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order and persuade
According to this tale, it was composed in order to persuade the Council of Trent that a draconian ban on the polyphonic treatment of text in sacred music ( as opposed, that is, to a more directly intelligible homophonic treatment ) was unnecessary.
Eventually, Ko-Ko must persuade Katisha to marry him, in order to save his own life and the lives of the other conspirators.
The Dominicans in Bern tried to persuade Zwingli to join their order and it is possible that he was received as a novice.
This time, Judah spoke to his father in order to persuade him about having Benjamin accompany them, so as to prevent Egyptian retribution.
This speech is not given in order to persuade the audience to condemn or forgive the deceased, but rather a way to understand the person as a whole, including any flaws or misdeeds.
The term is derived from the Trojan Horse story in Greek mythology because Trojan horses employ a form of “ social engineering ,” presenting themselves as harmless, useful gifts, in order to persuade victims to install them on their computers.
In order to counter this, and possibly with an eye already at the mounting Persian preparations, in 483 / 2 BC the Athenian statesman Themistocles used his political skills and influence to persuade the Athenian assembly to start the construction of 200 triremes, using the income of the newly discovered silver mines at Laurion.
On June 11, 631, Emperor Taizong also sent envoys to the Xueyantuo bearing gold and silk in order to persuade the release of enslaved Chinese prisoners who were captured during the transition from Sui to Tang from the northern frontier ; this embassy succeeded in freeing 80, 000 Chinese men and women who were then returned to China.
In order to engineer this urgently needed meeting, Roosevelt tried to persuade Stalin to travel to Cairo to attend such a meeting.
Faculty member Myra Fleener warns the new coach not to try to persuade Jimmy to change his mind ; she believes he needs to focus on school work in order to get a scholarship to attend college and have a better future.
* Stanley Ridges as Professor Alexander Siletsky, a Nazi spy masquerading as a Polish resistance worker who tries to seduce Maria in order to persuade her to become a Nazi spy.
Selene finally convinced Artemis, who, in turn, elicited her brother Apollo's help, in order to persuade Zeus to allow the island to arise from the sea.
Later on, he tries again to persuade the Trojans to stay inside the city in order to raise troop morale, but it is Aeneas that opposes his opinion this time, on the grounds that the Greeks will not be disheartened by a long stay inside the walls.
He is the father of Dora's unborn child as a result of a one night stand and is brought to see Mrs Bramson in order for her to persuade him to marry Dora.
In 1962, when Robinson returned to Paris — where he was still a national hero — in order to persuade him to make the trip, the French promised to bring over his masseur, his hairdresser, a guy who whistled while he trained, and his trademark Cadillac.
* Greenpeace, with whom the band worked in order to persuade world leaders to attend the climate conference in Copenhagen and who were one of the sponsors of their ' The Economy Sucks Let's Party Tour '.
For example he managed to persuade his mother Erika Möbius that he was allowed to stop attending school and start an apprenticeship in a studio for photography, which he then quit in order to join a music conservatory and later to follow his two older brothers to Berlin at the early age of 17 in order to put the world's first " Rock Opera " onto stage.
In order to convince it is necessary to persuade, and to persuade you will need something that you lack: reason and right in the struggle.
When Debbie Reynolds was cast instead, MacLaine publicly accused her of agreeing to accept a lower salary in order to land the role, and director Charles Walters, who preferred MacLaine, tried to persuade Reynolds to turn down the part.
By September 1986, Machel, Robert Mugabe, and Kenneth Kaunda visited Banda in order to persuade him to stop supporting RENAMO.
Examples of companies that have made use of these techniques in order to persuade their clients:
Pattison to attempt to persuade him that law and order had been restored in the town.

order and Spartans
Furthermore, the Spartans were obliged to repatriate Themistocles in order to free their own ambassadors.
The Spartans prepare to send out an army against this new alliance, and order Agesilaus to return to Greece.
The next year the Spartans had opened negotiations with the Persians, and in order to secure their position in Greece offered to abandon all the cities in Asia to them.
* The Persian satrap, Struthas, pursues an anti-Spartan policy, prompting the Spartans to order their governor to the Greek cities of Ionia, Thibron, to attack him.
In order to redirect the Spartans attention to Greek affairs, Artaxerxes subsidized their enemies: in particular the Athenians, Thebans and Corinthians.
Because Leonidas was not heir to the throne, he was not exempt from attending the agoge, the public school that the sons of all Spartans had to complete in order to qualify for citizenship.
Although some Spartans were in favor of resuming the battle in order to recover the bodies of their dead, the allied perioeci of the Spartan left wing were less than willing to continue fighting ( indeed some of them were quite pleased at the turn of events ).
Several messengers did so, the last of whom left Styphon with the message " The Spartans order you to make your decision yourselves, so long as you do nothing dishonorable.
First, the Athenian fleet was divided into eight autonomous divisions, each commanded by one of the generals ; second, they arranged their fleet in a double line instead of the traditional single line in order to prevent the Spartans from using the maneuver known as the diekplous, in which a trireme raced into a gap between two enemy ships and then wheeled to strike one of them in the side ; if the Spartans attempted this against a double line, a ship from the second line could move up to attack the Spartan ship.
The Spartans and their allies had been invading Attica every year, burning, looting and vandalizing farm property with unusual ferocity in order to provoke the Athenians into a land battle that they couldn't win.
Admirers of the Spartans typically praise their valor and success in war, their " laconic " austerity and self-restraint, their aristocratic and virtuous ways, the stable order of their political life and their constitution, with its tripartite mixed government.
Struthas pursued an anti-Spartan policy, prompting the Spartans to order their commander in the region, Thibron, to attack him.
In 2552, the Chief and Spartans return to Reach, where the UNSC High Command has developed a last-ditch plan to capture a Covenant High Prophet, who they hope could be used in order to barter a truce.
The Spartans become heroes and veritable legends ; in order to maintain public confidence that the war is going well, Spartans are never listed as killed, only as Missing in Action or Wounded in Action.

order and defend
Around 10, 000 Allied troops arrived in Darwin in the early 1940s at the outset of World War II, in order to defend Australia's northern coastline.
Here, in their lives, they are active participants in the conflict and it is their duty to defend order, which would decay without counteraction.
Pauline Léon, on 6 March 1792, submitted a petition signed by 319 women to the National Assembly requesting permission to form a garde national in order to defend Paris in case of military invasion.
In order for them to defend the Rhine frontier against the Germans, he then allowed the Helvetii, Tulingi and Latobrigi to return to their territories and to rebuild their homes, instructing the Allobroges to supply them with a sufficient supply of grain.
He often cited the Church Fathers in order to defend the reformed cause against the charge that the reformers were creating new theology.
The Kingdom of Sunda made an alliance treaty with Portugal by allowing the Portuguese to build a port in 1522 in order to defend against the rising power of the Sultanate of Demak from central Java.
* Maintaining awareness of surroundings while dealing with the threat in order to look for escape routes, further attackers, objects that could be used to defend or help attack and so on.
This weakness was exposed during the Abyssinia Crisis, when Britain and France had to balance maintaining the security they had attempted to create for themselves in Europe " to defend against the enemies of internal order ", in which Italy's support played a pivotal role, with their obligations to Abyssinia as a member of the League.
* 1958 – May 1958 crisis: a group of French military officers lead a coup in Algiers demanding that a government of national unity be formed with Charles de Gaulle at its head in order to defend French control of Algeria.
She was meant to appear with Richard Ofshe in the 1990 U. S. v. Fishman Case, in which Steven Fishman claimed to have been under mind control by the Church of Scientology in order to defend himself against charges of embezzlement, but the courts disallowed her testimony.
Liberal nationalists often defend the value of national identity by saying that individuals need a national identity in order to lead meaningful, autonomous lives and that liberal democratic polities need national identity in order to function properly.
In the same age, the fortifications of the city were rebuilt in order to better defend against the growing instability in the Balkans.
After the police failed to bring the demonstrators to order, Ion Iliescu called on the " men of good will " to come and defend the State institutions in Bucharest.
In order to defend against Saxon raiders, the Romans created a military district called the Litus Saxonicum (" Saxon Coast ") on both sides of the English Channel.
The building of " monster warships " resumed and the U. S. and Great Britain were unable to quickly rearm themselves to defend an international order and stop Japan from remilitarizing.
To avert this Walpole and Newcastle decided to pay a large subsidy to both Austria and to Hanover, in order for them to raise troops and defend themselves.
* August 4 – Gen. John J. Pershing, in a nationwide radio broadcast, urges all-out aid to Britain in order to defend the Americas, while Charles Lindbergh speaks to an isolationist rally at Soldier Field in Chicago.
* 458 BC: Cincinnatus is named dictator of the Roman Republic in order to defend it against Aequi.
Knox acted as his bodyguard, bearing a two-handed sword in order to defend him.
In order to defend these men, Knox sent out letters calling the nobles to convene.
Such criticisms have provoked counter-criticisms that orthodox Catholics are in effect casting the Catholic Church as a friend of authoritarian regimes ; and that the Vatican is not so much trying to defend pure doctrine as to maintain an established ecclesiastical and political order.
The Templars who appeared in Vienne to defend their order were not allowed to present their case: originally cardinals of the collegium ruled that they should be allowed to raise a defense, but after the arrival of the King of France in Vienne, putting pressure on the collegium, this decision was revoked.
By contrast, the Dominican order, a teaching order founded by St Dominic in 1215, to propagate and defend Christian doctrine, placed more emphasis on the use of reason and made extensive use of the new Aristotelian sources derived from the East, and Moorish Spain.

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