Vocabulary Word
Word: cogent
Definition: convincing
Definition: convincing
Sentences Containing 'cogent'
Pray write instantly, and let me understand it unless it is, for very cogent reasons, to remain in the secrecy which Lydia seems to think necessary; and then I must endeavor to be satisfied with ignorance.''
Caesar gave way before such cogent reasoning, and the cardinals were consequently invited to dinner.
But the last term of the definition is still more cogent, as coupled with the first.
The anatomical fact of this labyrinth is indisputable; and that the supposition founded upon it is reasonable and true, seems the more cogent to me, when I consider the otherwise inexplicable obstinacy of that leviathan in HAVING HIS SPOUTINGS OUT, as the fishermen phrase it.
And by the soundest commentators this has ever been held a cogent argument in such matters.
This is a cogent vice thou hast here, carpenter; let me feel its grip once.
He handled himself most impressively, was clear, cogent and never unreasonable, put his point forcibly yet moderately, yet achieved ... as much as was humanly possible to move matters in the direction he desired.
She concludes: "That this film exists at all is a more cogent commentary on the nation's collective trauma than any of the direct statements or potential metaphors contained within."
His most recent work is "The Lords of Strategy", which The Wall Street Journal has described as a "clear, deft and cogent" history of the management consulting industry.
Major international companies like GE Healthcare (employing over 1,000 people locally), Shaw Healthcare, Bio Trace and Cogent, compliment an innovative small firm sector attracted by the
University and the 2,500 local students and 500 doctorates in bioscience related disciplines.
Cogent Partners is a boutique, private equity-focused investment bank and advisory firm and was one of the first advisory firms dedicated to transactions in the private equity secondary market (secondaries).
Since inception, Cogent Partners has advised on over 4,500 limited partnership interests representing over $65 billion in private equity secondaries.
Cogent Partners offers various private equity research products, including both fund and portfolio-level performance monitoring as well as due diligence services for new fund commitments.
Cogent also runs an alternative asset management business "CP Cogent Asset Management" which focuses in particular on investing into the timber asset class.
Cogent raised and manages the Cambium Global Timberland Limited Fund, listed on the London Stock Exchange, which is run by Colin McGrady.
CP COGENT SECURITIES LP is a broker-dealer licensed by the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) and is a member of Securities Investor Protection Corporation (SIPC).
COGENT PARTNERS EUROPE, LLP is a broker-dealer authorized and regulated by the U.K. Financial Services Authority.
Additionally, Cogent Partners Europe, LLP is a member of the British Venture Capital Association (BVCA), of the European Venture Capital Association (EVCA) and of the Association Française des Investisseurs en Capital (AFIC).
The author is noted for her elegant prose and sharp insights into the human mind, as well as her cogent plots and characters.
Indeed, the very provision for a post-termination evidentiary hearing in New York's Home Relief program is itself cogent evidence that the State recognizes the primacy of the public interest in correct eligibility determinations, and therefore in the provision of procedural safeguards.
The early Church Fathers expended much rhetorical energy on conceptions of God as a source of light; among other things this was because "in the controversies in the 4th century over the consubstantiality of the Father and the Son, the relation of the ray to the source was the most cogent example of emanation and of distinct forms with a common substance" - key concepts in the theological thought of the time.