Sentences with phrase «moral persuasion»
"Moral persuasion" refers to the act of trying to influence or convince someone by appealing to their sense of right and wrong. It involves using ethics, values, or moral principles to sway someone's opinion or behavior. Full definition
Meanwhile, as the local churches were revolting against overall control, there was widespread revolt against the power of the ministers in the local churches until «after the Reforming Synod [of 1697], the clergy found themselves shorn of every weapon except moral persuasion, and their threat of [Divine] vengeance.»
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NACSA has been a leader in taking action against irresponsible authorizing by running a «One Million Lives» campaign to get authorizers to close chronically low - performing schools, but NACSA has little more than the power of moral persuasion.
But peaceful protest is about moral persuasion.
Depending on one's moral persuasion, we are either weaving downward to some final degradation or ascending by stages to a greater moral maturity.
«I have the legal authority and sometimes the moral persuasion to perform marriages,» he said.»
EFFICIENCY: A new study by the University of Chicago concludes that «dynamic pricing» is more likely to change utility customers» energy efficiency behavior than moral persuasion.
In some cases, such technological substitution can be much more important than moral persuasion.