Sentences with phrase «political suasion»

However, the decision of the High Court may have moral or political suasion for future native title claims or claims for commercial rights over the sea:

They always stress the word «public,» for that adjective is believed to carry moral weight and political suasion.

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Waxman is trying to bring a political moral suasion to the Trib spinoff, asking what indeed will be the impact of the Tribune Company's stripping assets of every kind — terrestrial, digital, and financial — from the newspapers.

Rights advocates hope to banish such tactics from the political arena through moral suasion.

Thus we have within our midst some civil servants (paid by our tax dollars) who see the world as how it «should» work according to their particular political «suasions (they used to be called «Levellers» in old England).