persuasive evidence
collocation in Englishmeaningsofpersuasiveandevidence
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persuasive
adjective
uk/pəˈsweɪ.sɪv/us/pɚˈsweɪ.sɪv/
making you want to do or believe a ...
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evidence
noun[U]
uk/ˈev.ɪ.dəns/us/ˈev.ə.dəns/
one or more reasons for believing that something is or is ...
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The temporal association between the life events and the onset of disorder provides quitepersuasiveevidencethat a contribution to a causal process is involved.
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Advocacy for academically based teacher education informs this article, which stresses the need forpersuasiveevidenceof its value.
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But there is nopersuasiveevidenceto sustain it.
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Moreover, the close interdependence of its musical and textual structures ispersuasiveevidencefor the work of a single mind in its composition.
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The domains themselves are undeniably important and relevant, and will bepersuasiveevidenceof the importance of micro level analysis of social life.
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In subsequent debates, scholars have commented on the factors that enabled coverture to endure, and they have providedpersuasiveevidenceabout factors that led to coverture's demise.
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Many researchers identified rapid diffusion of new technologies as one driver of cost increases and contended some technologies proliferated withoutpersuasiveevidenceof their effects on costs and outcomes.
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The parsimonious and indeed most plausible default assumption to make is always one of biological continuity, and one should demand extremelypersuasiveevidenceto reject it.
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My support for the first option partly derives from my instinctive preference—unless there is verypersuasiveevidenceto the contrary—for self-regulation rather than state regulation.
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Again, on the face of it, it would seem to have somepersuasiveevidenceto support it.
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That would be clear andpersuasiveevidenceabout people's views.
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I believe there is increasinglypersuasiveevidencelinking diet to both these areas.
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We are aware of thepersuasiveevidencethat fluoridation is an important and effective method of protecting the population from tooth decay.
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The mostpersuasiveevidenceof our determination will be our willingness to sustain our unity and defence effort.
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It ispersuasiveevidenceof that embarrassment that great subterfuges are resorted to and clandestine procedures are used.
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However, they do not feature in the later schemes because of the lack of anypersuasiveevidencethat such payments stimulated better management and were cost effective.
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However, if the commissioner did not accept the evidence of third parties, he could avoid making adverse comments in most cases and simply accept thepersuasiveevidence.
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The effect of a written statement would therefore bepersuasiveevidenceof the contract to a court, but it would not be binding....
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There is nopersuasiveevidencethat autism is caused by autoimmunity.
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The mostpersuasiveevidencecame from the systematic nature of the persecution itself.
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