The act of persuading (or attempting to persuade)

Usage examples of suasion.

And so, by the suasion of his arm and his imperious will, she was swept onward along the road of her destiny.

During these days of his ignorance, while Maggie was struggling in the darkness of her unexplored being, Larry drove himself grimly at the business to which under happier circumstances he would have gone under the irresistible suasion of pure joy.

He might be a very good patriarch of a church and preacher in its tabernacle, but something sterner than religion and moral suasion was needed to handle a hundred refractory, half-civilized sub-contractors.

The High Style attempts to speak for the whole of mankind, with suasion, to remind us of what we once knew and have since forgotten or stopped trying to regrasp.

And being worth their salt, they might, given a chance, apply moral suasion to their own leader.

They looked at him, they listened to him, they lost themselves in the golden dream of a love affair that would dazzle the ages, they made the big decibands, families, careers, suasion to abandon their security, position all of that.

Non-resistance, the restriction of activities to moral suasion is no part of the programme of the Open Conspiracy.

He was to use the moral suasion of the royal proclamations he carried with him plus whatever bribes might be necessary to create a political movement that would oppose and, if possible, overthrow Riel, laying the groundwork for future negotiations, not with any puppet administration but directly between the citizens of Red River and the Canadian government.

The drinks served within were advertised in paint on the inside of the window: racehorses, moral suasions, smashers, and phlegm-cutters.

Humans have been known to submit to many constraints: to rule by Autarchs, by Plutarchs, by the power seekers of the many Republics, by Oligarchs, by tyrant Majorities and Minorities, by the hidden suasions of Polls, by profound instincts and shallow juvenilities.

To the left of the big harbour there was the switchy sway of palms yielding in soft compliance to the suasion of the wind, but to their right the sun glinting iron roofs of the town crawled halfway up a bare brown hill, utilitarian and ugly.

Constitution, in characteristic Confucian fashion, offers general principles of guidance for rule by moral suasion rather than compulsion, which requires detailed laws with specified punishments.

Their methods, of analysis and discussive per suasion, worked well enough on the circumscribed minds of arbites.

Elizabeth, the tireless woman who had been fighting slavery for half a century, believed that moral suasion was sufficient.

This baboon in human form don't understand no kind of moral suasion but a bust on the jaw.