Sentences with phrase «cajoling on»

After some cajoling on my part, Lefebvre agreed to mentor me.

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Fortune cajoled this year's top 40 into sharing facts about them you won't find on the Internet (until now).

He and his staff will have to think about how they might cajole and persuade Kim to agree to things the U.S. values, such as a permanent freeze on further missile and nuclear tests.

Stucke and Ezrachi envision a world where our digital butlers compliment and cajole us, encourage us to communicate, and even send personalized notes on our behalf — all of this potentially affecting our moods and those of our friends.

Calling the latest jobs report decent, Gross says Trumps cajoling companies on factories reminded him of Mussolini exerting government control of corporate interests.

Cajoling statistical significance where in reality there is none, a practice commonly known as «p - hacking,» is particularly easy to accomplish and difficult to detect on a case - by - case basis.

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.

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.

it looks like wenger is being schooled by the geezer who seems to be the bookies choice to replace him at the end of the season, once again he just sits there clueless and howe is on the sidelines cajoling and trying to oragnise his team, and encourage them to victory.

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.

After much cajoling by Mrs. G, Shields, bored while making a film on location in Africa, faxed Agassi an introductory note.

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.

The hosts coaxed and cajoled, kept the ball on the ground to build some attractive attacks, then converted their best opening just before the break.

We have tried every manner of reminders / bribes / cajoling to get my son to use the bathroom on time.

With eating you can threaten or cajole, but at the end of the day, the child can clench his teeth, spit the food out or choke on it.

But instead of spending the rest of the evening catching up on your chores and clocking some precious time with your partner, you're in and out of your child's room, cajoling her to sleep.

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.

During Sheldon Silver's federal corruption trial, defense attorneys have now tried at least twice to suggest heavy handed tactics on the part of prosecutors to cajole witnesses into cooperating with their case.

«I've threatened them cajoled them, tried to charm them,» Cuomo said in Niagara Falls on June 9th.

Would she choose to govern on such a hand - to - mouth basis, forcing her chief whip to cajole and haggle to win every vote.

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've threatened them, cajoled them, tried to charm them,» Cuomo said in Niagara Falls on June 9.

Believed to harbor presidential ambitions, the governor will need a solid record to run on — which is precisely why he has been systematically trying to restore confidence and functionality to government in Albany the last four years by publicly being the adult in the room but privately using the full power of the office behind closed doors to force and cajole a stubborn Legislature into doing things on his terms.

And even if they doubt Government's ability to solve crucial policy challenges, they believe in the Government's duty and ability to direct and cajole civil society into action on its behalf to solve these challenges.

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.»

A centrist, he has boasted of his track record of delivering state budgets on time or close to it, cajoling or strong - arming New York's legislative leaders into agreements.

But, off stage, perhaps no elected official in New York spends more time on the telephone with reporters, calling them day and night, coaxing, massaging, disputing, and cajoling — always off the record.

They can cajole, try to convince and pressure candidates, but candidates will have the opportunity to petition on to the primary ballot regardless of county organization preferences.

Nevertheless, Mandy and McDonnell put on an old pals act after being expertly cajoled together by Channel 4 News man Michael Crick at Labour conference today.

But at a City Council budget hearing on Monday, Mr. Ponte said they did, although it took a bit of cajoling from council members who pressed him to reveal the names of those who advised him on the use of the S.U.V.

(«I've threatened them, cajoled them, tried to charm them, told them jokes,» Cuomo said of the Legislature, on June 9.

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.

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.

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.

My girlfriend, who I cajoled into photographing me, commented that she never would have paired the pink and orange together, and I agreed, except when I tried on the pants I was instantly drawn to the pink top.

I'm way too self depricating to whore myself out and try to cajole strangers into thinking I'm some rainbow basket of muffin kisses floating on sunshine, lollypops, moon beams and honey trees...

At the same time, as Lincoln is cajoling Mary into allowing her eldest son Robert (Joseph Gordon - Levitt) to follow his own path into the military or reminding Robert himself of his father's influence — such that the son ends up assisting Ulysses S. Grant (Jared Harris) and not on a frontline — you see as well the sometimes unsettling intimacy with which he wangles his authority.

As Hunt removed the explosive piece of «gum» from his pocket, Kittridge told him that he had «bribed, cajoled, and killed» using loyalties on the inside: «You want to shake hands with the devil, that's fine with me.

The worst parts of this already bland film involve Larry's attempts to cajole his rebellious son (Gisondo, The Amazing Spider - Man 2) to go to college after the lad expresses a desire to not only take a year off to find himself, but doesn't really desire to follow any particular path his father has tried to put him on.

Mark Strong plays the police hostage negotiator, trying to buy time — lying on the government's behalf — coaxing, cajoling, hand - delivering food and always pushing back the «We start killing them!»

Even before a few Russian mobsters get in on the action, taking this loaded but legal enterprise in a more sordid direction, Molly has no shortage of greedy, overconfident men to cajole, spar with, counsel and occasionally turn the tables on.

The opening scene, set in 1976 in a Boston police precinct is glimpse at what was to come: a priest has been brought in on allegations of abuse, the victim and their mother are cajoled, arrangements are made for secrecy, said priest is collected by his superior who sweeps while the judiciaries hold the rug.

Aging ex-stuntman Mike (Kurt Russell) has an unexplained grudge against such gals, and after cajoling them at an Austin bar, he lashes out on lonely roads with his battering - ram of a car.

Without anyone recognizing his sorcery, he forces compromises on filmmakers that work like magic, and he cajoles his stars into relationships that make them seem more virtuous or glamorous.

-- knows all the angles and isn't afraid to play them, whether it's bribing a bailiff to get his client higher on the morning roster or cajoling information out of his ex-wife (Marisa Tomei), who works in the d.a.'s office.

With a dogged determination and endless optimism, Eddie eventually cajoles the washed - up ski jumper turned alcoholic Bronson Peary (Hugh Jackman) to become his coach and together they set their sights on qualifying and competing in the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary.

News from the Front: Women Reporters of World War II Although seeing, hearing, and reading «on the spot» reporting by women in war zones is not unusual today, during World War II, women reporters and photojournalists often had to argue and cajole their way to the frontlines to report the news.