moral appeal

Moral appeals can be very effective with this kind of problem.

Gone is the unity and moral appeal that persecution can produce.

He believed that political reforms could be secured by force rather than moral appeal.

These words clearly mean that human rights policy is not just to do with moral appeals, but is a matter of practical politics.

Moral appeal: You are immoral if you do not comply.

In other words, moral appeals don't always work in politics."

Sisko considered making a moral appeal, but knew that would be futile.

The latter way, in addition to its obvious moral appeal may also, in many circumstances, be more effective.

The most eloquent moral appeal will be no match for the dispassionate edict of the market.

Lyndon, in trying to move others to agree with him, used physical persuasion in addition to intellectual and moral appeals.

The march didn't just make a moral appeal; it sent a warning that the more obstreperous parts of the movement would not accept defeat.

Although it started with good intentions, what remains, unfortunately, is a report full of wishful thinking in written form, with moral appeals and pointing fingers.

The force of Britain's example: that was the moral appeal of Priestley's polemic.

Rev. Jesse Jackson said he had made a "moral appeal" to the Yugoslav leader during their meeting.

Racial conflict in the North might turn out to be intractable, unresponsive to moral appeal, nonviolent action or Federal legislation.

"You have to use some ellipitical language," he said, arguing that straightforward moral appeals could "sharpen the divide, turn people off to the message."

Crito continues with moral appeals.

Earlier, Mr. Jackson defended his contact with General Noriega as "just a strong moral appeal."

Mr. Sharpton, who called the Queens shooting a case of excessive force, said the march was a moral appeal to the city to change police policies.

(.) human suffering makes a direct moral appeal for help, while there is no similar call to increase the happiness of a man who is doing well anyway."

Despite its critique of bourgeois ideals, however, the work does not deliver simple alternative with genuine moral appeal and insists on sometimes retaining its ironic tone.

Ms. Ridgway said she thought corporations should listen to moral appeals, but she stressed that "directors are responsible to shareholders - that's the point that's key."

The nature of this challenge emerges, for example, when Mabel Day warns against any "cynical treatment" which would deprive the literary work of "much of its moral appeal".

Consequently, there is a nostalgia for traditional values, and it is to the socially threatened lower middle class, and to the respectable working class that the Conservative Party has made a moral appeal.

Indeed, it even has a strong moral appeal, since in making our characters our destinies Huntington appears to avoid the paralyzing effects of thinking in terms of vast, impersonal constellations of power.