Voorbeelden van better nature

• First, you can appeal to his better nature.

• Tame animals have a better nature than wild, and it is better for all animals to be ruled by man.

• What was this sudden impost set upon the appeal to the better nature and the better judgment of the people to stop smoking?

• I can only hope that if his better nature has had time to reassert itself, he will share my delight on this occasion.

• It is no good appealing to their better nature either.

• One will have to rely on the better nature of the health authority or the statutory water undertaker.

• He had to introduce, no doubt much against his better nature and better judgment, a charge per item on prescriptions.

• I appeal to his experience and, indeed, his better nature.

• It is an appeal to the better nature and the dignity of my fellow countrymen and the throwing of responsibility upon them.

• It is kind of him to suggest that my better nature is always on display here.

• He indulged in a piece of wishful thinking that, since his argument was not very convincing, he might appeal to my better nature.

• If we appeal to their better nature—and some of them do not appear to have a better nature—we will not be very successful.

• We are not going to get them reformed by appealing to their better nature.

• But, quite frankly, you cannot rely upon the better nature of employers to respond in that way, or not for the most part.

• That sort of popular uprising can sometimes work, when appealing to the better nature of the banks might not.