Tom can be pretty convincing.

Do you buy that explanation?

Do you buy that explanation?

I know how persuasive Tom can be.

Like Chaudhuri, Kagan is an engaging writer.

But RWT is costly, too, as we have seen, so the aggregate negative effect of the policy response to false positives (AWF) would have to be large to be convincing.

Evidence about a housing bubble in the 1980's was compelling. Buyers were influenced by strong expectations about future price increases, and they perceived little risk.

Net contributors would be locked into a relationship with the markets a convincing creditor.

It has to get very compelling before we'll pay attention.

Evidence about a housing bubble in the 1980's was compelling.

Perhaps more convincing, there seems to be historical precedent for such a partnership.

The APC s change message was compelling and the campaign stayed on message throughout the campaign.

With most of the country now ablaze, this argument is less convincing.

It will just stretch from the bottom, you see,' he went on with a persuasive gesture, 'and go up and up till it gets there.'

If he does recognizing that, to be credible, the rule of law must apply even to the Party s most influential figures he will become modern China s third strongest leader.

Cleaning up the Niger Delta would provide the strongest possible example of a new age of accountability.

Less certain, however, is the premise that the world order would collapse without American leadership.

This is clear and convincing evidence of the ECB s previous policy missteps in the normalization of interest rate process.

sound economic analysis, and background papers readily available for technocrats and others to study

The most convincing way to do that is to moderate America s excessive taste for power, which it demonstrated in Iraq.

It is a telling commentary on the moral bankruptcy of the UN that this decision comes at so delicate a time for the organization.

This message was persuasive enough for Western governments, especially the United States, to continue to lavish money and arms on Mubarak and other Arab allies.

His appraisal of his record in office is notably accurate, and stands as a convincing testament to the effectiveness of his leadership.

With the stakes so high, the human and economic case for leaders to take mental health seriously is clearly compelling.

In early 2001, former United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan launched a powerful and persuasive appeal to establish the Global Fund.

Indeed, perhaps the most compelling reason to hope that the negotiators will move quickly toward an agreement is their governments fear of the alternatives.

These regimes typically need to dramatize their cohesion, showing in convincing ways that they are in fact unified to deter internal challengers.

Admittedly, however, the argument in favor of capital punishment becomes less clear cut as the number of lives saved per execution falls.

We need a breakthrough that is demonstrable, public, clear, and convincing, that can mobilize the public s hearts and minds, and that can demonstrate success.

To be or not to be...

To be or not to be?

Could be, could be.

To be or not to be.

setting against him everything bad she could find in him and forgiving him nothing, on account of the terrible fault toward him of which she was guilty. 'But, Anna,' said Vronsky persuasively and gently, trying to pacify her, 'he must be told, all the same, and afterwards our action will be guided by his attitude.'

BEING GAY MEANS BEING UNAPPRECIATED!

It seems to me to be such a plausible, natural extension of the democratic principles we already have, that I'm shocked to think anybody would find that just ridiculous.

Maybe, maybe not...

We have just witnessed an example of the second kind in India, the world s largest and greatest democracy, where 420 million voters there returned a Congress led government with a solid majority. It was in many respects a personal triumph for Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.

Nowadays, a more telling test of the vitality of a democracy is respect for the rights of minorities, recognition of the supremacy of the principles of the rule of law, and the acceptance of legal equality among citizens.

We have just witnessed an example of the second kind in India, the world s largest and greatest democracy, where 420 million voters there returned a Congress led government with a solid majority.

In this case, Iran reaches out to Saudi Arabia with a convincing indication that it does not intend to bolster its influence at the expense of the Saudis or their allies.

To be developed means to be industrialized and urbanized.

Maybe his father intended to be cruel.

With his 36 year record in the US Senate, national stature, and essentially conservative constituency, he would certainly have won again in November. But none of this was persuasive enough for Indiana primary voters, who backed his rival, State Treasurer Richard Mourdock, by an astonishing 20 point margin.

Nowadays, a more telling test of the vitality of a democracy is respect for the rights of minorities, recognition of the supremacy of the principles of the rule of law, and the acceptance of legal equality among citizens.