His declared love of broccoli is genuine, if also unpersuasive.
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But the inspector general said it found his arguments unpersuasive.
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It's a familiar argument, and one Abrams finds decidedly unpersuasive.
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And this is where Caldwell's account becomes unpersuasive in its turn.
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The academic's insistence that memoirs are fictions is unpersuasive to readers.
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But try to detect an extraneous curlicue or an unpersuasive gesture.
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This is an embarrassing and unpersuasive argument, but it's not surprising.
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Abrams also finds the alleged alternative, a class-focused politics, unpersuasive.
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His declared love of broccoli is genuine, if also unpersuasive. http://bit.
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Their argument was unpersuasive, because the city's bag law protects the poor.
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Erdoğan's video "was unpersuasive," according to a source who was in the room.
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"For a number of reasons, I have found APRAs approach unpersuasive," she said.
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Many said they found his statements alternately defensive, unpersuasive or just plain strange.
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"I find the argument unpersuasive," Kavanaugh wrote, detailing his reasons for discounting both rationales.
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His complaint that they were improperly trying to take over the negotiations was unpersuasive.
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In delivering the opinion of the court, Justice Stephen Breyer called Shaw's argument unpersuasive.
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They have cast around for answers, but by and large, their answers have been unpersuasive.
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Maybe the chief justice and Justice Kavanaugh simply found Solicitor General Francisco's hyperbolic rhetoric unpersuasive.
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But aspects of Ms. Grazinyte-Tyla's interpretation of this most overplayed of standards felt unpersuasive.
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His Wall Street Journal mea culpa — "I might have been too emotional at times" — is unpersuasive.
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But his efforts were unpersuasive, in part because within a matter of hours Trump demolished them.
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Senate Democrats lauded Mr. Schiff's appearance, but Senate Republicans called the material old news and unpersuasive.
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Throughout the day, Barr's explanations for his most consequential decisions ranged from flatly unpersuasive to downright bizarre.
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But I think Sanders sincerely believes he'll be the stronger candidate against Trump, rendering this argument unpersuasive.
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But the justifications for the delay were "unpersuasive" and had "far-reaching consequences," the inspector general said.
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But it is wholly unpersuasive when applied to the history and practice at hand in this case.
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For some other Democrat this strategy might make sense, but for Clinton herself it's unpersuasive and somewhat confusing.
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" The Justice Department inspector general told the American public that it found the former FBI director's argument "unpersuasive.
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The person added that it's unusual to see the United States being so unpersuasive with its own allies.
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The administration's claim that its policy can be harmonized with the Immigration and Naturalization Act is unpersuasive, Tigar wrote.
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Meanwhile, Omar Jadwat, the lawyer for the challengers, was off-balance and unpersuasive for much of his hour-long presentation.
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Opponents have come up with several unpersuasive objections, such as the argument that the Act will cause a litigation boom.
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Some proposals, such as packing the court with additional liberal judges, are premature and unpersuasive, as I argued last week.
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"Graham added: "This whole theory of impeachment, the process is illegitimate, is outside the norm, this substance I find unpersuasive.
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Until Democrats act, the party's message about Trump's wrongdoing is likely to remain unpersuasive to anyone who isn't already persuaded.
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But lacking a persuasive case to make on the merits, Trump has defaulted to an unpersuasive case on the politics.
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Viewers found the explanation of his friendship with Mr. Epstein to be unpersuasive and unremorseful, causing an uproar in Britain.
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When that proved unpersuasive, he charged out onto the roadway after Mr. Chaturvedi, his hands shaking with rage and anxiety.
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Representative Lloyd Doggett, the Texas Democrat who questioned Mr. Mnuchin on the tax issue, found the response to be unpersuasive.
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And as happened in the lawsuits over his travel ban, Trump's missives could be unpersuasive and even undermine his legal positions.
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Sure, President Trump is a buffoon and the Republican congressional leadership has been strikingly unpersuasive — but the ACA does not work.
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Berman said it was "unpersuasive and borderline unprofessional" to bring up what he called an "illogical foreign conspiracy theory" in court.
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The dancers' activity never really advanced or revealed anything new, so the work felt not just unpersuasive but far too static.
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It was a spectacularly unpersuasive hack-job paid for by one of the predatory financial institutions the Labor Department rule will hurt.
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Many in the GOP establishment think Miller has been unpersuasive in his few trips to the TV cameras and the briefing room.
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It was a strange, unpersuasive performance from a candidate who desperately needs to break through in New Hampshire if he's to survive.
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She has charming moments but could use an editor; her impressions of Bill Cosby and Mr. Burns from "The Simpsons" are unpersuasive.
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If it was aimed at convincing House lawmakers not to make him the third impeached president in American history, it was unpersuasive.
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Its other key ingredients: a Wicked-reminiscent look at the roots of sibling rivalry and unpersuasive reminders that there's no place like home.
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Even if one ultimately finds it unpersuasive, it's certainly not the boilerplate defense of American "meritocracy" that underlies Republican arguments against affirmative action.
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The state cited committee reports and a failed Senate resolution from before statehood, which the panel found unpersuasive of "unequivocal" evidence of intent.
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A U.S. diplomat told the meeting that the ruling was "unpersuasive" and "problematic for systemic reasons," according to an official who attended the meeting.
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Perriello needs all the help he can get, and the Post's editorial, in being so unpersuasive, just might provide the bump he's hoping for.
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This line of reasoning was evidently unpersuasive to four of the justices—but since no opinions were issued, we may never know exactly why.
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Another unpersuasive argument is that the SALT cap corrects for the fact that low-tax states were subsidizing high-tax states through the deduction.
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I found these unpersuasive: Gero failed to capture the composer's skittish manner, and the texts came from "Testimony," the memoir dubiously attributed to Shostakovich.
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"The lack of academic rigor in his report, in conjunction with his clear agenda and misleading statements, render his opinions unpersuasive," Judge Robinson concluded.
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" But overwhelmingly Democrats found it unpersuasive and at times laughable, particularly Cipollone's contention that they would prove that the president had "done nothing wrong.
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We found unpersuasive Comey&aposs explanation as to why transparency was more important than department policy and practice with regard to the reactivated midyear investigation.
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Turning around to propose that a new abolition movement would reverse these deeper problems may work as a homily, but it is unpersuasive as policy.
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People who identify with Trump's racial and cultural politics find progressive complaints about corruption to be hypocritical and unpersuasive because the whole system is corrupt.
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The two actors are an attractive but unpersuasive fit, though their shared awkwardness dissipates after Nina and Rafe get stoned in his picture-perfect pad.
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Some GOP senators have dismissed the GAO report as unpersuasive while House Democrats recently said it would be "a big part of our case" (Axios).
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There are new buddies (Jorge Lendeborg Jr.), who with smiles, mood enhancers and some unpersuasive narrative nudging help usher James into the here and now.
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Still, Booksmart is a much better movie than critics—The New Yorker's Richard Brody called it "unpersuasive" and "faux-sweet"—have made it out to be.
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In earlier decisions, the court had upheld abortion restrictions and suggested that Roe was incoherent and potentially unworkable and that the reasoning underlying it was unpersuasive.
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Wrapped in Jeremy Rouse's dusty-soft cinematography, Mike's reluctant journey to redemption is unpersuasive, his personality only semi-formed and his behavior a tangle of contradictions.
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The story is unpersuasive in large measure because Salieri was in Paris for much of the time he was supposed to have been scheming in Vienna.
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And so now, in addition to his unpersuasive suggestion that the transcripts released last week aren't legitimate, Trump is trying to tarnish the whistleblower by association.
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Grimm's campaign – claiming his conviction on tax fraud charges that forced his resignation from Congress was the result of a kind of "deep state" conspiracy – proved unpersuasive.
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Key takeaway from inside the hearing room: Republicans found a way to rally to Kavanaugh's defense without ever really saying what about Ford's testimony they found unpersuasive.
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America's Justice Department conceded defeat after a federal appeals-court dismissed its attempt to overturn at&t's merger with Time Warner, describing the government's arguments as "unpersuasive".
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What I know is that the justifications for opposing the Equality Act – "religious liberty" or a newfound concern for women's sports – are unpersuasive, to put it mildly.
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Kirsten Gillibrand ran as a committed feminist, but in a field with at least two superior women candidates, Elizabeth Warren and Kamala Harris, her message proved unpersuasive.
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In a separate document, they wrote that the Democrats had provided a "lengthy but wholly unpersuasive attempt to distract from the committee's key findings" on surveillance abuse.
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"The governments objections that the district court misunderstood and misapplied economic principles and clearly erred in rejecting the quantitative model are unpersuasive," the judges said in their opinion.
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On Tuesday, a U.S. federal judge denied Trump's motion to dismiss one of the emoluments lawsuits against him, saying Trump's narrow definition of emoluments was "unpersuasive and inconsistent".
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The interview shocked many viewers, who said that Prince Andrew's denials of sexual misconduct were unpersuasive and that he seemed to have little sympathy for Mr. Epstein's victims.
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The national murder rate, for example, is about half what it was in 1990, and most of the theories explaining the decline are somewhere between incomplete and unpersuasive.
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Dibs has her reasons, naturally, though they're so unpersuasive that you have to wonder why Denis bothered, especially given that narrative logic isn't much of interest to her.
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We saw a different palette at a lectern in the White House on early Monday afternoon, but it was pure artifice, and muted and unpersuasive because of that.
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Goldsmith called her statement "unpersuasive" and said the better course for her would have been to resign over her disagreement with the policy laid out in the order.
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"In this evidentiary context, the government's objections that the district court misunderstood and misapplied economic principles and clearly erred in rejecting the quantitative model are unpersuasive," the decision reads.
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" The three-judge panel on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia ruled unanimously in favor of the deal, saying that the government's case was "unpersuasive.
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And her ample frame, reviewers sometimes noted, cut an unpersuasive figure of the consumptive heroine — think of Mimì in Puccini's "La Bohème" — that is grand opera's stock-in-trade.
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They were once friends and soon ease into a new, unpersuasive intimacy (they watch Shirley Temple on TV), largely so the writer-director Cory Finley can make them combust.
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"The so-called attorney general is abrasive, evasive and unpersuasive," said Representative Hakeem Jeffries of New York, the No. 5 House Democrat and a member of the Judiciary Committee.
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The defense would be the typical Trump operative line — "we didn't know it was wrong" — but, especially for an experienced campaign old hand like Manafort, that defense is unpersuasive.
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A former senior Trump administration official said the president's decision basically was made two years ago, and that Trump finally stared down what he considered unpersuasive advice to stay in.
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It wasn't that they were stubborn, or lacked imagination; it's that the arguments against sending a friendly note were so unpersuasive as to be definitively boring, or downright mean-spirited.
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In a statement, the agency called the Winklevoss's arguments that Bitcoin is uniquely resistant to market manipulation "unpersuasive," but left the door open for potential cryptocurrency ETF's in the future.
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Reading a 20003-page document from the bench, Judge Bransten repeatedly rejected, dismissed or found the Trump lawyers' arguments to be unpersuasive and granted summary judgment to the condominium's board.
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" In the Federal Court judgment, Chief Judge Roger L. Gregory wrote Dotcom and his co-defendants' reasons for staying in New Zealand - because of jobs, businesses, and families - were "utterly unpersuasive.
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Her enhanced wattage disrupts her life at Professor X's school for mutants, leading to misadventures, tight jaws, unpersuasive angst and a showdown with her past (elevated by the actor Scott Shepherd).
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The reasons that President Obama has cited for this refusal are not unpersuasive, particularly the point that few of the groups are credible enough to mount a serious threat to Assad.
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"The government's objections that the District Court misunderstood and misapplied economic principles and clearly erred in rejecting the quantitative model are unpersuasive," Judge Judith Rogers wrote on behalf of the panel.
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Some, like Stanford's Michael McConnell, have made unpersuasive arguments that the people living in 1868, when the Fourteenth Amendment was passed, and shortly thereafter, would have thought segregated schools to be illegal.
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Nunes has brushed aside the notion that the memo would be unpersuasive without the underlying intelligence to substantiate its claims, calling the argument Democratic obstruction of his investigation into Justice Department misconduct.
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" Dismissing the testimony by Kobach's witnesses as unpersuasive, Robinson drew what she called "the more obvious conclusion that there is no iceberg; only an icicle largely created by confusion and administrative error.
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Secondly, the call further undermines the already unpersuasive Republican defense that Trump was withholding military aid from Ukraine only in order to ensure the money would not be embezzled by corrupt actors.
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"The government's objections that the District Court misunderstood and misapplied economic principles and clearly erred in rejecting the quantitative model are unpersuasive," Judge Judith W. Rogers wrote on behalf of the panel.
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Still, while Doleac and Mukherjee are accomplished researchers, I found the paper unpersuasive — drawing on my understanding of the drug addiction literature as well as my experience working with people who use drugs.
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Rooney is just one House Republican, but his willingness to publicly rebuke the president suggests patience is growing thin with Trump's unpersuasive efforts to defend the indefensible, even among the GOP rank and file.
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In a statement on its website, the SEC said it found "unpersuasive" arguments that the bitcoin ETF proposed by Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss, founders of crypto exchange Gemini, would be sufficiently protected from manipulation.
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"The text of the foreign law provision the corporation relies on does not support its position," the panel wrote, adding that explanations from the corporation's lawyers and "a regulator from Country A" were unpersuasive.
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The Trump administration has continually argued that these suits are "premature" and moved to dismiss the claims, saying the policy is still subject to review, but that argument has, thus far, proved unpersuasive in court.
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" The judge said the defense's "illogical foreign conspiracy theory has no foundation in the record, and is, in reality, unpersuasive and borderline unprofessional, as a diversion from the issues to be decided in this case.
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Huawei's second, unpersuasive solution involves trying to convince outsiders that, given the right written and verbal assurances from the state, firms from China can, as it happens, be trusted not to help Chinese spies steal secrets.
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Such was his scattershot incoherence on foreign policy that Clinton's tired defense of a plodding approach to the ISIS threat — a defense that was utterly unpersuasive — seemed at least grounded in a modicum of bitter experience.
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Directed by Kieran Darcy-Smith from a script by Matt Cook, "The Duel" has a few ideas and a glint of politics but is largely characterized by its perplexing shifts in tone and unpersuasive story turns.
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After 256 pages of telling readers that boot straps no longer allow one to pull oneself up, but instead tether down, her tentatively positive predictions at the book's conclusion is the first time she is unpersuasive.
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The idea that the Trump era is stable probably seems unpersuasive to people who follow the D.C. carnival obsessively; the idea that it is more stable than the later Obama years may seem like a joke.
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Even so, Trump began one of the most critical weeks of his presidency — the House will hold its first public impeachment hearings starting Wednesday — with a whopper that ranks among the most unpersuasive he's ever pushed.
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A New York appeals court affirmed a $2 million jury verdict against Harley-Davidson Motor Co over a 2004 crash that severely injured a couple, finding the company's attempt to blame the crash on driver error unpersuasive.
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At the same time, there is a history of lawsuits that most legal experts thought were unpersuasive nonetheless putting ACA in mortal danger — first the lawsuit against the individual mandate and then the challenge to insurance subsidies.
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There is a history of lawsuits that most legal experts thought were unpersuasive nonetheless putting ACA in mortal danger — namely, the lawsuit that sought to invalidate Obamacare's tax subsidies in states that relied on a federally run marketplace.
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Page also defended herself against charges of bias, according to GOP lawmakers in the room, providing context to the texts that they found unpersuasive — if not as patently offensive — as they found Strzok's self-defense the day before.
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"We found this explanation unpersuasive and concerning," the report said, noting the FBI could have gotten a search warrant in late September, but waited more than a month to do so -- ultimately revisiting the case days before the election.
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" The three-judge panel on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia ruled unanimously in favor of the deal on Tuesday, saying that the government's case that the merger would result in higher consumer prices was "unpersuasive.
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" The three-judge panel on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia ruled unanimously in favor of the deal earlier on Tuesday, saying that the government's case that the merger would result in higher consumer prices was "unpersuasive.
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" The three-judge panel on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia ruled unanimously in favor of the deal on Tuesday, saying that the government's case that the merger would result in higher consumer prices was "unpersuasive.
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" He still took aim at the impeachment inquiry against President Donald Trump, saying, "I think the whole thing's a crock," and that "this whole theory of impeachment, the process is illegitimate, is outside the norm, this substance I find unpersuasive.
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The lecture he prepared was fairly unpersuasive on a number of levels, starting with the extent to which Hassett found himself trying to back-date the inflection point to Election Day 2016, well before any actual Trump policies had taken effect.
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This "recognition scene" was already such a well-known cliché in Athens a few decades later that Euripides parodied it in one of his versions of the story (the lock of hair is rejected as unpersuasive; instead, a childhood scar confirms Orestes' identity).
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Alas, Mr. Schroeder, best known for "Reversal of Fortune," has tethered both his actress and this natural glory to an awkward, unpersuasive story, largely set in the early 1990s, that coalesces around the lingering effects of World War II on the German soul.
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As the story unfolds, the past catches up to the present and Mr. Sorkin keeps trying to invest Molly's story with meaning, mostly through a little family psychodrama and some deeply unpersuasive feminism, including by casting her as a victim of men.
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The issue here is that as long as Clinton remains as revered and protected in the public discourse as she is by leaders on the left, the longer it will take for them to truly grasp how weak and unpersuasive a candidate she was.
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The securities regulator found "unpersuasive" arguments that the bitcoin ETF proposed by Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss, the twin brothers who founded crypto exchange Gemini Trust Co LLC, would be sufficiently protected from manipulation, it said in a 92-page analysis posted on its website bit.
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That dress — reinterpreted by the Argentine designer Alejo Vietti — has been lifted out of its various contexts to become the central image of the director Sammi Cannold's smart yet unpersuasive production of "Evita," which opened on Wednesday as the annual gala production for New York City Center.
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I made it clear in my review for The Washington Post that, despite that book's merits, which are many, Foner's main argument is unpersuasive: Lincoln always opposed slavery; he never favored citizenship for blacks, though he accepted some limited version as a necessary outcome of the war.
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Lasha — who tearfully exclaimed, "You remember, don't you, Mr. Cosby?" during her testimony Wednesday — was convicted of making a false statement to the police in 2007 about an unrelated case, an easy, and not unpersuasive, line of attack that made some observers question why the prosecution enlisted Lasha.
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Lawrence Kobilinksy, chairman of the department of sciences at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, noted, in particular, the missing weapon — ''that's huge,'' he said — as well as the lack of a motive, the unpersuasive DNA findings and an arson that ''makes no sense'' in the context of a murder-suicide.
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" Laurence H. Tribe, a law professor at Harvard, said that he found Mr. Tillman's argument "singularly unpersuasive" and that it "would pose grave danger to the republic, especially in the case of a president with extensive global holdings that he seems bent on having his own children manage even after he assumes office.
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There are unpersuasive subplots involving a one-afternoon stand between Massive and Joyce (who serves the standard-issue role of the idealist oddball determined to escape the old neighborhood), Pnut's psychosomatic asthma and Mom's scheme to sue the city by presenting her slow-thinking son as a victim of lead paint poisoning.
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It would be unpersuasive to argue, "Stopping runaway climate change requires federal interventions that I object to on the following abstract ideological grounds" over and over again; applying the same principles to other pressing questions—like whether we should reduce the rate of uninsurance, or provide poor children adequate nutrition—yields similarly unsatisfying opinions.
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Despite the gifted Ms. Spiotta's feel for the dislocations of modernity and her sharp, kinetic prose, "Innocents" turns out to be a lumpy, unpersuasive novel — enlivened by some arresting moments and thoughtful riffs, but ultimately a sort of hodgepodge of derivative scenes and ideas that have been cut together into a meaning-heavy montage.
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And not because the Executive side of the case said it was monstrous of the Judicial to dare to tell it what to do: While we find entirely unpersuasive the Government's parade of horribles regarding the judicial interference in executive affairs presented by an injunction directing the President to comply with constitutional restrictions… declaratory relief is likely to achieve the same purpose.
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The most recent example was last term's Masterpiece Cakeshop case, in which Justices Breyer and Kagan joined Justice Kennedy's completely unpersuasive conclusion that a few nasty words about religion uttered by one or maybe two members of Colorado's Civil Rights Commission turned the baker who wouldn't bake a wedding cake for a same-sex couple into a victim of religious discrimination by the state.
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