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  1. persuading

    Persuasion or persuasion arts is an umbrella term for influence. Persuasion can influence a person's beliefs, attitudes, intentions, motivations, or behaviours.Persuasion is studied in many disciplines. Rhetoric studies modes of persuasion in speech and writing and is often taught as a classical subject.: 46  Psychology looks at persuasion through the lens of individual behaviour and neuroscience studies the brain activity associated with this behaviour. History and political science are interested in the role of propaganda in shaping historical events. In business, persuasion is aimed at influencing a person's (or group's) attitude or behaviour towards some event, idea, object, or another person (s) by using written, spoken, or visual methods to convey information, feelings, or reasoning, or a combination thereof. Persuasion is also often used to pursue personal gain, such as election campaigning, giving a sales pitch, or in trial advocacy. Persuasion can also be interpreted as using personal or positional resources to change people.

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  1. Persuading

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of persuading in Chaldean Numerology is: 2

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of persuading in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6

Examples of persuading in a Sentence

  1. Socrates:

    I do nothing but go about persuading you all, old and young alike, not to take thought for your persons or your properties, but and chiefly to care about the greatest improvement of the soul. I tell you that virtue is not given by money, but that from virtue comes money and every other good of man, public as well as private. This is my teaching, and if this is the doctrine which corrupts the youth, I am a mischievous person.

  2. Dominic Epton:

    I've become adept at persuading - read 'bribing' - the children to vacate 'work HQ' when I jump on client or other confidential calls.

  3. Gilbert Highet:

    What is politics but persuading the public to vote for this and support that and endure these for the promise of those

  4. Glenn Simpson:

    You couldn't use this stuff in a court of law. Or if you tried you would not have a very easy time persuading anyone that it was useful, the missing sections clearly contain discussions that would be relevant to any inquiry.

  5. John Dickson:

    Christians need to recover what the first Christians faced - they had no power or legislative clout, they just got on with serving, persuading and praying.

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