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He is persuasive that “ideas about slavery permeated early-modern English culture,” and that the development of American slavery was not “a simple function of material interests.”

These companies use low cost ingredients, large-scale production methods, and highly persuasive marketing to encourage widespread consumption.

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After Pericles’ death from plague in 429 B.C., rhetorical and political authority is seized by Cleon, an upstart demagogue who is the “most violent person in Athens” and “the most persuasive.”

To minimise the prospect of parliamentary opposition, Mahmood has been meeting groups of Labour MPs in recent weeks to make what her allies call "the persuasive moral case for reform".

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And his portraits convey persuasive presences reminiscent of Goya.

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