Sentences with phrase «cajoling for»

It seems I just needed to do some zombie cajoling for Sprog 1's birthday party: «Shouldn't be -LSB-...]

It seems I just needed to do some zombie cajoling for Sprog 1's birthday party: «Shouldn't be too tricky, some green face paint, a couple of fake, open wounds...» I mean, how can you feel blah suggesting that?

There is no Higher Power there in whose name you can go out and bash unbelievers, or browbeat them (or even cajole them for that matte) r. Anyone who tries that is working out of their own head, not out of AA.

And then who will directors write to cajole for the best viewing experience?

So, push us, press us, cajole us for a definitive answer.

Not exact matches

In 1973, Marotta famously cajoled another centerfielder, «Joltin» Joe» DiMaggio, into stumping for Mr. Coffee.

Or cajole yourself out of bed by telling yourself you only have to work out for 10 minutes — odds are good by the time the 10 minutes are up, you'll be awake enough to finish your workout.

Very rarely is there any proper place in serious theological discussion for cajoling, slander, vilification, and the mocking of others.

A reluctant Arafat, pressured by the U.S., showed up for the summit, but resisted Clinton's insistent cajoling that he respond in kind to Barak's expansive compromises.

They had one supreme theory: that the perfect beauty and happiness of cities and of human life was to be brought about by more factories; they had a mania for factories; there was nothing they would not do to cajole a factory away from another city; and they were never more piteously embittered than when another city cajoled one away from them.

In Allen's play Death, a central character is cajoled into joining a search party for a killer on the loose but never sees any organized method employed and is never sure of his role in the search.

Great influencers will not manipulate — spiritually or otherwise — their team to cajole them in something for personal gain.

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.

Of course, one quandary is that the crummier you feel, the harder it is to rally to cook all this; you have to muster up some artful sick - bed woe - is - me melodrama (heavy sighing, etc.) to cajole someone else into making it for you:)

I looked up some methods for slicing this cake in half so I could create layers from it, but Dave and Nathaniel lobbied and begged and suggested and cajoled me into the idea that we needed TWO of those cakes, piled up on top of each other.

There have been many comments over the last few years that Arsenal simply don't have any leaders on the pitch, someone who can take the game by the scruff of the neck and cajole the players into fighting for every ball when we go a goal down, a Tony Adams for example...

Jurgen Klopp was on his feet for the whole game, cajoling his players and giving instructions, while Arsenal fans often complain that Wenger just sits there playing with his zipper and throwing water bottles, but this is positive proof that Wenger really can make a massive difference to what goes on out in the field.

Sanchez played in a 2 - man frontline for Chile at the World Cup, and it was his goal scoring exploits for the South Americans that eventually cajoled Wenger into bringing him to the Emirates.

He offers the man his hand, then whirls away, searching for the next soul to incite and cajole.

There have been many comments over the last few years that Arsenal simply don't have any leaders on the pitch, someone who can take the game by the scruff of the neck and cajole the players into fighting for every ball when we go a goal down, a Tony Adams for example...... Read the full article here

Steven Gerrard made his 500th league appearance for Liverpool but the skipper was unable to cajole his side to victory on this occasion.

I cajoled, bribed, and strong - armed him into the house, sure that Linda, the host mom, was judging me for not being able to control him.

When meals are dominated by parental cajoling, forcing, or bribing, it makes for a tense environment — and kids balk at the pressure.

My father has ulcerative colitis and when he eats gluten, he has celiac - like symptoms (he's never been diagnosed despite my cajoling him) and even trace amounts leave him ill for days.

Try not to cajole your baby into opening her mouth for one more bite because you want the bowl to be clean, even though it might feel good to you.

Oh, we can try; we can cajole, threaten, guide, educate, bribe with stickers, purchase 600 thread - count underpants for them and tell them about starving children in the world, but ultimately, we can not actually get inside their little brains and force them to eat, sleep, poop, pee, feel an emotion or get their period.

Their challenge lies in ensuring adequate anesthesia coverage for L&D (I waited over an hour for mine), not in cajoling women into accepting an intervention she doesn't want.

It had assigned its front line Ministers to the front bench of the NPP and the strategy was to respond, to heckle, to cajole, to admonish and to literally make it impossible for the NPP MPs to be heard on the issue.

Paterson slammed the Senate for passing a measure calling for the parks to stay open when «we don't have the money to pay for it,» adding that they «like to cajole and show off and perform for the public.»

The contest was in full gear Wednesday as Gov. David Paterson and lawmakers argued, threatened and cajoled each other regarding a bill that must be approved Monday to keep the state operating for yet another week in lieu of a final 2010 - 11 budget.

Is it really a stretch to imagine what I am imagining: that through some kind of cajoling or veiled threat, in the style of thugs throughout history, the campaign of Maria del Carmen Arroyo conveyed the message that continued funding for the PRFI was dependent upon tribute from the employees themselves?

For over half a century, the US has been the world's policeman on drugs, using its power and influence to bribe, cajole and threaten states into pursuing a counter-productive policy.

I search for the perspective of others; and I take away value each time I visit; in turn, I hope to shape the experience of others in a positive way: by giving useful feedback, cajoling newcomers into constructive creators, and reminding senior members to continue giving the best of their experience — and the benefit of doubt.

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.

Around the Capitol, reporters last night took to referring to the minimum wage deal as «Frankenwage» because it was a serious of policies all jammed awkwardly together, and also for a while there, simply refused to rise up and live, no matter how much gubernatorial energy (cajoling to outright threats of wage boards or loss of a pay raise, according to several lawmakers) was pumped into it.

Nigerians should not be cajoled to buy Made - in - Nigeria goods in order to build our economy and for the sake of national pride, but we should derive optimal value and customer satisfaction whenever we support our kinsmen by patronizing them.»

Longtime gay activist Ethan Geto recalled that when the Assembly passed the marriage bill in 2007, «David, in what may have been an unprecedented act for a lieutenant governor, or any executive official, worked the floor of the State Assembly on the night that the vote on gay marriage was about to occur, encouraging and cajoling assemblymembers to support the bill and, importantly, making the crucial point that gay rights are fundamental civil rights.»

During the parliamentary campaign, Russians using smartphones filmed authority figures cajoling or offering money to subordinates to get out the vote for United Russia.

SYRACUSE, N.Y. — Who's behind the «We Need Juanita» campaign trying to cajole Juanita Perez Williams into running for Syracuse mayor?

And yet two crooks like Silver and Skelos can bribe and barter, threaten and cajole, pocket millions for themselves and relatives for years and nobody knows nothin»?

But the governor, praised for his tactical acumen even by his enemies, has always been able to keep some measure of control by splitting apart coalitions, cajoling allies and picking losers among his would - be opponents.

Andy Burnham chose the FA Cup final boyhood dream over being next Labour prime minister in our crowdsourcing interview (before some cajoling from his press secretary changed his mind) and Ed Miliband got into a spot of bother, denying that he'd opt for a north - south divide on tax credits.

She needed little cajoling to add her name to Parramore's petition, but said as long as Spitzer «didn't use public money for his sexual adventures,» she was fine with him on the ballot.

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.

(Braben, for example, acknowledges his doubt that the book would have been finished without his wife's tireless labours, in typing, correcting, cajoling and managing mountains of paper; clearly the youthful zest and exuberance of his three children have not slowed him down.)

Among the 54 Members featured in the book are a biologist and Nobel Laureate who helped decode DNA; an epidemiologist recognised for groundbreaking research on HIV prevention in women; a social scientist who nudged and cajoled into place the campaign to understand and contain HIV / AIDS in South Africa; a leading mathematics education proponent; a human geneticist whose work helped to clarify the origins of indigenous groups in Africa; one of the world's leading theorists in cosmology; and a leading immunologist and physician who pioneered higher education transformation in South Africa, in sometimes controversial ways.

And now, please meet Sherry of Petite Over 40, our guest blogger for this month, and someone I absolutely adore for her mastery in not just putting together the most whimsy of outfits but the deft ability to massage and cajole the written word into lyrical prose.

I once jokingly described a particularly painful speed - dating session as «community service» — smiling, nodding, and cajoling guys who don't normally talk to women, to encourage them that for four minutes they might be able to speak to a girl.

Thus, the dawning of this truth has cajoled Single American girls to look for husbands online.