"Retire to Arizona," said Menachem Rosensaft, a lawyer of liberal persuasion who happened to call the other day.

But Massachusetts has elected Republican governors since 1990, and the Democrats are hardly all of the liberal persuasion.

Academic social reformers of a liberal persuasion maintain that workers are not merely factory parts, but citizens with equal rights.

"More people who are of a liberal persuasion go into reporting because they believe in the ethics and the ideals," she continued.

Certainly, some individuals who were of a liberal persuasion of that nature deserve credit.

Thinkers of a liberal persuasion argue that redistribution of any property is a direct form of coercion.

Allen is one of the few Catholic journalists respected by Catholics of both "liberal" and "conservative" persuasions.

He was a communicant of the Church of England, but of liberal persuasion.

Even so, as is true with virtually all major denominations, the debate between the conservative and liberal persuasions of the Lutheran Church continues today.

Axis Thoreau is also occupied by Naderites, though of a more liberal persuasion.