Some are trying to persuade consumers to throw away less.
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And I will not exhaust myself trying to persuade them.
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I mean, I&aposm not trying to persuade anybody on Twitter.
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Now it's trying to persuade shoppers to buy its own products.
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We were trying to persuade her to go on the record.
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Knowing they can't put a stop to those, the social media companies are trying to persuade creators to label them as ads; they're also trying to persuade the brands behind the ads to pay to promote them.
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I'm trying to persuade her to be my plus one in January.
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So he has stopped trying to persuade that part of the population.
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Bruce Friedrich spent decades trying to persuade people to stop eating meat.
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He spent years trying to persuade people to actually hire his graduates.
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Even the man who was ostensibly trying to persuade his neighbors otherwise.
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But trying to persuade someone through arguments and evidence can be a trap.
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People are trying to persuade us to send the objects to a museum.
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One keeps trying to persuade others, or to find an acceptable middle ground.
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Azizeh said he was trying to persuade his former neighbors to come back.
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The biggest challenge is trying to persuade her to rest rather than run.
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Mr Slane is now trying to persuade Congress to embrace his 51 projects.
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TC: What types of customers will you be trying to persuade to use SkySafe?
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Authorities are providing medical care and trying to persuade them to eat, he added.
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Advertisements trying to persuade users not to vote will soon be forbidden, for example.
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Some people were trying to persuade us to change the outcome of the election.
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While trying to persuade her stubborn husband to apologize for the arms deal, Mrs.
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His attorney is trying to persuade authorities to hear his case one more time.
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But wealth advisers are trying to persuade new clients to show a little restraint.
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ECONOMIC TROUBLES Azizeh said he was trying to persuade his former neighbours to come back.
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At the time, Baron said he was trying to persuade Bezos to invest in Sotheby's.
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"Marvel contingent is trying to persuade Disney to explore a compromise," Deadline's Mike Fleming wrote.
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Also, if you're trying to persuade people, it's important to understand what their situation is.
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When you're trying to persuade someone, you try to figure out what will hook them.
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Those nations are now feverishly trying to persuade Mr. Trump to stick with America's commitment.
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Behind the scenes, administration officials have been trying to persuade lawmakers to reconsider the bill.
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Which is why we're not even trying to persuade those who disagree with us anymore.
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Industry groups have been trying to persuade the Trump administration to drop further tariffs for months.
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"It's pointless for me to continue trying to persuade him to change his mind," he said.
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Such precarity is why zoos spend so much effort trying to persuade captive pandas to reproduce.
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He was trying to persuade the execs to let him start right away, before the budgeting.
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Are people constantly trying to persuade you to turn Common Sense into a for-profit venture?
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Of course, when people seek out such tapes, it's usually not themselves they're trying to persuade.
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It's now trying to persuade people to use the cryptocurrency for something other than speculative trading.
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Amazon is trying to persuade series star and creator Phoebe Waller-Bridge to extend the series.
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He is trying to persuade his new security detail to let him stay in the saddle.
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But Trump is trying to persuade Israel's friends in the US that Democrats are Israel's enemies.
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Ms. Winner, 50, said people have given up trying to persuade her father to leave home.
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Instead, they're trying to persuade a handful of swing Senate Republicans — a group that includes Sens.
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Ms. Leyland had spent much of Friday night trying to persuade residents to evacuate their homes.
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Salame has been trying to persuade Haftar and the other major Libya players to hold national elections.
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Block recounts his tireless but fruitless efforts trying to persuade Paul to jump aboard the Trump Train.
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An air traffic controller was heard in audio recordings trying to persuade him to land the airplane.
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The U.S. territory has defaulted on some debt and is trying to persuade creditors to take concessions.
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The U.S. side has been trying to persuade the Taliban to talk to the government in Kabul.
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At one point, I wrote him a long note trying to persuade him to talk to me.
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The Congolese government has been trying to persuade opposition leaders to accept a delay in the elections.
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It has defaulted on some of its debt and is trying to persuade creditors to take concessions.
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Ms. Rayos said she is trying to persuade Lululemon to integrate her gaffs into their athletic garments.
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Moon could be given a leading role in trying to persuade Pyongyang to accept such a proposal.
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All three candidates are crisscrossing the world, trying to persuade governmental health ministers to swing to them.
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It has already defaulted on some debt and is trying to persuade its creditors to take concessions.
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AMLO is pushing back, and likely trying to persuade Trump not to make good on his threat.
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Germany said it would spend the next few months trying to persuade Washington to change its mind.
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He reversed course and started contacting Widman's other plaintiffs, trying to persuade them to abandon their legal counsel.
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Instead, we are seeing psychological therapies, trying to persuade people to think optimistically and everything will be fine.
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It's in the eye of the reader and when you are a writer, you are trying to persuade.
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Puerto Rico has already defaulted on some debt and is trying to persuade its creditors to take concessions.
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One of the investors was already on a video call, trying to persuade a friend to buy in.
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Lots of people we're trying to persuade have never heard of the things we're talking to them about.
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Tomonari said he had been trying to persuade Japan's top league, Nippon Professional Baseball, to help in Africa.
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Up until last week, Mr. Caspersen was still trying to persuade other institutional investors to give him money.
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While trying to persuade her son to do his math homework, she received another new assignment on WhatsApp.
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"We are trying to persuade the opposition to be as united as much as possible," said de Mistura.
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Their efforts include trying to persuade the Department of Veterans Affairs to make the procedure more accessible. Mrs.
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Mr. Renzi is desperately trying to persuade Italians, a large slice of them still undecided, to back him.
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The United States is trying to persuade the world not to use the company's equipment in cellular networks.
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Investment bankers spend a lot of their time trying to persuade their corporate clients to bid for other companies.
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And GEBCO is trying to persuade governments and companies with proprietary data on the sea floor to share them.
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And all that reporting featured people trying to persuade me of what they were doing, making arguments for it.
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"I'm trying to persuade people how important it is to look to the future, not the past," Yoo said.
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He spent the final years of his life trying to persuade people that Fidel Castro did not exist. Why?
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It is trying to persuade trade unions not to demand excessive wage rises, which would drive inflation even higher.
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The U.S. territory has defaulted on some of its debt and is trying to persuade creditors to take concessions.
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In other words: If you're trying to persuade your roommate to do the dishes, try speaking up a bit.
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Conte said he was trying to persuade both Budapest and Prague to do more to tackle the migration issue.
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Hancock told The Hill that some Missouri Republicans are still trying to persuade Wagner to jump into the race.
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But the Chinese authorities, generally mum about security, are trying to persuade the population that it's already in place.
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Then again, maybe the text trying to persuade Democrats was just less persuasive than that trying to convince Republicans.
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Mr. Simons was trying to persuade Ms. Slaughter, who appeared to side with Mr. Chopra, to see his perspective.
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Marzia Faietti, who curated the show, spent three years trying to persuade other museums to give up their treasures.
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Ren Zhengfei: I think Google is trying to persuade the US government to allow us to use their ecosystem.
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OPEC is trying to persuade noncartel ally Russia to go along with a production cut to support crude prices.
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Trying to persuade people to remain abstinent until they are married is only getting harder because of social trends.
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Last summer, Barr warned that the administration might give up trying to persuade companies to voluntarily change their code.
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And that everybody spends the majority of their time trying to persuade the persuadables and turning out their base.
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Ms Park's government has also been trying to persuade America to punish China for failing to rein in the North.
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He is trying to persuade his wife, Kathryn, to become a driver when she retires from her insurance-related job.
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That is, to get anything done, he had to spend a ton of his time trying to persuade other people.
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Verizon, the No. 1 U.S. wireless carrier, had been trying to persuade Yahoo to amend the terms of the agreement.
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Last year, I wrote about a research effort focused on trying to persuade people to be less prejudiced against Muslims.
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The group noted that much of Mr. Trump's spending had been targeting new donors versus trying to persuade swing voters.
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Western diplomats say the aim is limited to trying to persuade the UAE, Egypt and Turkey to deescalate the conflict.
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"I put on a full-court press trying to persuade her to come back," he recalled in a telephone interview.
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Automakers are trying to persuade the administration to maintain enough of a fuel-economy gain to keep California on board.
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And a new video gives a glimpse at how they will be trying to persuade Wall Street to buy shares.
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Each is trying to persuade the jury that its client did not initiate the rendezvous that led to the allegations.
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The man had given his address, and Troy was hard at work trying to persuade him not to kill himself.
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Instead, she has been trying to persuade Hollywood executives to put money behind candidates and groups that oppose the law.
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Trying to persuade Congress to pass a carbon tax, when the political conditions to achieve that simply do not exist.
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I keep trying to persuade Jung to move here, but it's been two years, and it hasn't worked so far.
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Warren began another multiyear period of flying back and forth to Washington, trying to persuade lawmakers to reject the bill.
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The United States now finds itself trying to persuade its putative ally to play a constructive rather than destructive role.
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Security forces have been trying to persuade protesters to vacate roads across Lebanon but have orders not to use force.
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US officials have traveled the world trying to persuade allies not to use Huawei products because of its security concerns.
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He kept a notebook and spent a year trying to persuade a travel magazine editor to give him a shot.
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Mulvaney said he'd been trying to persuade Trump to end the payments since he was sworn in as budget director.
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Two decades on, Eveline spends her time as the women's head coach trying to persuade others to take up international wrestling.
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He frequently raised eyebrows among Washington's foreign policy establishment for trying to persuade Trump to warm up U.S. relations with Russia.
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IN A WARM office in Berlin's trendy Kreuzberg district, Charlemagne is trying to persuade Yanis Varoufakis that he is a politician.
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In addition to weighing its legal options, Cook said Apple is still trying to persuade the Trump Administration to reverse course.
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Officials from Mbada Diamonds and Chinese-run Anjin said on Wednesday that they were trying to persuade the government to reconsider.
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Diplomats and the Gambian opposition are trying to persuade Jammeh that he would come to no harm if he stepped down.
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American officials have been trying to persuade Iraqi leaders to calm the frictions and focus on the urgent Islamic State threat.
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C. J. Soliday, a 222-year-old mental health therapist, said she was trying to persuade friends to vote for Mrs.
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Leshchenko recently said on a local talk show that he is trying to persuade Zelesnskiy to be an anti-corruption advocate.
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Most of Europe's elite clubs had been in touch, each trying to persuade Dembélé to place his future in their hands.
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Last week, the Wall Street Journal reported the U.S. government was trying to persuade companies in allied countries to avoid Huawei.
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Uber spent the week on a roadshow, trying to persuade investors to buy its shares ahead of its initial public offering.
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Now, the FTC is trying to persuade Americans to pick a different option: take Equifax's offer of free credit monitoring instead.
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But party supporters and leaders have repeatedly gathered outside his home trying to persuade him against it, shouting, "Rahul, don't quit!"
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Bruce Friedrich, founder of the Good Food Institute, spent years as an activist trying to persuade people to stop eating meat.
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And they concoct justifications for what they're doing, trying to persuade their victims of its righteousness as they simultaneously persuade themselves.
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Yet it was also evidence of an unsettling temperament in a man trying to persuade the nation of his judicial demeanor.
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More than two decades later, a lawyer is trying to persuade the Staten Island district attorney's office to reopen the case.
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The NYSE is now trying to persuade more unicorns to follow in the footsteps of those outliers, but with a twist.
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The Trump administration has been trying to persuade its allies to shut out Huawei products from next-generation 5G wireless networks.
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T-Mobile is now attempting get even bigger: It's trying to persuade a federal judge to approve a merger with Sprint.
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Ms. Brunson spends her days tracking down local church officials, one by one, trying to persuade them to do things differently.
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Flood was accused of trying to persuade a dance appreciation teacher to change a failing grade for one of his players.
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The Los Angeles Lakers are at the forefront of teams trying to persuade the Pelicans to surrender Davis before the Feb.
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As Deutsche continues its phased withdrawal, Latvian banks are trying to persuade it to change its mind, while scrambling to find alternatives.
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"No one thought you and Frank were Ozzie and Harriet," he jokes, trying to persuade Claire to give love a second chance.
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India is also trying to persuade China to give access to its cost-competitive software service firms that have dominated global markets.
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Which was partly trying to persuade myself that, if it was a Pakistani problem, they wouldn't be so worried about the foreigners.
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The United Auto Workers union is trying to persuade its members to approve a tentative deal reached last week with General Motors.
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He "shut down all his emotions" for nearly two decades, despite his brother Prince William trying to persuade him to seek help.
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Freeland did not answer directly when asked whether she had made any progress in trying to persuade Lighthizer to lift the tariffs.
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The upshot of Williamson's article is that some conservative intellectuals have given up trying to persuade the unwashed masses in their party.
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How can he be the persuader-in-chief if he doesn't even really know what he is trying to persuade people about?
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At an early stage, delivering a message that personally resonates with investors yields better results than trying to persuade them with numbers.
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The European signatories to the deal have been trying to persuade Trump to save the pact, reached under his predecessor Barack Obama.
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It is also trying to persuade its allies to limit action until a single government is in place and requests international help.
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So when he went to Ronny's house he began by trying to persuade his target just to leave town for a while.
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You simply don't have to convince as many people when you are trying to persuade a company to adopt LGBTQ-friendly policies.
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While the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court has approved the program, they have been trying to persuade a regular court to scrutinize it.
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She says the geriatric Brando would sometimes get "frisky," hugging her and trying to persuade her to stay for a romantic dinner.
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If you're really trying to persuade people who are on the fence, remember that their way of thinking may not be yours.
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It's also trying to persuade the U.S. to spare Turkey's state-owned Halkbank from a fine for allegedly violating sanctions on Iran.
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The Trump administration is now trying to persuade Saudi Arabia to take custody of him, according to officials familiar with internal deliberations.
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Trying to persuade courts to grant such protection to designs like Mr. Louboutin's "may well be an insurmountable hurdle," Mr. Kapur said.
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So you do not have a specific rule book to cite when trying to persuade your neighbor to turn down the lights.
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Mr. Kian helped engineer the lobbying project, which involved trying to persuade members of Congress that Mr. Gulen ought to be extradited.
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But he overcame his hopelessness and found a mission in trying to persuade doctors to demonstrate greater respect for their patients' wishes.
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Instead of trying to persuade them otherwise, offer to call your supervisor to have them reschedule their appointment and request a man.
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Did you ever feel that someone or some group on the internet was trying to persuade you to believe a certain way?
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Behind the scenes, state insurance commissioners have been twisting arms, trying to persuade reluctant insurers to cover the counties without an insurer.
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The recording undercut those claims, providing fodder for Democrats trying to persuade Republicans to support their calls to expand the impeachment inquiry.
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We had deep ideological differences, and we took pleasure in our time together trying to persuade the other to be more moderate.
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It's hardly the first time the U.S. has bolstered its nuclear capabilities while trying to persuade other nations to give up theirs.
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He is not trying to persuade, detail, or prove: he is trying to thrill, agitate, be liked, be loved, here and now.
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They are trying to persuade the federal government to deny permits allowing the pipeline to cross the Missouri River near their reservation.
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The No. 1 U.S. wireless carrier had been trying to persuade Yahoo to amend the terms of the agreement following the attacks.
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Well, Florida's governor is Rick Scott, a Republican whom President Trump is trying to persuade to run for the Senate this year.
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Stilll, Katzenberg and Whitman spent most of the panel trying to persuade moderator and journalist Dylan Byers that their new platform would succeed.
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In one advert, he brandishes one of his many shotguns, trying to persuade sceptical Republicans that he'll oppose any form of gun control.
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Mr. Riccardo retired in September 1979, as Chrysler was trying to persuade the federal government to bail it out of its financial problems.
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Murphy has been trying to persuade them, and State Senate President Steve Sweeney said he would continue to try to win over lawmakers.
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Gary Locke, a former governor of Washington, is trying to persuade fellow Asian-Americans to support Referendum 88, which would restore affirmative action.
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Malaysia hasn't given up trying to persuade the EU to think again, raising its objections with a visiting French defence minister last month.
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As workers huddled in a corner, counting votes, Hossein shuttled between the opposing camps, trying to persuade them to abide by the regulations.
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I am tired of diplomatically trying to persuade him that he's making poor decisions, or watching other managers try to do the same.
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The Socialist party has been trying to persuade rivals including Podemos to back a coalition pact with centrist Ciudadanos ("Citizens"), another newcomer party.
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The government is also trying to persuade producers to make use of alternative fuels, including municipal solid waste, tyres or methane from landfills.
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The teacher's work was so exemplary that Cathedral High School officials spent 22 months trying to persuade the archbishop to reconsider his directive.
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President Donald Trump is once again trying to persuade Americans that the United States needs to keep selling war weapons to Saudi Arabia.
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Smalls told CNN on Sunday he had spent the past week trying to persuade senior warehouse officials to close and sterilize the building.
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As opposed to individual retirement accounts, there was no flood of financial industry TV commercials trying to persuade Americans to open a myRA.
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The U.S. is trying to persuade its closest allies to stop using those companies' products, but the effort has met with mixed results.
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A signature initiative of Mr. Abiy has been trying to persuade his fellow citizens to subordinate their ethnic identities to a national one.
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The United States is trying to persuade allies to avoid using Huawei equipment in their next-generation mobile telecommunications systems, known as 5G.
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The Trump administration has been trying to persuade allies to shut out Huawei products from next-generation 5G wireless networks over spying concerns.
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One clear beneficiary has been ISIS, which has spent years trying to persuade Muslims that the United States is at war with Islam.
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"I've been trying to persuade my mom that she was misled by Trump and that Bernie wouldn't betray her like this," Hill said.
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Facebook has been pushing into video for years and trying to persuade advertisers to spend some of their television budgets on Facebook ads instead.
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Bullard, a monetary policy dove, may be trying to persuade members of the FOMC that a more cautious approach to tightening will be necessary.
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Last week, the Wall Street Journal reported that the Washington is trying to persuade mobile carriers in allied countries to avoid using Huawei equipment.
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My clients don't want to talk, and so I spend half of my session trying to persuade them to speak to me in English.
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Serbian officials, for instance, have been trying to persuade carmakers with factories in Slovakia to move south to join Fiat, which is already there.
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Just as the game doesn't force you play one particular way, Far Cry 5 also isn't trying to persuade you with a specific message.
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Symone Sanders, a spokeswoman for Mr. Sanders's campaign, said she and other staff members are trying to persuade other officials to endorse Mr. Sanders.
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Tehran might use this fear to spook the Japanese government into trying to persuade the Trump administration to water down its maximum pressure campaign.
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Imagine trying to persuade a board that may understand the need for change, but may also underestimate how dramatic that change needs to be.
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Trump's trade representatives have been trying to persuade other countries to lower their barriers to level the trading field, which is the right solution.
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But their focus has moved from trying to persuade the U.S. to salvage the deal to seeing whether they can maintain it without Trump.
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The protests escalated on Saturday, when activists, trying to persuade the country's armed forces to side with them, marched toward the defense ministry compound.
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The new Afghan government of President Ashraf Ghani banked tremendous political capital on trying to persuade Pakistan to bring the Taliban to the table.
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Critics say Mr. Guterres's penchant for deal-making has constrained him, especially when trying to persuade powerful countries he depended upon for financial support.
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What we know from neuroscience is when we're trying to persuade someone, you're trying to have the kind of conversation that leads to change.
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Everyone was trying to persuade him to phone in sick, but he always went because he said he had a duty to the kids.
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In trying to persuade Turkey to give up the Russian missiles, the United States offered to sell its Raytheon Co. Patriot missile defense systems.
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In trying to persuade Turkey to give up the Russian missiles, the United States offered to sell its Raytheon Co. Patriot missile defence systems.
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And certainly, there are significant limits to what presidential persuasion can accomplish, especially if you're trying to persuade those who already disagree with you.
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And I love it that you are having the exact opposite effect on those of us you are trying to persuade to think otherwise.
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BT has been trying to persuade Vodafone and other wholesale Openreach customers to help shoulder the burden of new investment in its own network.
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Soon after, Roberts began trying to persuade Kennedy to find that the unconstitutional insurance requirement could be severed from the rest of the law.
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The incident dealt another blow to Chipotle, which has spent years trying to persuade diners and investors it has improved its food safety practices.
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In particular, Macron is trying to persuade Trump to stay in the Iran nuclear deal, as well as maintain a U.S. presence in Syria.
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European leaders cajole, argue and beg, trying to persuade President Trump to change his mind on a vital issue for the trans-Atlantic alliance.
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Soon after, his Dungeons & Dragons master, whom he had been trying to persuade to exercise, was going through a divorce and came to stay.
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"Let's stop the humiliation of trying to persuade the powers that be to legalize abortion," Ms. Rothman, who died in 2007, told an interviewer.
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TARADAND, India — Babulal Singh Neti was sitting with his uncle on a recent afternoon, trying to persuade him of the merits of the internet.
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Sanders' field team has also recently started the work of trying to persuade potential voters over the phone and in person, his aides said.
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General Almas said he was at the scene on Friday night, trying to persuade a drunken Mr. Hamidzai to calm down and stop shooting.
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The Obama administration appears to have given up on trying to persuade Congress of anything, and it doesn't have any more elections to worry about.
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I sat in on a meeting in 2014 when New York Republicans were trying to persuade Trump to run for governor, and she was there.
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Muslim Ban saga continues: President Trump's lawyers are at it once again, trying to persuade a federal appeals court to reinstate the revised travel ban.
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Russia, which backs Mr Assad, is trying to persuade the rebels to hand over their weapons as part of a deal to end the fighting.
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While those concerns were largely allayed, she said, the opt-out activists got a late start in trying to persuade parents to refuse the tests.
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The flying training unit (FTU) moved on as well, and lawmakers are trying to persuade the Air Force to establish a permanent FTU at Langley.
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Teams have registered voters, driven people to early voting and spent hours trying to persuade undecided or unmotivated union members to vote for Mrs. Clinton.
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Apple is also trying to persuade executives of print media companies to join Texture, the company's digital magazine product that it acquired earlier this year.
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In a letter to his daughter, Daniel is taking on a seemingly impossible task: trying to explain himself, trying to persuade her to see him.
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The former "Sex and the City" actress is trying to persuade skeptical New York Democrats to look beyond her political inexperience as she challenges Gov.
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However you come to your values or positions, you become political the moment you enter the arena trying to persuade other people of your values.
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In his meetings in Beijing, General Dunford has been trying to persuade the Chinese leadership, including President Xi Jinping, to get tough on North Korea.
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We are a social species, for instance, and we are constantly interacting with others, often trying to persuade them to our own point of view.
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At the same time, the three big international auction houses were trying to persuade the superrich to buy some of the world's most expensive art.
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Patrick has spent the first dozen days of his campaign trying to persuade senior Democratic leaders in the early voting states to take him seriously.
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But it's not the first time the U.S. has sought to expand its nuclear abilities while trying to persuade other countries to give up theirs.
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DeStefano is also trying to persuade others in the West Wing to work with the office more, according to one person who spoke to him.
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That same summer, he was writing letters to Ms. Marion and speaking to her by phone, trying to persuade her to meet him in Boston.
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He had been in the Democratic Republic of Congo for two years, and he was trying to persuade militia members to put down their guns.
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But there is a wide gap between those activities and trying to persuade a foreign power to thwart the sitting president's foreign operations and initiatives.
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Facing ugly projections for a GOP rout, the president is trying to persuade voters to stick with Republicans by arguing they've delivered an economic turnaround.
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Not surprisingly, it has become the most high profile legalization campaign in the country, with by far the most money spent on trying to persuade votes.
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The Trump administration has sent unclear and confusing signals about its overall plans while now trying to persuade courts to allow more room for family detention.
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To that end, Mr Inslee is trying to persuade the US Congress and Canada's Parliament to end the border-control stop on the Vancouver-Seattle train.
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Having soared in the polls (see chart), he is now trying to persuade prominent figures in NEOS, the Greens and civil society to join his list.
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Canadian diplomats and Trudeau aides have been trying to persuade the incoming Trump team that both nations would suffer from major changes to the trading relationship.
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The 22-year-old Muslim had been released from custody a day earlier, after being arrested for trying to persuade worshippers not to enter a church.
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The activists of a group called Hidden Bag run a small yearly campaign to "reject university entrance", trying to persuade people to boycott the whole process.
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For its part, Apple is trying to persuade consumers that it can provide competitive features, such as customized news reading lists, without Apple viewing their data.
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There's also a letter from Roc Nation's CEO to Bremer Trust -- the estate's administrator -- trying to persuade them to let Jay's company manage Prince's enormous catalog.
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Ten administration officials and Republicans close to the White House told Politico that they are trying to persuade Hicks to the join the president's reelection campaign.
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Kadyrov believes "someone is whispering bad things to the president, trying to persuade him to replace the boss in Chechnya," Shulman wrote in Russia's Slon magazine.
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Yes California, a grass-roots organization with 3,000 or so supporters, has for years been trying to persuade Californians to take up the cause of secession.
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I think both Evan McMullin and Gary Johnson are trying to persuade various likely Republican electors to vote against Trump in the Electoral College in December.
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She said doctors had to spend "hours upon hours, or even days" trying to persuade insurers or Turing's patient assistance program to pay for the drug.
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When I arrived at his house, he was streaming from U.C.L.A., trying to persuade girls to come to a party at his house later that week.
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The small band of bureaucrats was trying to persuade the bank's nine-member board, which sets monetary policy, to approve a radical step: negative interest rates.
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In Act II, trying to persuade a seated Tosca to reveal a convict's whereabouts, he is creepily intimate, leaning on an armrest and looming over her.
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We spend a lot of time sending emails, leaving voice mail messages, chasing dead ends and trying to persuade people to tell us stuff they shouldn't.
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In Mississippi they're trying to persuade Chris McDaniel to wage a Republican primary battle against Senator Roger Wicker, an incumbent up for re-election next year.
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But the happiness experts aren't just trying to persuade us through rhetoric that your boss is not to blame; they've also got science on their side.
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Candidates spend a crazy amount of time in Iowa trying to persuade a relatively small number of voters so that they can claim the early lead.
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At this week's pretrial hearing, prosecutors are trying to persuade Montgomery County Judge Steven O'Neill to allow 19 more accusers to testify in the upcoming retrial.
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Banks are trying to persuade regulators, who meet on Friday, to water down remaining elements in Basel III, the world's core regulatory response to the financial crisis.
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"He is able, and can convince anyone," said a man named Mohamed who was trying to persuade friends at a cafe that Mourou was the best choice.
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The South's announcement came as the United States and its allies were trying to persuade the United Nations Security Council to impose stronger sanctions against the North.
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Wright appears to have been trying to persuade the Australian government to treat his Bitcoin holdings as currency, as opposed to an asset subject to greater taxation.
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It's interesting what you said about persuasion, because you stop trying to persuade people when you feel like there are no consequences to failing to persuade them.
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Since last year, Verizon had been trying to persuade Yahoo to amend the terms of the acquisition agreement to reflect the economic damage from two cyber attacks.
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A Wall Street Journal report last month said the U.S. government was trying to persuade wireless and internet providers in allied countries to avoid equipment from Huawei.
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Sam Brower, a private investigator and author who has helped people leave the church, says a client is trying to persuade his children to abandon the sect.
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She was a fixture on Capitol Hill during the repeal-and-replace debate, trying to persuade wavering Republicans the various bills would be good for their states.
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One OPEC delegate said the focus was now firmly on trying to persuade Iran to freeze output at levels acceptable for the rest of the producer group.
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American officials who served during the crisis tell war stories about trying to persuade their counterparts in China and elsewhere not to dump all their mortgage bonds.
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He has been trying to persuade the public that he did not cave to the Democrats by ending the partial government shutdown without securing border wall funding.
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Not least, many are trying to persuade his transition team to respect the international deals the United States has accepted under the auspices of the United Nations.
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Iberdrola has been trying to persuade voters here for more than four years to approve the project, in a state that is actively seeking clean-energy development.
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He went first into a studio to record some promotional spots, as American Public Media was still trying to persuade member stations to continue carrying the show.
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If Cuba does not rescind the directive — Carnival is trying to persuade the government to do so — the company said it would delay the May 1 voyage.
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The actress-turned-candidate for governor is trying to persuade skeptical New York Democrats to see beyond her political inexperience, as some did with Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
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He has played a personal role in trying to persuade — and sometimes cajole — Saudi officials overseeing the air campaign to develop targeting procedures to avoid civilian casualties.
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And Graham is also trying to persuade current Republican senators that a Republican win in the presidential election is too uncertain to make stalling a good idea.
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In recent weeks, sports officials, who represent half of WADA, had been trying to persuade members of the executive committee to vote for the reinstatement of Rusada.
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He joined former Secretary of State Rex W. Tillerson in trying to persuade Mr. Trump not to leave the nuclear deal, and has used more measured language.
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But now, the way I am constantly trying to persuade people to cook more lamb, you would think I was secretly working for the American Lamb Board.
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They show off photo albums and slip between their native languages and English, trying to persuade couples to invest a little more money in their special day.
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In an interview, Mr. Kerry recalled meeting participants years ago when Ms. Stoneman was trying to persuade him to invest federal dollars in the rapidly expanding program.
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OPEC has been trying to persuade Russia to join deeper oil production cuts, on which Moscow has said it will disclose its stance in the coming days.
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Luccioni and others are also trying to persuade companies that offer tools for tracking the performance of code to include some measure of energy or carbon footprint.
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No one is trying to persuade anyone, only to understand where others are coming from and see a glimpse of humanity in the person across the table.
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Mr. Jones said Mr. Patterson rejected the other options his lawyers offered him, including trying to persuade the court to set aside his confession, The A.P. said.
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WASHINGTON — Nervous business owners are spending seven days trying to persuade the Trump administration not to impose tariffs on an additional $300 billion worth of Chinese goods.
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Mnuchin has been trying to persuade the president to take a more careful approach to prodding Beijing into changing some of its controversial trade and investment practices.
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The timing of the spat is awkward for Kiev, which is trying to persuade its international lenders to release another tranche under a stalled $17.5 billion aid programme.
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Massyla Dieng, a 50-year-old in Kayar who lived in Italy for ten years, says he has given up trying to persuade young men not to go.
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The win is also good for newspaper editors who have been trying to persuade their publishers to pay the expenses of investigative units like the Globe's Spotlight section.
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That has created a vexing challenge for scientists, who are trying to persuade more blacks to participate in studies -- both while they are alive and after they die.
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When you are intimidating ... when you are explicit in trying to persuade that director to back off a specific investigation of a specific individual, that's obstruction of justice.
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The Wall Street Journal in November reported that the U.S. government was trying to persuade wireless and internet providers in allied countries to avoid telecommunications equipment from Huawei.
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But the digital entrepreneurs are undeterred, and have spent the past two years going around N'Djamena's markets, trying to persuade traders to open online shops on the MossoSouk.
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On Sunday, tens of thousands marched in one of Kowloon's most popular tourist shopping areas, trying to persuade mainland Chinese tourists to back opposition to the extradition bill.
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It's also important that the people you're trying to persuade are interested in everything that's being said, but that you adapt what you're saying to persuade different audiences.
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But with only a tiny stake in the Swiss bank, RBR will find it a hard task trying to persuade enough shareholders about the merits of its plan.
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Trump has said defeating Islamic State should be a higher priority than trying to persuade Assad to step aside, a departure from a long-held U.S. policy objective.
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A company employee called last week, Ms. Napier said, trying to persuade her that the local drone trials were safe and did not pose a risk to wildlife.
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Ms. Jimenez tried to discourage Mr. Kinsey from trying to persuade Ms. tenBroek to go to a hotel with him, according to an internal memo by Ms. Haines.
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The United States has been trying to persuade Canada and Mexico to agree to a quota system for steel and aluminum in exchange for rolling back the tariffs.
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"The most important instruction was that people had to listen to one another without trying to persuade anyone of anything or jump into policy debates," Ms. Kelley recalled.
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Mr. Trump spent much of last year trying to persuade Congress to repeal the Affordable Care Act, the main source of protections for people with pre-existing conditions.
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In a news report, American soldiers were going door to door with bomb-sniffing dogs, trying to persuade the citizens of Baghdad to adopt a well-trained pet.
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We face "the usual hurdle, which is trying to persuade people that nobody else gets to make this decision for them," Patrick said in an interview with CNN.
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She later worked as a court advocate at the Hall of Justice in the Bronx, trying to persuade judges not to imprison people accused of low-level felonies.
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Regulated firms will be shocked and angered to learn that the Republican solicitor general is trying to persuade the court to eliminate or to emasculate that statutory safeguard.
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King is hoping to win reelection for the 10th time in 2020, but he may have an uphill battle trying to persuade his Republican colleagues to back him.
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Mint Maouloud and her association are trying to persuade financial institutions to make it easier for women to get loans, so groups like Mint Lessiyad's can get ahead.
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Noah commented on one pharmaceutical executive and former stripper who allegedly bribed and engaged in sexual acts with doctors she was trying to persuade to prescribe more opioids.
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British politicians are trying to persuade German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Emmanuel Macron to ensure the EU accepts a deal that May can sell to her parliament.
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But by the next deadline, last July, Trump was furious at aides for trying to persuade him to stay in the deal, a source familiar with the debate said.
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Oscar is trying to persuade Axe to see the potential of "venture philanthropy," which we semi-understand to mean investing in philanthropic companies that pledge to save the world.
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It is hard to rail against education funding — something state officials used as a strategic selling point when trying to persuade voters to embrace lotteries, a form of gambling.
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Insurers are already promoting H.M.O.s on the state exchanges created under the federal health law, and many are trying to persuade more companies and their employees to sign up.
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He has been trying to persuade two emerging parties — Podemos and Citizens — to back him, even though the leaders of the two parties have recently ruled out working together.
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China is fast eclipsing North America as the world's No. 1 movie market, and studios have been trying to persuade the Chinese government to relax restrictions on film imports.
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Public health officials are trying to persuade so-called anti-vaxxers that modern vaccines are safe and effective and can save children from preventable and deadly diseases like polio.
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It was like an ad or infomercial trying to persuade people set on running for office but somehow undecided on what party to run under to pick the Republicans.
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He has been trying to persuade Kyrgios to get a fitness coach, to prevent injuries and to help him build up his body for the marathons of the slams.
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The new Brexit minister Dominic Raab said on Sunday the prime minister was still trying to persuade members of the cabinet that her strategy was the best way forward.
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Paper Microchips I found the Portuguese finalists, Elvira Fortunato and Rodrigo Martins, each trying to persuade the other to do the talking as I sat down to quiz them.
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Even after the election, I suspect Hillary Clinton, a cautious politician, would balk at trying to persuade Congress to approve a $90 billion price tag for such a plan.
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Instead of trying to persuade Republican lawmakers that climate science is real, he talked to them about the need to minimize pollution as a way to keep people healthy.
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He joined Rex W. Tillerson, then secretary of state, in trying to persuade Mr. Trump not to leave the nuclear deal with Iran and has used more measured language.
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He was trying to persuade Stephane De Baets, a founder and the president of Chefs Club, to invest in Ingrained Hospitality when another idea came to Mr. De Baets.
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Mr. Trump delayed his deadline to increase tariffs on Chinese goods on Sunday, as his administration kept trying to persuade China to make significant structural changes to its economy.
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At this time, Ms. Merkel is trying to persuade the more advanced of the European states, if not all of them, to uphold the politics of a liberal Europe.
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Authorities had been trying to persuade organisers to stop the event at Gowa near the city of Makassar after a similar event in Malaysia led to hundreds of infections.
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"If you are trying to persuade numbers of MPs to back a proposition, you don't do that by insulting them," pro-Brexit Conservative lawmaker Mark Francois told Sky News.
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And with Jackson still trying to persuade Carmelo Anthony to accept a trade, it is the multitalented Porzingis who would seem to be the team's one certainty moving ahead.
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But recruiters are already hard at work trying to persuade the uninsured to buy coverage through the law, which remains in effect despite Republicans' best efforts to repeal it.
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It is hardly the first time the United States has seen no inconsistency in expanding its own nuclear capabilities while trying to persuade lesser powers to give up theirs.
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We are trying to persuade and organize the large swaths of voters who haven't made up their mind yet or who haven't yet committed to voting in this primary.
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U.S. officials have been trying to persuade Italy to let them conduct such operations from the Sigonella air base for more than a year, the Wall Street Journal reported.
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She said that city officials had clearly tried to avoid taking Verizon to court, but that they had given up trying to persuade the company to complete the network.
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So it's not surprising that researchers have spent decades figuring out how to track and measure the phenomena, and trying to persuade funding sources that collecting data was worthwhile.
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After Sunday's game, he described trying to persuade his father to move to the Bay Area, where Curry has settled in with his wife, Ayesha, and their three children.
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U.S. officials have been trying to persuade North Korea to declare the extent of its weapons programs, something Pyongyang had always refused to do in past failed rounds of talks.
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"We spend a lot of money, and a lot of time, trying to persuade atheists to become Catholics," says Stacey Abrams, the minority leader of the Georgia House of Representatives.
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If he exercises restraint, trying to persuade Hillary supporters and undecided voters that he is capable of discipline and thoughtfulness, then we will know he still thinks he can win.
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She was trying to persuade them to back a further delay to Brexit, until June 30th, despite considerable scepticism among exasperated European leaders as to whether her plan could work.
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Alstom lives on at home in France as a smaller group, and is trying to persuade European regulators to allow its last big business unit to be absorbed by Siemens.
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Last week, the Wall Street Journal reported that the U.S. government is trying to persuade wireless and internet providers in allied countries to avoid telecommunications equipment from China's Huawei Technologies.
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Giuliani, a private citizen, was trying to persuade Ukraine to investigate allegations of corruption Trump leveled against Biden — a candidate for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination — and his son, Hunter.
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Rather than give up, the CEO drove to the candidate's neighborhood, hunkered down in a cafe and spent several hours trying to persuade the candidate's spouse to meet for coffee.
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After a day of cajoling votes, a senior administration official said the White House is trying to persuade about 20 to 103 House Republicans who are either opposed or undecided.
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In its effort to keep billions in unlawful ObamaCare corporate subsidies flowing, the industry is trying to persuade Congress that it receives no federal funds through the federal "reinsurance" program.
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Washington has been trying to persuade the two countries to work more closely to better cope with China's rising military power, as well as with the North Korean nuclear threat.
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I also spent time interviewing about 50 black Republicans involved in state and local politics across the nation who were often trying to persuade black voters to consider voting Republican.
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In addition, U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said last month that Washington was trying to persuade oil producers to increase supply and offset the impact of forthcoming sanctions on Iran.
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Her parents, doctors and coaches have all grown exasperated trying to persuade her to back off during training, or to forgo it altogether, when she is experiencing Crohn's flare-ups.
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Today, the tables are turned, and it is large multinational corporations trying to persuade the government to dictate rail industry practices in order to drive shipping rates below market prices.
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The government is now trying to persuade consumers to spend and has pledged subsidies to boost rural sales of some vehicles as well as the sales of new energy vehicles.
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It seemed like an odd marriage for a burgeoning Louisiana-based vehicle manufacturer that is trying to persuade potential buyers of its very serious effort to disrupt the auto industry.
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With just days until the election, Clinton officials say their volunteers are pretty much done trying to persuade voters to support the Democratic nominee; they are just focused on turnout.
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Earlier in the day, the former baseball field had opened and the officers were trying to persuade the migrants to get on buses to go there for shelter and food.
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NAIROBI (Reuters) - Global entertainment group Naspers is trying to persuade telecoms operators in Africa to offer customers unlimited data to help boost the growth of internet television on the continent.
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In addition to meeting the Taliban on several occasions, Mr. Khalilzad has been visiting countries in the region and trying to persuade them to push the insurgents to the table.
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For much of the last week, I have been trying to persuade the world's most powerful search engine to remove my photo from biographical details that belong to someone else.
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The Ghazni assault comes at a critical stage in the Afghan war, when President Ashraf Ghani and the Americans have been trying to persuade the Taliban to enter peace talks.
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He has also been trying to persuade Mr. Trump not to proceed with harsh restrictions on Chinese investment that would limit China's ability to do business in the United States.
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Kate is trying to persuade a newly elected representative from Texas, Sydney Millsap (Eisa Davis), to support legislation that will benefit a rather unglamorous client, the American Podiatric Medical Association.
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By Tuesday afternoon, she was working quietly behind the scenes with Congressional Black Caucus members who were trying to persuade Mr. Conyers to resign, according to a senior Democratic aide.
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His comment caused consternation among colleagues in the government who were trying to persuade the world that Ireland had finally stabilized itself after the banking and housing crash of 2008.
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We face "the usual hurdle, which is trying to persuade people that nobody else gets to make this decision for them," Patrick said in an interview with CNN in January.
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We are also trying to persuade those who have high hopes for change but are desperate to beat Trump that it's the progressive wing that is best positioned to win.
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Most of them — including the two that got approved on Tuesday — couldn't force the government to do anything; they were more about trying to persuade May to change her position.
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Honduras is trying to persuade neighboring El Salvador and Guatemala to create a tri-national force that can combat the street gangs that run rampant in the three Central American nations.
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Raising awareness Vela can't change what happened to his daughter, so he's trying to persuade state lawmakers to increase restrictions on social media, making it harder for cyberbullies to stay anonymous.
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So far, May has shown little appetite to change tack, trying to persuade Conservative lawmakers and those in the opposition Labour Party to vote for any deal based on her plan.
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Why would you volunteer to work long, hard hours in a phone bank trying to persuade people not to vote for Donald Trump, if Trump is just part of a simulation?
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Six hours after New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, an Ellison backer, arrived in Atlanta Friday night, he was still at the hotel bar, trying to persuade undecided voting delegates.
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With push coming to shove in the final days before the Iowa caucuses, Mr. Rubio is trying to persuade conservative Republican voters that he is the most anti-establishment establishment candidate.
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By Thursday, reports indicated the 93-year-old Mugabe was still trying to persuade top generals that he should be allowed to serve out his presidential term until elections next year.
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Adding to worries, the Wall Street Journal reported that the U.S. government was trying to persuade wireless and internet providers in allied countries to avoid telecommunications equipment from China's Huawei Technologies.
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Mueller's inquiry includes whether Trump might have obstructed justice by trying to persuade then-FBI Director James Comey to drop an investigation of Michael Flynn, the president's first national security adviser.
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She points out that Clemenceau was friends with Monet — and spent a great deal of time trying to persuade the artist to hand his famous "Water Lilies" over to the state.
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Officials at the Toronto airport, with Mr. Verdery's help, have been trying to persuade the American authorities to increase staff and equipment to reduce bottlenecks sometimes created by the preclearance program.
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In an interview on Sunday, Smalls told CNN he had spent the past week trying to persuade senior warehouse officials to close the building and sterilize it, but to no avail.
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At the time, Western Digital was trying to persuade Toshiba to reject Broadcom as a potential buyer of Toshiba's stake in a memory chip joint venture with Western Digital's SanDisk unit.
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Some members of Congress were trying to persuade Bush to punish China's human rights atrocities by refusing to renew its status as a "most favored" trading partner of the United States.
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WASHINGTON — The Yale economist William D. Nordhaus has spent the better part of four decades trying to persuade governments to address climate change, preferably by imposing a tax on carbon emissions.
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For months, Representative Adam Schiff has been trying to persuade people to pay more attention to the possibility that Donald Trump helped launder money for Russians when he was a businessman.
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So, while I am 100 percent in favor of trying to persuade them about your gap year, particularly one with a focused mission, do not push them past the breaking point.
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The whistle-blower said diplomats were outraged by the activities of the president's personal lawyer, Rudolph W. Giuliani, in trying to persuade Ukrainian officials to open an investigation into the Bidens.
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"People aren't going to say they will run against Trump unless they have the infrastructure but I've been trying to persuade people that it may not be that difficult," he added.
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The campaign has more than 130 staffers throughout the state who are engaging with voters and trying to persuade them to back Bloomberg in a primary that's scheduled for March 17.
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Riff remains in charge of the gang and is standing below Tony, trying to persuade him to join the Jets that night at a dance, where they will confront the Sharks.
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Beijing is now trying to persuade consumers to loosen their purse strings and has pledged to provide subsidies to boost rural sales of some vehicles and purchases of new energy vehicles.
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Imagine the game of geopolitical telephone that might ensue after a state dinner, with each of them trying to persuade the other how he or she killed with Xi or Netanyahu.
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Xi's speech wasn't just about defensively trying to persuade the economies that it relies on to consider the folly of employing tariffs against his country — it was also a power play.
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One intriguing proposition for publishers is the ability to drive traffic to their Discover channels from outside platforms, via "deep links," and then trying to persuade users to subscribe from there.
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The wildest speculation is that the crown prince is still deciding whether or not he wants the job—or that aristocrats inside the court are trying to persuade him to decline it.
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That is what it meant when she declared half of Mr Trump's supporters "deplorables": Mrs Clinton was promising that she had no intention of trying to persuade the wrong sort of voters.
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Mr Stach spent years trying to persuade the Israeli heirs of Max Brod, Kafka's friend and literary executor, who left Prague for Palestine in the 1930s, to let him read Brod's diaries.
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Trump is trying to persuade Democrats to support his push to cut tax rates and simplify the tax code this year, a plan critical to bolstering Republicans heading into 2018 congressional elections.
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Trump has focused his efforts on North Korea on trying to persuade China to put more pressure on its ally and could view any unusual Chinese military movements as supportive of this.
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If the legislation they promote were to be signed into law, it would send a terrible signal internationally, just as the U.S. is trying to persuade other countries to protect their forests.
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Moonis Elahi, a leader of another party, said that he had come to "an understanding" with Mr. Khan's party and that he was trying to persuade other politicians to join as well.
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Major Turkish companies are now trying to persuade banks and other creditors to extend relief, perhaps portending a wave of bankruptcies that could leave financial institutions and taxpayers staring at untold losses.
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While Ms. Abrams has embraced liberal policy positions, she is also trying to persuade Georgia voters that she was a pragmatic legislative leader with a record of finding common ground with conservatives.
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Prosecutors deflected that argument by playing tapes of calls Fields made from jail, in which he told his mother that he was trying to persuade the doctor that he was mentally ill.
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" Pulling the captain aside, I could hear her quietly admonish him as his face reddened: "When you start yelling at someone instead of trying to persuade them, do you know what happens?
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There is the story of Jack Warner trying to persuade England's bid team to get his banker's son a job, and then taking umbrage when the employment was not quite good enough.
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That argument has come under fire from Democrats, who say the nature of Mr. Trump's offense — trying to persuade a foreign nation to interfere in the 2020 race — could compromise the election.
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Mr Jones, who had chaired a pre-lunch panel on human trafficking in Birmingham with knowledge and enthusiasm, is trying to persuade Alabamans to extend that pragmatic view to the federal government.
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" To prevent disaster, Turkey is trying to persuade radical Islamist factions in Idlib such as Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, to announce they are dissolving, so as to make the terrorist problem "disappear.
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And in the run-up to his inauguration, top executives at two very large businesses, Bayer and Monsanto, have been trying to persuade the incoming president of the benefits of their merger.
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Japan's trade ministry, which has arranged much of the winning bid, is in talks with Western Digital, trying to persuade it to join the consortium, two separate sources familiar with the matter said.
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His organisation, he said, is well aware of the broadly pro-Assad stance of Syria's Christian leaders and their partners elsewhere but it is trying to persuade them to take a different view.
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Bouteflika's fall came as authorities began trying to persuade citizens that a welfare state providing unproductive state jobs and guaranteeing cheap housing, petrol, food, drugs and free hospital treatment was no longer viable.
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Shares in the country's third largest lender Monte dei Paschi - currently trying to persuade investors to back an emergency recapitalisation - fell 6 percent, while an index of Italian bank shares fell 2.5 percent.
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The conservative media has responded to the Russia investigation by trying to persuade itself, and its followers, that it is Trump's enemies who should be investigated, that the special prosecutor must step down.
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Angola has been trying to persuade international banks to rekindle dollar correspondent relationships with the country, which were cut over the past few years due to perceived compliance risks in doing business there.
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It is also a victory for the government of Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, whose representatives spent all week in Washington trying to persuade the Trump administration to drop the tariff plan.
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But at the same time Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and other Japanese officials have been patiently trying to persuade Trump that Japanese products don't pose a national security threat to the United States.
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He now faces weeks of trying to persuade those wary of the EU that the deal will tackle the two most important issues for voters: migration and returning powers from Brussels to London.
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Ben Carson spent months trying to persuade voters to elect him president, but, according to his spokesman, he does not think he is qualified to run a federal agency in the Trump administration.
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And this is what the play is mainly about: two people from opposite ends of the political spectrum who choose to be in the same room, trying to persuade and understand each other.
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Before World War II, Roosevelt spent years trying to persuade his countrymen of the rising peril of Nazism as he tried to convince a wary nation to join a fight for global freedom.
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The team's new lead voice in the front office, David Griffin, is also trying to persuade Davis to rescind the trade request he lodged with the Pelicans in January under a previous regime.
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Citing unnamed sources, the paper on Thursday said the U.S. government was trying to persuade wireless and internet providers in allied countries, including Germany, Italy and Japan, to avoid telecommunications equipment from Huawei.
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Turkish officials had been trying to persuade the group to dissolve its fighting forces and concede to the takeover of Idlib by the Syrians to prevent a potentially huge loss of civilian life.
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At first, he spent months trying to persuade President Obama to stop the further reduction of American forces and expand the authorities of the command by allowing them to go after the Taliban.
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Ms. Ford and others who call themselves "violence interrupters" visit schools, parks, and even hospital and funerals, trying to persuade young people not to turn their petty grievances and rivalries into street warfare.
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An officer there shot and injured a 17-year-old boy who had pointed a gun at law enforcement authorities as they were trying to persuade him to hand it over, officials said.
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The United States is trying to persuade other countries not to allow Huawei equipment into new superfast 5G networks because it claims the gear could be used by the Chinese government for spying.
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Claire McCaskill's campaign is trying to persuade Missouri voters that she is not "one of those crazy Democrats," with a radio ad airing during the final stretch of her heated re-election fight.
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Five Star has been trying to persuade its coalition partner, the League, to start the procedure to rescind the license, accusing Autostrade of negligence and blaming a lack of maintenance for the collapse.
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Its top diplomat in Venezuela, Todd Robinson, met with Falcon recently, sources close to the candidate said, trying to persuade him to withdraw as his challenge was undermining U.S. efforts to isolate Maduro.
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With partisan preferences increasingly cemented in the American public and a declining share of swing voters, elections are increasingly won through mobilizing party members rather than trying to persuade independent-minded or skeptical voters.
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"ANTI-HEROES" Ahead of Thursday's vote, Lutsenko presented the prosecutors' case against Savchenko, including undercover video clips that appeared to show her trying to persuade members of the Ukrainian military to join a plot.
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By late Wednesday night, Ross said police had finally made contact via phone with the suspect and his attorney in a three-way call, trying to persuade him to end the standoff and surrender.
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Trump had reluctantly been granting Iran sanctions relief every few months and by middle of 2017 was already furious at aides for trying to persuade him to stay in the deal, a source said.
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Meniga is helping to change that, whilst the task of trying to persuade banks to embrace a digital-first way of thinking before a new or old competitor does, is becoming a lot easier.
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Mrs May has spent the past fortnight on a virtual referendum campaign, trying to persuade the public of the deal's merits, and in turn to persuade MPs that the deal has the public's backing.
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Editorial The Obama administration this week will begin the task of trying to persuade Congress to support its plan to shut down the prison in Guantánamo Bay before the president leaves office in January.
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And behind the scenes, party veterans are trying to persuade the former president, who has not been seen in public since the end of October, to step down as party leader early next year.
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The main way you persuade someone is by getting his attention, but that can be quite hard, so getting him to speak with you can be the first stage of trying to persuade him.
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Mexican officials have been in Washington all week trying to persuade the Trump administration to hold off on the tariffs, which would have wide-ranging effects on the economies of the U.S. and Mexico.
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The tactical shift by the Koch network, which has steered clear of the presidential race, came after a recognition by strategists that trying to persuade voters to split their tickets might not be worthwhile.
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Mr. Dowd, who had taken the lead in dealing with investigators about an interview, had been trying to persuade Mr. Mueller to allow the president to answer questions in writing or through recorded video.
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Though the hole poses no danger, wild speculation has run through the Russian news media blaming NASA at the same time that Russia is trying to persuade the U.S. to extend their space alliance.
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While some have spoken out in support of the tariffs, a majority of those testifying are opposed and trying to persuade American officials not to tax the Chinese products or materials they depend on.
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A former senior Afghan official said Khalilzad, an Afghan-born veteran U.S. diplomat, was pressing Ghani to postpone the ceremony and trying to persuade Abdullah to do the same to preserve the peace process.
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In the opening pages of Mandy Berman's captivating debut novel, we meet Rachel: Thirteen years old and trying to persuade her hung-over single mother to wake up and drive her to summer camp.
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The United States has been trying to persuade China to agree to new sanctions on North Korea, which has conducted dozens of missile firings and tested two nuclear bombs since the beginning of 2016.
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TSP Projects and the Official Receiver are trying to persuade the holder of a floating charge over TSP's assets to release it in order to smooth a takeover of the unit by France's Systra. bit.
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Now, after months trying to persuade a supposedly pro-business new president, Donald Trump, of the merits of staying in the Paris climate accord, he practically laughed in their faces by withdrawing on June 27st.
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I feel like people have basically been projecting their own hopes onto the generals that Trump's surrounded himself with, and trying to persuade themselves that the generals will keep him from doing anything too crazy.
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During Obama's first term, the administration was trying to persuade Republicans in Congress that it could be trusted to enforce immigration laws, so that Republicans would come to the table and pass comprehensive immigration reform.
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BlackBerry is trying to persuade other companies to pay licensing royalties to use its trove of some 40,000 global patents on technology including operating systems, networking infrastructure, acoustics, messaging, automotive subsystems, cybersecurity and wireless communications.
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They are trying to persuade Mr Mueller to allow a public testimony and the release of documents from James Comey, who was abruptly sacked as boss of the FBI by Mr Trump on May 9th.
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For months, the United States has been trying to persuade other countries not to allow Huawei equipment into next-generation 2250G wireless networks because it claims the gear could be used by Beijing for spying.
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NEWTON, Iowa — On the coldest day of winter so far, Cindy Pollard skittered up icy walkways in her white nurse's sneakers, trying to persuade undecided, indifferent and sometimes hostile voters to caucus for Hillary Clinton.
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And a group of academic researchers is trying to persuade the F.D.A. to recognize aging as a disease for which a drug can be marketed, which they hope will draw more interest from pharmaceutical firms.
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Sharp spent three years working in eastern Congo for a Mennonite peace-building organization, trying to persuade rebels to lay down their weapons, before joining the sanctions panel in 2015 as its armed groups expert.
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When you spend month after month trying to persuade someone that your opponent is a terrible person, candidate, and leader, you can't expect them to jump onboard when you turn tail and change your stance.
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Mylan, the maker of EpiPens, an injection device for severe allergy attacks, is trying to persuade the United States Preventive Services Task Force to add the product to the group's list of preventive medical services.
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The Trump administration is trying to persuade Turkey to buy the U.S.-made Patriot system instead, but Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has said he will not go back on the deal with the Russians.
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"The overtone of Trump trying to persuade the Fed to stop aggressively tightening is probably one thing the market's focused on," said Tom di Galoma, a managing director at Seaport Global Holdings in New York.
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The U.S. is trying to persuade countries to avoid Huawei, which is under scrutiny from Western intelligence agencies for its perceived ties to China's government and the possibility its equipment could be used for espionage.
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Toward the rear, Tony Fernandes, an 18-year-old from North London and the movie's director, watched a scene on a monitor of a man trying to persuade a German tourist to take his photograph.
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"I can understand all of the rationalities," says Charlie Sykes, a longtime conservative radio host in Wisconsin who spent years trying to persuade Ryan to run for president before turning sharply against him over Trump.
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But he is trying to persuade prosecutors, and me, that he was an unwitting assassin, duped by the two mysterious handlers he met at the Vienna Cafe, men he knew only as Philipp and Maksim.
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European officials are trying to persuade Iran to stay in the agreement and are expected to speak with Mr. Trump about his Iran policy at the Group of 20 summit meeting this week in Japan.
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KINGSTON, Ontario — A youth was charged on Friday with "facilitating a terrorist activity" in eastern Ontario and trying to persuade a friend, who is a Syrian refugee, to plant a bomb in a public place.
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They were "devastated," said Ms. Ramirez's sister, Silvia Ramirez, who was trying to persuade the government to allow her to take the children to live with her in Seattle while her sister was in custody.
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While some are speaking out in support of the tariffs, a majority of those testifying are opposed and trying to persuade American trade officials not to tax the Chinese products or materials they depend on.
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Coastal Guardians like Ms. Pronteau also sometimes have the delicate task of trying to persuade trophy game hunters that tribal rules ban bear hunting in their territory, even though the hunters may have legal permits.
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Stone is also accused of lying to Congress about his interactions with Wikileaks, falsely claiming he did not possess records about his contacts with the group and trying to persuade a witness to give false testimony.
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Josué Herrera stood over a group of migrants sitting on the bridge that separates Mexico and Guatemala, the site of clashes with Mexican police on Friday, trying to persuade them to follow him to the river.
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"Although the current American government does not seem to speak of a military threat, according to precise information it has been trying to persuade the U.S. military to launch a military invasion (of Iran)," Baqeri said.
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France has been trying to persuade Netanyahu, who has repeatedly rejected the conference proposal, to meet with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in the French capital to try to revive moribund peace talks between the two sides.
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CSU leaders, divided over how to face down a challenge from the anti-immigration Alternative for Germany (AfD) in October's regional election, were trying to persuade Seehofer to change his mind about resigning, the officials said.
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Erik Solheim, chairman of the OECD's Development Assistance Committee, remembers trying to persuade his own country, Norway, to focus on what it really knows about (managing an oil boom) rather than on things like tropical agriculture.
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Chapman, who left Syria in March, was on Capitol Hill the other day, trying to persuade staffers in the office of Representative Alcee Hastings, of Florida, to back several pieces of pro-refugee, anti- ISIS legislation.
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"The plaintiffs in these [recently decided] cases are trying to persuade judges to convert the Section 2 standard into the much lower Section 5 standard, and they are being successful in doing that," von Spakovsky said.
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In Kansas, where Democrat Laura Kelly replaced incumbent Governor Kris Kobach (who once bragged about trying to persuade ALEC to expand its anti-voting rights campaigns), progressive legislators are working to expand education funding and Medicaid.
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PICKER: BUT BILL, TO DAVID'S POINT, IN TERMS OF YOUR PERFORMANCE, DID THAT HURT YOU AT ALL WHEN YOU WERE TRYING TO PERSUADE SHAREHOLDERS OF ADP TO VOTE YOU AND YOUR DIRECTOR NOMINEES ONTO THE BOARD?
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But while Clinton's attack on Sanders is just that his plans are unrealistic, Cruz takes a different tack — he is trying to persuade voters that Donald Trump doesn't really want to do the things he's promising.
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She did a reading from Shakespeare and a Dorothy Parker short story, which she was asked to play as a woman incarcerated in a psychiatric hospital by her husband, trying to persuade others of her sanity.
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I have the absurd responsibility of trying to persuade a sixty-year-old billionaire that he has to rein all this in, the protection officer reflected wearily as he reviewed the results of his lifestyle audit.
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Mr. Manafort, who later served as President Trump's 2016 campaign chairman, is now serving a seven and a half year prison term for fraud and other crimes, including trying to persuade witnesses against him to lie.
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But, Carnegie said, you will be surprised what you can usually accomplish when you take the high road and maintain your composure while you continue trying to persuade them, expressing appreciation for their point of view.
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In trying to persuade Lewis to take the role, Koppelman and Levien spoke of the characters' conflict in grand terms, as a "huge King Lear, Shakespeare kind of battle," but the show acknowledges more parochial clashes.
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That has left Jackson to figure out how to shop Anthony to other teams for something the Knicks can claim as a victory, while also trying to persuade — or coerce — Anthony to accept such a deal.
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Plenty of Republicans agree with Democrats about at least some economic policy issues, so there's no trade-off between talking about those issues and trying to persuade voters from across the other side of the aisle.
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The conundrum is that no one can convincingly say today whether the strategy of mobilizing nonvoters is more likely to beat Trump than a focus on trying to persuade swing voters who may be tiring of him.
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Richie had said he had not yet decided if he would attend, while Estefan had vowed to go in the hopes of trying to persuade Trump on the value immigrants bring to US culture, the Post reported.
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With new legislative sessions about to begin around the country, Republican governors in two other holdout states — Matt Mead of Wyoming and Dennis Daugaard of South Dakota — are trying to persuade their legislatures to expand the program.
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The European powers strongly disagreed with the Trump administration's decision to abandon the nuclear deal, and have since found themselves caught in the middle, trying to persuade Iran to stick to it without receiving the promised benefits.
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Canadian officials — trying to persuade the new administration that focusing on Canada makes no sense, given how closely the economies are linked - say the Trump team is most concerned about large U.S. deficits with China and Mexico.
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In 2011, he deployed to Afghanistan, and spent six months living in a converted shipping container, eating canned kale, and trying to persuade a reluctant President Hamid Karzai to continue supporting counterinsurgency operations led by American soldiers.
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As someone who has sat across from individuals around the world, trying to persuade them to become government informants, I can tell you that the relationship between the government and a source is one based on trust.
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Her political work emerges from years of frustration trying to persuade state and federal regulators and Range Resources, the local fracking behemoth, to acknowledge and do something about the slow poisoning of her family by fracking contamination.
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SEOUL (Reuters) - The United States is "very actively" trying to persuade North Korea to come back to negotiations, South Korea's national security adviser said on Sunday, as a year-end North Korean deadline for U.S. flexibility approaches.
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Obama has never had much affection for the campaign trail, and has spoken openly about trying to persuade her husband not to run for president and her struggles adapting to the scrutiny and obligations of political life.
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McCain was one of the "Keating Five" — five senators accused of trying to persuade federal regulators to ease up on Charles Keating, a major campaign donor who became financially compromised during the 1980s savings-and-loan crisis.
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"To win in a state like Alabama meant producing higher turnout among the Democratic base vote and voters of color, and also contesting and trying to persuade voters outside the base at the same time," Dinkin said.
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Ms. Burton recalled Mr. Castro saying that he was trying to persuade Nakesha to accept mental health treatment, to improve her chances of maintaining a relationship with her child while his fate was decided in family court.
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He echoed remarks by Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and Mick Mulvaney, Mr. Trump's incoming chief of staff, both of whom spent the weekend trying to persuade investors that the president did not plan to fire Mr. Powell.
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Officer Rosario and the other four officers who testified said Sergeant Barry had spent a few minutes calmly trying to persuade Ms. Danner to lay down the scissors before he decided to forcibly take her into custody.
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He had been buttonholing Republican colleagues, trying to persuade them that racially charged college writings by Ryan W. Bounds, a federal appeals court nominee from Mr. Wyden's home state, were disqualifying and that he should be rejected.
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Much of what ails the team — including Jackson's silly feud with Kristaps Porzingis, the team's most desirable commodity — is related to the reputation-tarnishing behavioral depths Jackson has sunk to in trying to persuade Anthony to go.
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The latest estimate, from the agency Kantar, is that 1.1 billion people — or one in every seven people on the entire planet — are currently trying to persuade themselves that seventh in the Premier League isn't too bad.
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The move demonstrates the difficulty Spain has faced in trying to persuade its European Union partners to help it bring former members of Catalonia's regional government to trial for holding a referendum on a split from Spain.
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The approach he took to the Carrier deal, however, was akin to intercepting a driver on his way to his car in a parking garage and trying to persuade him to stay parked longer, Justin Wolfers writes.
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Roy Cooper of North Carolina, a Democrat who was elected in November, has been trying to persuade the Republican-controlled legislature to repeal the measure, which he has called a hindrance to attracting business to the state.
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Mr. De Niro, who played Mr. LaMotta in the film, had spent years trying to persuade an initially reluctant Mr. Scorsese to adapt Mr. LaMotta's autobiography, "Raging Bull: My Story" (1970, with Peter Savage and Joseph Carter).
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At one point, Republicans all but abandoned their pursuit of trying to persuade their Democratic colleagues, instead making a motion to strike the most critical lines out of the articles — essentially taking the "impeach" out of impeachment.
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And instead of trying to persuade voters who live in the states that will decide 2020, he appears to instead be trying to rile up his base (and get their information if he doesn't already have it).
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Yip-Williams toggles between optimism and despair, between believing she'll defy the statistics as she had so many times in her life — "odds are not prophecy" — and trying to persuade her husband to confront their harrowing reality.
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The Utah delegation is now trying to persuade President Trump to do away with or shrink the Bears Ears National Monument, established last December by President Obama on 1.35 million acres of federal land in southeastern Utah.
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President Donald Trump's strategy of trying to persuade China to bring North Korea into line over its weapons program doesn't seem to be paying off — recent data shows bilateral trade between Beijing and Pyongyang is on the rise.
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Trump tweeted on Thursday morning he wants Republicans to stop "wasting their time" trying to persuade Democrats to give him money for the "DESPERATELY needed WALL," and just let him finish the job he claims he's already started.
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Richie had said he had not yet decided if he would attend, while Estefan had vowed to go in the hopes of trying to persuade Trump on the value immigrants bring to US culture, the Washington Post reported.
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U.S. Defense Secretary Ash Carter said U.S. diplomats were trying to persuade Russia to take steps toward a true ceasefire in Syria and to nudge Damascus toward a political transition but news out of Syria was "not encouraging".
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WHILE Donald Trump was in Davos last week trying to persuade the global plutocracy that "America First" does not mean "America alone", China's foreign minister, Wang Yi, was promoting globalisation, free trade and co-operation in Latin America.
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The European Union has been trying to persuade Turkey to take a more active role in resolving the crisis by doing more to look after refugees there and stop them from trying the journey to the European Union.
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With just weeks before Britain is due to leave the European Union, Prime Minister Theresa May is trying to persuade the EU to reopen a divorce agreement agreed by both sides last year but rejected by British lawmakers.
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The mere fact that McConnell, who previously said he would not consider legislation that Trump did not support, is willing to allow for a vote suggests he may be trying to persuade lawmakers of both parties to compromise.
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About 193% of Democratic students believe it is more important for Democratic candidates to persuade core Democratic voters who do not vote regularly to turn out, rather than trying to persuade voters who might be on the fence.
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For educators, advocates and urban planners, trying to persuade someone to ride a bike is like asking them to eat their vegetables -- if those vegetables tasted like banana splits and they were served on unlimited roller-coaster rides.
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Trinh Thi Ngo, a soft-spoken radio announcer known as Hanoi Hannah who entertained American forces during the Vietnam War while trying to persuade them that the conflict was immoral, died on Friday in Ho Chi Minh City.
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Mr. Caspersen was a partner at the Park Hill Group, which specializes in raising money for private equity firms and hedge funds, and was still trying to persuade institutional investors to give him money up until last week.
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Efforts have particularly focused on trying to persuade the Afghan leadership that such talks are not a replacement for negotiations with the country's coalition government, but are meant to break the ice and pave the way for those.
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A broad definition of "religious extremism" — which included behavior as simple as trying to persuade people to quit alcohol and smoking, as well as more serious transgressions — gave the authorities wide leeway to punish even mildly pious Muslims.
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His dark view is precisely what European officials fear, and precisely why they are trying to persuade Iran to adhere to the nuclear deal, to modify its behavior in the region, and to wait out the Trump presidency.
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Clarke shot down other marketing ideas, such as urging the front office to elevate Kia Fisker of Stephen F. Austin on the 2019 draft board or trying to persuade forward Tina Charles to change her name to Kia.
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Some of my fellow Christians argue that Roy Moore's election is important because he is anti-abortion, and I have no business trying to persuade them to be pro-choice or push them past what their conscience allows.
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And a number of Democrats are trying to persuade liberal firebrands to essentially let Republicans confirm Trump's pick after a vigorous confirmation process -- since Trump is likely to name a conservative to replace the late conservative Justice Antonin Scalia.
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"I'm just one data point, but if the effort they put into trying to persuade me to be a candidate is any indication, then they took diversity pretty seriously," said Mr. Henry, who like Mr. McGuire is African-American.
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The White House is reviewing a 2020 payment rule for Medicare outpatient services, and companies that make devices for a procedure that serves as a substitute for opioids are trying to persuade Medicare to create a new payment model.
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Rather than trying to persuade them to vote Trump, elites are pondering, maybe it would be easier to simply let Senate campaigns and outside interest groups target certain voters for pro-Johnson message and get-out-the-vote efforts?
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He had no doubt that China and other countries were trying to persuade him to do things or to provide information, but he was, despite his inexperience in diplomacy and intelligence, confident in his ability to navigate these situations.
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Since then he has been trying to persuade the current government, which in opposition fought against marriage equality before same-sex weddings were legalised in 2005, to release the remainder of the funds to the 116 officially recognized victims.
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Republican officials say they are also focusing their phone efforts on turning out supporters, but say their technology makes it possible to continue trying to persuade soft voters door to door, even in the final days of the campaign.
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To solve this problem a group of scientists came up with a new idea; instead of trying to persuade people that the MMR vaccine does not cause autism, they would remind them that it protects children from deadly illnesses.
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But after months of trying to persuade FBR's management to return to the company's highly profitable roots as the leading underwriter of arcane privately placed securities that big institutional investors can trade among themselves, Mr. Plants has gotten nowhere.
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If you're trying to persuade someone to leave a cult, supply reminders of the world beyond it by calling, emailing, writing letters, sending photographs and maybe even visiting, although Lalich warns that anyone can get lured into a cult.
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"Hell yes, we're going to take away your AR-15, your AK-47," he said, instantly creating a viral moment – and potentially a fresh headache for lawmakers trying to persuade reluctant Republicans to pass new gun limits in Washington.
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After weeks of trying to persuade Washington to grant an exemption from the steel and aluminum tariffs, Tokyo may also be trying to send a more strident message that it does not want to engage in bilateral trade talks.
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Zhukov was given the tough task of trying to persuade the International Olympic Committee not to ban Russia entirely from the Rio Games despite damning reports from the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) that uncovered widespread state-sponsored cheating.
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Some is, of course — Ross Douthat's column at the New York Times is a soft conservative trying to persuade a liberal audience, for instance — but most opinionated political media is written for the side that already agrees with the author.
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LONDON (Reuters) - British lawmakers face the question of who controls business in parliament, Brexit minister Stephen Barclay said on Monday, trying to persuade them to reject a bid by parliament to wrest control of Britain's departure from the European Union.
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He was meeting with the Vietnamese president and chairman of the communist party trying to persuade them to let him go underneath the tomb of former leader Ho Chi Minh because of some concerns some missing American MIAs might be there.
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To accomplish that, Mr. Trump will be relying on people who do not tend to vote and trying to persuade some Democrats and independents to change parties so that they can vote in states that allow only registered Republicans to participate.
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Diplomats in Myanmar say they have been quietly trying to persuade Suu Kyi to allow aid access for some time, with some voicing frustration that she has pressed ahead with a busy schedule of long overseas trips during the crisis.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. policy is to achieve a verifiable denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula, a State Department spokesman said on Tuesday, shortly after a senior U.S. official said trying to persuade Pyongyang to give up nuclear weapons was a lost cause.
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Katja Kipping, one of the Left Party's co-chairs, who quit DiEM25 after Varoufakis created his own party, told BuzzFeed News she had actually been trying to persuade Varoufakis to accept a spot on her party's ticket for the European elections.
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Since Russia is trying to persuade the West to pay for reconstructing Syria, backing an assault that kills thousands of civilians would undercut its argument that the Syrian regime is serious about seeking a political settlement to end the war.
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"We were still skint, still trying to persuade governing bodies that a kid from Scotland could be a proper tennis champion, and I was still battling the perception that I was not much more than a really pushy mum," added Judy.
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As a neutral organization, she said the Red Cross took no position on the reasons or goals of the hunger strike and was neither trying to persuade the prisoners to end the hunger strike nor authorities to accept their demands.
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In the coming months Martinez-Stone's collaborative – which brings together city officials, a community development nonprofit, a public-spirited foundation, a quasi-municipal housing corporation and west Denver residents – will be trying to persuade homeowners like Trujillo to build ADUs.
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At the time, about eight years ago, Mr. Akhmetshin was trying to persuade political advisers of Mr. Yanukovych to buy the rights to a book that cast a domestic political opponent in a negative light, and attended meetings with Mr. Kilimnik.
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Trump is trying to persuade Democrats to support his push to cut tax rates and simplify the tax code this year, a plan critical to bolstering Republicans heading into 2018 midterm elections, but which so far has included few details.
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As Treasury secretary, he has joined with his fellow Goldman Sachs alumnus, National Economic Council Director Gary Cohn, in trying to persuade Congress to cut taxes as part of the first comprehensive reform of the Internal Revenue Code in a generation.
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WASHINGTON, March 5 (Reuters) - Lebanon has withdrawn its nomination of Ziad Alexandre Hayek to run for World Bank president, but the government privatization official said he is trying to persuade board members of the multilateral development lender to renominate him.
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Prime Minister Theresa May and her ministers are trying to persuade not only their governing Conservative Party to back her deal to leave the European Union, but are also holding talks with Labour to see whether they can find common ground.
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Asked if he was trying to persuade Trump to change his mind on the climate deal, Macro said: "I never despair to convince, because I think it is a duty, given my position, and it is a trait of my character".
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"Trying to persuade people in Orange County [California] that they should give their kids vaccinations and persuading people in a village in West Africa that foreign health care workers are in fact their friends and not their enemies," he said.
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From a diplomatic standpoint, the North Korean effort at detente with the South is another way of forcing the American hand since the ally we are attempting to protect may be seduced by the enemy we are trying to persuade.
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Instead, here he was in this city trying to persuade a skeptical audience of middle managers at a credit union to hand over the keys to their 401(k) plans to Blooom, the financial start-up he joined a year ago.
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If he knows the facts to be as you say they are, he should have been trying to persuade her to move into the next phase of her life, which will presumably involve increased levels of assistance as her capacities fade.
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At the end of Bill Clinton's presidency, his secretary of state, Madeleine K. Albright, flew to Pyongyang, North Korea's capital, and spent six hours trying to persuade Kim Jong-il, the father of Kim Jong-un, to suspend his missile tests.
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The last stand was made in August 1920 in Tennessee, where the industry sponsored a "Jack Daniels Suite" in a hotel near the statehouse, dispensing free liquor, day and night, while trying to persuade inebriated lawmakers to kill the amendment.
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Many of the House Republicans Trump is trying to persuade won their seats in the aftermath of Obamacare, and so the political dynamics that follow in the wake of a party passing an unpopular health care bill are familiar to them.
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But now, after more than two decades, a lawyer who has spent the last five years investigating Mr. Thompson's case is claiming he was wrongfully convicted and is trying to persuade the Staten Island district attorney's office to reopen the matter.
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The deal at Carrier is akin to Mr. Trump's intercepting a driver on his way to his car, and trying to persuade him to stay parked a little longer — perhaps by pointing to the enticing Christmas specials at the nearby stores.
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SAO PAULO (Reuters) - The Brazilian government will not spend much more time trying to persuade legislators to vote in favor of its proposed pension reform and will push for a quick resolution of the issue, President Michel Temer said on Friday.
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The White House is trying to persuade China that its support for the North is counterproductive, an argument that Mr. Trump was prepared to make to Mr. Xi during their talks, a senior administration official told reporters before the meeting.
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"That means it's likely that mortgage rates would go up, families would pay the price of Britain leaving the EU." Osborne and Prime Minister David Cameron are trying to persuade voters to choose to stay in the EU on June 23.
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Mr. Obama has spent much of the last two weeks as a kind of crisis counselor, trying to persuade his staff and Hillary Clinton's supporters that Donald J. Trump's victory will not spell disaster for Mr. Obama's priorities or the nation.
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Jon Ashworth, Labour's health policy chief, said the party's negotiators were "not getting very far" in trying to persuade the government to adopt its Brexit plan, which envisages a permanent customs union - something that is anathema to many pro-Brexit Conservatives.
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The transit officers spent five minutes trying to persuade the men to move away from the area, and then one of the men threw a punch at one of the officers, which was not captured on the video, the officials said.
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As the clock ticks down to Britain's scheduled exit on March 29, May is trying to persuade the EU to change a deal that was agreed between London and Brussels late last year but overwhelmingly rejected by parliament in January.
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Players take turns drawing cards from a central deck and facing challenges like fighting a keg-tossing goblin or trying to persuade the bartender to give you a different beer since you don't like the "weak ass goblin ale" you ordered.
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Since then, they have been trying to persuade the Iranians to continue to comply with the deal, under which Tehran gave up 97 percent of its nuclear material and agreed not to produce any significant quantities of nuclear fuel until 2030.
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But at its heart, the story is about two people who have no business being in a room together getting into a room together and trying to persuade each other of their very different views of what happened between them.
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Spain's withdrawal of the arrest warrant offered a clear illustration of the difficulties the country has had trying to persuade its EU partners to cooperate with its attempts to bring former members of Catalonia's regional government to trial over the secessionist campaign.
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BRUSSELS (Reuters) - European Union finance ministers will discuss next week a watered down proposal on an EU-wide digital tax, a document seen by Reuters shows, trying to persuade reticent governments to agree on the plan by the end of the year.
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On Thursday, the EU's chief executive accused Johnson of distorting the truth in trying to persuade Britons to leave the European Union, while a top EU official called possible victories for Donald Trump and Johnson part of a "horror scenario" for the world.
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LONDON/TOKYO (Reuters) - As the world reeled from the shock Brexit vote, the founder of Japan's SoftBank was sitting in a Turkish restaurant by the sea trying to persuade the bosses of ARM to let him buy Britain's most successful technology company.
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Since CEO Brian Niccol joined the company last February, the company has been trying to persuade customers and investors that its food is safe to eat after an E. coli outbreak in 2015 led both sales and its stock price to plunge.
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"The European signatories are trying to persuade Trump to remain in the deal, but they should know that Iran will never accept any demand beyond the deal," the official told Reuters on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the issue.
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An area of some two square km (0.8 square miles) outside the Defence Ministry in central Khartoum has become the focal point for protests since thousands converged on the area on April 6 trying to persuade the military to side with them.
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For several years now, Mr. Schwarzman has been on a crusade of sorts, trying to persuade investors to look through the wild swings in the fees and focus more on the company's extraordinary capacity to attract investor capital no matter the market conditions.
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BEIRUT, Oct 22 (Reuters) - Security forces are trying to persuade protesters to reopen roads across Lebanon through peaceful means but will not use force if they refuse, a security source said on Tuesday as the country remained paralysed by anti-government demonstrations.
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So it was a big discussion here, and I spent almost three months trying to persuade all the stakeholders, even very high-ranking executives here, and sales people all over the world and regional product managers were against the lower pixel number.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Western intermediaries are trying to persuade arch foes Iran and the United States to cooperate on bolstering security in Afghanistan as U.S. President Donald Trump seeks to extract America from its longest war, according to three source familiar with the efforts.
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European countries have been trying to persuade Tehran to stick to the deal, under which it agreed to curbs on its nuclear program in return for the lifting of sanctions, despite a decision last year by U.S. President Donald Trump to abandon it.
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The Russians were always trying to persuade Americans that their own country was a terrible place, but the Internet and social media provide the sort of widely accessible forums that make it easier to peddle lies and fake news on a mass scale.
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Ruppert had become something of an environmentalist in his retirement, trying to persuade area corn and soybean growers to switch to no-till farming and to plant buffer strips along their streams to keep their fertilizers from adding to the toxic runoff.
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When it became clear by the early 2000s that it could not win, Khartoum, Sudan's capital, appealed to the court of world opinion, trying to persuade Western powers that the south was too poor, too uneducated and too divided to govern itself.
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Those who don't see Trump's nomination as inevitable want to avoid alienating all his followers, while those who think he has it sewn up are trying to persuade him to see things their way (which would be impossible if they repudiated him).
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In the Davos car park, though, a group of aid workers are trying to persuade those who make official policy — as well as executives who collectively hire hundreds of thousands of people worldwide — to make the case for continuing to accept refugees.
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European countries have been trying to persuade Tehran to stick to the deal, under which it agreed to curbs on its nuclear programme in return for the lifting of sanctions, despite a decision last year by U.S. President Donald Trump to abandon it.
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Instead, Mr. Royal, stung by Ms. Abrams's narrow defeat, was manning a phone bank, trying to persuade fellow Democrats that the runoff election next week for Georgia secretary of state was not some obscure postscript, but a crucial battle over minority voting rights.
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The authorities reneged on a promise to pay for his and others' temporary accommodation and are now trying to persuade them to cede ownership of the flats to a construction firm that wants to demolish them and build on the site, he said.
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Mr. Netanyahu was still holding out on Friday, trying to persuade his remaining coalition partners not to repeat what he called "the historic mistake of '92," when right-wing parties toppled a right-wing government and brought the left back to power.
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"I feel like a parent whose child just took its first step and hear someone say, 'That's a really slow kid,'" said Alex Flint, executive director with the Alliance for Market Solutions, a group trying to persuade Republicans to support taxing carbon emissions.
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Why can't it allow us passengers to unwind and enjoy the luxury of eating fine meals in beautiful surroundings instead of trying to persuade us to eat "flexible" and "contemporary" ones, as Ms. Stauffer points out, so we can be "curated and optimized"?
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The state attorney's opinion was widely anticipated as the Socialists have been trying to persuade Junqueras' party, Esquerra Republicana de Catalunya (ERC), to back a Socialist-led government by abstaining in a parliamentary vote to confirm acting Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez as premier.
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The CO2 forecast underscored the urgency of the task facing negotiators trying to persuade big countries to cut emissions under the 2015 Paris Agreement to combat climate change, which is still nowhere near on track to spare the world from devastating temperature increases.
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OXFORD, England (Reuters) - U.S. diplomats are trying to persuade Russia to take steps toward a true ceasefire in Syria and to nudge Damascus toward a political transition but news out of Syria is "not encouraging," Defense Secretary Ash Carter said on Wednesday.
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Mr. Netanyahu has reacted to the United Nations resolution and Mr. Kerry's speech as if they were "a declaration of war," a phrase he reportedly used before the Security Council vote last week in trying to persuade New Zealand to drop the measure.
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Giving What We Can is now part of a broader suite of organizations under the Center for Effective Altruism, trying to persuade people they can use their time and money to make the world a substantially better place by giving to good causes.
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With party officials still trying to persuade MPs, May's spokesman expressed "hope that all MPs (members of parliament) will be able to support the government's position" rather than a competing one which its backer, Conservative Dominic Grieve, says offers a "meaningful vote".
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Keeping the 900 million iPhones worldwide in service has become more important to Apple than ever as it shifts toward a services-based business of trying to persuade its customers to sign up for paid offerings such as Apple Music and iCloud.
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"When we create a negotiating package in trying to persuade North Korea that they should take initiatives for denuclearization, we can use Kaesong and Kumgang mountain project as something to provide to North Korea so that we can draw more actions," he said.
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Johnson is trying to persuade EU leaders to drop the backstop from a withdrawal agreement that was negotiated by his predecessor but rejected three times by the British Parliament as the United Kingdom struggles to fulfill a 2016 referendum vote to leave the bloc.
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But it seems the doctors trying to persuade the vaccine-hesitant — still a tiny minority of parents — have mostly been failing: Either their messages are off or the anti-vaccine campaigns, circulating among sources like conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, are too powerful to counter.
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The EU executive's deputy head said Orban's government needed to assuage the bloc's worries by engaging in a political dialogue with the European Commission, which is also trying to persuade Orban's right-wing allies in the Polish government to amend plans for constitutional changes there.
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Verizon, which agreed to buy Yahoo's core internet business in July for $4.8 billion, is now trying to persuade Yahoo to amend the terms of the acquisition agreement to reflect the economic damage from the two hacks, according to people familiar with the matter.
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In many cases the recruiter (who is often duped) will spend the first three days trying to persuade the victim that the firm is a benevolent institution (not like those awful Ponzis!) and that working for it would be for the good of the family.
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In the US, that can be an issue as well, with campaigns that devote all their energy to turning out a very small segment of the electorate -- rather than expanding the base of support by registering new voters, or trying to persuade non-supporters.
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But the more accurate way to think about it is that Lewis has spent the rest of his career trying to persuade other people that the fight for civil rights wasn't won in 1965, and other people haven't always been as willing to listen.
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DUBAI (Reuters) - Iraq is trying to persuade satellite firms to halt Internet services in areas under Islamic State's rule, seeking to deal a major blow to the group's potent propaganda machine which relies heavily on social media to inspire its followers to wage jihad.
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Britain, France, Germany and the European Union — which all played important roles in negotiating the deal — have been trying to persuade the U.S. to stay, discussing additional non-nuclear sanctions and supplemental understandings to correct what the Trump administration perceives as the deal's flaws.
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Mr. Manafort's cooperation obviously represents an enormous pivot from the previous strategies he had seemed to be pursuing — trying to persuade a jury to ignore the strong evidence against him based on personal sympathies or, if that failed, to obtain a pardon from President Trump.
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Mr. Bliss said they had identified 50,000 to 70,000 voters in each of them, and began trying to persuade them more than a year ago with a regular campaign of door knocking, using a positive message in contrast to what voters see on television.
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She met six detainees and represented even more Guantánamo clients remotely, arguing with anger on behalf of hunger strikers being force-fed, trying to persuade foreign countries to take clients cleared for release and trying to educate the public, lest they forget about Gitmo.
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Advocates for legal reform have for years targeted the issue of mass incarceration — and its disproportionate impact on minority communities — by trying to persuade prosecutors not to charge people with petty crimes and offer those found guilty of minor wrongdoings an alternative to prison.
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Mr. Orban repeated his commitment to combat what his government has called the "Soros Plan," under which, Mr. Orban contends, the Hungarian-American financier George Soros is trying to persuade European Union leaders to open up their borders to accept millions of more migrants.
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Even when Mr. Trump has pursued worthy goals — trying to persuade North Korea's dictator to give up his nuclear weapons, negotiating with the Taliban so American troops can leave Afghanistan — his mercurial, impatient, crisis-driven approach has often backfired, no matter who was advising him.
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American officials have spent years trying to persuade Pakistan to sever ties with the Taliban and the Haqqani network, one of its most dangerous factions, which Islamabad has historically seen as reliable proxies to advance Pakistani interests in Afghanistan and blunt Indian influence there.
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After trying to persuade China to intervene more heavily, Mr. Trump has suggested that the United States will go its own way, and that effort seems quite likely to begin with new sanctions on small Chinese financial institutions that do business with North Korea.
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Distrustful of Mr. Johnson's own record of racist and Islamophobic remarks, and fearful of far-right violence against Jews in the United States, they are trying to persuade people to consider how a Johnson government could hurt not only Jews but other vulnerable groups.
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Oil ministers from Algeria and Venezuela were in Moscow on Tuesday for talks with Novak aimed at trying to persuade him of the need for a cut, rather than a freeze, in Russian oil output which has hit new post-Soviet highs in recent months.
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And speaking of co-founders: In my Thursday newsletter on the subject, I noted that another co-founder of Facebook, Dustin Moskovitz, had donated to Color of Change, which is trying to persuade Facebook shareholders to vote against Zuckerberg being re-nominated to the company's board.
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Besides trying to persuade management to shift its strategy toward a more highly franchised business model, McGuire also has asked for management to overhaul how it allocates capital and has urged it to add people with relevant restaurant and finance experience to its management and board ranks.
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The U.S. policy of trying to persuade North Korea to give up its nuclear weapons "is probably a lost cause" and the best that could be hoped for is a cap on the country's nuclear capability, the Director of U.S. National Intelligence James Clapper said on Tuesday.
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In fact, it was part of the influence operation that Facebook revealed last month: The Black Elevation organizers may have been trying to slide into the real world by hiring event coordinators or trying to persuade real activists to identify themselves as members of Black Elevation.
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Now Mr. Locke is taking on a difficult new role in the fight to overturn the ban, trying to persuade voters — in particular, other Asian-Americans — to support a ballot measure, scheduled for a vote on Tuesday, that could restore affirmative action in the state's public sector.
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As the legend goes, John Martin, president of Heublein, who was trying to persuade Americans to drink his Smirnoff vodka, met up with Jack Morgan, owner of the Cock 'n' Bull pub on the Sunset Strip, who made a ginger beer drinkers were equally uninterested in.
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The United States has been trying to persuade China, North Korea's lone major ally, to do more to rein in Pyongyang, which has conducted dozens of missile launches and tested two nuclear bombs since the start of last year, in defiance of U.N. Security Council resolutions.
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It also pledged 80 million euros in financial support to a German firm CureVac after it emerged that Washington was trying to persuade it to move its research into a vaccine against the coronavirus to the United States and give the U.S. exclusive access to the results.
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We were excited about a play we were writing—it was about a man who had the power to end the world with a giant button, and historical figures came and went, trying to persuade him to press the button or let the world go on.
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In trying to persuade the districts to make the investments, Noack at the time told them it would take "15 Enrons" for them to lose money, and told two districts that it would take 20 to 30 defaults for them to suffer a loss, the SEC said.
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The U.S. intelligence community is trying to persuade House and Senate lawmakers to drop the public portion of an annual briefing on the globe's greatest security threats — a move compelled by last year's session that provoked an angry outburst from President Donald Trump, multiple sources told POLITICO.
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Three of the four states he's spending the most in are early primary states in the 2020 presidential race — South Carolina, Iowa, and Nevada — an indicator he's trying to persuade Democratic voters there and remind them he's been on the impeachment train for a long time.
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"Whilst relevant consumers may instantly recognize a red sole shoe being uniquely associated with Louboutin, trying to persuade the courts to grant monopoly rights with such a 'badge of origin' may well be an insurmountable hurdle," said Sanjay Kapur, partner at intellectual property firm Potter Clarkson LLP.
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In another sense, though, Danneels was a wildly inappropriate choice, because at the conclusion of his career he was caught on tape trying to persuade a young victim of sex abuse not to go public with allegations against the victim's uncle, Bishop Roger Vangheluwe of Bruges, Belgium.
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Two of the leading contenders, Senator Ted Cruz, on the Republican side, and Senator Bernie Sanders, who is seeking the Democratic nomination, openly declare that this is a "base" election focused more on bringing out hard-core committed supporters than on trying to persuade more independent-minded folks.
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Despite friends trying to persuade him not to return from a stay in the U.S., Einstein and his wife were planning to go back to their summer cottage in Caputh, Germany, but they ultimately made the decision not to return once they learned of the ransacking of his apartment.
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If you pay close attention to what the Ohio governor is saying as he weighs another campaign, you'll hear a politician in the twilight of his career trying to persuade himself and others that he can be the right candidate for a younger, cooler, more ideologically flexible generation.
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To prevent that, South Korea and the United States are trying to persuade North Korea to agree to a specific timeline for complete denuclearization: as soon as possible and no later than the end of Mr. Trump's current term, in early 2021, according to South Korean officials and analysts.
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The way he leaps from defending their virtual trysts as meaningless fun (hence, safe to continue) to claiming they mean everything and are worth any risk (hence, necessary to continue) is a beautiful micro-portrait of a desperate lover trying to persuade a reluctant partner without utterly alienating them.
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Johnson is trying to persuade EU leaders to drop the backstop from a withdrawal agreement that was negotiated by his predecessor, Theresa May, but rejected three times by the British parliament as the United Kingdom struggles to fulfill a referendum vote three years ago to leave the bloc.
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Prosecutors are trying to persuade Circuit Judge Samantha Schosberg Feuer that Raja should stand trial this summer on manslaughter and attempted murder charges for the death of Brown, a housing inspector and reggae band drummer who was returning home from a late-night performance when he was killed.
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When they took a break, their idea of fun was to play a round of "Game of Clones," in which a small group of scientists pretended to be cancer cells trying to persuade the maximal number of other researchers bouncing around the room to be their malignant clones.
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"We have been arguing as a Local for the past several weeks trying to persuade the company from somehow avoiding this scenario but to no avail," Dave Thomas, president of Unifor Local 707, in Oakville, Ontario, said in a note to members that was posted on the union's website.
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"I recently heard that the French Treasury told a group of banks it was trying to persuade them to move to Paris, but although the UK might have to be granted equivalence initially, the question was how quickly they can force the UK to lose equivalence," Browne said.
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Down a boggy, litter-strewn alley in the Calais squatter camp on a recent weekday, Pascal Brice, head of the French Office for the Protection of Refugees, was to be found, clad in a suit and wellington boots, valiantly trying to persuade refugees to lodge asylum applications in France.
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When Silvio de Abreu, the Globo dramaturge, wrote telenovelas, he spent a lot of time in the 1970s and '80s trying to persuade humorless government censors in Brasília, the nation's capital, that they were missing a joke — which in some cases was not actually a joke at all.
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For the last two years, Mr. Falkowitz's start-up, Area 1 Security, has been trying to persuade the owners and operators of computer servers that have been compromised by state spies, criminals and hacktivists to allow the company to tap into those servers to monitor the attackers' activities.
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JP Morgan and other banks in the consortium for Monte dei Paschi's capital increase are trying to persuade the sovereign wealth funds of Qatar and Kuwait, as well as private equity fund Investindustrial's chief Andrea Bonomi, to buy a big chunk of the cash call, according to Il Messaggero.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. policy of trying to persuade North Korea to give up its nuclear weapons "is probably a lost cause" and the best that could be hoped for is a cap on the country's nuclear capability, the Director of U.S. National Intelligence James Clapper said on Tuesday.
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While the New York City Education Department has been trying to persuade parents on the Upper West Side to accept a rezoning plan aimed, in part, at diversifying the neighborhood's schools, it has told a group of Lower Manhattan parents that they must hold off on their desegregation plan.
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His administration is trying to end Syria's alleged use of chemical weapons and North Korea's active nuclear weapons program by trying to persuade Moscow and Beijing to abandon Syria and North Korea, leading international efforts to isolate these regimes through sanctions, and threatening the use of military action.
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It is a delicate dance: Syracuse is trying to persuade the kind of blue-chip prospects that Syracuse demands to entrust their futures to both Boeheim, a 72-year-old in his 41st season as coach, and to Hopkins, a career assistant who has never led a top program.
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HANOI, Vietnam — After exchanging praise over dinner, President Trump on Thursday morning opened a day of formal talks with Kim Jong-un, the leader of North Korea, a meeting aimed at once again trying to persuade the North to dismantle its nuclear weapons program and join the global economy.
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Zooming around Caracas largely unguarded, the 35-year-old lawmaker Juan Guaidó has been working at a relentless pace to topple Venezuela's authoritarian government — leading street protests and trying to persuade military leaders and other nations to turn on President Nicolás Maduro, as much of the public has done.
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Berenberg's Pickering said May would now be "courting" MPs from the Labour party and Liberal Democrats and her Chief Whip, whose unenviable job it is to ensure that members of the party vote as the party leadership desires, will be trying to persuade the Northern Irish DUP to accept the deal.
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Considering the immigration tactics that have been adopted by US Immigrations and Customs Enforcement and Customs and Border Protection, Rocha-Goldberg said, many immigrants did not believe the statement when it was issued by DHS, or when it was repeated by local authorities trying to persuade residents to evacuate to shelters.
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His extraordinary effort won him considerable publicity, and various nongovernmental groups campaigned to let him stay in Britain, even as the Conservative government has been cracking down on illegal immigrants and trying to persuade its European Union partners to even put limits on the benefits received by legal immigrants to Britain.
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It&aposs like you aren&apost trying to persuade the person you&aposre insulting, you&aposre trying to give some kind of energy to the other people that almost teach them how to do what they&aposre doing except it might be considered mean, God, what am I turning into?
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"We have been arguing as a local for the past several weeks trying to persuade the company from somehow avoiding this scenario, but to no avail," Dave Thomas, president of Unifor Local 707, in Oakville, Ontario, said in a note to members that was posted on the union's website on Wednesday.
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" In fact, when Deeter spent several hours with Holmes trying to persuade her to be interviewed for the documentary, "there was no sign of mea culpa," Deeter says, adding that Holmes seemed more interested in having a film document what she believed would be Theranos' "Phoenix-like rise back to power.
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Creating an agency culture where good work is not respected and where ethical service is punished is a good way of trying to persuade serious people to leave and ensure that staff positions will either go unfilled or will be held by time-servers with little zeal for the agency's mission.
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A split within May's Conservative party would undermine her authority at a time when she is facing down demands for a second independence referendum from Scottish nationalists, managing fears that Brexit could destabilize Northern Ireland, and trying to persuade major EU powers they must cut her a good exit deal.
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Still, Mr. Pompeo must keep trying to persuade Mr. Kim to reverse course for at least another few months, and probably until after November's midterm elections, largely because Mr. Trump will not stand for an earlier declaration of failure, according to those who have spoken with him about North Korea.
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The president's G.O.P. critics should engage in electoral battle because the act of campaigning, the work of actually trying to persuade voters, is the only way anti-Trump Republicans will come to grips with the legitimate reasons that their ideas had become so unpopular that voters opted for demagoguery instead.
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Reuters previously reported that the German government wanted to stop the Trump administration from trying to persuade another German drugmaker, CureVac, to work on a vaccine in the U.S. On Monday, the National Institutes of Health administered the first shot in a trial for a potential vaccine for the novel coronavirus.
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Facing mounting concern over its violations of so-called financial fair play rules, created to keep clubs from spending more than they bring in, Milan's management is trying to persuade regulators that its new Chinese owner, Li Yonghong, is capable of stopping the team's bleeding millions of euros a year.
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But no one in the Situation Room debated what message the decision to turn on Colonel Qaddafi might send to other countries that the United States was trying to persuade to relinquish their weapons, according to interviews conducted later with more than a half-dozen people engaged in the discussion.
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LEBANON-PROTESTS/ Army trys to reopen roads as Lebanon remains paralyzed BEIRUT - Security forces are trying to persuade protesters to reopen roads across Lebanon through peaceful means but will not use force if they refuse, a security source said on Tuesday as the country remained paralyzed by anti-government demonstrations.
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But a year of high-stakes maneuvers by Mr. Guaidó — like trying to persuade the military to turn against the president and trying to bring in much-needed humanitarian aid across the border — failed to bring down Mr. Maduro, who retains firm control of the military and of the country's resources.
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If Williamson's absence from the Reagan National Defense Forum meant that his time was spent figuring out how to fix problems rather than trying to persuade the U.K.'s leading ally that everything is fine, his failure to make the pilgrimage to Ventura County might have been for the best.
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Yglesias is using "bullshit" as a technical term, working off Princeton University philosopher Harry Frankfurt's seminal book On Bullshit, which distinguishes the liar, who is trying to persuade us of a false truth, from the bullshitter, who cares little for persuasion so long as he is achieving his other ends.
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To be clear, what such leftists wanted was for Mrs Clinton to pursue her own version of a turnout strategy, choosing a running-mate who would excite and energise unhappy Sandernistas and anti-globalisation blue-collar voters in the Rust Belt—and forget trying to persuade those suburban swing voters in Loudon County.
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Maintenance and monitoring were entirely left up to the small towns that they protect; upkeep and improvement has depended on trying to persuade voters to approve expensive bond issues or asking local politicians to approve tax hikes in the midst of the worst rural economic downturn since the Farm Crisis of the 250s.
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Steve Bergquist had been trying to persuade his colleagues to support a bill allowing 243- and 17-year-olds to pre-register to vote -- and requiring schools to help get them on the rolls, a move the Democratic lawmaker was sure would improve voter turnout among young people when they turned 18.
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Mattis and Pompeo focused their efforts on trying to persuade senators to oppose a resolution coming up for a first vote Wednesday afternoon that would end U.S. military support for the Saudi-led coalition's military operations in Yemen in the wake of Khashoggi's death inside the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul last month.
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Iowa did not, instead setting up a series of online caucuses, to be conducted on a half-dozen occasions leading up to an in-person caucus, aimed at answering the criticism that many voters cannot spend multiple hours on caucus night sitting around trying to persuade fellow Democrats to back their candidate.
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Facing increasing political and legal pressure at home over investigations into Russian meddling in the 13 U.S. election, Trump has devoted significant time and effort to trying to persuade North Korea to give up its nuclear weapons in exchange for promises of peace and development, a foreign policy goal that has confounded multiple predecessors.
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Feeling happy can decrease, and feeling bad can increase, our accuracy as eyewitnesses, our ability to communicate strategically (like when we're trying to persuade), and our likelihood to avoid errors in judgment, according to pair of studies, one of which found that happiness can even blind us to the fact that we have these emotion-induced impairments.
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There is Harold Mayne-Nicholls, head of FIFA's bid evaluation team, trying to persuade Qatar's Aspire Academy, its state-of-the-art training center, to let his son and another player go there and train, a request so brazen that the Qataris, whose methods take up the vast majority of the report, had to tell him it was improper.
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As described in "Shattered," Clinton's campaign manager, Robby Mook — who centered the Clinton operation on data analytics (information about voters, given to him by number crunchers) as opposed to more old-fashioned methods of polling, knocking on doors and trying to persuade undecideds — made one strategic mistake after another, but was kept on by Clinton, despite her own misgivings.
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Washington (CNN)Less than a half hour before President Donald Trump announced at the White House he intended to tack on new tariffs to aluminum and steel coming into the United States, House Speaker Paul Ryan was at a Home Depot in Atlanta telling employees there he was still trying to persuade Trump to scale back his plan.
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A campaign gets a better return spending its time and money turning out reliably Democratic voters than trying to persuade a small sliver of white voters who may not be all that persuadable—particularly if the cost of doing so is keeping quiet about topics such as racial justice, gun control, gay rights and criminal-justice reform, which motivate the base.
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European leaders are trying to persuade Mr. Trump not to withdraw the United States from the 195-nation Paris Accord, one of several issues on the agenda for an organization that Mr. Trump has called into question with his support for Britain's decision to leave and for populist euroskeptics like Marine Le Pen, the French leader of the far-right National Front.
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Those efforts included trying to persuade black people not to vote or to cast ballots for a third-party candidate in an effort to swing the 2016 vote to President TrumpDonald John TrumpFacebook releases audit on conservative bias claims Harry Reid: 'Decriminalizing border crossings is not something that should be at the top of the list' Recessions happen when presidents overlook key problems MORE.
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She told INSIDER that she has read messages of women describing how Hyde asked them to touch themselves while taking nude photos; of him trying to persuade them into having sex with him; witholding their photos, even if they had paid, if they refused to sleep with him; and instances in which Hyde would put his hand in their vaginas while they were on shoots.
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"As of now, all the administration has is the charisma and the power of persuasion of John KerryJohn Forbes KerryTrump's winning weapon: Time The Memo: O'Rourke looks to hit reset button #FreeAustinTice trending on anniversary of kidnapping in Syria MORE, trying to persuade people like [Russian President Vladmir] Putin, [Iran Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei] and Bashar al-Assad to do the right thing," Hof said.
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U.S. President Donald Trump has invested considerable time trying to persuade North Korea to give up a nuclear weapons programme that has grown to threaten the United States, but progress has been scant in spite of his three meetings with Kim Jong Un. "ARMY READY" North Korea would be ready to respond to all political and military provocations by hostile forces while being "familiar with both dialogue and confrontation", Pak said.
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But the general problem of good-paying jobs being overly concentrated in expensive coastal metropolitan areas that don't particularly want to build oodles of new housing — even while existing residential infrastructure goes to waste in Midwestern areas suffering population loss — isn't limited to DC. My work over the years has largely focused on the idea of trying to persuade Silicon Valley, Greater Boston, and New York City and its suburbs to agree to build more.
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Tim RyanTimothy (Tim) John RyanBiden, Buttigieg bypassing Democratic delegate meeting: report Tim Ryan jokes he's having 'dance-off' with Andrew Yang The Hill's Campaign Report: Battle for Senate begins to take shape MORE (D-Ohio) and Seth MoultonSeth Wilbur Moulton2020 Democrats react to NYPD firing of officer in Garner case: 'Finally' Biden, Buttigieg bypassing Democratic delegate meeting: report Native American advocates question 2020 Democrats' commitment MORE (D-Mass.) — have been trying to persuade Fudge, a former Ohio mayor and previous head of the Congressional Black Caucus, to challenge Pelosi for the Speaker's gavel.
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Absolutely, and I think even in defeat, she was very much aware of playing that role, because when my producer, Jessie Deeter interviewed her off the record early on — you know, we were trying to persuade her to come on board — she said that she was the victim and that the only reason that she went down was because she was a woman and that people came after her and lots of men in Silicon Valley could make mistake after mistake after mistake and they would be forgiven and they would come back, but if you're a woman, you only get one chance.
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The invitation seeking testimony from acting DNI Joseph MaguireJoseph MaguireThe Hill's Morning Report — President Trump on trial Schiff schedules public hearing with US intel chief Democrats request briefing on intel behind Trump's embassy threat claim MORE comes amid reports that intelligence officials are trying to persuade Congress from dropping the public portion of the annual Worldwide Threat hearing after backlash from President TrumpDonald John TrumpMnuchin knocks Greta Thunberg's activism: Study economics and then 'come back' to us The Hill's Morning Report - House prosecutes Trump as 'lawless,' 'corrupt' What to watch for on Day 3 of Senate impeachment trial MORE last year.
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