Initially they started off agitating for reforms and measures to promote Ireland's prosperity, however they moved from peaceful persuasion to "the threat of armed dictatorship".

That's where you get with your 'peaceful persuasion'!

That promise is now threatened by the Irish Republican Army's stubborn refusal to declare a final end to armed combat, give up its weapons and commit itself exclusively to peaceful political persuasion.

Israel publicly denied the claims, asserting that its agents only used methods of "peaceful persuasion".

Pickets were unable to communicate with the strike-breakers as they were whisked by - peaceful persuasion was not possible.

For a long while he had been the champion of peaceful persuasion.

Khrushchev's hopes of bringing the Albanians to heel by means of peaceful persuasion were certainly shattered by the time the Bucharest Conference had come to an end.

For now, Mr. Tang and senior Foreign Ministry officials said, China considers the new military exercises as "peaceful" persuasion intended to forestall having to resort to direct military confrontation.

Sometimes peaceful persuasion is more effective than a deadly display of fire and brimstone.

Attendance for the purpose of peaceful persuasion is what is protected by the Act.not mere attendance, standing with banners; the attendance is for oral communication.