Instead of making an emotional appeal, there was a variety of carrots and sticks used to argue the point. (nystateofpolitics.com)
Did our state legislature design the right set of support along with carrots and sticks to improve public education? (apluscolorado.org)
The authors, abandoning efforts to have a single economy - wide mechanism for trading pollution credits, have separate sets of carrots and sticks for utilities, transportation and manufacturing. (dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com)