded to support someone else.
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It is understandable that Democrats from swing districts, whose constituents weren't persuaded to back impeachment by the Mueller report, don't want to revisit the murky events of 2016.
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Some analysts have questioned how big the demand might be demand for commercial space tourism, and whether enough ultra-wealthy customers can be persuaded to take such flights.
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"If we amplify everything, we hear nothing," said Stewart, to tens of thousands of liberals that he'd persuaded to ditch campaign work in favor of a TV event.
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According to the newspaper, the UAE brokered the meeting "in part" to explore whether Russia might be persuaded to back away from its relationship with Iran and Syria.
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But many of the trickiest government issues, like immigration or tax reform, involve dozens of agencies, as well as lawmakers and lobbyists, who must be persuaded to cooperate.
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It fell to Pécoul to recruit partners, including private pharmaceutical companies he persuaded to share drug compounds that had been uncovered but abandoned because of lack of profitability.
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The STP-II is an amalgam of 10 other well-established scales for evaluating different factors that play into whether or not someone is persuaded to do something.
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Erin Ennis of the US-China Business Council, a lobby group, worries that America is pushing past the point at which China will be persuaded to change its policies.
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And when that last decision is made, how will the losers of the debate be persuaded to stay in the coalition instead of holding out for a better alternative?
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With development now a holy cow, the Indian government is easily persuaded to disregard conservation concerns and allow roads, canals, electricity towers, mining and human settlements to fragment habitats.
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Last year Saudi Arabia was persuaded to drop its support for Pakistan in the Financial Action Task Force (FATF), an intergovernmental body that combats money-laundering and terrorist financing.
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Gary Bradshaw, a portfolio manager at Hodges Capital Management in Dallas, was persuaded to buy Ollie's shares after coming across the store on a visit to Pennsylvania last year.
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He was "raging mad" that Congress tied his hands by overwhelmingly passing Russia sanctions; WaPo reports it took four days for him to be persuaded to sign the bill.
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The SDF, set up last year, includes a powerful Syrian Kurdish militia and what Washington says are growing numbers of Arab forces that have been persuaded to join it.
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Poland, undoubtedly, is improving on the period when it lost its best strikers — Miroslav Klose and Lukas Podolski — who were persuaded to represent Germany rather than their birth country.
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He later said he feared Nicaragua was going down the same path as Venezuela and hoped it could be persuaded to stop responding to protests with "an iron fist".
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The Washington Post reported on Thursday that Trump had discussed with his lawyers a possible pardon for Manafort but had been persuaded to wait until after the November elections.
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That sophisticated system was, within three years, used against Mr. Guzmán after Mr. Rodriguez became ensnared in an F.B.I. sting operation and was then persuaded to become an informant.
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On the plus side, he figures Netflix non-payers currently represent some 8 million users who could eventually be persuaded to pay for Triple Frontier and other Netflix content.
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How can countries be persuaded to adopt expensive strategies to drop fossil fuels when the prospective impact of climate change remains uncertain and fixing the problem requires collective action?
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The best that can be hoped for is keeping the Taliban from power, and bolstering government forces to the point the Taliban can be persuaded to sue for peace.
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Russia defends what it describes as Mr. al-Assad's military campaign against terrorists and claims that the Syrian president cannot be persuaded to protect civilians caught in the crossfire.
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Potter still believes, perhaps naïvely, that the business community can be persuaded to sign on to tax increases and give up a powerful form of control over their employees.
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One is that Sanders genuinely thinks he's the best hope for the Democratic Party, and that he believes that the superdelegates really can be persuaded to rescue his candidacy.
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What Moscow's strategy supposes, however, is that the Taliban can be persuaded to become one of the parties to a settlement, rather than the absolute master of the country.
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In April a grand jury was persuaded to elevate the charges to murder, adding several counts of interfering with witnesses, namely the spokesman, Mr Crane, and Ms Carter, the driver.
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MTV had to be persuaded to play Jackson's music, but once they did it helped break down color barriers on the channel for not only his contemporaries, but subsequent generations.
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Sterling rose sharply against the dollar on Monday afternoon after a report that Brexiteer lawmakers in the U.K. might be persuaded to back Theresa May's much-maligned EU withdrawal agreement.
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If he were a conventional careerist, he could be bought off, or persuaded to be patient in the hope of obtaining the reward of becoming an MP and a minister.
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Kelsey Grammer was persuaded to reprise his role as Frasier on the condition that his character had divorced and changed profession from a psychiatrist to a radio talk-show therapist.
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Both start out vehemently (and publicly) asserting that O.J. is guilty, but are easily persuaded to join his defense "dream team" with nothing more than weak flattery from Robert Shapiro.
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Most, if asked, would prefer a chocolate bar today to one tomorrow, and would therefore need to be offered more than one if they are to be persuaded to wait.
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Trump was persuaded to backtrack on the plan after advice that imposing tariffs on Australia would alienate a key ally in the Asia-Pacific region, the New York Times reported.
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Retail investors, the super-rich and insurers, who currently keep just 4.5-5% of their portfolios in non-traditional assets, could nevertheless be persuaded to funnel more, given the opportunity.
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Microtargeting means identifying small groups of voters who plan to vote one way but might be persuaded to vote another way because they are cross-pressured on some key issue.
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In Register polls of likely caucusgoers released last week, 56% of Republicans and 40% of Democrats said they could still be persuaded to support another candidate as their first choice.
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Sofia hopes that Moscow can still be persuaded to build a pipeline under the Black Sea to Bulgaria and ship its supplies to central Europe through the hub, dubbed "Balkan".
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But supporters of the president worry about the potential ramifications of even a relatively narrow deal — and fear major consequences if Weisselberg were to be persuaded to talk more broadly.
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Stamos was persuaded to stay through August to oversee the transition of his duties because company executives thought his exit would look bad, it said, citing current and former employees.
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And even if an insurer could be persuaded to cover them, an actuarially fair premium would exceed the annual income of all but the very wealthiest among the chronically ill.
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In some places, diversions had to be made where the old line passed too close to newly built houses, or where landowners could not be persuaded to come on board.
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"It was a tough decision," he said, adding that he had initially voted to acquit on both charges, but he was persuaded to change his vote on the conspiracy charge.
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Lily and her husband are longtime wine lovers who originally wanted to buy a chateau in France, but were persuaded to invest in Ningxia instead by a local wine expert.
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According to the newspaper, the United Arab Emirates brokered the meeting "in part" to explore whether Russia might be persuaded to back away from its relationship with Iran and Syria.
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Several reluctant Republican lawmakers were persuaded to vote for the bill after $8 billion was added to help lower costs for people who would face higher prices in waiver states.
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They have made it possible to raise far larger amounts than start-ups can usually tap, at least as long as enough investors can be persuaded to suspend their disbelief.
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If he can be persuaded to change his mind — by party insiders or by his own poor numbers — he could give Rubio a much better chance of beating Trump soon.
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Mr. Romney was persuaded to include it in the health plan after seeing estimates that without it the health plan would cost nearly as much but cover far fewer people.
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Still, if the protections were expansive enough, and included a path to citizenship for the young undocumented immigrants known as Dreamers, some centrist Democrats might be persuaded to sign on.
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Additionally, the researchers found that participants were significantly more likely to be persuaded to change their beliefs when provided with counter-evidence for the nonpolitical statements than for the political statements.
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Even if Mr Obiang could be persuaded to give up his guest, ECOWAS may simply deem it not worth the effort of pursuing him, particularly if it risks reopening old wounds.
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Contrast that with the sad tale of Matt Harvey, who was persuaded to pitch way beyond agreed innings limits in the Mets' 2015 playoff push and has never been the same.
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In a way, the whole idea of single, all-powerful communications secretariat looks rather old-fashioned, unless that secretariat can be persuaded to share its mission with lots of independent players.
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Whatever the reason, there is a growing realisation that if only some of those who stay away could be persuaded to vote, the rise of right-wing populists could be forestalled.
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Yet if Mr Manafort provides the government with "substantial assistance in the form of truthful information and, where applicable, testimony," Mr Mueller may be persuaded to argue for a lesser sentence.
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Smaller randomised controlled trials had shown that many men could be persuaded to move while the rice crop is growing, when there is not much work to be done at home.
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Last year, a Lebanese father traveled to Raqqa to try to bring back his son, an Islamic State fighter, and three other children whom the son had persuaded to go there.
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Yet as Garr continued to received new footage from Roppolo, some of it featuring himself, he was eventually persuaded to meet with Roppolo in Los Angeles to discuss his UFO sightings.
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Conservative Brexiteers have previously signaled that they could be persuaded to back a Brexit deal if talks on Britain's future relationship with the EU were led by a Brexiteer prime minister.
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For anyone considering this for the next time a loved one is in the hospital — remember that sometimes even hospital staff can be persuaded to help smuggle in someone's furry friend.
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When such borderlands are troubled, people are easily persuaded to retreat into their identities, seeing all others through narrow windows of hostility—as when Yugoslavia tore itself apart in the 1990s.
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Communications Director Mike Dubke was persuaded to hang around until Donald Trump returned from his overseas trip, but his departure signals that a long-rumored staff shakeup is finally upon us.
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Benjamin was finally confident that his audience could be persuaded to enter wholeheartedly into a story without discomfort—or, at least, he was finally confident that he could do so himself.
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One is the contribution of Kenneth Lonergan, whose screenplay for " Manchester by the Sea " earned him an Academy Award, and who was persuaded to adapt the novel for the new show.
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But both campaigns — just like all campaigns in earlier years — are hoping and praying that "independent" and "undecided" voters (who aren't necessarily the same) can be persuaded to swing their way.
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According to The Washingotn Post, the United Arab Emirates brokered the meeting "in part" to explore whether Russia might be persuaded to back away from its relationship with Iran and Syria.
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In such cases, roughly 323 percent of readers can be persuaded to switch their votes, said Brian G. Knight, a professor of economics at Brown University, who has studied newspaper endorsements.
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The Iranian nuclear deal has looked very fragile since the election of Donald Trump in November 2016 but, so far, the U.S. president has been persuaded to leave the agreement alone.
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No one knows whether parents could be persuaded to abandon the worst horrors of FGM for versions that, while still pointless and painful, would not leave their daughters damaged for life.
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Many founders are looking to the series A to give their company credibility and can easily be persuaded to sign their lives away to get a big-name investor on board.
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She concluded that "I think they can be persuaded" to abandon their push if she hinted that it would harm the chances of getting other Democratic commissioners to vote with Wheeler.
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It's all uncertain at this point, and it will be fascinating to see whether enough Republicans are persuaded to call for witnesses after the arguments are laid out on both sides.
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With a 2,600-mile-long border with China and a hopelessly outnumbered army, there is no way that Russia can be persuaded to adopt an outright hostile stance toward its neighbor.
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But Mr. Trump emphasized that he had been reluctantly persuaded to perpetuate the war, which he has described as a total disaster — not exactly a vote of confidence in General Nicholson.
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Rukina Begum, 35, said she was persuaded to join another Rohingya woman carrying 1,0003 ya ba pills on a bus by the promise of work for her 11-year-old son.
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The solidarity with Damascus is likely to cause problems for Russia in the long run, analysts said, although Mr. Putin probably cannot be persuaded to loosen his embrace any time soon.
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One Tesla investor, Saudi Arabia's Public If these four could be persuaded to stay in some kind of special-purpose entity, the goal is already a long way toward being met.
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Would it have been nice if Iran had been persuaded to dismantle its nuclear program and its scientists induced to consign their mastery of the nuclear fuel cycle to amnesiac oblivion?
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There are other stumbling blocks: access to financing is limited, and countries that don't host assembly plants must also be persuaded to limit used imports and reduce tariffs on African-made vehicles.
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An adviser to another candidate on the White House short-list, former New York City Police Commissioner Ray Kelly, 75, said Kelly is also being persuaded to step out of the running.
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Beijing has repeatedly expressed skepticism that North Korea can be persuaded to abandon its nuclear program through force, yet it is under intense pressure to enforce existing international sanctions against the country.
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But normally we're talking about a president proposing something in the face of opposition, and the question is can the president expand his coalition such that Congress is persuaded to support him?
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The female child's mother had wanted to call police but was persuaded to back off after Joseph allegedly promised not to strike the child again, according to the document, the AP reports.
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The four men, who included former Defence Minister Kadet Bertin, were persuaded to return following negotiations with the government and guarantees that they would not face charges related to the civil war.
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But, says McNamee, there's every indication that EU lawmakers can be persuaded to vote against the law — especially as they face re-election to the European Parliament in May of next year.
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I remember some other bands on the Earache label in that era being persuaded to use an electronic kit that they had in the studio [because] the engineer thought it sounded better.
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After the 2012 gig, at which he called the Globes "just like the Oscars, but without all that esteem," he said he did not want to be persuaded to do it again.
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Part of the reason we've lost ownership of our unspoken dreams is that we've been persuaded to allow our ambition to be subsumed into something that is more socially acceptable: faux humility.
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She had joined the tour to look at a project developed by Sunac on behalf of her younger sister, who has never been to Xishuangbanna but whom Li persuaded to invest there.
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Both events drew more than 12,000 Democrats, and other campaigns used them as opportunities to demonstrate their organizational might and collect data on caucusgoers who could be persuaded to support their candidate.
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Vela, who represents a district bordering Mexico, said he was persuaded to back Pelosi partly because of her performance at the White House on Tuesday, and partly because Pelosi had promoted Rep.
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Though Yennaris, known as Li Ke in China, was the first foreign-born player on China's senior national team roster, he was not the only one persuaded to give up his nationality.
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Mr. Biden (still undeclared), has taken the position that big corporations should not be "singled out" and that their chief executives can be persuaded to shoulder their responsibilities toward workers and communities.
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Iran, for instance, was persuaded to surrender components of its nuclear program in exchange for integration into the global economy, which it saw as a more desirable way to secure its future.
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Trump has already called at least one senator to find out if he could be persuaded to support the bill, and lawmakers said the White House offered advice during the drafting process.
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Two of the co-founders, Sarsour and Mallory, were accused of anti-Semitism; Mallory, most damagingly, had praised Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan and could not be persuaded to denounce him.
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NASA and SpaceX choose both Budget deal sparks scramble to prevent shutdown Trump border fight throws curveball into shutdown prospects MORE, warns that Jones won't be persuaded to vote for Republican measures.
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With a criminal investigation underway over fraud allegations, the banks are offering to settle with around 170,000 shareholders who were in many cases persuaded to buy their shares in exchange for loans.
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Together, with pressure on the Palestinians from the Saudis -- on which the administration is counting but Palestinian officials are denying -- Trump may believe that Netanyahu may be persuaded to give something significant.
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The wear and tear has been showing a little more with every passing season: Pep Guardiola left, and Jupp Heynckes could not be persuaded to stay; Philipp Lahm and Xabi Alonso retired.
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That bill, sponsored by Republican Blaine Luetkemeyer, drew strong support from lawmakers of both parties, buoying hopes among bank lobbyists that Senate Democrats may yet be persuaded to meet the House halfway.
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Artland's conviction is that this group can be persuaded to take to a dedicated social network to aid the art discovery process via familiar social media mechanisms (likes, comments, follows and so on).
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The administration—especially Mr Trump's own entitled princeling, his son-in-law Jared Kushner—bet that by cultivating MBS's relaxed view of Israel, he might be persuaded to get the Palestinians to negotiate.
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Post-acquisition, Aoun worked on artificial intelligence efforts within Google, but he planned to leave before being persuaded to stay on by CEO Larry Page, with a new job — director of special projects.
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That is why, unless the president can be persuaded to exclude the EU from his tariffs, it will retaliate with "rebalancing" measures of its own after its temporary exemptions expire on May 1st.
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"So, if Parliament is persuaded to review divorce law there is a far more pressing need to also review our marriage law to make it fit for our multi-faith 21st Century society."
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The SPD had initially hoped to go into opposition after suffering its worst election losses in the post-war era, but was persuaded to enter into negotiations with conservatives to avoid new elections.
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But with two weeks left in his tenure, he has been persuaded to remain in the executive position until a search for a new chief executive is completed, the authority said on Thursday.
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NYT's Peter Baker reported via sources in the room that Trump privately told the journalists he wasn't inclined to deliver the prime time address, but had been persuaded to do so by advisers.
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Speaking of #MeToo: If Mr. Trump cannot be persuaded to stop snuggling up to men who behave badly, perhaps Ms. Trump could at least urge him to stop publicly slagging their alleged victims.
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Who knows, maybe there's a chance many of us will be persuaded to stay if we're baited with teasers for its upcoming content—even if some of it ends up being trash anyway.
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"And if you're dealing with people who might ultimately be gently brought back into the fold and persuaded to buy the originals, you don't want to frighten them [or offend them]," she said.
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If the Spartans can be persuaded to back Mr. Johnson's deal, they will get him close to the line since the rest of the larger group is expected to largely support the plan.
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While previous efforts to launch negotiations came to naught, some experts say there are signs that the Taliban could be persuaded to talk if Afghan and American forces ratchet up the military pressure.
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Di Maio was skeptical about hooking up with the PD but, with many of the party's lawmakers opposed to fresh elections, he was persuaded to do so by 5-Star's founder Beppe Grillo.
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The dynamics are far from set: Just one in five likely Democratic caucusgoers said their minds were made up, and 63 percent said they could still be persuaded to support a different candidate.
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With luck, if he can be persuaded to pass more and shoot less — as he did a season ago — he could play another useful season and move off in search of a championship.
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But arts administrators around the nation said in interviews that culture had enjoyed bipartisan support in recent years, and that they were hopeful their elected officials could be persuaded to keep the programs.
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Liberal activists are planning to fan across the Capitol on Wednesday to try to flip Republican members of Congress who they think could be persuaded to change their minds on the tax bill.
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The main question mark is whether Spain, seeing Brexit as an opportunity to swing the EU's weight behind its 300-year campaign to reclaim Gibraltar from Britain, can be persuaded to remain patient.
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But the Commission is clearly hoping that companies can be persuaded to self-regulate in the first instance, given the ever-present possibility of laws being drafted to more tightly legally rule their activities.
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But if you are persuaded to change your view, and only when you decide it's changed, you award a delta, the mathematical symbol for change, which is rendered by Option-J on a Mac.
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The whip team believed - given the public reporting that the Freedom Caucus contains about 40 members - that more than half of the group would support the bill or could be persuaded to do so.
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Many of the heaviest card users game the programs by using different cards for various categories of spend, and it's unlikely they'll be persuaded to use the Apple Card unless the rewards are improved.
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Many of the heaviest card users game the programs by using different cards for various categories of spending, and it's unlikely they'll be persuaded to use the Apple Card unless the rewards are improved.
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Mr. Pfeffer of MannKind said that the patients who tried Afrezza really liked it and that the drug could succeed if patients and doctors were educated and insurers were persuaded to pay for it.
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The groups went as far as bringing representatives from big German and American buyers to see the impact of logging on the forest, and 80 companies were eventually persuaded to get their wood elsewhere.
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The Financial Times' Alphaville blog compared ICOs to Kickstarter campaigns for "crypto-nerds," where investors are persuaded to fork over cash for a product that hasn't yet been built and that could go nowhere.
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" Stoynoff also reveals she was persuaded to be "brave" by PEOPLE editors, saying, "I first wanted to do the story without my name, I didn't want it to be traced to me at all.
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Last November, Christian residents of a rural township in southeast Jiangxi province were persuaded to replace posters of the cross and Jesus Christ inside their homes with portraits of Xi, a local official said.
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Rynard, who now runs an Iowa politics blog, still bitterly laments this "one idiot" in former New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson's group who changed his mind and was persuaded to join John Edwards's corner.
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The mayors of several small Japanese cities, which face gradual extinction if young people cannot be persuaded to stay instead of moving to Tokyo or Osaka, have been visiting Portland in search of ideas.
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Although she does not sit on the Intelligence panel, Haspel met with Heitkamp last week as part of a targeted effort to meet with Democratic lawmakers who could be persuaded to support her nomination.
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Conversations over the weekend suggested that there are a small number Koch figures who remain hopeful that even if Trump does become the nominee, he can be persuaded to adopt more free market policies.
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For all the city-state republic's political imperfections, if Pyongyang could be persuaded to follow its milder authoritarian model, it would be a hugely welcome advance in the lives of the North Korean people.
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"Because of the small number of voters who say they could be persuaded to change their minds, the campaigns must redouble their efforts in effectively communicating with their supporters," Crosby wrote in the Telegraph.
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Kornchai Klayklueng, a senior police officer, said victims were persuaded to film or photograph themselves masturbating, then told the images would be leaked to their friends and families unless they continued to provide them.
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The Times said some opponents of May's divorce plan could still be persuaded to back the legally binding withdrawal agreement if they were confident that the political declaration on the subsequent relationship was doomed.
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Implications: The report challenges two top tenets of President Trump's foreign policy: that North Korea can be persuaded to abandon its nuclear weapons capability, and that Iran is bent on acquiring such a capability.
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Climate change — though not the central issue of the meeting — will have a high profile, in part because of confusion over whether the United States can be persuaded to remain in the Paris agreement.
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And it raises a life-or-death question: If the 12 jurors had been allowed a full accounting, might at least one have been persuaded to spare the young mass murderer from lethal injection?
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Yet others have looked at the jurisprudence of the more conservative justices and made compelling arguments that on a host of issues, including standing, they should also be persuaded to rule in our favor.
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Bolton argued that Kim, whose grandfather and father built a state based on terror and scarcity, was so eager to revitalize the economy that perhaps he could be persuaded to give up his weapons.
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Airbus Chief Executive Tom Enders, who was rarely seen as an enthusiastic backer of the A380, toyed with ending the project about two years ago but was persuaded to give it a last chance.
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The authors of that memo argued that Mexico could be persuaded to make a "one-time payment of $5-10 billion," mainly by preventing undocumented workers from wiring funds back to family members in Mexico.
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Of Formula 1's roughly 500 million followers, Arthofer reckons that up to 1 million hardcore fans could be persuaded to sign up for F1 TV Pro, which is being offered as a subscription service.
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In reality the number is likely to be higher as some of the 60 or so Conservatives who could still be persuaded to back the deal may only do so if the DUP supports it.
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But Green lefty openness proved too difficult to reconcile with FDP pro-business conservatism, so after much arm-twisting the SPD was persuaded to reconsider in January and eventually agreed to enter another grand coalition.
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Its first customers, whom Block persuaded to try free samples of the solution she came up with by trial and error, were farmers and equipment dealers near her family's farm in New Town, North Dakota.
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Mr Luhrmann, who initially saw "The Get Down" as a film, was persuaded to oversee the series from start to finish by Ted Sarandos, Netflix's chief content officer, according to Variety, an entertainment-industry magazine.
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"The board indulged the fiction that the Berrys could be persuaded to work against their own self-interest as prospective buyers with Apollo and might work with other potential private equity bidders," the complaint claimed.
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Araoz, who is now 32, previously told NBC's Savannah Guthrie in a July interview that she was persuaded to meet Epstein in his Manhattan mansion by a woman outside a nearby performing-arts high school.
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The opioid epidemic, to take one recent example, was partly spread by doctors who were persuaded to ignore warning bells and prescribe these drugs liberally by companies that showered them with gifts and consulting fees.
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But when the leading contender — Joel Fitzgerald, the Fort Worth police chief — took himself out of the running after learning his son needed brain surgery, Mr. Harrison was persuaded to reconsider, a mayoral aide said.
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President Donald Trump was finally persuaded to take the threat of the novel coronavirus seriously after watching the Fox News host Tucker Carlson talking about it on his show last week, The Washington Post reported.
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In 2015, after more than three decades as a lawmaker, he had to be persuaded to stand for the party leadership, agreeing only reluctantly and in order to enable the left to present a candidate.
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The club's hierarchy retains a quiet hope that he can be persuaded to lay down roots in Manchester, but the evidence of his career so far suggests he will stay until 2020, at the latest.
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So a big question in this debate and in the ones before Iowa arrives and the also-rans begin to be formally run out is whether Democratic voters can be persuaded to reconsider this consolidation.
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The government stockpile manager, the State Reserves Bureau (SRB), has also been persuaded to soak up 150,603 tonnes of local producer stocks, a departure from its previous pattern of quietly buying from the international market.
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If you show up for a protest, or help to make signs for one, you might be persuaded to join a boycott, a letter-writing campaign, engage in direct action, and run for political office.
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Ultimately, Mr. Trump was persuaded to sign the bipartisan spending measure after all, and at least some close to the president doubted that he was ever really wavering and instead was just enjoying the suspense.
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Late Saturday, January 28, the White House was apparently persuaded to let previously chartered refugee flights continue for a few more days, which may allow more than 800 refugees in the pipeline to travel here.
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"The chief executives and the board of directors of the management companies are being persuaded to chalk out business plans to improve the performance of modarabas in the best interest of the stakeholders," the SECP added.
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One senior executive at a FTSE 100 company was still holding out hope however that lawmakers would eventually be persuaded to vote for the deal when it comes before parliament before the end of the year.
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At first, according to some in his inner circle, he was persuaded to keep it open temporarily as a bargaining chip with Congress in his quest to enact contentious domestic reforms, for instance in health care.
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Labour politicians had been expected to mount a challenge to Corbyn's party leadership this week, but the announcement appears to have been postponed until next week, with some hoping he can be persuaded to step aside.
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One died in office, four served complete 10-year terms, one (Robert Mueller) was persuaded to stay on for a couple of additional years after the expiration of his term, and two were fired mid-term.
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Many of my friends who couldn't be persuaded to vote in the referendum didn't think politicians or politics in general did anything for them and they didn't see why the EU referendum would be any different.
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They're supposed to serve as a deterrent to anyone who might be considering coming to the US without papers, and to increase the pressure on anyone who is currently here and could be persuaded to leave.
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The institutional impropriety revealed during the past 12 months hurt some of society's most vulnerable customers, highlighted by the case of a blind pensioner being persuaded to guarantee a loan without warning her of the risks.
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Lisa Murkowski of Alaska voted "no" on the last proposal and hasn't made her position public this time around, but a source told CNN's Jake Tapper they think she could be persuaded to vote support it.
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There must also be questions, given the ever more fractious nature of life in his administration, whether top-level staffers on the GOP bench who might be persuaded to serve are going to have second thoughts.
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President Obama is holding off on a veto of legislation that would allow families of 2900/220006 victims to sue Saudi Arabia in hopes that lawmakers can be persuaded to withdraw their support for the bill.
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An inextricable facet of this debate is why so many supposedly fiscally conservative Republicans were persuaded to support the largest spending increase since Obama's stimulus: Their long-held desire to "restore and rebuild" the U.S. military.
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In the funniest scene, she is persuaded to screech the French national anthem in a nihilistic tableau vivant conceived by Lucien's mischievous sidekick Kyril (Aubert Fenoy), an anarchist; the audience is scandalized, and Marguerite is ostracized.
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This is particularly true among that segment of the public that voted for Trump in 2016 but who might be persuaded to reconsider that decision in 2020, assuming Trump is not removed from office before then.
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Negotiations with al Qaeda or ISIS leaders, who see the conflict as a life-and-death struggle mandated by God, are hard to envision, although some lower-level commanders might be persuaded to cut a deal.
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Their findings highlight what we probably already intuit about protest: It's a performance not just for the people you may be protesting against but also for everyone else who may be persuaded to join your side.
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The idea that Italians will be persuaded to have more children by adverts appeared to be dismissed even by Prime Minister Matteo Renzi, who said earlier this month services and economic conditions, not advertisements, were needed.
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Yet the progress K-12 schools have made toward serving healthier and more appetizing lunches may stall unless more middle- and upper-middle-class parents can be persuaded to let their kids buy lunch at school.
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Some marketers are also wary that their media agency could be persuaded to spend more of their money with a certain media owner because they offer the better rebate, rather than spending in their best interests.
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I refuse to believe that if someone came along with the right personality and right message — and compelled people to think differently about the changing world before us — that some non-voters couldn't be persuaded to vote.
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Warren Buffett was persuaded to drop Kraft Heinz's $143bn takeover approach for Unilever by the corporate-financier Michael Klein, making the dealmaker the unlikely executioner of what would have been the second-largest merger in corporate history.
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With markets expecting inflation of 27% this year, the central bank has been persuaded to abandon its wildly optimistic target of 15% for 2018 and will instead aim for 17% in 2019, falling to 9% in 2021.
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An effort to recruit pastors supporting Mr. Cruz in all of Iowa's 99 counties was the brainchild of Mr. Brown, who in part was persuaded to support the Texas senator after meeting Mr. Cruz's Cuba-born father.
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Though we don't need to be persuaded to support businesses that empower women, for those always looking for the bottom line, studies have shown that investing in women means in investing in entire communities and stimulation economies.
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The SPD had planned to reinvent itself in opposition after a poor election showing in September but was persuaded to enter the talks when Merkel's attempt to form a coalition with two smaller parties failed in November.
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Finally, Preet Bharara had met with Trump in November and had been persuaded to stay with the Justice Department—his resignation may not be accepted, but the fact that it is now being asked for is notable.
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With the aid of complex algorithms, these data allow campaigners to decide, say, who needs to be reminded to make the trip to the polling station and who may be persuaded to vote for a particular candidate.
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Initially, Nintendo had wanted to include a Mario game with the retail version of the console, but was later persuaded to acquire the rights to an obscure Russian game, developed by Alexey Pajitnov in 23, called Tetris.
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Shortly after the election of Mr. Trump, she talked about running with Mr. Chandler, who then introduced her to Mr. Nickolas, whom she persuaded to come back into politics after nine years working as a documentary filmmaker.
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After the deal was announced last fall, Mr. Felder said he could be persuaded to join Democrats, or stay with Republicans, if either side embraces a plan to put armed guards at every New York City school.
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Airlines are rarely persuaded to switch to rival suppliers because of the costs of training and parts, but this week's Paris Airshow has witnessed two such announcements as sold-out planemakers mount incursions to continue their growth.
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Neither is Henry persuaded to venture into the woods by the Kid's and Molly's testimonials about parallel worlds and fateful journeys into the wilderness; he has zeroed in on the one common denominator in all those tales.
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Or maybe a pot of tea, loose-leaf, brewed at the table while you think about chiles and rice and pork and wonder how many more Hunanese chefs can be persuaded to settle down in New York.
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Iran was persuaded to surrender most of its nuclear program by sanctions, which put the government under domestic pressure from citizens who hated their isolation and poverty and from elites who foresaw huge gains from sanctions relief.
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Slavin also said Trump may be persuaded to renew sanctions waivers once more because Pompeo may not be confirmed by May 12 and the national security team is busy preparing for a summit with North Korea's leader.
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The expectation is that President Moon will bring all this up with Trump next week at the United Nations, though few believe Trump will be persuaded to change his entire negotiating position based on South Korean concerns.
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McConnell would need to be persuaded to allow the vote from coming forward, but Schumer, McCain, Graham and Reed would have leverage to force a vote by blocking other measures on the floor until their demands are met.
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The movie Charlie Says focuses on three women who fell under Manson's charismatic sway and were persuaded to commit the shocking murders of nine people, including actor Sharon Tate, on the evenings of August 613 and 9, 1969.
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The Hollywood Reporter revealed Ngor had to be persuaded to take on the role of Dith Pran in "The Killing Fields," which would require him to leave Sophia with a guardian while he shot on location in Thailand.
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Prince Mohammed said he believed only a small percentage of the kingdom's clerics were too dogmatic to be reasoned with, the journal reported, while more than half could be persuaded to support his reforms through engagement and dialog.
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The tests at least serve one useful purpose: to bury once and for all the delusions of successive American leaders that North Korea might be persuaded to negotiate away its nuclear programmes as a prelude to normalising ties.
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And one of them is the persistent delusion that a hidden majority of American voters either supports or can be persuaded to support radical policies, if only the right person were to make the case with sufficient fervor.
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ISIS: A Kurdish-led force that President Trump abandoned this month had been persuaded to put U.S. priorities ahead of its own, including in finding the ISIS leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, in Syria, according to American officials.
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Often students are persuaded to turn to activism when they begin to discover the connections between climate change impacts and their own lives, at which point getting involved is "easy and natural", said Al-Qassam of PUSH Sweden.
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U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo told CNN that "as we understand it" Maduro had been ready to depart for socialist ally Cuba, but had been persuaded to stay by Russia, which has also been a steadfast supporter.
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Such trouble typically starts when a doctor or other healthcare worker is persuaded to open an email sent by an attacker and click a link or attachment that downloads malware to his computer, a so-called "phishing" attack.
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Dressed in modest peasant garb and punctured by two lip rings, Natalie can be persuaded to trail a player's avatar from one end of Skyrim's open world to another, or to stay home, occupying herself with domestic tasks.
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Although Trump has previously been persuaded to back off trade threats based on the fact that they would hurt states that supported him in the 2016 presidential election, he has taken a more aggressive tack in recent months.
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Airlines are rarely persuaded to jump ship to rival suppliers because of the costs of training and parts, but this week's Paris Airshow has witnessed two such announcements as sold-out planemakers mount incursions to continue their growth.
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Go deeper: Stamos had already been planning to leave, according to the Times, which said he originally was going to exit after many of his duties were reassigned in December, but was persuaded to stay on through August.
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Although Trump has previously been persuaded to back off trade threats based on the fact that they would hurt states that supported him in the 2016 presidential election, he has taken a more aggressive tack in recent months.
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In each case, the accusers say they waited years to confront the men who accosted them, most of them too ashamed or fearful to complain publicly or persuaded to keep quiet by tactics meant to suppress the truth.
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In the case, the singer claimed she was persuaded to sell shares in the Florida-based pharmaceutical company Altor, as Dr. Soon-Shiong's firm NantCell was acquiring the company, at a price well below what they were worth.
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Wolfe argues that chemical and seed companies could be persuaded to fund butterfly conservation this way — in the hopes of fending off an Endangered Species Act listing that leads to more heavy-handed regulation from the federal government.
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The bankruptcy judge in Jevic, Brendan Shannon, said he was persuaded to allow a settlement that cut out the drivers not only because he believed the law allowed it, but because of the "dire circumstances" Jevic was in.
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For now, however, in this long counterproliferation struggle, it remains unclear whether China is finally persuaded to exert its unequalled ability to dictate events in the North, or whether it is still engaging in equivocation, misdirection and subterfuge.
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"Our economists think enough MPs (Members of Parliament) would likely be persuaded to vote in favor of this amended deal, and they maintain their baseline expectation of an orderly Brexit by the end of October," Pandl told investors.
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But it's an unexpected and satisfying action beat — a sign that even the almighty Shadow King can't see everything coming, and a welcome indication that maybe, just maybe, some humans can be persuaded to fight the real enemy.
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A copy of China's national security and counter-espionage laws was placed on the table during the interrogation, and the activist was persuaded to sign an "apology letter" before being released and allowed to return to Hong Kong.
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It&aposs equally true that many GOP members of Congress, as well as voters, have either been persuaded to back Trump policies that contradict what they have supported in the past or are doing so out of political cowardice.
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A source familiar with Xiao Jianhua's movements said the founder of Beijing-based Tomorrow Group was "persuaded" to cooperate rather than coerced by mainland agents who visited him at his serviced apartment in the Four Seasons Hotel last Friday.
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In 2014 the Sultan of Selangor, a wealthy central state, chose not to endorse the chief minister nominated by the local government; he ended up picking from a list of alternative candidates which state legislators were persuaded to supply.
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One source familiar with the matter said the administrators were tasked with trying to convene another shareholder meeting to seek approval for the cash call, but doubts remain over how the Malacalzas can be persuaded to change their stance.
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If Bangladeshis can be persuaded to wash water pumps, pots and their hands, and to reheat food that has been allowed to cool down, all as a matter of routine, rates of enteric disease ought to decline even further.
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The moment when someone might have been able to be persuaded to do the experiments of seeing how a woman would fare flying in space really ends with that decision to streamline the space program toward the Moon landing.
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But the American media has totally ignored it, even though enough Americans love the show that three years ago Netflix was persuaded to bring it back from the dead in the same way the company did for Arrested Development.
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He already was a staunch supporter of net neutrality, and only had to be persuaded to propose that the FCC consider a second option of protecting net neutrality in addition to the "roadmap" the appeals court gave the FCC.
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Aides have repeatedly told him that his cellphone calls are not secure, but although the president has been persuaded to use his secure White House landline more often, he has refused to give up the phones, the Times said.
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But supporters of American liberal nationalism are unlikely to be persuaded to replace Abraham Lincoln's belief that America is a nation dedicated to a proposition with the quite different idea that the American nation is nothing but a proposition.
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After a year of secret diplomacy around the world in 1998, Saudi Arabia and then important producer Venezuela were persuaded to cut a deal by non-OPEC Mexico, overcoming mutual acrimony and leading to a rise in oil prices.
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A different source said high-level donors who had been persuaded to hold back on Biden following devastating losses in Iowa and New Hampshire had started pushing back, telling Bloomberg's team they were likely to shift back to Biden.
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They argued there was excessive concern within the campaign that her hard-charging reputation would be too polarizing to the center of the party, and that only so many Bernie Sanders voters could be persuaded to switch to her.
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A 210-month study of electric car charging behavior in Germany has concluded that consumers can be persuaded to accept slow, overnight recharging that could help avoid brownouts from surges in electricity demand or costly upgrades to power grids.
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Rather than changing how "real" people felt, it seems, the campaign worked by molding elites' worries about how real people felt — or at least how they were being persuaded to feel, in no small part by the ads themselves.
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Companies that can already advertise with the Dodgers, the Lakers, the Rams and a host of other teams will need to be persuaded to spend millions on sponsorships with a team that has a lukewarm following in Los Angeles.
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Airlines can rarely be persuaded to jump ship to rival suppliers because of the costs of training and parts, but this week's Paris Airshow has witnessed two such announcements as sold-out planemakers mount incursions to continue their growth.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Lawmakers from Britain's opposition Labour Party are unlikely to be persuaded to back Prime Minister Theresa May's Brexit deal when she puts it to a vote in parliament next month, the party's finance chief John McDonnell said on Tuesday.
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After a spate of suicides on the underground in Vienna, when people were killing themselves at a rate of nine every six months, newspapers were persuaded to stop reporting suicides or at least to keep them off the front page.
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Clinton has vowed the FBI will have "no case" after reviewing new emails, but her campaign is nervous about tightening polls and ramping up attacks on Trump, hoping to scare away voters who could still be persuaded to back him.
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Mr. Jain, 53, was among a small group of Merrill Lynch executives who were persuaded to join Deutsche in 1995, with a mandate to build an investment bank that would challenge large firms like Barclays, Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan Chase.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Donald Trump said on Wednesday his primary concern with the Paris climate accord was that it treated the United States unfairly and that if a better deal could be reached, Washington might be persuaded to rejoin the agreement.
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The 105-storey pyramid-shaped structure was a barren shell for years until Egypt's Orascom was persuaded to pay for a shiny glass coating as part of a 2008 deal to set up a mobile phone network in the country.
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That's saying nothing of newer online lenders like Affirm, the Silicon Valley startup that's led by serial entrepreneur Max Levchin and is aggressively chasing millennial shoppers who need loans, or can be easily persuaded to take one, in any case.
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The SPD had planned to reinvent itself in opposition after a poor election showing in September but was persuaded to enter coalition talks with the conservatives when Merkel's attempt to form a coalition with two smaller parties failed in November.
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As the company deals with the Cambridge Analytica scandal and the continued probe into Russia's use of Facebook in the 203 U.S. election, Stamos was reportedly "persuaded to stay" by the company because an imminent departure would be a bad look.
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The Disney hit comes in halfway through the trailer, after Aladdin has already been persuaded to steal the magic lamp from the cave that resulted in Will Smith's Genie popping out and granting him the wish of becoming a prince.
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The House Democrats whom President Clinton persuaded to vote for the B.T.U. tax in 1993 were shocked that he betrayed them so quickly after passage; today's House Republicans are already on notice of President Trump's mercurial approach to policy-making.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican veteran Newt Gingrich did not rule out on Wednesday the possibility that he could be persuaded to serve as presumptive nominee Donald Trump's vice presidential running mate, but said Trump has plenty of other talent to consider.
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As for reducing cross-border conflict between India and Pakistan, a lot depends on whether Pakistan, which receives military aid from the United States, can be persuaded to stop expanding its nuclear arsenal and sponsoring terrorist groups that threaten the region.
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But under a shrewd, delicate experiment that grew out of Europe's desire to contain the influx of foreigners to its shores, Jordan has been persuaded to let these Syrians make an honest living — in return for potentially big financial rewards.
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Despentes has become a kind of cult hero, a patron saint to invisible women: the monstrous and marginalized, the sodden, weary and wildly unemployable, the kind of woman who can scarcely be propped up let alone persuaded to lean in.
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According to documents filed in court by the Manhattan district attorney, Cyrus R. Vance Jr., Mr. Scahill stole a total of $2000,22014 from seven people he persuaded to invest in the play through a scheme that began in October 2014.
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The President remains furious at the widening Mueller investigation and has not forgiven Attorney General Jeff Sessions for recusing himself from the Russia probe, officials say, but Trump has been persuaded to not renew his call to fire the special counsel.
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The President remains furious at the widening Mueller investigation and has not forgiven Attorney General Jeff Sessions for recusing himself from the Russia probe, officials say, but he has been persuaded to not renew his call to fire the special counsel.
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The title character, played by the magnetic actor Dion Johnstone, is a Roman Army general who, after vanquishing the Romans' latest foes, the Volscians, returns and is persuaded to run for consul — to add a political laurel to his martial ones.
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Something we are really interested in piloting next year: There are a lot of wealthy landowners in Edinburgh; people have houses and apartments across the city and those people could be persuaded to do a kind of 'adopt an artist' thing.
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For the underlying assumption behind the establishment strategy was that voters could be fooled again and again: persuaded to vote Republican out of rage against Those People, then ignored after the election while the party pursued its true, plutocrat-friendly priorities.
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Among other things, Q alleges that Trump was persuaded to run for president by military leaders, and that together they are planning mass arrests of deep-state actors and perpetrators and will send them to be detained in Guantanamo Bay.
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A tense three-hour standoff ensued, ending when Atkins gave himself up to police, who had responded in force, surrounding the building, evacuating nearby businesses, and establishing communications with the gunman, whom they persuaded to handcuff himself and exit the store.
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Rudd wants to adopt a more explicit Remain position, while figures like Baldwin and McGrory want to focus on winning "soft" Leave voters and members of Parliament who could yet be persuaded to support a new referendum, The Observer reported.
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Many suburban and rural districts were artfully gerrymandered by Republican state legislators after the 2010 census and have proved impenetrable since then; they aren't likely to change hands without a healthy number of recent Republican voters being persuaded to vote Democratic.
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But first is Iowa, where the race remains up for grabs to an unusual degree so late in the race: In the Times poll, nearly 40 percent of voters said they could still be persuaded to caucus for a different candidate.
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After finishing high school, she was persuaded to enter the Miss Israel contest; to her shock, she won, and subsequently spent a few months modeling before becoming a combat instructor in the Israeli Army during her two years of mandatory service.
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" But as of right now, there is not much evidence to suggest that Trump is faring any worse among Hispanics than did Romney, who at one point argued that illegal immigrants in the United States could be persuaded to "self-deport.
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While President Trump threatens "fire and fury" against North Korea, his diplomats are talking up remedies based on sanctions and diplomacy, in hope that Kim Jong Un's regime can be persuaded to embark on talks over stopping its nuclear missile program.
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Mr. Jain, 53, was among a small group of Merrill Lynch executives who were persuaded to join Deutsche in 1995, with a mandate to build an investment bank that would challenge large firms like Barclays, Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan Chase.
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She was persuaded to expand the dialogue to: her new Spotify playlist ("There's some good stuff in the '80s and then there's some stuff that just wasn't so great") and an aide's new puppy, before heading off to the lawmakers' dugout.
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Mr. Davis said he was persuaded to join the legal team after Mr. Cohen said in an interview with ABC News that aired this week that his first allegiance was to his family and to his country, not to the president.
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So even if 34 states were somehow persuaded to pass a resolution calling for a convention to propose an amendment abolishing the Senate, the convention could wind up proposing, say, a balanced budget amendment or a flag-burning amendment instead.
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A tightening of security in Calais makes it "near impossible" to slip through toward Britain, Brice said, and refugees are being persuaded to apply for asylum in France instead of attempting the perilous journey to Britain, often in the back of trucks.
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For members who were persuaded to back the impeachment inquiry only after the whistleblower's allegations, the view is to keep the impeachment articles narrowly focused on the President's alleged abuse of power: using his office to push Ukraine into investigating his political opponents.
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If those advertisers have got their market right—and they are paying big money for the older eyeballs—this group of customers can be persuaded to buy a plethora of products, from travel and financial services to mobile phones, medicines and comfy beds.
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With a budding electoral vote split of 2016-265, for example, just four electors would need to be persuaded to abandon the winning candidate to throw the election to the loser, or, at least, to the whims of the House of Representatives.
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But Ms Park's hint at resignation has strengthened the hand of Saenuri loyalists, who say that Ms Park should be persuaded to leave office voluntarily, and caused the rebels to vacillate: on December 1st the party proposed that she resign in April.
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Judge Dennis Montali of the U.S. Bankruptcy Court in San Francisco at Tuesday's hearing said he was persuaded to approve the bonus plan, which provides for quarterly payments, after hearing testimony from John Lowe, who is responsible for PG&E's compensation programs.
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And in the absence of a clear acknowledgement of how and why white working-class men and communities have suffered and without any firm commitment to turn that around, many whites have been persuaded to blame their declining fortunes on blacks and immigrants.
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College-educated Americans became increasingly persuaded to agree with the typically left-leaning position on a whole range of questions, and the percentage of "consistently liberal" college grads skyrocketed from 5 percent to 24 percent in two decades, according to Pew's study.
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If the pope and Mr Rouhani had a bit longer together, they might usefully have reflected on how people can be persuaded to stop killing one another because they have different interpretations of events in sacred history that took place long, long ago.
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The Post said the UAE agreed to broker the meeting in part to explore whether Russia could be persuaded to curtail its relationship with Iran, including in Syria, a Trump administration objective that would likely require major concessions to Moscow on U.S. sanctions.
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Militants were persuaded to stop the attacks by promises of more investment and jobs from visiting officials including Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, a technocrat who stood in for President Muhammadu Buhari this year while he had seven weeks of medical treatment in London.
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Ryan has repeatedly said he is not interested in entering the presidential race, but advocates for such a scenario have pointed out that he was cool to becoming House speaker until he was finally persuaded to take over from John Boehner last year.
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Many of the more than 1,000 victims were persuaded to drop their allegations of sexual abuse or were ignored by church officials, according to the report, which adds that the church also worked to have investigations dropped by local law enforcement agencies.
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Knight played a key role in ushering Trump's tax cut law through the GOP-led Congress in 85033 but intended to leave her post on the National Economic Council before she was persuaded to become his top Capitol Hill emissary last summer.
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So for the last four years, the Taxpayer Advocate Service, an independent office within the I.R.S., has been running studies to help it figure out how more small-business owners who pay their taxes can be persuaded to report their earnings more accurately.
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Some in Mr. Obama's circle were even holding out hope that Mr. Biden himself could be persuaded to step into the chairmanship as a unifying force for a party reeling after losing the presidency and making scant gains in the House and Senate.
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Through carrots and sticks, members of Congress are persuaded to support the preferred policies of various groups: They're handed a check at a fundraiser, or implicitly threatened with support for a political opponent, or just overwhelmed with scores of lobbyists making persistent arguments.
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Not only was that a lie, but mothers persuaded to use such products might dilute them beyond recommendations because they were so expensive, and might mix the formula with unsafe water, all the while thinking they were doing something good for their infants.
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The show is about Lilli and Fred, once-married actors starring in a production of "The Taming of the Shrew," a Shakespeare comedy (often vexing to contemporary audiences) in which a fierce woman is persuaded to humble herself to please her husband.
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BERLIN (Reuters) - Iran must be persuaded to stick to its commitments set by the 2015 nuclear deal, a spokesman for the German Foreign Ministry said on Monday, after Tehran announced it would boost its uranium enrichment above a cap set by the accord.
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A few years after suddenly retiring, at 37, from a sensational career in opera, Rossini was persuaded to accept a private commission to set the "Stabat Mater" text, a meditation on Mary as a mother grappling with the death of her son.
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The group will likely face weeks of travel to get to the U.S. border, and many of those persuaded to join the caravan have been misinformed about the likelihood of being able to enter U.S. territory, said the head of Mexico's migration authority.
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Wilson Witzel, the governor of Rio de Janeiro, told reporters Tuesday morning that the men in custody may be persuaded to strike a deal with prosecutors in exchange for information that leads authorities to build a case against the masterminds of the crime.
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He was persuaded to take the excursion by his wife, Erica, who reminded him that he visited Disney's parks last year and two days later produced an enchanted final round for a come-from-behind victory, his 21th on the PGA Tour.
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Led by Whitman Knapp, who in 21980 was appointed a United States District Court judge, the panel revealed that corruption was by no means limited to the rotten apples Mr. Armstrong and his colleagues had caught in the act and persuaded to testify.
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Mr. Phillips, billed as a "rambling troubadour extraordinaire," is persuaded to return to Hollywood — where he bombed five years earlier — to star in a series as "a loser's loser with no friends, no money and no love life," but is nevertheless likable.
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"I think they are staring death in the face," Representative Gerald E. Connolly, Democrat of Virginia, said about the political prospects of dozens of House Republicans who were persuaded to back the bill by Republican leaders anxious to deliver a legislative win.
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And yes, Trump and campaign surrogates have begun hinting flirtatiously that they could be persuaded to stop calling for the deportation of 11 million unauthorized immigrants from the US. As attempts at black and Latino outreach, these are probably too little too late.
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In the first Post report on the meeting, their sources claimed that one topic of discussion was "whether Russia could be persuaded to curtail its relationship with Iran, including in Syria," a topic that was very much of interest to the UAE.
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Certainly, it seems safe to assume that many if not most of Stein's supporters were progressives who saw themselves as falling to the left of Clinton, but might have been persuaded to vote for Clinton to stop Trump -- had Stein encouraged them to do so.
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Chris Murphy (D) says he thinks his Republican colleagues in Congress can be persuaded to oppose the new president's decisions — in part because Murphy doesn't believe Senate Republicans really support Trump's crackdown on immigrants and refugees, even if their current statements and actions suggest otherwise.
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Mr Mattarella, whose job is to minimise political uncertainty, had hoped that, in the event of a defeat, the prime minister himself might have been persuaded to form a fresh government with a limited mandate: to reform Italy's electoral law and hold new elections.
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"The independent anti-doping disciplinary panel is not persuaded to the standard of proof on the evidence presented that the athlete, Ms. Spencer, evaded a sample collection pursuant to article 2.3 of the 2015 Anti-Doping Rules," the written decision of the panel read.
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Volocopter, for instance, is hoping that the European Aviation Safety Agency can be persuaded to classify its passenger drone as a "light sports aircraft", which would mean that it can be flown by a person holding a simplified pilot's licence which requires less training.
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BERLIN, July 8 (Reuters) - Iran must be persuaded to stick to its commitments set by the 2015 nuclear deal, a spokesman for the German Foreign Ministry said on Monday, after Tehran announced it would boost its uranium enrichment above a cap set by the accord.
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Sanalla's letter says that even before eastern factions announced they would take over oil ports, they had tried in May to export 600,000 barrels from Hariga port on a tanker named Phaedra Bright 1, but the tanker was persuaded to turn back before it loaded.
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If young people can't be persuaded to relocate to or remain in rural towns, these communities will simply die out, a phenomenon currently playing out all across rural America as young people move to urban centers in search of bright lights and better-paying jobs.
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The pursuit of alternative arrangements is a particular demand of eurosceptic MPs in May's party who strongly opposed her deal but have suggested they could be persuaded to back an amended agreement if the backstop was only temporary or Britain could exit it unilaterally.
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While much of the offstage drama has an authentic tartness, some of it feels manufactured, as in a scene at the movie's end that depicts Mr. Pacino asserting his aforementioned clout to get something the viewer has been persuaded to believe he will be denied.
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Yet Mr. Chau himself often noted that such gains counted for very little if local residents could not be persuaded to identify with the government and its claims to national sovereignty — a goal that proved exceedingly difficult in South Vietnam during the mid-1960s.
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A vaginal birth is, after all, the wish of 72 percent of Brazilian women at the beginning of their pregnancies; then so many of them are persuaded to have a C-section in the months that follow, sometimes only for the convenience of their doctors.
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It was really only a matter of time before it all pointed to Uncle J. Eventually he was found out — along with at least 50 others who were involved, including normal folks Jacobson persuaded to join in on the game, according to The Daily Beast.
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While it appears that Ms. Collins and two other Republicans — Senators Lisa Murkowski of Alaska and Mitt Romney of Utah — might be persuaded to go along in voting to hear from Mr. Bolton and others, Mr. Schumer was hard pressed to name a fourth vote.
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"What is different this time is the willingness of the US side to recognize that Pakistan may not just be a difficult ally that needs to be persuaded to cooperate a bit more, but a country that is no longer an ally," he said.
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Only 40 percent of likely Democratic caucusgoers have made up their minds, according to a Des Moines Register poll released last week; nearly half said they could be persuaded to support another candidate, and 13 percent said they did not have a first choice.
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There's really not much more to it than that, the suspense in the film -- written and directed by Chinonye Chukwu, who drew inspiration from real cases -- coming from whether the governor can be persuaded to stay Anthony's execution, a standard request that's seldom granted.
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Born in New Jersey but raised in Michigan with a dream of playing shortstop in pinstripes, Jeter was picked sixth over all in the 1992 draft by the Yankees and was persuaded to sign with them instead of playing baseball at the University of Michigan.
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China perhaps can be persuaded to put a bit more pressure on North Korea, and it would be helpful in particular if the flow of high-technology from China to North Korea were stopped (North Korean missiles are built partly with imports from China).
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And Silverman's theory was essentially that viewers could be persuaded to watch quality TV programming and even develop deep relationships with it, but that quality shows needed to be sandwiched between other hits that targeted mass audiences and burned a little hotter and brighter.
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By dangling the promise of a cheap flight in the future (which is the only thing that most passengers really care about), or the occasional escape from torment in the form of an upgrade, flyers are persuaded to rack up the miles on a single carrier.
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The hugger-mugger of Mr Meng's arrest seemed a snub to an organisation that is supposed to respect and promote due process—and to the delegates whom China had persuaded to elect its man as Interpol's president (he was the first Chinese citizen to hold the post).
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But it's not particularly surprising that once Ryan had a plan, Trump was persuaded to sign off on it — the people to whom he's outsourced these decisions share Ryan's instincts and ideology, not Trump's, and Trump isn't knowledgeable enough or interested enough to question their judgments.
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The underlying idea is that public policy may sometimes make it wise to temper the harsh edges of the rule of law—for instance when insurrectionists need to be persuaded to drop their arms (as when George Washington pardoned tax-hating farmers during the Whiskey Rebellion).
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A look ahead at the Moon-Trump meeting and the challenges they face with Kim: ___ WHITE HOUSE TO SINGAPORE Seoul insists Kim can be persuaded to abandon his nuclear facilities, materials and bombs in a verifiable and irreversible way in exchange for credible security and economic guarantees.
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Tallinn came on the latest episode of Vox's Future Perfect podcast to talk about the rationale behind his philanthropy and how he was persuaded to care so much about AI: To people unfamiliar with the argument that AI poses an existential risk, Tallinn's actions might seem bizarre.
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Keeping user names out of it helps eliminate "social bias," said Rosenberg, of the sort that happens on Facebook, Hacker News or for that matter Reddit, when users may be easily persuaded to "like" or "upvote" the things that they see their best friends or bosses do.
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LONDON (Reuters) - After a year of secret diplomacy and hushed-up private talks around the world, OPEC's mighty Saudi Arabia and rival Venezuela were persuaded to cut a deal by non-OPEC Mexico which overcame mutual acrimony and led to a much-needed rise in oil prices.
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On Star Wars, Lucas allowed friends to rewrite large chunks of the dialogue, but by the time it came to the prequels, not even his Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi co-writer Lawrence Kasdan could be persuaded to help the creator craft his vision.
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To be sure, things get ugly in "Marriage Story," but Baumbach has a constant eye out for fleeting consolations: When Charlie goes to a bar with members of his theater company (a Greek chorus of theater kids), he's persuaded to get up and sing a tune.
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And they say they are hearing the same story again and again from the neighbors they have persuaded to go to the polls: They have never voted before, but feel they must now because they cannot stomach the thought of Mr. Trump in the White House.
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Jones could not have won without overwhelming support from Alabama's black community, and his victory suggests that Democratic coalitions in Southern states where the nonwhite share of the population is rising can be tenable, if enough white voters can be persuaded to defect from the Republicans.
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One is that Weaver appears to be putting much greater stock in the idea that the superdelegates could actually be persuaded to support Sanders on an electability argument — "If you can't create a coalition with independent voters, you can't win the White House," Weaver told MSNBC.
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He wrote the government administrator who oversaw publications under the obscenity act to tell him of his plans to publish "Tropic" and of the list of luminaries — Graham Greene and Bertrand Russell among them — he had persuaded to defend it in court if there were a prosecution.
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It is because Pakistan insists that if the Taliban are to be persuaded to join peace talks over Afghanistan and the supply lines through Pakistan to the United States forces are not disrupted or stopped, the United States must not allow an Indian security presence in Afghanistan.
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They were sent outside the platform to a website where they realized they were being deceived, or where they were exposed to ads or something that felt like spam, or where they were persuaded to share something that might later make them look like a rube.
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It may be that baseball's stars are more easily persuaded to participate in the home run derby because the contest requires little practice and, unlike the dunk contest's reliance on judging, is decided by a simple, objective standard — how many baseballs are knocked over the wall.
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"In some cases, he knew who he wanted and it was a question of convincing them to do it," Mr. Pfeiffer said, citing examples like Hillary Clinton, who became Mr. Obama's secretary of state, and Robert M. Gates, whom he persuaded to stay on as defense secretary.
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Graham — who went on a tirade in Kavanaugh's defense during the nominee's testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee last week — said Tuesday that the midterm elections could bring in a new batch of senators who might be persuaded to confirm Kavanaugh — even if he fails this time.
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Putin likely understands that when it comes to Trump, the fourth American president since Putin's ascension as Russia's top leader, flattery pays off — and that Trump, as recent events show, can be persuaded to agree to things that fly in the face of his advisers' counsel.
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Companies like Impossible Foods and Beyond Meat are trying to convert meat eaters, people for whom a disintegrating vegetable patty is in no way appealing but who might be persuaded to cut down on their meat intake if the substitute foods mimicked the experience of eating meat.
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In part, these lowered expectations are a reflection of the extreme skepticism among many that the North can be persuaded to give up a nuclear program it has stubbornly built over the decades, often in secrecy and despite intense sanctions, international condemnation and widespread suffering among its people.
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Greek officials hope that by passing the measures, the bodies overseeing the country's third aid program – the European Commission, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the European Central Bank, along with the Eurogroup of euro zone finance ministers – will be persuaded to unlock another tranche of aid to Greece.
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With fashion being such a multifaceted animal there is room for plenty of niche fashion-tech plays to offer an alternative to people who wouldn't be caught dead wearing an ugly piece of plastic but might be persuaded to slip on something that can pass as costume jewelry.
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In Iowa, Mr. Sanders has largely opted out of the cattle-call events that have drawn most of the presidential field, forgoing opportunities to make his case to both undecided attendees and supporters of other candidates who might be persuaded to pick Mr. Sanders as a second choice.
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What is more revealing is how many in the party are not yet settled on a candidate: The Times/Siena poll of Iowa, where voters are paying closest attention to the race, found that roughly two-thirds of likely caucusgoers could still be persuaded to change their minds.
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Ingrid Seward, a royals expert whose latest book is "My Husband and I: The Inside Story of 70 Years of the Royal Marriage," suspected the prince would stubbornly resist the queen's admonitions about his driving, but would see the logic and could be persuaded to give it up.
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The opposition of Mr. Johnson, Ms. Collins and others has raised hopes that a handful of Republican senators can be persuaded to torpedo this tax-cut bill in the same way that three of them sent the effort to repeal the A.C.A. down to defeat a few months ago.
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The story, as it is told, is that Ranadive camped out at the Reserve Bank of India one day until he was granted five minutes with the bank's governor, whom he persuaded to give him $50, plus some tuition and other costs to come to the United States.
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So it makes sense that at least a fraction of those people, even football fans, would be persuaded to seek out the music they heard, especially when it's as easy as reaching for the phone (probably already in hand) or laptop and firing up Spotify or Apple Music.
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The day after Mr. DeSantis was elected, Mr. Gaetz reached out to the governor-elect's team and asked if there was any way Ashley Moody, the new state attorney general, could be persuaded to take another job — to clear the way for his appointment, according to two Republican operatives.
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The company, which was founded by the family of Robert Mercer, a billionaire with a long history of backing former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon's political endeavorers, also helped the Trump campaign identify which Republican Party voters were most likely to be persuaded to vote for the then-candidate.
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Imelda Staunton had said she needed to be persuaded to play Momma Rose in "Gypsy" — a Broadway title that shares the "Funny Girl" composer, Jule Styne — and the result was a singular commitment to the part that built across the four times I saw her perform it, closing night included.
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He notes that PPEists (like David Cameron, Mrs May's predecessor, and indeed Lord Willetts) tend to concentrate on Britain's sectoral strengths—its booming service industries, its great universities, the City—whose success might trickle down to poorer areas, or into whose orbit residents of poorer areas might be persuaded to move.
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Similarly, a vulnerability called FREAK, discovered in 2015, relied on the fact that many modern applications, including the default browser in Google's Android operating system and the White House's website, could be persuaded to revert to old, easily breakable cryptography installed in order to comply with long-abandoned American export regulations.
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Pathological overachiever Tracy Flick (Reese Witherspoon) will stop at nothing to be voted student body president, but beloved teacher/student government advisor Mr. McAllister knows that Tracy isn't as innocent as she lets on and throws the election in the favor of the jock he persuaded to run against her.
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Unless a deposit protection fund made up of Italian banks can be persuaded to finance Carige's rescue, Rome risks having to pay for another costly bailout two years after the rescue of Monte dei Paschi di Siena and two banks in the Veneto region in the north east of the country.
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When likely caucusgoers were asked if they "could still be persuaded to support another candidate," 234% overall said they could be swayed, compared with only about 220-in-212 of those behind Clinton and Sanders, suggesting O'Malley's backers were a bit more apt to say their minds could be changed.
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When you look at the demographics of the Out campaign, at the demographics of the groups that might be persuaded to vote Leave as a protest at the harsh winds of globalisation—working-class people outside the big cities in traditional industrial areas—a lot of those are classic Labour voters.
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After a meeting between senior Socialist and ERC officials, the Catalan party said in a statement it had not been persuaded to back Sanchez because it had been given no guarantee that the Socialists would "abandon the repressive way" in Catalonia, but added that the two sides would keep in contact.
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Labour's official policy is against May's deal and to demand a general election, but depending on what Downing Street can offer, including the possibility of greater rights for workers written into the text, a number of Labour MPs could be persuaded to defy the official party line and back the deal.
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In the confession, parts of which were played during pretrial hearings, Mr. Felix described how he had been approached by his cousin Erskine Felix, another laborer who claimed that Mr. Stark owed him money, and had been persuaded to participate in a scheme to scare the landlord and recover the debt.
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Cylon and those who followed him took shelter in the Temple of Pallas Athena, on the Acropolis, a sacrosanct refuge, but while Cylon managed to escape, his followers were persuaded to abandon the temple on condition that their lives would be spared; they subsequently stood trial and were summarily executed.
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Rooney is in the middle of a two-year contract at Everton, and even if the club and M.L.S. can agree to a transfer — or if Everton can be persuaded to let Rooney leave early — the player would still have to pass a physical before any deal could be signed.
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She added that she believed people could be persuaded to vote Republican "if we just say it the right way and show them what the truth is, and go into the inner cities and show them that the narrative they're being fed by the plantation mentality of the Democrats is false."
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Mr. Adams was intercepted and persuaded to leave Afghanistan a few miles from the minaret of Jam, a fabled 12th-century structure of exquisite brickwork and a blue-tile top soaring over 200 feet on the banks of the Hari River and circled by high mountains in central Ghor province.
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For Democrats, there's also a straightforwardly political case for impeachment—the information an impeachment process would reveal could damage President Trump at the polls next year by mobilizing Democrats and Trump opponents, swaying whatever small share of voters might be persuaded to change their minds about Trump, or depressing Trump supporters.
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That's why Democrats are struggling between being frank about Trump voters -- people who knowingly put a bigot in the White House -- and speaking hard truths about current racial divides and soft-pedaling their views about voters who chose Trump in 2016 but might be persuaded to choose differently in 2020.
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The court was ultimately not persuaded to dismiss the case, and Mikerin eventually pled guilty to a money laundering charge for a racketeering scheme that prosecutors said stretched from 2004 to 2014 and included bribery payments to the heads of an American trucking company that moved sensitive uranium around the country.
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But some Republican senators said they thought the president could be persuaded to sign a bill that does not fund his wall, and several Republican and Democratic senators spoke of the possibility of a stop-gap funding bill passing this week that would simply extend government operations into the new year.
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In his column, he decried "the persistent delusion that a hidden majority of American voters either supports or can be persuaded to support radical policies, if only the right person were to make the case with sufficient fervor" — a folly he believes both Sanders and his supporters to be guilty of.
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