It was described as a persuasive answer to the question, "What is man," in the October, 1974 edition of Current Anthropology.

The more persuasive answer is that Mr. Bush protects his embattled advisers because they are doing precisely what he told them to do.

Or it could fail to offer a persuasive answer to the question "Who needs it?"

Chekov ran a hand through his thick mop of hair, trying to conjure a persuasive answer.

If Mr. Dukakis can think of a persuasive answer, the undecideds will listen.

"Pro Paraguay still has not come up with a persuasive answer to the question, 'Why Paraguay?' "

In over a decade of looking at the question, no one has ever been able to provide a persuasive answer.

In another age I should have said diabolic possession, and it is a persuasive answer even now - one day herself and none so charming, the next cold, cruel, full of hurt.

(LT) Many thanks, Commissioner, for your detailed and persuasive answer.

But what persuasive answer can it possibly give?