The word 'suasion' is a correct and usable term in written English.
It refers to the act of persuading or influencing someone to do or believe something. Example: The politician used his powers of suasion to convince the voters to support his policies.
The European Parliament, which makes the appointment, will decide between them in the next week or two.Mr Anastassopoulos thinks the ombudsman, who for the moment proceeds by moral suasion, should have more powers and a higher profile.
But such efforts at moral suasion are unlikely to work.In this section Blame and retribution The world's headache Can this place be governed?
But the cost to the country's moral suasion in Europe and the Middle East has been steep.
In the short term it is attempting moral suasion to limit to £25,000 the cash element of bonuses at banks in which it has a large shareholding.
In spite of the moral suasion to sign up to an overall set of standards, there will be no explicit government compulsion to do so.
Britain's Financial Services Authority may have watered down its pay code after bankers whinged about losing talent, but it has been using moral suasion to good effect, calling bosses to express its displeasure at the re-emergence of guaranteed bonuses.
He has severed the trust and thrown away the moral suasion that make presidents effective.
Dinara Yunus is unsure what tactics would help get her mother released, but she is convinced that gentle suasion will not.
But the mere fact that the government was working hard to rebuild the Kabul museum and share its treasures through international exhibitions was having a big moral effect: many objects had been returned voluntarily.Sometimes recovering lost objects involves recourse to law or parliamentary lobbying; sometimes moral suasion is the only way.
But the benefits of court actions and moral suasion cannot; they must be experienced, over the long term, as an experiment.
In some places, such as Britain, this is being done by moral suasion only; elsewhere, as in Italy, banks may be forced to lend.In this section In the eye of the storm And then there were two Helping hand?
