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It refers to the use of persuasion or influence based on moral principles or values. Example: The politician tried to use moral suasion to convince his constituents to support his proposed legislation, appealing to their sense of right and wrong rather than making purely logical arguments.
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moral suasion
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Persuasion brought to bear by appeals to someone's moral sense or ethics.
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It hopes to use "moral suasion" to stop irresponsible lending.
The second is a universal horror against moral suasion.
Is it inappropriate to use Santa for moral suasion?
"I had nothing but moral suasion," Ms. Raab said.
Administration officials said they believed that such moral suasion works.
He has severed the trust and thrown away the moral suasion that make presidents effective.
We dispensed, too, with plotlessness, meandering, female helplessness, travelogue, moral suasion, and certain types of villainy.
Meanwhile, Italian and Greek authorities have successfully applied moral suasion to American institutions.
A club that works by consensus and abhors sanctions has only moral suasion.
In the meantime, its chief weapon is moral suasion aimed at companies.
But Galton did not believe that eugenics could be entirely an affair of moral suasion.
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