Appealing to the ethical principles or beliefs of an adversary or the public to convince the adversary to change behavior or attitudes.
1Rather, he believed it was necessary to prick the white man's conscience with moral persuasion.
2A testament to your powers of moral persuasion.
3Apparently, moral persuasion was her only chance.
4We come not to your Excellency with force of arms-this could not be just; we use only moral persuasion.
5The weapons that will be deployed in this offensive will no doubt include public vigilance, moral persuasion and stern disapproval.
6This is not a new dilemma for the Minister but Mr Noonan's past efforts at moral persuasion have had limited success.
7Instead of moral persuasion and an era of peace, there followed a desolating war in itself worse than fifty years of African Slavery.
8He was vehemently against the use of violence to overthrow slavery and insisted that moral persuasion was the only legitimate tool in the cause.
9Picketing as we understand it is neither prohibited by law nor condemned by public sentiment, but it must go no further than moral persuasion.
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