(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.
Urgently
Definition:
(adv.) In an urgent manner.
Example Sentences:
(1) This case demonstrates that the manifestations may be delayed and that urgent surgical intervention may be lifesaving despite the precarious status of these patients.
(2) Enright said: “We call on the home secretary and chair of IICSA [the independent inquiry into child sexual abuse] to engage actively and urgently to find a way forward that secures the confidence of survivors and provides the inquiry’s legal team with the resources and support they need to deliver justice and truth that survivors deserve.” Stein said his clients were “deeply disatisfied” with aspects of how the inquiry had been conducted but called for Emmerson to stay, adding: “I urge the home secretary to seek to find a way in which his valuable contribution can be maintained”.
(3) We are urgently investigating this incident with our supplier and ask customers to return this product to their local store."
(4) The patient presented urgently for Caesarean section, with fluid overload and worsening thrombocytopaenia.
(5) Their confidence in the practitioner's clinical judgment was greater in their care of nonurgent and urgent patients.
(6) The pope has written in his encyclical of the urgent need to reduce climate change gases.
(7) Zoellick was also clear that action was now urgently needed.
(8) The following year yet another Bank analyst wrote a report on BCCI entitled "Why action is now urgently required".
(9) And we owe [Hickox] better than that and all the people who do this work better than that.” The White House indicated that it was urgently reviewing the federal guidelines for returning healthcare workers, “recognising that these medical professionals’ selfless efforts to fight this disease on the front lines will be critical to bringing this epidemic under control, the only way to eliminate the risk of additional cases here at home”.
(10) The urgent endoscopy of the superior gastrointestinal haemorrhage carefully and quickly helps in clarifying the following questions: Is the patient going on bleeding?
(11) Close cooperation of ophthalmological departments with vitreoretinal centres and early performance of urgent surgery are the basic prerequisites of better functional results of PPV in EHE.
(12) "Ministers must urgently get behind a different approach to food and farming that delivers real sustainable solutions rather than peddling the snake oil that is GM ."
(13) Urinary frequency was normalized in 6 out of 16 (37.5%), urgency ceased in 6 out of 17 (35.7%) and urgent incontinence disappeared in 9 out of 14 (50%) patients.
(14) This issue should attract attention more urgently now in light of the deaths in Savar.
(15) Guide-wire fragments retained in the coronary artery system after PTCA are removed either immediately by means of catheter techniques or by urgent operation.
(16) Ownership is not the problem, affordable homes for people are what are urgently needed and will, it seems, need a new government.
(17) It is understood that counterterrorism police at Heathrow are urgently seeking a meeting with senior UKBA management over the missed alerts.
(18) Alongside investment in health campaigns to help people reduce their risk of cancer, the government urgently needs to take action to stop children starting smoking by introducing standardised packaging for cigarettes without delay”, he added.
(19) Four of the six related deaths and half the urgent operations occurred among 18 patients iwth colonic dilatation.
(20) The other two patients underwent urgent adrenalectomy and had postoperative improvement in their multiple organ system failure.