Persuasion that involves appealing to a person's moral sense.
a vendor may find himself under moral pressure to complete as soon as possible
Example sentencesExamples
The few agencies that have resisted the moral pressure to adopt the new humanitarianism are struggling to defend traditional principles.
Only inexorable moral pressure could move the nation.
Manchester councillors are using a combination of muscle and moral pressure to stop sales until three weeks before November 5.
Regardless, it means that outdated outlooks especially regarding the sexual behaviour of women exert an exaggerated moral pressure on our screens.
One journalistic approach has been to cast the practice in unfavorable journalistic light to levy moral pressure.
Society is very active in mobilizing moral pressure.
Besides the obvious health benefits, the strike was expected to put strong moral pressure on the government-of-the-day to give in to their demand for power distribution to the needy.
A mass political strike is not a mechanical impediment to war, but a means of moral pressure.
A chess match is nothing like battle, though, just as gory video games can't capture the uncertainty and moral pressure of actual warfare.
The likelihood is that Harney has no big stick with which to beat insurers, and can only exert moral pressure.
Through detective work, negotiation and moral pressure the investigators have been winning settlements from governments, galleries and collectors from Austria to Argentina.
Thus, the international community of nations exerts certain moral pressures on states to compensate for the takings from other nations.
Scrupulous compliance with laws and social conventions is widespread because of moral pressure from fellow citizens.
We are witnessing the application of colossal moral pressure to people who do not usually yield to moral pressure.
All kidding aside, applying moral pressure is exactly what the EU should be good at in foreign affairs.
The societal needs were so compelling that many academics felt a moral pressure to oblige and are now responding to the challenges.
Economic pressure is certainly one piece of the strategy, but moral pressure is also needed.
The moral pressure on the rest of the Group of Eight to agree a deal for aid to Africa was therefore immense.
But what is noticeable is that these organisations did not feel under any moral pressure to stand up for the importance of animal experiments.