Antonym: dissuasion. Similar words: persuasive, persuasively, persuade, evasion, under suspicion, invasion, occasion, abrasion. Meaning: [pər'sweɪʒn /pə's-] 
n. 1. the act of persuading (or attempting to persuade); communication intended to induce belief or action 2. a personal belief or judgment that is not founded on proof or certainty.
n. 1. the act of persuading (or attempting to persuade); communication intended to induce belief or action 2. a personal belief or judgment that is not founded on proof or certainty. 
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121. Vigour and tenacity, however, were softened by a talent for propaganda and persuasion.
122. In other words, subordinates are unsettled by a boss who chops and changes between autocracy, persuasion, consultation and democracy.
123. Engineering change through quiet persuasion nevertheless requires clear-cut goals and a strong sense of direction.
124. Andrew Schrack, who posts fliers around the base and uses a little friendly persuasion on his closest co-workers.
125. He wanted somebody else to have done the persuasion and taught her a thing or two first.
126. After some persuasion on his part he managed to scrape together four reluctant nominees.
127. Friendly persuasion A more reliable test is whether a fruit comes away from the plant without much persuasion.
128. Older academics, of whatever persuasion, were hostile to the idea of overt professionalism in literary study.
129. We believe it will take more than just gentle persuasion to bring an end to over-specification and waste.
130. That in turn would have necessitated the appointment of enough peers of the Liberal persuasion to acquiesce in abolition.
131. She needed no persuasion to join the party after that.
132. The fate of the bill in Congress will depend on Brady's powers of persuasion.
133. For Athenian citizens at least,[http://sentencedict.com/persuasion.html] theirs was a society governed by persuasion and consensus as opposed to force and coercion.
134. If so, it's about tune you rediscovered your powers of persuasion.
135. What price a higher handicap for those of us of the bow-legged persuasion.
136. He prides himself on his powers of persuasion -- or, in other words, his salesmanship.
137. Meetings Meetings provide good opportunities to practise persuasion and to raise your status among subordinates, peers and bosses.
138. At the beginning of November, in search of a political writer, he set out for Oxford, persuasion on his mind.
139. All our persuasion was of no use.
140. Mr. Abel needed no more remonstrance or persuasion.
141. He enjoys polemics, persuasion(sentencedict.com), and controversy.
142. Frim successful persuasion, advance and retreat by easy stages.
143. He had no authority to intervene except by persuasion.
144. This was altogether a splendid time for friendly persuasion.
145. A bullheaded person listens to no persuasion.
146. Friendly persuasion is the stock-in-trade of every salesman.
147. Find your own charismatic persuasion state.
148. His method of persuasion involves both charm and intimidation.
149. To quiet or bring under control by physical force or persuasion; make tractable.
150. Ideological problems can be solved only through persuasion, not by coercion.
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