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Example sentences for: persuasion

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The New York Times leads with the election victory in Chile of a socialist--the first of that political persuasion to lead Chile since Salvador Allende.
That is why virtually every American dictionary of any shape, size, provenance, comprehensiveness, quality, and lexicographic persuasion is likely to be called a Webster these days.
Despite Hitler’s efforts at persuasion, Spain’s new caudillo (strongman), Generalísimo Franco, managed to keep Spain out of World War II.
I thought I would never have chosen a silk, for they produced so many, I knew not which to fix upon, and they recommended them all so strongly, that I fancy they thought I only wanted persuasion to buy everything they showed me.
In the New York Review of Books , Tatyana Tolstaya praises David Remnick, author of Resurrection, a book about post-Communist Russia, as "a satirist of Gogolian persuasion; he combines the grotesque with the lyrical."