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.
If the incumbent wants to win extra voters in the current election, she has to win voters who were not swayed by the incumbent in the previous election.
After some discussion, the abscission lobby swayed the decision for the name of the compound in its favour; dormin lost the first round.
Interestingly, the judgements of one group of children were swayed during the task.
How could he really have been suddenly swayed at that meeting, there were so many different opinions expressed there.
The remaining five, however, appears to have been swayed by one reason above all - domestic politics.
It is easy to be swayed by fashion and the intrinsic appeal of "anatomic correction" by the arterial switch procedure.
Women are often said to be more swayed by their emotions, although solid scholarly research is scarce on the point at best.
The investigators speculated that the latter's preferences were based on stable habits that were not as easily swayed by the framing manipulations (10).
