Ultimately, this victory was not ensured by the persuasive nature of the new dimensions of the bloc's political discourse.
There are persuasive theoretical and empirical arguments in the literature that suggest corruption in particular may be a major explanatory factor in the resource curse.
That is, the analogy we are asked to draw here - between adding evolution and dropping metabolism - is too weak to be persuasive.
The only advantage of adopting a weaker form of metabolism is that it allows virtual life and that is not sufficiently persuasive.
Nonetheless, the case for gradient alignment of feet and word-heads is not persuasive.
It may never set its own tests, however persuasive be its usages.
It never may set its own tests, however persuasive be its usages.
But that still leaves us a long way from the elaboration of a persuasive reform program.
