Word: convincingã
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...They didn’t need any convincing??€”the ranch owners had invited us to film. There wasn’t any reticence to our presence, but some wariness. The two hired hands [who are much of the film’s focus]—I am good friends with them both...
...However, those whom he did have a chance of convincing??€”the Republican moderates—have largely abandoned their party to become independents or Democrats. Pennsylvania Senator Arlen Specter is the latest of these converts. In order to gauge the breadth of Obama’s popularity fairly, therefore, one must turn to his support among independents...
...best efforts, it doesn’t emphasize the horrors of the past eight years, from torture to rampant war to widespread mismanagement and the gutting of civil liberties. Instead, it caricatures the people who put those policies in place and neglects the arguments—some of them convincing??€”that made those policies possible.This is the reality Clintonian politics never understood: many on the other side of the political divide aren’t rabid partisans. They’re citizens genuinely concerned about the best way to run the country, and they find plausible answers coming...
...life possible for them. If we do this we will retain the traditional—and I believe admirable—idea that general education should be devoted primarily to the development of the individual’s character, while dispensing with the traditional—but no longer convincing??€”assumption that there is a single appropriate way to live...
Thomas said that attracting Podolny took some convincing??€”Podolny initially turned down requests to serve as dean of SOM before finally accepting when the school renewed its efforts...