0 past simple and past participle of sway
2 to persuade someone to believe or do one thing rather than another:
Her speech failed to sway her colleagues into supporting the plan.
The canvass allows parties to identify their supporters, their opponents, and also undecided voters, who might be swayed in an election.
As a taped musician crooned a tune about love and the beauties of nature, the puppet swayed and gesticulated with realistic grace.
The jury was not swayed by this appeal to authority.
That meant that their choices were either somewhat arbitrarily made or, worse, easily swayed by others.
Are they swayed by economic considerations or by purely non-material factors such as human rights and the rule of law?
Note the suggestions that women may be swayed more by emotional reactions or that men may evaluate candidates more on the basis of gender stereotypes.
The responsibility for any wrong behavior by the victims will be theirs when they let their judgment be swayed by fear.
The investigators speculated that the latter's preferences were based on stable habits that were not as easily swayed by the framing manipulations (10).
