moral pressure

Doing so would create considerable moral pressure on other countries to come along.

Moral pressure, considered particularly the realm of women, was required.

Even so, China may have to rely more on moral pressure than on legal action to get it back.

Being listed did not itself result in any punishment, but was regarded as a moral pressure on athletes.

The goal of the Canadian initiative is to create powerful moral pressure on these countries to drop their resistance.

But he also wants his bishops to pool their strengths to exert greater moral pressure on Washington.

I believe that because of these factors there is a moral pressure on the company to preserve this skill base if it possibly can.

If you can't have that, you use moral pressure.

"But where has moral pressure ever made a Marxist-Leninist revolutionary give up power?"

Going ahead would also put moral pressure on India to refrain from testing and ratify the treaty.

This tactic will ease the moral pressure to make unlimited assemblers available immediately.

That action was aimed at confusion, moral pressure and undermining the morale of Germans.

The moral pressure on strong-minded people is in fact intense, and so must be the psychic pressure.

It will not have the force of law, the commission stresses, but will merely exert' moral pressure'.

He could still ask for benevolences, but the request could have no legal force, however much moral pressure might lie behind it.

General Assembly resolutions bring only moral pressure.

But should moral pressure fail, the pipes are constructed so the water only flows when you lean on the spigot.

So I exercised an invalid's moral pressure, you see, and here you are!'

"The accusations are based on statements made by my son and Dmitry which were given under physical and moral pressure.

But the moral pressure exerted by American shareholders, companies, churches and others in the United States has been significant.

The willingness of King Hussein to come, despite his serious illness, adds moral pressure on both sides to make the political sacrifices required for peace.

India's rigid caste society will come under terrific moral pressure to integrate Dalits even more."

The Human Rights Council, which should focus moral pressure on the Sudanese government, holds back from doing so.

Social activists have been very successful at using a number of tactics which taken together have created economic as well as moral pressure for disinvestment.

Sometimes moral pressure, sometimes economic pressure.