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Meanings of suasion in English
The act of persuading (or attempting to persuade); communication intended to induce belief or action.
Usage of suasion in English
1
Moral suasion tends to supersede the birch stick and the policeman's billy.
2
Neither can you cure this man by what is called moral suasion.
3
Romie and I never had any 'moral suasion,'-wewere brought up right.
4
The most urgent reform doesn't need legislation, just old-fashioned moral suasion.
5
For these reasons, I have lost confidence in legislation and in moral suasion.
6
In the beginning, his moral-suasion project was sarcastically dubbed the sugar plum speculation.
7
The strip of board ceased to move to the suasion of his hand.
8
The Imans and Ulemas are obliged to resort to moral suasion and entreaty.
9
You should have used moral suasion, Craft; that's the way to treat boys.
10
Can any be other than pleased with words of gentle suasion?
11
Political action is the result and immediate object of moral suasion on this subject.
12
It is a moral-suasion temperance society on the teetotal basis.
13
It takes so much longer for moral suasion to work.
14
Though efforts to check it were commonly thought futile, he addressed himself to suasion.
15
Zootomy and moral suasion are not homogeneous, analogous, nor indigenous.
16
Szymanski holds out hope that a bit of moral suasion from high places would suffice.
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