Good rhetorical skills help to generate soft power.

The shoes were made of some soft stuff that looked like leather.

Hang Seav Heang, 28, described the defendant as a gentle man, a good father.

Another argument for relaxing our attitude to cannabis is that it is non addictive.

Democracy promotion is better accomplished by soft attraction than hard coercion, and it takes time and patience.

In short, there are many strands to an effective long term strategy for creating soft power resources and promoting conditions for the development of democracy.

Particularly in the Middle East, where revolutions are likely to last for a generation, a smart combination of hard and soft power will be difficult to achieve.

Not the image of a country that tortures its citizens, of course, but perhaps of a gentler nation that offers detainees the option of a being raped with a bottle instead.

When the tradeoff is between taking lives and, say, reducing property theft, the case for milder punishments is far stronger.

But today, France and Germany are less united on a common European strategy, and their commitment to European integration seems less strong. As a result, the French government is reluctant to force a confrontation with the British, if there is any chance of a softer compromise in future.

Power in a global information age, more than ever, will include a soft dimension of attraction as well as the hard dimensions of coercion and payment.

As a result, the French government is reluctant to force a confrontation with the British, if there is any chance of a softer compromise in future.

Maybe this is the writer's intention, to let the readers feel the sense of soft burial because it is a reality that we are facing in our lives.

The process of protracted strikes could thwart positive political changes among the younger generation, thus reducing the chances of a more democratic and benign Iran emerging in the future.

Afghans living abroad often report peculiar nan cravings, including toothache from eating the softer sliced bread that cannot compare to their beloved staple.

Meanwhile, such an approach might avoid the costly use of force and buy time for a more benign outcome than what lies at the end of the current path of events.

In 1965, Leary commented that he had learned more about ... (his) brain and its possibilities ... more about psychology in the five hours after taking these mushrooms than ... in the preceding 15 years of studying and doing research in psychology.

Questions of appropriate style when to use hard and soft skills are equally relevant for men and women, and should not be clouded by traditional gender stereotypes.

They themselves are divided, with preferences ranging from Sharia rule in one form or another to a Turkish model involving mild Islamism capable of achieving mass support through the ballot box.

And, just as ASEAN has been unable and unwilling to stand up to China over its encroachment in the South China Sea, the EU is already discovering the limits of its soft power, consensus driven approach to Russia.

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Or perhaps there just isn't a name for this broken, soft indifference, this cracked exhaustion crushing our civic consciousness, this simple perception of reality we endure day by day.

The question of America s role in helping to produce a more benign world in 2030 has important implications for President Barack Obama as he approaches his second term.

Other experimental studies conducted by the young researcher in 1914 were checking formulas for capillary pressure in gas bubbles and the study of the properties of soft beta radiation appearing in the fall of gamma rays on the surface of metal.

After all, four decades of evidence has now shown that corporations in Europe as well as the US are evading the meritocratic hiring and promotion of women to top positions no matter how much soft pressure is put upon them.

Russian President Vladimir Putin argues that Iran, unlike North Korea, has not expelled IAEA nuclear inspectors, quit the Non Proliferation Treaty (NPT) or tested a weapon so it should be dealt with gently.

When we round every corner and eliminate every sharp object, every pokey bit in the world, then the first time that kids come in contact with anything sharp or not made out of round plastic, they'll hurt themselves with it.