(1) Writers reached for a means suasion and began to use emotion to confirm beliefs.

(2) The relationship was open, and the suasion was gradual and systemic.

(3) Nonplan investment was prevented through moral suasion—industry associations in Japan and Korea were highly cohesive and effective—as well as financing constraints for anyone not inside the plan.

(4) Awareness and education, using knowledge and moral suasion to change behaviour, is a third.

(5) Portfolio controls consist of special deposits, supplementary special deposits, reserve requirements, directives, and moral suasion.

(6) In a final class of models government is also blamed, but this time government is a bully that forces banks - through regulation or moral suasion - to make loans that are overly risky.

(7) Confucianism may have restrained some rulers, but the restraint rested purely on the moral suasion of a religious idea, not on independent legal principle.

(8) Are Chinese bureaucrats some subspecies of human being uniquely susceptible to this sort of suasion?

(9) It is difficult to believe that recourse to moral suasion by a Fed chairman would be ineffective.

(10) While the British government has imposed lending targets on the banks that receive its capital, Mr Paulson has settled for moral suasion.

(11) American officials point out that the moratorium as it stands now has no teeth and that moral suasion hasn't stopped whaling nations from hunting in greater and greater numbers.

(12) If the G-20 countries believe more global governance is appropriate, they should be willing to accept the "moral suasion" of public reviews that "name and shame."

(13) To stem the boom, the Fed attempted in vain to use moral suasion on the markets and restrain credit expansion only for "legitimate business.

(14) And when countries such as France felt that the soft suasion of idealism was lacking, as has recently been the case, it proved harder to attract them to a cause.

(15) Szymanski holds out hope that a bit of moral suasion from high places would suffice.

(16) Now we must summon all of our might and moral suasion to meet the challenges of a new age.

(17) Yet we are still heirs to a noble struggle for freedom. And now we must summon all of our might and moral suasion to meet the challenges of a new age.