But that is what Cypriots believe and none of us is going to persuade them of the contrary.
Or they may use the threat of breaching the limit as a tactic to persuade opponents of reform, such as the unions, of the need for dramatic action.
However, he may be able to take advantage of the disarray in these two main parties and persuade parts of them to break away and join him.
These hopes are unrealistic: more likely, the government is heading for a re-run of the shambolic episode in March when it could persuade none of the big banks to accept its money.
On Saturday, in the space of 10 maybe 15 minutes, whilst I tried vainly to persuade members of a Newtown women's club to do an interview, I saw a placard-carrying woman by the roadside approached, filmed, photographed by more than a dozen different cameramen and journalists.
IFAs accuse ministers of capitulating to the banks, whose support they will need in order to persuade thousands of small businesses to take up stakeholder pensions, due to go on sale next April.
This in turn increased the motivation of the committed insurgents to step up their attacks, and it improved their capacity to persuade members of the Iraqi population to try their hand at supporting violence.
Special penalties against those who commit or incite violence against one of these groups are necessary both to dissuade would-be extremists from action and to persuade members of minority groups that violent revenge is unnecessary because the state will act on their behalf.
Were Olmert and his colleagues in the government to recognize this state of affairs, perhaps they could join forces with governments - like the Kenyan government - to persuade Bush of the dangers inherent in his embrace of this recipe for failure.
"It will take more than just a couple of collapses to persuade loyal consumers of Blackberry services to look for alternatives, " he said.
They accept the need to persuade all of the above that they've got this right.
Without a crisis it is hard to persuade voters of the need for radical change.
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Bertelsmann may be able to persuade some of them to defect but only by offering better deals.
No government has found the courage to persuade France of the need for shock-therapy.
Such policies made it "ever more difficult" to persuade people of the benefits of remaining within the EU, he added.
Their stories augment the big story and in turn help continue to persuade employees of the necessity of embracing the initiative.
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National service, if it is to take off, will have to persuade millions of local voluntary bodies to co-operate with federal bureaucracies.
He hopes to persuade City of Hope to produce materials for some of his own trials, including a novel treatment for liver tumors.
Although others will remain in the field until the autumn, most will struggle to persuade 20 of their parliamentary colleagues to nominate them.
Mr Zhang's skill has been to persuade some of Beijing's newspapers (though scepticism has since crept in) that he is a reformist pioneer.
Mrs Merkel struggled to persuade members of her squabbling coalition to vote for an expansion of the euro zone's bail-out fund in parliament this week.
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Little attempt was made to persuade Europeans of the euro's merits.
For if Americans see the court as no more than another partisan body, the justices' capacity to persuade persons of diverse ideological hues will be lost.
These, it is feared, would take advantage of any changes to persuade farmers unaware of land values to sell their holdings at less than market rates.
Whatever their boss says, it will take a great deal more transparency than Iran has offered so far to persuade them of its claimed peaceful intent.
All these agencies must persuade Congress of their views, and Congress has over the years accumulated support agencies such as the General Accounting Office to help it challenge the administration.
But if Orange and T-Mobile do not persuade plenty of Vodafone, O2 and Three customers to switch sides, then Britain's 4G revolution will have got off to a faltering start.
I'm looking forward to a constructive debate in the years ahead, and most importantly to effective negotiation with our European partners to persuade them of the merits of our case.
As a result, he has done little to prepare public opinion, let alone to persuade it of the necessity of yet more short-term unpleasantness for the sake of longer-term gratification.
He added that Ministers should have travelled to Germany to persuade Bosch of the importance of the plant to Wales, and to underline the dedication and skills of the Welsh workforce.
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