How to Use suasion in a Sentence

suasion

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  • At the most basic level, there is the power of moral suasion.
    — Julian Zelizer, CNN, 16 Apr. 2021
  • There is always moral suasion — but this can seem weak and pathetic.
    — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 7 Nov. 2019
  • And grass-roots mobilization and moral suasion have worked in the United States before.
    — Oeindrila Dube, New York Times, 26 Mar. 2020
  • France presents a contrast, in that President Emmanuel Macron has used more suasion.
    — Compiled Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, Arkansas Online, 23 Nov. 2021
  • Why doesn't the president, who has some suasion in the country, come forward and say everybody should wear a mask, which is what all the governors are saying?
    — CBS News, 28 June 2020
  • Murphy, a member of Phelan’s leadership team, said only moral suasion and conscience can bring back the errant Democrats.
    — Robert T. Garrett, Dallas News, 13 July 2021
  • Over time, Douglass came to see the futility of moral suasion and the usefulness of turning the professed ideals of the Constitution to his purposes.
    — Jabari Asim, The New Republic, 14 Aug. 2020
  • As outlined in the post below by commenters the biggest issue here is that direct parental suasion and modeling matters a lot less than the broader milieu which the parents raise their offspring in.
    — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 27 June 2012
  • The rapid initial response has often been held up as an example of how voluntary targets and moral suasion can be effective.
    — Laura Colby, Bloomberg.com, 19 May 2017
  • But Pope Francis, the greenest pontiff to date, has ultimate control over the Vatican Bank’s $3bn-worth of assets—and a bully pulpit to exercise moral suasion over much more.
    — The Economist, 19 Sep. 2019
  • Interrupted only briefly by the Civil War, both groups used moral suasion and political lobbying to shift the culture and the laws around alcohol.
    — Trysh Travis, The Conversation, 7 Apr. 2021
  • Rather than requiring vaccines, more companies are using moral suasion and outright cash payments to persuade employees to roll up their sleeves.
    — David Lyons, sun-sentinel.com, 8 Aug. 2021
  • In a contest of moral suasion, a narrative of Asian American ascent was a powerful way to burnish the credentials of the United States as a beacon of freedom and opportunity for all.
    — Michael Luo, The New Yorker, 23 Aug. 2021
  • Corporate boards have found ways to circumvent efforts to rein in executive pay through tax rules, shareholder voting options, and moral suasion.
    — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 1 Mar. 2023
  • Officials have also resorted to moral suasion to prevent money from leaving.
    — Nathaniel Taplin, WSJ, 26 June 2018
  • This assumes that there is a finite pool of military power and economic influence and diplomatic suasion, and therefore the material or soft-power gains of one of these three powers is made at the expense of one or two of the others.
    — chicagotribune.com, 13 Mar. 2018
  • This is why Augustus attempted to use moral suasion and coercion to have the Roman Senatorial class reproduce at a higher rate.
    — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 25 Aug. 2010
  • This is because countries are unlikely to accept Chinese hegemony just due to economic sanctions and suasion.
    — Time, 11 Oct. 2022
  • English missionaries, seeing the practice as heathen, tried moral suasion.
    — Jeff Chu, Travel + Leisure, 30 Jan. 2022
  • For all its powers of lawmaking, war making, budget drafting and diplomacy, the presidency also embodies the power of moral suasion.
    — Leonard Pitts, Alaska Dispatch News, 22 Aug. 2017
  • Liberal states have an obligation to expose and chastise this export of oppression, however limited their tools of suasion.
    — The Economist, 31 May 2018
  • The goal isn’t just Oscars on a mantelpiece but emotional suasion, manipulating our gullibility and trust.
    — Armond White, National Review, 6 July 2022
  • But Jones also introduces us to formidable women who haven’t been enshrined in popular memory, like Maggie Hood-Banks, a bishop’s daughter who combined forceful moral suasion with a sly wit.
    — Jennifer Szalai, New York Times, 2 Sep. 2020
  • But not all judges are in Trump’s pocket, and judges in general are relatively insusceptible to direct political suasion.
    — Jonathan Stevenson, The New York Review of Books, 15 May 2020
  • Enemies accumulated, and inflation, interest rates, and Iran did not respond to moral suasion.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 9 July 2021
  • With Lipton’s departure, some IMF veterans saw the loss of a respected backroom coordinator whose experience in the art of multilateral suasion might be just what’s needed as another crisis brewed.
    — Shawn Donnan, Bloomberg.com, 5 May 2020
  • Audiences are left frustrated and susceptible to easy suasion; this superficial view of the past contributes to the national dismantling perpetuated by mainstream media.
    — Armond White, National Review, 12 Feb. 2021
  • Furthermore, governments have understood that jihadists’ absolutist goals—such as the West’s withdrawal from Muslim lands and their submission to Islamist domination—were not amenable to negotiation or other forms of political suasion.
    — Jonathan Stevenson, The New York Review of Books, 3 Aug. 2021
  • Recent revelations around the improper acquisition of millions of Facebook users’ data for the purposes of political suasion do not inspire much confidence in the social network’s ability to protect people’s personal information.
    — Robert Hackett, Fortune, 24 Mar. 2018

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