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inducement

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In response, for almost 70 years Pakistan tried either to influence or to weaken Afghanistan through a combination of economic pressure and inducements with support for rebellions within Afghanistan.

From Time

Yet some local governments are adding further inducements in the hopes of accelerating full immunization.

From Quartz

Access to power and business favors add to the inducements to stay on message.

From Time

No State, in the current economic situation, can turn down this “financial inducement.”

From Vox

Shah is a master at making opposition legislators switch sides through inducements and intimidation, and thereby flipping elected state governments.

From Time

Though fraudulent inducement does not ordinarily augur well, it worked.

But the same inducement in song at the end of a Woody Allen show has the potential to come off as less-than sincere.

East replied, "I'm sorry, that's not sufficient inducement."

The New York Times called the film “an effective inducement to rage.”

So the billion-dollar question is: How do they accomplish this feat of inducement?

It is to be feared that the attractions of the house-dinner were not the sole inducement to many of those sitting there.

"Quite an inducement for me to know her, I'm sure," observed Miss Jane, dryly.

Its wealth and stability were also an additional inducement to the kings in granting to the towns their firma burgi.

They were offered every inducement to desert,—heavy bribes, and promotion in a new service,—but they refused them all.

An invitation from Prince Radziwill was the inducement that led him to quit the paternal roof so soon after his return to it.

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On this page you'll find 77 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to inducement, such as: encouragement, stimulus, attraction, bait, carrot, and cause.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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