What's the difference between cogent and persuasive?

Cogent


Definition:

  • (p. a.) Compelling, in a physical sense; powerful.
  • (p. a.) Having the power to compel conviction or move the will; constraining; conclusive; forcible; powerful; not easily reasisted.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Methods that compliment, reflect, and are consistent with developmental needs of the young teen provide cogent approaches to teen pregnancy prevention.
  • (2) Those concerns were most cogently expressed to Jones by his ex-boss, and former head of the CRU, Dr Tom Wigley.
  • (3) The court of appeal affirmed that the council had no cogent reasons to depart from the guidance.
  • (4) By encouraging the verbalization of cogent feelings and anxieties in a weekly group meeting, members developed a sense of mutual trust and openness.
  • (5) Multivariate analyses suggest that the most cogent factors affecting teenage fathering include being black, going steady, and having unorthodox views about parenting outside of marriage.
  • (6) The result is a cogent approach to the radiologic evaluation of the patient with a suspected umbilical remnant anomaly.
  • (7) It is also the most cogent organised crime syndicate in the world, trafficking – according to some estimates – up to 90% of drugs consumed in the US and varying proportions across Europe, Africa and the east.
  • (8) He has generally been appreciated by journalists for his accessibility and geniality – and, as Guardian readers and Thought for the Day listeners to Radio 4's Today programme know, his ability to present a coherent and challenging message cogently and to deadlines.
  • (9) He added: “By no stretch of the imagination can the evidence relied upon in support of the applications be described as corroborated, contemporaneous, persuasive, compelling or cogent.” It is not yet known if the officers will appeal against Meadows’s decision.
  • (10) The SSN says that the warning is no less cogent now than it was in 2006 and cites the developing use of unmanned drones, full body search scanners and workplace surveillance techniques to monitor employees as worrying indicators of what is to come.
  • (11) "Those who do not wish to listen to the informed and cogent warnings of leading scientists," he writes, "will find excuses not to do so."
  • (12) The most cogent evidence for a müllerian rather than a mesonephric origin for clear cell carcinoma in the female genital tract is its presence in the endometrium, a Müllerian derivative.
  • (13) It confirmed that local authorities should (unless they have cogent reasons not to do so) follow statutory guidance stipulating that kinship foster carers should not be paid less than unrelated foster carers simply on the basis of a familial relationship.
  • (14) The CBA data indicate that aging, per se, has little effect on ASR parameters; the C57 data show that hearing loss is a cogent factor.
  • (15) While the development-focused media has expanded, the standard for what makes a compelling blog, speech or opinion piece have not: clear writing and cogent argument backed up by solid evidence and examples.
  • (16) Sir Mick Jagger showed a sign of rigor mortis by refusing to serenade the burghers of Davos, but struts and frets his years upon the world's stages to little cogent effect.
  • (17) This guideline summarizes recommendations for (1) developing cogent procedures for diagnosis and antimicrobial susceptibility testing; (2) developing quality-control parameters for the microbiological components of clinical trials; (3) continually updating U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) guidelines; (4) reviewing microbiological recommendations from other groups, such as Microbiology Subcommittees of the National Committee for Clinical Laboratory Standards; and (5) improving the microbiological aspects of FDA package inserts for antimicrobial drugs.
  • (18) Even 3-year-olds were able to judge real and mental entities appropriately on the basis of the 3 criteria, to sort such entities as explicitly real and not-real, and to provide cogent explanations of their choices as well.
  • (19) The authors concluded that nonparticipation was associated with clinically cogent adverse health outcomes, but that the magnitude of these associations varied according to the reason for nonparticipation.
  • (20) The purpose of the study was to identify the cogent diseases requiring hospitalization of HIV patients in the current era of PCP prophylaxis.

Persuasive


Definition:

  • (a.) Tending to persuade; having the power of persuading; as, persuasive eloquence.
  • (n.) That which persuades; an inducement; an incitement; an exhortation.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) An official from Cafcass, the children and family court advisory service, tried to persuade the child in several interviews, but eventually the official told the court that further persuasion was inappropriate and essentially abusive.
  • (2) The evidence for changes in function of the central nervous system in cases of chronic pain is persuasive.
  • (3) What emerges strongly is the expressed belief of many that Isis can be persuasive, liberating and empowering.
  • (4) The similarities in methods of intervention found in the work of investigators of very different theoretical persuasion raise the possibility that most treatment methods owe more to empirical clinical experience than to their presumed derivation from a theoretical model.
  • (5) The main therapies are i. suggestion, auto-suggestion, hynotism, assurance, persuasion, and ritualistic therapy; ii.
  • (6) Israel, as a non-EU member, will depend on its partner countries’ powers of persuasion.
  • (7) Co-operatives should not be afraid to champion radical causes, or engage with controversial issues, but this must not involve affronting customers, or turning our backs on good people of different political persuasions.
  • (8) Coleman, in his efforts to sustain the national team's momentum, will be particularly eager to keep Craig Bellamy in the lineup, although it was the persuasiveness of Speed that brought his return.
  • (9) Clegg went on: "Unless there's overwhelming evidence that this [campaign] is a really effective way of bolstering public confidence in the immigration system, and bearing down on illegal behaviour in the immigration system, I'm going to need a lot of persuasion this is something [we want to continue]."
  • (10) It may be true that the old idea, often persuasively advanced by the academic Stefan Collini , that the university is “a partly protected space in which the search for deeper and wider understanding takes precedence over all more immediate goals” cannot survive unscathed in a world where there is huge unmet demand for technically literate and numerate graduates to staff the knowledge economy.
  • (11) Localization of angiotensinogen messenger ribonucleic acid (mRNA) within the proximal tubule, together with demonstration of renin and converting enzyme mRNAs within the kidney, provide the most persuasive evidence for local, independent synthesis.
  • (12) There's a persuasive argument that politicians used R&R to justify policies they wanted to impose anyway.
  • (13) But the young – like the poor – seem more open to a yes persuasion.
  • (14) Their composure was shattered from the moment Alex McCarthy gifted the visitors an equaliser, all authority wrested away in the blink of an eye and Liverpool , suddenly focused where previously they had been limp and ineffective, the more persuasive threat in what time that remained.
  • (15) So it is little surprise that a campaign, led by orators as persuasive as Boris Johnson and Michael Gove, promising to address all these anxieties in one fell geostrategic swoop, should be gaining in popularity.
  • (16) Some commentators have persuasively suggested that Putin is tired of being Russia's leader.
  • (17) The 2008 election was a great day for those of the liberal persuasion.
  • (18) The finance minister, Mathias Cormann, said Bushby had made a “very persuasive argument that yet another inquiry might not be the best way forward”.
  • (19) Such an atrocity, had it been committed by any Arab or Iranian, or indeed a Muslim of any persuasion, would have brought down instant punishment, or even war.
  • (20) Then I stayed in a house where a modest set of Austen's novels stood almost out of reach on a high shelf, and I took down the last of her works, Persuasion - perhaps because it stood at the end of the row.