How To Use Unpersuasive In A Sentence
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I found their arguments unpersuasive, however, precisely because they rested on exactly the same sort of hearsay that Brooks and others rely on to demonstrate the anti-conservative prejudice of the academy.
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However, at 14.46, up 13p, the 2.3 per cent yield is unpersuasive in itself.
Times, Sunday Times
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All of which is doubtless music to a workflow planner's ears but somehow unpersuasive.
Times, Sunday Times
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That prodigy was central to the other notably unpersuasive statement currently reverberating in golf.
Times, Sunday Times
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Cheney found the arguments for the combat troop carrier unpersuasive and its problems irredeemable.
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Oh, the words are still there, of course, but presidents of both parties flagrantly ignore them - sometimes with fancy arguments that are remarkably unpersuasive, but mainly by now with shrugging indifference.
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In the 1950s, they were fading a little, helped by sad variants from Dunn & Co in corduroy and unpersuasive tweed; by the 1960s, there was hardly a hat to be seen.
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"The notion that the territories of the Commonwealth are disjoined from the one federal union is unpersuasive to me, " Justice Kirby said.
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The explanation offered in his letter - 'a journey a not entirely unimportant cause' - was nebulous and unpersuasive.
The Times Literary Supplement
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Second, there is at least a colorable argument - if, I think in the end, an unpersuasive one - that the surveillance was authorized by the Authorization to Use Miltary Force.
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It seems to me that this sort of argument is ultimately deeply unpersuasive, because it relies too much on moral abstractions that sound appealing but simply do not confront the powerful realist counterarguments.
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But this raises a troubling question, especially for opponents of Bush's policy: If his ostensible reasons are unpersuasive even to him, what are his real reasons?
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A deeply-conventional thriller that generates some unconventional laughs, Novocaine is an unpersuasive homage to the hardboiled archetypes of gullible men and the women who drive them to destruction.
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This last point is trivial and the others unpersuasive.
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The positive alternatives he suggested typically look unpersuasive, tending to be either utopian or, at very least - given the circumstances in which he offered them - impracticable to a degree.
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Michael Kinsley's Slate column repeats an argument that I've always found singularly unpersuasive.
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That's where this thriller, although unpersuasive at times, gets under your skin: that sense, long a thriller and horror staple, that the monster is really that part that you repress in yourself.
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The second part strikes me as strained and unpersuasive.
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In fact, Kerry did respond to the tape, but his response - renewing his charge that Bush ‘outsourced’ the Tora Bora campaign - was viewed by most voters as unpersuasive.
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Now I suspect that the chief justice's full argument was more sophisticated and thorough than that, but the Boston Globe's seemingly quite friendly rendition of the argument struck me as unpersuasive.
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The resultant sheitels might be hard, shiny and unpersuasive, but they were reassuringly free from the whiff of idolatry.
The Times Literary Supplement
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This was seen as charming but unpersuasive.
Times, Sunday Times
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He resisted vaccination during the foot and mouth outbreak, not because the science was unpersuasive, but because the farmers resisted it.
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The answer he offers is not only unpersuasive; it provides a good basis for the contrary view.
The Times Literary Supplement
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All of which is doubtless music to a workflow planner's ears but somehow unpersuasive.
Times, Sunday Times
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Also, your argument that the language indicating the availability of mandamus should not be a redundancy is highly unpersuasive, maybe the purpose was to make sure that a direct interlocutory appeal would not be available under the collateral order doctrine, and alternatively, if the collateral order doctrine did not apply, to ensure that mandamus would be available despite the lack of an independent source of jurisdiction.
The Volokh Conspiracy » A Crime Victim’s Right to Appellate Review?
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But the grounds set forth in support of this conclusion are unpersuasive, and the authors completely fail to address the evidence of political bias that their own report contains, especially with respect to Mary Mapes.
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Added to this is the fact that simply to declare the US a democracy despite some regional ‘blemishes’ is, in our view, intellectually and historically unpersuasive, as well as morally wrong.
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Second, there is at least a colorable argument - if, I think in the end, an unpersuasive one - that the surveillance was authorized by the Authorization to Use Miltary Force.
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Instead, a rationalistic view of reality prevails over an affectivity which is weak and ultimately unpersuasive.
High school anthology: "The Cold Equations"
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Sharp criticism indicates that NICE's honeymoon period is long since over and that there is, or will be, resistance to implementation of pieces of guidance that are particularly expensive or clinically unpersuasive.
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Putting aside the unpersuasive suggestion that the City's plan will provide only purely economic benefits, neither precedent nor logic supports petitioners' proposal.
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For all their ugliness of language and unpersuasive fury, then, the current crop of political pamphlets bears a striking resemblance to the increasingly democratic culture in which they flourish.
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The jury concluded police evidence was unpersuasive.
The Sun
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Even with the exclamation mark, the analogy is inexact and unpersuasive.
The Times Literary Supplement
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Well, we're in the process now of overreacting to fairly small, possibly in part copycat, improvised and wholly unpersuasive attacks, if we want to dignify them with that name.
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You may say that the decision in the House of Lords is persuasive, unpersuasive, good, bad, flawed here, not flawed there, but, at this stage, should we set our face against referring it in for consideration by a Full Court?
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The resultant sheitels might be hard, shiny and unpersuasive, but they were reassuringly free from the whiff of idolatry.
The Times Literary Supplement
