What's the difference between persuade and unpersuasion?
Persuade
Definition:
(v. t.) To influence or gain over by argument, advice, entreaty, expostulation, etc.; to draw or incline to a determination by presenting sufficient motives.
(v. t.) To try to influence.
(v. t.) To convince by argument, or by reasons offered or suggested from reflection, etc.; to cause to believe.
(v. t.) To inculcate by argument or expostulation; to advise; to recommend.
(v. i.) To use persuasion; to plead; to prevail by persuasion.
(n.) Persuasion.
Example Sentences:
(1) Gordon Brown believes that the fact of the G20 summit has persuaded many tax havens, such as Switzerland and Liechtenstein, to indicate that they will adopt a more open approach.
(2) 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.
(3) She kept it up for three years, until her son's letters finally persuaded her to cut down to one day a week.
(4) We simply do whatever nature needs and will work with anyone that wants to help wildlife.” His views might come as a surprise to some of the RSPB’s 1.1 million members, who would have been persuaded by its original pledge “to discourage the wanton destruction of birds”; they would equally have been a surprise to the RSPB’s detractors in the shooting world.
(5) That refusal seems to have persuaded Apple's team, which has been core to the development of WebKit since using it for the Safari browser, released in January 2003, to introduce WebKit2 earlier this year which did offer that capability.
(6) It seeks to acquaint them with 'ethical' arguments against their work which, because they are simple and plausible, persuade many people.
(7) Obama will meet with Binyamin Netanyahu and Mahmoud Abbas tomorrow as well, but US envoy George Mitchell has had no luck in recent weeks trying to persuade Netanyahu to compromise on the settlements.
(8) The charity Bite the Ballot , which persuaded hundreds of thousands to register before the last general election, is to set up “democracy cafes” in Starbucks branches, laying on experts to explain how to register and vote, and what the referendum is all about (Bite the Ballot does not take sides but merely encourages participation).
(9) The writer John Lanchester concedes that democracies will always need spies, but reading the Snowden documents persuaded him that piecing together habits of thought from internet searches takes things far beyond conventional spying: “Google doesn’t just know you’re gay before you tell your mum; it knows you’re gay before you do.
(10) But Richard Hall, director of infrastructure at Consumer Futures, a consumer watchdog, said Ofgem had "produced a lot of evidence that would persuade a third party that there is a trend [of rising prices]".
(11) McCain, a former Republican presidential candidate with an influential voice on US foreign affairs, is seen by the Obama administration as a potentially important intermediary in its intensive push to persuade Congress to swing behind the plan for airstrikes .
(12) According to Deborah Mattinson, his pollster, Brown " loved slogans and believed them to be imbued with a mystical power capable of persuading the most intransigent voter", and therefore went a bundle on them – not least " A future fair for all ", the surreal dud with which Labour went to the country in 2010, following 2005's equally idiotic " forward not back ".
(13) For a while North Korea refused to play, but after delicate negotiations the players were persuaded back on to the pitch and the correct flag was displayed alongside the team photos.
(14) When the owners of Manchester City finally managed to persuade Pep Guardiola to oversee the next stage of their masterplan it is fair to say they probably did not expect to be approaching Christmas scuffling with a team of Watford’s limitations for their first league win at home in almost three months.
(15) He has some suggestions for what might be done, including easing changing the planning laws to free up parts of the green belt, financial incentives to persuade local authorities to build, and the replacement of the council tax and stamp duty land tax with a new local property tax with automatic annual revaluations.
(16) Even if nobody switched party, the general election result would look very different to what’s predicted if millennials could be persuaded to vote at the same rate as pensioners, as polls factor in turnout differences and oversample the elderly accordingly.
(17) For some people, free cash will persuade them to take the plunge.
(18) The fact that the leave campaign are getting things as straightforward as this wrong should call into judgment the bigger argument about leaving the EU.” He said out campaigners were trying to persuade people to vote for Brexit solely on the back of an issue “that is not true”.
(19) We had already persuaded him to give us a little extra time, telling him we would both pay him on a particular day, but when that day rolled around, neither of us had the money.
(20) Nonetheless, the NSA persuaded Erwin Griswold, the former dean of Harvard law school, the then solicitor general of the United States, to knowingly lie to the United States supreme court that it was still a secret.
Unpersuasion
Definition:
(n.) The state of not being persuaded; disbelief; doubt.
Example Sentences:
(1) Some may legitimately (if unpersuasively) argue that the government could rightfully suspend its UNCRC obligations because austerity measures, from the benefits cap to Sure Start cuts , were a temporary necessity to tackle an economic crisis.
(2) Nonetheless, the arguments for Trident’s retention and replacement look increasingly unpersuasive.
(3) The National was perhaps cowed by its structure and large cast, which includes "5,000 red indians – optional", so his last work had a reading at the Royal Court and a surprise, but unpersuasive, premiere in September 2010 at the little Jermyn Street theatre off Piccadilly Circus.
(4) Brexit debate in parliament would give game away to Brussels, says minister Read more The only thing at all eye-opening about the column, for those of us who don’t read him regularly, is how bad it is: strewn with references that range from irrelevant to plain wrong, unpersuasive, linguistically childish, structurally shambolic.
(5) This paper reviews objections to the proposal to allow parents of anencephalics to donate their infant's organs for transplantation and finds them unpersuasive.
(6) The administration appears to be relying on the same unpersuasive theory it used to avoid War Powers Resolutions scrutiny during its months-long bombings of Libya in 2011.
(7) It said that evidence submitted by Texas in support of its claim that the law was not discriminatory – and was necessary to combat voter fraud – was "unpersuasive, invalid, or both".
(8) Collet's (1989) doubts regarding the efficacy of principal component analysis (PCA) as a tool in the study of event-related brain potentials (ERPs) are unpersuasive.
(9) "Overall, Mr Morgan's attempt to push back from his own bullish statement to the Press Gazette was utterly unpersuasive," said Leveson in his report on the culture, practices and ethics of the press, published on Thursday.
(10) He and Gordon Brown left a pretty unpersuasive crop of next generation leaders too; hence the choice of the oldest candidate last September.
(11) Money on screen is all well and good, but not if your recreated past is unpersuasive.
(12) These Brexit net-gain scenarios are ultimately unpersuasive because they identify the benefits of leaving but not the additional costs.
(13) But these, for the most part, are unpersuasive concerns, of minority or peripheral interest.
(14) I gave as much as I possibly could there from my memory.” Yet the judge called Morgan’s assertion that he had no knowledge of alleged phone hacking “ utterly unpersuasive ”.
(15) M. Segers and G. Annas' (Hastings Center Report, August 1977) criticisms of the U.S. Supreme Court's recent abortion decisions are thought to be unpersuasive.
(16) Lord Justice Leveson has described former Daily Mirror editor Piers Morgan's assertion that he had no knowledge of alleged phone hacking as "utterly unpersuasive", and said the practice may well have occurred at the title in the late 1990s.
(17) I find his hectoring communicative style unpersuasive and inappropriate and, if this is a vision of post-publication review in the future, God help us.
(18) Our analysis also shows that the tying claims are generally unpersuasive.
(19) Meadows said he found some of the emotive and strong language used by police as not supported by the evidence while other elements were weak and unpersuasive.
(20) There are some days I could cheerfully dangle my client by the ankles out the window.” Actors call on Amnesty to reject plans backing decriminalisation of sex trade Read more After her first foray into the industry while a student (a decision she can’t really explain fully, saying unpersuasively that she was inspired by Cynthia Payne), she was outed by a tabloid newspaper (her parents were “surprised”).