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verb Present participle of persuade.
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Charlie Whelan, who is standing down as Unite's political director, has talked about the role he played in persuading some MPs to switch their second preference votes to Miliband.
Nor were most of the officials aware that the former military psychologist who played a central role in persuading C.I.A. officials to use the harsh methods had never conducted a real interrogation, or that the Justice Department lawyer most responsible for declaring the methods legal had idiosyncratic ideas that even the Bush Justice Department would later renounce.
Of course, anyone familiar with this "case" will know that Vinnie succeeded in persuading the jury that the young men were innocent after calling his girl friend, Mona Lisa Vito, to the stand as an expert witness.
"The pro-GM lobby has done a fantastic job in persuading the media and politicians that even the most modest GM-scepticism is tantamount to extreme science-hating emotionalism," Jonathon Porritt has written.
The Bloomberg administration's effort to rollback pension benefits comes as other cities and states have had recent success in persuading public-sector unions to take pension cuts to shore up the retirement system.
If the anti-early-decision crusade succeeds in persuading most colleges to drop early decision, I expect that soon afterward we will be reading stories about the agony for high schools students of the waiting list process.
They could also begin persuading the public — and maybe even themselves — of the virtues of an alternative system based on market principles and more consumer choice.
Sally Russell, co-founder of the Netmums social networking site, said: There will be some resistance and difficulty in persuading some women of the need for it.
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