The policies reflect a frustration that softer efforts — like banning smoking on company grounds, offering cessation programs and increasing health care premiums for smokers — have not been powerful-enough incentives to quit.
Similarly, the Republican side has not mounted a major "soft money" effort for the general election comparable to Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, which in 2004 undermined the presidential bid of Senator John Kerry.
These changes may be made consciously, as in the case of loud or soft vocal effort [29, 30], may be the result of emotions or stressors [29, 31, 32], or may be the result of unconscious communication habits [28].
A major sponsor of FESPACO is the International Organization of Francophonie (OIF), France's soft diplomacy effort to keep a sense of community and common culture alive among its far-flung former conquests.
THE Confucius Institutes programme, an ambitious soft-power effort by China to support education overseas, has been dealt a setback by one of its most prestigious American partners.
Part of Beijing's soft power efforts abroad, the institutes are often welcomed by host schools as ready-made Chinese-language departments.
As a "track 2" soft-diplomacy effort, our yearlong fellowship with the Asia Society required us to explore the conditions that kept Indo-Pakistani relations from improving, and suggest concrete measures to make amends.
China Daily is distributed in many foreign countries, and is an important part of the CPC's "soft power" efforts to control the perception of China and distribute propaganda beyond its borders.
In addition to aggressive military action, homegrown Arab "soft power" efforts have emerged -- from media activity to new schools curricula -- aiming to undermine extremist ideologies and preempt terrorist recruitment.
