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At a time of economic uncertainty and weaker recruitment, persuading employers to hire more people from the benefit roll could prove an uphill task.

We need to simplify the process for small employers. We also need to build demand among employees by persuading them to consider retirement planning a priority.

And he went into the synagogue, and spake boldly for the space of three months, disputing and persuading the things concerning the kingdom of God.

Most large organizations have a big investment in Symantec tools and wouldn't normally consider switching. This year, however, Symantec's products have repeatedly shown up on the list of the software with critical new security vulnerabilities. Many corporate IT managers are angry and frustrated that their security vendor is as careless as the operating system vendors in writing bad code. And Microsoft has succeeded in persuading many of them that they are far ahead of other software vendors in improving the situation for new products.

Unless the settlement activity stops, there is little hope of persuading the Palestinians that the Israelis mean business when they talk of peace.

The issue of what my role in the - in persuading the Bush administration to go to war has been greatly exaggerated.

I think that my job is more to set direction, define objectives and develop strategies for reaching them, ... One takes account of the various constituencies in both shaping that agenda and persuading people about it, but if the primary goal were just balancing off the different interests of people, that would make the job pretty uninteresting.

I think the administration lowered the bar a bit too far. And if the deal is implemented as it currently stands, in my view there will be some negative implications for our global non-proliferation efforts. I think we'll have a harder time persuading other countries to tighten the rules while we're urging them to make exceptions.

It only takes a day to change someone from an anti-intellectual to an intellectual by persuading him that he might be one!

There is a holy, mistaken zeal in politics, as well as in religion. By persuading others, we convince ourselves.