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persuasion

noun as in act of convincing

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noun as in belief, religion

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I worry that entire academic departments could be felled by it, and certainly professors of certain persuasions.

Yet politics is, above all else, the art of persuasion.

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The prime minister has been successful in the former, but the persuasion bit?

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And when millions mistake performance for persuasion, the very foundations of democratic life are at risk.

I know that many people of all political persuasions admire that someone as talented as you is the living embodiment of social mobility.

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