Sentences with phrase «cajole people»

It is quite another to trick / cajole people into backing you without full knowledge, and fail.

And so you have to cajole these people sometimes into sort of taking the same direction.

That means I have to cajole people to work together; to make sure the genome is all it's intended to be; to keep a wonderful collaboration on the international stage.

If they do not vote to retain them, the ruling government deploys all resources within its power to force, intimate, coax or cajole people into doing its bidding.

The reason I say this is because there is an event in the life of Jesus that is often used by some power - hungry and control - freak pastors to beat and cajole the people in their church into submission, to quell all dissension, and to quiet all objections.

To get things done, you need to wrangle disparate interests, build a team and use influence to literally cajole people into your camp.

Instead of politely requesting that your technician perform a task for you, as you would in another country, you might have to invest a good deal of time and energy into explaining why the task would benefit the whole team — almost cajoling the person into performing it.

After reading Mark Steyn's article, I wonder if I am living in a nation with thought police cajoling people to lodge complaints against a cartoonist doing his job...

Not exact matches

To many people, the word selling implies manipulating, pressuring, cajoling — all the used - car - salesman stereotypes.

«Underneath all our wireless streaming, hands - free technology, we're still people,» they cajole.

He reminds, cajoles, warns, exhorts and invites, and consistently uses the first person plural in verbal and pronominal constructions: «Let us love one another,» not «You should love each other.»

I think that «inerrancy» is often a term thrown around by leaders and teachers who want to cajole and control people.

If you read some of the ancient sermon texts, even from the very beginning of institutional Christianity in the fourth century, you can often read between the lines of these sermons and see that the Bishops and Priests had such people in their congregations, and were cajoling them and guilting them back into conformity, and even sometimes persecuting them for «abandoning Jesus and the church.»

(eh eh) While I agree with you, let's give due credit: the organized religions have done a fine job of establishing an environment that invites, tricks, cajoles or forces gullible people to buy their fantasy, for the purpose of power and control.

«I think the reason we have an honours list is because over a period of government, particularly a difficult government in a coalition, a prime minister has to cajole and get the support of a number of people and he builds up a debt of honour and I think that frankly, an honours list is a relatively light way of paying it off.

Ironically, when it comes to detail at the moment, it is often the Lords which settles the matters and does a rather good job at it because the lack of one overall party majority forces people to persuade rather than cajole.

Both sides are confident: «Steve's message of fiscal responsibility and his record of cutting taxes and creating jobs has convinced the delegates that he is the one person who can win in November,» the Levy camp said Tuesday near the end of a day filled with cajoling delegates for support.

The Delta people, previously cajoled into believing that they had been liberated from Ndigbo, are beginning to know differently.

That may be long enough to cajole yourself into making a healthier pick, per new preliminary research from Rush University in Chicago, which examined how people order from vending machines.

A commendable achievement, this HBO movie powerfully captures President Johnson's ability to bully, cajole and manipulate people to vote the way he wanted.

The answer to that tricky question is to gather a bunch of bad people with interesting abilities and cajole / threaten them into becoming a fighting force for just such an occasion.

They are a great team, with his ability to charm, cajole, and put people at ease teaching her a thing or two about the human side of the job and her genius putting together disparate clues into a pattern that eludes everyone else.

Coax, cajole, or guilt the correct people into the audience when you take the stage.

That's great, except for 10 years people have been cajoling you to join Twitter.

Details are scarce, but if Mazda learned anything from the last quarter - century, it's that a two - seat convertible with sporty performance and low price, stops people from laughing and cajoles them to buying.

You are obligated to cajole, convince, and persuade people rather than order them.

Excerpt: There should be absolutely no limits on population growth and no attempt whatsoever to cajole, coerce or convince people into having fewer children.

And people can be influenced, cajoled, lobbied in favour of your cause.

Perls cajoled, jolted, and perhaps even shamed people into becoming self - reliant and self - sufficient.

Attempts to convince, persuade, or cajole may lead to a pursue - and - distance pattern between people and actually increase discord.