Suasions

Although I'm pretty sure I don't usually look for the presentation of "suasions" in most characters I come across, whether they be "not-thought" or actually thought. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Supposing his suasions had worked, at what point would commentators' salaries become so outrageous that they vitiated an opinion on, say, council executives' pay, as talked up by state-funded consultants? ❋ Unknown (2011)

But Carter also bent to the moral suasions of the Shah's friends, who argued on humanitarian grounds that the ailing Shah deserved admission to the United States for medical treatment. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Furthermore, whether or whether not a government bureaucrat correctly or incorrectly suasions some aspect of an efficient capital allocation system should be irrelevant. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Nature; besides, as Descartes pointed out in his Medi - tations (i, iv, vi), it was only by a constant act of will that one could hold the mathematico-physical hypoth - esis itself in face of the contrary suasions of one's five senses. ❋ AUSTIN FARRER (1968)

It carries the mild suasions of Ethics into laws, and out of moral prudence it creates conscience. ❋ Joseph Rickaby (1888)

It puts him under conditions familiar to him -- makes him accessible to just such influences and suasions as he is accustomed to when making conscious and unconscious decisions in his personal affairs. ❋ Ambrose Bierce (1878)

His environment with all its varied suasions, its agencies of good and evil; breeding, training, interest, experience and the rest of it -- have little to do with the matter and can not alter the sentence passed upon him at conception, compelling him to be what he is. ❋ Ambrose Bierce (1878)

The force of constraint multiplies unwillingness: only moral suasions win the will to free assent. ❋ 1808-1892 (1847)

And these moral suasions, drawn from all depths of love and fear, from life and death, from heaven and hell, from sin and from the Cross, are perpetually pressing upon the regenerate will. ❋ 1808-1892 (1847)

'The January new loans are a bit lower than the market forecast, indicating that regulators' verbal suasions have been effective. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Nothing will help, no putting on blinders and earmuffs, no suasions and expostulations, no psychological, moral, ethical methods, nothing that the common people use. ❋ Unknown (2010)

[You going] to Suasuion [tonight]? ❋ Mark Whites (2003)

[Johann] often demonstrates the art of Peer-suasion when [setting up] for [an event]. ❋ BooAmp (2020)