Manoj begins to threaten Anuja, switching between scolding and cajoling.
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My emails to his reps ranged from cajoling to outright begging.
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Could he shift gears from attacking to cajoling or even empathizing?
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There is no point in cajoling those whose budgets are growing.
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Understandably, then, such cajoling destroys trust between potential customers and Washington.
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Try cajoling names out of Ms. Oren, though, and she'll deflect.
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Ditch the multiple ballots and the public cajoling of candidate supporters.
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But it will take some cajoling to get them on board.
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Which is why Trump is now cajoling Hatch to postpone retirement.
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This took me a year of cajoling you, so thank you.
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So cajoling young, poor couples into marriage might not help their offspring.
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After some cajoling, she got into his car, a black Ford sedan.
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The company started complaining and cajoling even before the JEDI RFP process started.
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To do so, however, will take plenty of cajoling between now and then.
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But, after some cajoling, I convinced a few festivalgoers to take a picture.
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Overjoyed, he resumes his cajoling, but Ronny aims another kick at his head.
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After 90 minutes of persuading and cajoling, they agreed to put on microphones.
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After considerable cajoling and repeated offers, he said, most people usually said yes.
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But cajoling business partners and undercutting rivals does not translate easily in geopolitics.
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He's being pragmatic; this isn't the right time to start cajoling China on trade.
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Wilford-Neal tried luring Monte out with snacks, water and cajoling, but nothing worked.
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More than two decades of browbeating, bribing and cajoling North Korea have been fruitless.
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I circled the streets on my motorbike, cajoling random girls onto its back seat.
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Psychologically, I started to move around him, soothing and cajoling him toward the door.
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After some cajoling, I brought him to a notorious club in West Hollywood, Peanuts.
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But President Trump backed it to the hilt, pressuring, cajoling and threatening wavering Republicans.
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Zohre begged Humar to return, by turns threatening her and cajoling her with tears.
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Immune to our cajoling, the bear would not, no matter what we did, light up.
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That leaves President Trump as the only major political figure praising and cajoling the economy.
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It's understandable that children need reminding and cajoling to do what they know is right.
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After much cajoling, Helen follows — but she freezes halfway down when she can't find a foothold.
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As she documents in detail, she routinely met senior government and military figures, advising, entreating, cajoling.
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Yet whatever policy harvest the Democrats can reap from cajoling Trump will come at a price.
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It's a key step in cajoling the world into accepting his nuclear state as fait accompli.
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But the refereeing, pleading, and cajoling occur every day, as predictably as Washington rush hour traffic.
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Moments later, he had located another cheese plate, cajoling anyone in earshot to have a taste.
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Mr. Trump has navigated the investigation with a mix of public and private cajoling of witnesses.
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Before his accident, he was often the life of the party, cajoling friends into dance competitions.
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In the series, the interrogation scenes are presented as a whirlpool of badgering, menace and cajoling.
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We saw that unicorn glimpsed only fleetingly in the last eight years: the cajoling Barack Obama.
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Mr. Trump has long oscillated between taunting, cajoling, criticizing, and manipulating the journalists who cover him.
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Mnuchin cannot force regulators to change or rewrite rules, but will have ways of cajoling potential dissenters.
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I immediately thought of Nora in " A Doll's House ," abjectly cajoling her husband to give her money.
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Rather than arm-twisting, McConnell's job here entails lots of temperature-taking, hand-holding, cajoling, and bargaining.
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Above all, these ex-doves agree that 20 years of patiently cajoling China to change has not worked.
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He bargained hard, shaming rich countries for charging full price to tiny, beleaguered Israel, and cajoling rich sympathisers.
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Cosby then offered her wine, and after some cajoling, she took a couple of sips, the complaint says.
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When he meets the nation's top chief executives in person, he is a mix of charm and cajoling.
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Again, I thought some cajoling would be necessary, so I used a slight variant of the birthday explanation.
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FEDERAL RESERVE policymakers have been busily cajoling markets to prepare for an interest-rate rise in the summer.
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He's often plotting his own jailbreak—delivery from the crowd—or cajoling someone to sneak off with him.
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But Mommy, as he calls her, hovered graciously throughout the interview, by turns soothing, cajoling and spiritedly taunting.
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On the phone, Welch, who had been speaking in a businesslike patter all morning, sounded cajoling, almost motherly.
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The job also requires patiently cajoling feuding nations into striking deals that can avoid further chaos and bloodshed.
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At the time, Burke is merely the Vice-President, but we see her cajoling her boss into action.
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Yet he was remarkably deft at the cajoling, salesmanship and favor-trading that a private member's bill required.
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The method of cultivating this asset was neither gentle cajoling nor persuasion, but torture, rape, and child trafficking.
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"Trousers," said the shy Roosie Karjam, 83, sitting in the museum's community room, after much thought and cajoling.
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Foster has been on the road like the best of bloodhounds, seeking them out, flattering, cajoling, twisting arms.
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Cajoling from shareholders has long been one way to sway corporate boards, though it isn't always taken seriously.
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She always balances cost against quality, and doubtless much of her time is spent in cajoling her manufacturers.
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Full volumeWhat a voice it was: cajoling, soaring and yearning, touching hearts and rattling windows (amplification was hardly necessary).
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Mr. Cox is seen as having a softer edge than his boss, more prone to cajoling than arm-twisting.
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They have stood by as Mr Abadi, with American cajoling, adopted a more Arab, less Shia-revivalist, foreign policy.
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For most of Android's life, that strategy amounts to little more than cajoling carriers and manufacturers into doing better.
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Outside the room, his campaign pursued the practical task of cajoling voters to sign a commit-to-caucus card.
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But he is keenly aware that getting people to be prepared takes a lot of cajoling and constant reminding.
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Strange was perhaps the only one who was a hard yes without cajoling or asking for any political favors.
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He fizzes with nervous energy, constantly chiding and cajoling, resorting to expansive mime to convey messages to his players.
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I spent evenings gently cajoling him to come with me to the gym, walk with me to the park.
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Soon Mr. Lanferman started spending his allowance on alcohol, cajoling strangers outside liquor stores to buy it for him.
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He spent years cajoling and then blackmailing the Obama administration into accepting Russia's decisive role in the Middle East.
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The Trump administration has also shifted from cajoling to threats in its exchanges with the Chinese on North Korea.
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Until it closes the savings gap, no amount of diplomacy, bullying or cajoling will close the gap in trade.
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What's next: A full court press, with a mixture of public advocacy (Trump's rally in Kentucky tomorrow) and private cajoling.
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The brokers cold-called and knocked on doors, sweet talking, cajoling, and sometimes strong-arming homeowners into selling their properties.
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The "Ken Burns effect " in Apple's iMovie is thanks, in part, to some cajoling on the part of Steve Jobs.
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For it to succeed, Donald Trump would have to go the full LBJ, cajoling and intimidating congressman nonstop for weeks.
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Sanjay worked the keyboard while Jeff reclined beside him, correcting and cajoling like a producer in a news anchor's ear.
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Now, her primary purpose seems to be soothing and cajoling the husband who once viewed himself as a superior being.
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For Mr. Moon, however, cajoling Mr. Kim back to the table could be harder than it is with Mr. Trump.
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Trump prowled up and down the line of reporters -- bullying some, cajoling others and taking question after question after question.
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Graham's cajoling played as an attempt to stiffen their spines while also trying to shame them into being for Kavanaugh.
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When the switch is off the light is off — and no amount of cajoling the smart assistant will change that.
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Only a strong, vocal President, capable of threatening, cajoling and waving carrots to Beijing can open up market access to China.
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In court, Ames countered that his fellow American spies spent their days cajoling, or blackmailing, Russians into selling out their colleagues.
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And so it usually takes a good deal of cajoling to convince these communities to let us in with our cameras.
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"They were cajoling people to do that web series for nothing, unless you count bagels," Comedy Central president Kent Alterman joked.
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It took another week of Ms. Barton's cajoling for Mr. Abu Ghoneim to finally let his horse cross the rainbow bridge.
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But no cajoling or shaming of uncles and aunts (with the law on their side) is apt to change the outcome.
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He brought up the rear, cajoling the last of his followers to stumble across the finish line nearly two hours later.
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Rebecca does a lot of observing and cajoling, trying to get people to open up to her, but that's passive stuff.
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After some reported cajoling from House Republican leaders Kevin McCarthy and Paul Ryan, Trump ultimately endorsed Roby despite her past snub.
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Cajoling and enticing players onto that limitless funicular track of spending raises serious ethical issues, especially where our youngest players are involved.
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It's the story of men in power using and abusing it against women, cajoling and taking, berating and threatening, trapping and menacing.
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After all, Mr. Trump is the consummate salesman, always marketing, wooing and cajoling in an effort to win over his immediate crowd.
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A handful of staffers on one side of the table, all begging, cajoling and ratting on one another to win his affection.
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Behind the scenes of those films, he apparently enjoyed exposing himself to young actresses and cajoling them into giving him blow jobs.
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"The Chinese side knows about the provision in the law and has been cajoling or pushing Canada to use it," said Tiberghien.
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In June, Trump — after reported cajoling from House Republican leaders including Kevin McCarthy and Paul Ryan — appeared to extend Roby an olive branch.
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It's not clear if those changes, or Trump's warnings and cajoling to GOP members on Tuesday will be enough to carry the bill.
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This week in Beijing, some pushing from the Trump side could help in cajoling China into improving market-access conditions for foreign companies.
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When Vargas Llosa entered the room, photographers rushed toward him, chirping "Mario, por favor" in hopes of cajoling him into a good shot.
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He took his place in line, all smiles, shaking his head as party supporters descended on the voters, cajoling, making promises, cutting deals.
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Others impugned the character of their accusers, or tried cajoling, bullying and intimidation to get me to take them out of the story.
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Washington (CNN)Lorna Owens is cajoling friends to get involved in the 21972 presidential race over coffee at her neighborhood Starbucks in Miami.
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Former Attorney General Jeff Sessions: Sessions repeatedly refused Trump's cajoling to un-recuse himself in the Russia investigation being run by the FBI.
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Barret is an impresario, cajoling artists and scouring the world for new talent, nurturing the ones she feels may someday make the cut.
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Google has tried to convince its partners in the Android ecosystem to solve these update problems over the years with cajoling, shaming, and begging.
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It is cajoling the city's anchor institutions to provide capital for a regional investment bank, much like the ones that Mr Corbyn has proposed.
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The demo units at IFA were behind glass, and it took a lot of cajoling to convince Nubia to even let me touch one.
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Mr. Plepler was known as the ultimate deal maker at HBO, with a talent for alternately charming and cajoling celebrities and business executives alike.
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With his anything-goes personal style and ready laugh, it is easy to imagine him cajoling a client into letting her freak flag fly.
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And every minute of airtime devoted to cajoling reluctant conservatives was a minute not aimed at winning over swing voters for the general election.
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This week, The Associated Press reported that officials had never researched the effectiveness of regular flossing, as required, before cajoling Americans to do it.
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Parents have to behave, too: Try not to yell "smile" or "cheese," and don't try cajoling your kids unless your photographer asks you to.
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Even before taking office, the president-elect has claimed to save thousands of jobs by cajoling companies into keeping jobs in the United States.
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Does flirting involve gruffly grinding on the front tire of my bike, while cajoling me to go get us a drink before last call?
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And he spent much of 2018 pressuring the attorney general to do just that, either attacking him in public or cajoling him in private.
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The sales guys whoop, cajoling the competitors as they throw their faces into the crooks of their arms, like speed skaters drunk on Red Bull.
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The only surprise is that it has taken so much cajoling to get insurers to run monopolies in markets buttressed by such generous government support.
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"Instead of cajoling the unwilling landowners, a financing scheme should be designed for tenants to buy out the land," he wrote in a recent blog.
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When Trump hired Shine after months of cajoling, there was a sense of dread among the communications team because they didn't know what to expect.
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The Chinese Communist Party has spent decades pressuring and cajoling a historically fractious nation of 1.4 billion people to see China as a united country.
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There are few signs, however, that he is deeply engaged with cajoling or negotiating with other leaders to coordinate their plans for combating the virus.
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With no real challenger in this week's election, President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi is cajoling, coercing and even paying voters to ensure a credible turnout.
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Outreach groups said they also need cooperation from people on the street; workers can spend months cajoling someone even to share his or her name.
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DUKKI, Pakistan — Outside her small, mud-walled house in western Pakistan, Gul Saima is cajoling her 3-year-old son to take a few steps.
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When cajoling did not work, Kremlin-connected hackers (who were recently indicted in the United States) stole thousands of email messages from Patriarch Bartholomew's aides.
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It's like a text-adventure endless runner of crude jokes and concentrated cajoling, backdropped by outbreaks of plague and all-too-brief periods of prosperity.
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Kaushar Ali and Younouz Jambhuwalla were able to convince the cops to not press charges against Ansari and his three friends after two hours of cajoling.
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After a few hours of chain-smoking, tedious small talk and attempts at cajoling the men to release me, a woman from Donetsk's media center called.
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After some gentle cajoling, Atkins said that the timid canine followed her home, where she went to work on social media trying to find his owner.
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The NOC did it by cajoling community leaders, shaming blockaders and navigating a bewildering range of tribal feuds as it reopened fields and patched up infrastructure.
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But his role seemed closer to that of a newspaper editor or a sports coach, persuading, rousing, and sometimes cajoling his team to do better work.
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In January 2018, after years spent nagging and cajoling his neighbors, Mr. Faillace, an employment lawyer, finally got what he wanted, but at a steep price.
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After some more cajoling on my son's part and some more wrestling on mine, I finally agreed to this outing but was still rife with uncertainty.
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He was on the phone Friday lobbying, cajoling and pleading with lawmakers, knowing that the outcome is likely to turn on just a handful of votes.
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Through a combination of threats and tariffs, the US is cajoling countries on the caravan route to turn back these desperate asylum-seekers on its behalf.
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The US has been cajoling and pressuring these allies to change their behavior, to occasional success, but ultimately these countries are putting their own interests first.
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A rehabilitation team will work to figure out what best motivates a patient to get better, "whether it is encouraging them, cajoling or being stern," Roth said.
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After a lot of cajoling from his friends, Daredevil lands firmly in the anti-murder camp, while The Punisher believes bad guys deserve to be summarily executed.
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Chocolate bars and peanut butter cups were highly prized and there was some cajoling, on the parental level, for my brother and sister and me to share.
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Paul Mitchell's son Angus, a co-owner of the Paul Mitchell Company, is being sued for allegedly coercing and cajoling an employee to have sex with him.
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In the report, Bentley is cast as cajoling and threatening those around him to keep the affair -- and the tapes of his comments about Mason -- a secret.
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It's why the designers break their backs building sets for free on a punishing schedule, cajoling and pleading with artists, dealers and craftspeople to do the same.
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Another consequence of this deteriorating commitment to arms control is that Washington and Moscow now have a harder time cajoling other countries into limiting their nuclear arsenals.
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Despite much cajoling, Elham couldn't convince his family to let Freshta go to university, so he did the next best thing—enrolled her for an online degree.
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Among the possible complications of such a maneuver are cajoling troop contributing countries with Blue Helmets in the Congo to agree to their possible redeployment in Burundi.
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"I could be doing this all day long," Mr. Trump said happily, after an hour of challenging, cajoling, teasing and shouting down the reporters in the room.
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He would bark out the names of NBC's top brass so that his assistants would get them on the phone and he could start cajoling and bullying.
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"Winning passage of legislation, whatever its details, will require a mix of compromise and cajoling, horse-trading and arm-twisting, favor-granting and trust-building," he wrote.
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Anyone with a government-issued ID can sit in the House gallery and watch as a recalcitrant congressman fends off a cajoling member of the whip team.
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But even top Democratic political operatives speculated in private that Mr. Obama would have some serious cajoling to do to persuade his favorite candidate to accept his offer.
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The administration of Donald Trump has attempted to browbeat Western allies into forswearing Huawei too; imposing a ban of its own was expected to help with the cajoling.
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After some cajoling, crisis is averted and Francesca admits she does feel the same way and would've kissed Dev back if he ever made a move on her.
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Major corporations are using the event, which the United Nations started in 1993, to commit to consuming less water, improving reuse and cajoling suppliers to do the same.
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Even as he was cajoling colleagues to support the measure, he was nodding that the House GOP version was just the jumping-off point, not a final version.
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In many respects, the advocacy by Macron and Merkel mirrors the desperation of the Iranian regime — threatening, cajoling, pleading — for the United States to remain in the agreement.
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No amount of cajoling from Washington will cause China to squeeze North Korea with enough sanctions that it will give up its weapons or risk the government's collapse.
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The only way it had any chance was to have a fully invested and activated Trump poking, prodding and cajoling House Republicans into voting for the compromise bill.
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Getting Mr. Brady to call me from his family ski vacation, rather than merely accepting the offer of an email interview, took a lot of pushing and cajoling.
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The authors are correct that discretion is necessary when opening new communications, as in China, or cajoling a series of adversaries to collaborate, as in the Middle East.
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While many of Black's peers were preparing to play in this year's Open, she was lobbing balls to the student and then cajoling her to pick them up.
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What I mean by the "policy" lever is the mix of prodding, cajoling, encouragement, shame, and begging that constitutes Google's attempts to keep the Android ecosystem in line.
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News Analysis HANOI, Vietnam — Over the past quarter-century, three American presidents have tried cajoling, threatening and sabotaging North Korea in its efforts to build a nuclear arsenal.
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The company introduced Internet Explorer in 1995 and wasted no time in browbeating and cajoling companies the world over into making it the default web browser on their systems.
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Given the failure of Mr Obama's policy of bribing and cajoling Pakistan into becoming more co-operative, it would not be surprising if the new administration tries something different.
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LEDE: The Federal Communications Commission is about to vote on its reforms to the market for television set-top boxes after months of interest group lobbying and congressional cajoling.
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Now in the final throes of our republic's quadrennial rite, the presidential nominees are staking out positions over how best to cajole an economy sorely in need of cajoling.
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In addition to its pledges and cajoling, the Fed in 1987 eased collateral restrictions on Wall Street and tried to calm markets by intervening in trading earlier than normal.
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Through much cajoling by the amicable teenage instructors, I had overcome my initial fears and could jump into the pool unassisted, provided that someone was waiting to catch me.
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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.
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Even Mr. Trump's public praise and cajoling, including the photo ops in Trump Tower and the Twitter posts broadcasting investment vows as political victories, have an East Asian feel.
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At the same time, they are trying to figure out the extent to which Mr. Trump responds to the traditional tools of a political negotiation: Compromise, cajoling and threat.
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Related: Jeb Bush Endorses Ted Cruz to Thwart 'Divisiveness and Vulgarity' of Donald Trump But now, after much cajoling by his colleagues, he is the Speaker of the House.
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Today much of Mr. Burke's time seems to be spent courting, coaxing, stroking, cajoling — and in some cases ejecting — high-paid, high-profile stars and executives, many with outsize egos.
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After a day of cajoling votes, a senior administration official said the White House is trying to persuade about 20 to 103 House Republicans who are either opposed or undecided.
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Hip-hop artist Sosamann was allegedly involved in cajoling 2 young women to come to California with promises of living the Hollywood dream ... then forcing them to turn tricks instead.
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It could also use some cajoling of both insurance company executives and red-state governors to get everyone working harder on collaborating and trying to make the program a success.
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The edict is the product of months of cajoling from cyber-focused lawmakers on Capitol Hill, who regularly have warned that the lack of global cyberspace rules poses serious dangers.
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In a primary season dominated by Mr. Trump, some voters may not require much cajoling, and Cruz allies predict more public defections this week if Mr. Rubio exits the race.
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He had barely been able to move for what seemed like ages, but now he raced to the corner, cajoling the swaying mass of red-and-white-clad Croatia fans.
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Or rather, perhaps, had they been on the other side of it, cajoling and persuading the hard-liners with whom they're often at odds to finally let the prisoners free?
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That can mean delicate conversations between antiques owners and real estate agents, who have to resort to explaining, cajoling, and creative solutions like virtual staging to make homes more marketable.
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WASHINGTON — President Trump thought he could sell balky Republican senators like Ron Johnson of Wisconsin on the Senate health care bill through pleasantries, cajoling and, ultimately, some Oval Office muscle.
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If you're tempted to move away from the app and you unlock your phone, Forest displays a cajoling message (which you can customize) telling you to put your phone back down.
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No amount of cajoling, arm-twisting and pleading by his team mates and swimming fans around the world will make Michael Phelps change his mind about retiring after the Rio Olympics.
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In addition to its pledges and cajoling, the U.S. central bank in 1987 eased collateral restrictions on Wall Street and tried to calm markets by intervening in trading earlier than normal.
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But in the eyes of Pelosi's allies, the strategic cajoling — combined with a show of simple raw force — are all part of a return to the Speakership that many deem inevitable.
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It also included a new revelation about a July phone call involving Trump that indicated just how focused the president was on cajoling the Ukrainian government into undertaking politically beneficial investigations.
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For months, the leaders of Saudi Arabia and the Emirates had been befriending and cajoling Kushner, who had no background in the Arab world, through several meetings and frequent WhatsApp conversations.
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A choir of female vocalists hoots in the distance, and Bennett's voice rises over theirs, cajoling and cackling, as if amused by the sound he's making and the words he's singing.
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This June 28, the centennial will present the confusing spectacle of a president antagonizing democratic allies, while cajoling adversaries who make no secret of their contempt for democracy and human rights.
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We've already written about the grime instrumental and its legacy in a genre that's come to be defined by the spitting, cajoling, winking voices of its most-respected MCs and rappers.
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Both his parents were illiterate, but his mother prized education, cajoling tutors to work with her son every day after school, including an English-speaking cousin who taught him the language.
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Mr. Trump spent a few days cajoling and threatening lawmakers, then threw up his hands and said he had done all he could and was now moving on to other matters.
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If you're tempted to move away from the app and you unlock your phone, Forest displays a cajoling message (which you can customize) telling you to put your phone back down.
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And I use the term "interview" loosely, because Cavill's interviews seemed more akin to a few artful Batman putdowns, withholding high-fives, and cajoling some impressionable young witnesses into siding with Superman.
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Washington (CNN)They are the dueling imps hovering over President Donald Trump's shoulders, whispering in his ear, cajoling, enticing, threatening as they stretch their president and their party in wildly divergent directions.
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As we get close to the 2018 elections and the scrutiny in the news media gets even sharper, it's less likely that vague cajoling from the White House will be very effective.
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Instead, we get Emily as a representative of female authority, alternately cajoling and threatening the two men in an effort to reach some form of compromise as the hour grows ever later.
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She is cajoling city workers to help her move into other subsidized housing, among them the same official who had tried to get her a new apartment after her son was killed.
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The potential for exemptions is likely to incite a tsunami of lobbying and cajoling as foreign governments pressure the White House for a carve-out that could save them from steep tariffs.
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It's a country that rarely lets anyone visit or document daily life — proving again why "when in doubt, go" is valuable advice, even when it requires a lot of pushing and cajoling.
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"Oh, please, I'm sorry, just come on in," Mr. Weinstein said as he tried to usher her into his hotel room, his tone alternating between threatening and cajoling, according to the recording.
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The latter amounted to some discreet disruption of North Korea's missile launches through cyber-attacks and gentle cajoling of the Chinese to be a bit tougher over the implementation of various UN sanctions.
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Similarly, although NATO members began to boost defence spending after the Wales summit in 2014 in response to Russian aggression, Mr Stoltenberg is happy to let Mr Trump claim credit for cajoling them.
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Hayes denied dishonesty during his 47-day trial, saying he had been open about his practices, such as sending scores of messages cajoling, pressuring and offering rewards to those who could influence rates.
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"Avengers: Endgame" arrives in theaters this week, and directors Anthony and Joe Russo are getting out in front of the problem ... cajoling moviegoers into keeping their mouths shut after they see the flick.
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I decided Mom needed a second opinion, maybe even a third, and with some cajoling — just as she had urged me on so many years before — she sat down with a radiation oncologist.
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White Collar Watch When a friend or business acquaintance pitches an investment as a surefire winner, there can be a question about when that cajoling crosses over from mere sales talk to fraud.
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Reginald Gibbons, then the editor of the literary magazine TriQuarterly, published the novella "Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage" there in the late 1990s, though he said it took quite a bit of cajoling.
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He spent a month visiting friends and relatives, charming and cajoling them into giving him loans; when he still didn't have enough, he asked his wife if he could sell her gold jewelry.
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Big investor alliances – like Climate Action 100+, which Larry Fink's BlackRock recently joined - are cajoling companies to act, but have yet to figure out how to deal with recalcitrant polluters like Exxon Mobil.
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The result kept alive the threat of a messy intraparty feud and touched off what promises to be an intense period of internal arm-twisting and cajoling by a leader renowned for both.
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Outreach workers often lament the difficulty of cajoling a name out of people living on the street and fringes of New York, where a person's name is sometimes his or her only possession.
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Another spark for the internet's cooperative cajoling around Fraser stems from an AOL interview where Fraser talked about his current role and some of his past roles from his catalog of hit feature films.
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After three years of cajoling, 33 outlets ranging from long-established publications like the Nation, via upstarts such as the Huffington Post, to those intended for particular audiences, like News Taco, agreed to participate.
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It's now up to Google to provide a formal response, which is likely to be followed by a fresh round of negotiations and cajoling as both parties try to avoid the necessity for fines.
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Valls defended France's record on attacks, saying security services had prevented 16 over three years, and said the modus operandi of cajoling unstable people into striking by whatever means possible was difficult to combat.
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A combination of cajoling and cutting off of funds by the Arab coalition should succeed in getting the guns on their side of the war to fall silent, at least as an initial step.
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The hearing did include some cajoling from the GOP members, who put on display their desire for a probe into issues related to Hillary Clinton's 2016 presidential campaign and time as secretary of state.
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It is now known that at the same time Mr. Abaaoud was laying the groundwork for the devastating plot, he was recruiting, cajoling and training Mr. Hame and others for smaller, quick-hit attacks.
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Democrats, who are unlikely to block the confirmation in the GOP-held Senate, set the pace for the hearing by sparring, cajoling and pleading with Republicans to delay the hearing or reject Kavanaugh outright.
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On premiere nights and Emmy celebrations, he could be found bear-hugging, cajoling and propping up writers, actors and producers, not to mention the magazine editors and columnists he had brought into his fold.
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Eating, baking, joking and cajoling their way on the campaign trail -- skirting some mines, stepping squarely on others -- the primary field has painted the town alternating shades of red and blue over the past week.
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In the wake of the financial crisis, job losses were so high that getting people who lost their jobs back into the workforce hasn't required a good deal of cajoling on the part of employers.
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After all, nobody else has more experience of manipulating, cajoling and berating referees than their former charges, hence nobody is in a better position to invert that experience and use it to their own psychological gain.
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Given how skittish some people still are about electric cars, it might take some cajoling to convince school boards and PTAs they've got enough range and power to safely deliver their kids to school and back.
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He told the crowd that he wished that he'd been able to participate, but once he had withdrawn -- no amount of cajoling, even by the likes of Fox News host Bill O'Reilly --- could bring him back.
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I thought that I would be lucky to find one or two women to pose for us and that it would require all the cajoling skills I could muster, but every woman I approached agreed immediately.
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In the changed political chemistry, the Social Democrats strongly resisted entering another "grand coalition" with Ms. Merkel, and it has taken a lot of cajoling to get the Social Democratic leader Martin Schulz into coalition talks.
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When Kunlun Red Star took the ice, Murphy, in a black baseball hat and a black jumpsuit, began coaxing and cajoling her players in a booming voice, and rapping her stick on the ice for emphasis.
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Valls defended France's record on attacks, saying security services had prevented 16 over three years and said the group's modus operandi of cajoling unstable people into carrying out attacks with whatever means possible was difficult to combat.
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At first, no amount of cajoling from Woody can convince the wide-eyed, constantly questioning Forky that he's served his single-use purpose in life, and now must fulfill his destiny of being tossed into the trash.
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She rarely had time for uninterrupted sleep, and when she was given a day off—which usually required a bit of cajoling and begging—she would check herself into a hotel so she could get some rest.
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After hundreds of campaign stops and tens of thousands of television ads, candidates are crisscrossing Iowa this weekend on a final, frantic dash, cajoling the last undecided voters and energizing supporters to head to Monday night's caucuses.
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RELATED: GOP Health care bill on the brink (again) The President also has not visited Capitol Hill in hopes of cajoling dubious Republican senators who are wary to support the bill, like Vice President Mike Pence has.
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Vice President Mike Pence has taken the lead in negotiations with the Senate, cajoling lawmakers at their weekly luncheons in the Capitol and inviting others to his West Wing office and his home at the Naval Observatory.
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Because the union lacks institutions muscular enough to either design or implement a Europe-wide policy, its officials have resorted to begging and cajoling member states to voluntarily resettle more refugees — and those states have largely refused.
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It also includes suburban empty nesters who no longer require bonus rooms and backyards, and perhaps more to the point, have had it up to here with shoveling the driveway, mowing the lawn and cajoling the furnace.
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Occasionally you can hear his voice off-camera gently cajoling a more detailed answer out of someone, most pointedly when covering Dr. Dre's time at Death Row Records, a place where violence, humiliation and fear were routine.
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"I mean you just have a President that is not leading and not getting people into a room and not shouting, and cajoling, and laughing, and having a good time, and having a terrible time," he said.
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When Steve Jobs returned to Apple in the late 1990s, he scrapped existing plans for an Apple-run museum of its own historian and shipped 600 boxes of history to Stanford; other companies, however, need more cajoling.
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Either way, authorities appear to be deploying what Russians call "the whip and gingerbread" approach to ensure turnout is strong, cajoling the millions of voters who depend on the state for their wages and offering inducements to others.
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On Capitol Hill, the wheels of progress and action are barely turning, while down the street at the White House, President Donald Trump spends more time criticizing, rather than cajoling, Democrats and Republicans to try and work together.
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Trump has been widely and justly criticized for his complete lack of engagement with Congress and his total disinterest in the details of health care policy, but he's been successful so far at bullying and cajoling Congress forward.
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There's a lot of listening and parsing, and a lot of cajoling people — who would rather be anonymous in order to say what they really feel — to summon the gumption to attach their names to their true thoughts.
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And for both the president and Republican lawmakers, making a case that the conduct illustrated in the call isn't wrong means arguing that cajoling a foreign government into doing political favors for a president is fine and normal.
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"A new report alleges Wilson experienced a "hostile work environment" at "The Affair," which is said to have included a showrunner cajoling and pressuring actors to "get naked even if they were uncomfortable or not contractually obliged to.
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Former Conservative Prime Minister Stephen Harper did just that for more than five years between 2006 and 2011, when he had two successive minorities, alternately cajoling and threatening other parties to make sure they did not bring him down.
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It is not a traditional love song in any familiar sense; although Wayne seems to be cajoling the person it's addressed to to love someone, it's more about the concept of love than about loving him (hence the video).
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The play condenses an event-filled year — the assassination, President Johnson's address to a joint session Congress, months of cajoling Southern legislators over the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the F.B.I. director J. Edgar Hoover's surveillance of the Rev.
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That action often involves pressuring, cajoling, leveraging or outright attacking Turkey, which is central to the war both because it is so close and because of the assertive role it has taken in Syria since the conflict's first months.
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Israel's backers argue that Hamas is responsible for the deaths, pointing to reports they were cajoling protestors to flood the border fence as well as other reports people were throwing firebombs and flaming kites over the fence into Israel.
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The task of herding and cajoling 2,472 men and women spread out across two oceans and 63 time zones is an immense and intricate undertaking that few in the political world have any experience participating in — let alone managing.
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Vows When Assaf Kedem and Erika Woods exchanged messages on the dating app Coffee Meets Bagel in May 213, which ended with Ms. Woods giving him her number after some cajoling, they were "worlds apart," as she put it.
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It took a bit of cajoling, but they finally played their song, and we found ourselves singing along with the catchy tune, "I wasn't looking for you, I wasn't searching…" We weren't searching for each other, any of us.
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But beneath the pomp of a second state dinner and the mateship between longstanding allies, there will be the silent discomfort of a major power cajoling its old friend to step up to the immense challenge posed by China.
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The White House is demanding that Iraq end purchases of energy from Iran, as it has been cajoling the E.U., China and others to do — with limited success — after pulling out of the Iran nuclear accord and reapplying sanctions.
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But, cats being cats, they needed cajoling to stay in place long enough to be captured sitting atop a pile of pillows, playing with a ball of yarn, staring plaintively into the lens, or appearing to chuckle or snarl.
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After two years of following Tommy Burns and cajoling him doggedly, Johnson and his representatives persuaded the Ontario native to fight him in Sydney, when a brutal 14-round bout resulted in his becoming the first black heavyweight champ on earth.
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But the ordinarily low profile dealer is playing a highly visible role in the show — including cajoling other private collectors to make loans and seeking to stage an exhibition at a New York museum that has not been announced yet.
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LONDON — After two crushing defeats in Parliament for her plan for Britain's withdrawal from the European Union, Prime Minister Theresa May nonetheless had high hopes of cajoling or threatening enough recalcitrant lawmakers to win approval in a third try this week.
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The Houston protest videos depicted a bunch of Americans duped into fighting each other in public, all at the whim of an unseen force that, through expert and surreptitious cajoling, had gotten them to lose control of themselves on camera.
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News Analysis WASHINGTON — Three American presidents have spent nearly 16 years alternately cajoling, coaxing, threatening and bombing Pakistan, all with a goal of trying to change the Pakistani government's decisions about the factions it supports in Afghanistan's desperate civil war.
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Germany now appears ready to follow a similar path, despite an endless stream of cajoling and threats by Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, Defense Secretary Mark T. Esper and other U.S. officials at a global security conference in Munich last weekend.
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His Facebook page repeatedly shows him phoning individual voters and cajoling them to do right by him, or appealing for supporters to text him the numbers of people who are not planning to vote, so he can hector them himself.
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The intense protest left two Democratic senators with cold feet that no degree of political cajoling — or a private question-and-answer session for lawmakers with three pediatricians from the state chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics — could thaw.
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Despite the day's feverish efforts — a combination of cajoling, browbeating and horse-trading that recalled Democrats' efforts to pass the law in 2010 — White House and congressional officials conceded Tuesday that they still lacked the votes to pass the bill.
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Ultimately, Mr. Trump returned to what was ostensibly his core reason for being in Florida: cajoling the cheering crowd into turning out to vote next November and solidifying enough Republican support in the state's electorate to earn a second term.
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But you can bet CEOs everywhere are on alert for a potential cajoling five-minute phone call from the incoming dealmaker-in-chief, who might want to make an example of their company for political or policy gain, with little notice.
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It's not unheard of for presidents to try to sway it one way or the other — Lyndon Johnson and Henry Truman clashed with the central bank — but most of the cajoling has taken place behind closed doors, especially since Bill Clinton, Binder said.
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To add teeth to the cajoling, Washington should inform the 23 NATO members not spending two percent of GDP on defense they have five years to reach this target – and that any countries that don't do so risk forfeiting their American security guarantees.
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The FRC President was already successful in cajoling the RNC to tacitly support ex-gay therapy, under the guise of "family rights," in its 2016 election platform, and getting the party to affirm its commitment to defining marriage as a heterosexual union.
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He comforted me in a way that wasn't cajoling [how] I imagine a parent with a closed mind would — you know, to convince me that heartbreak was a heterosexual emotion, and that gay relationships should somehow hurt less because they're less real.
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It's a winter night, and her boyfriend, Tommy (Morgan Spector), a letter carrier, is cajoling her to get into his car rather than wait for a bus that will still require her to walk through the dark streets of Newark to their apartment.
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Ms. Shah served as the ballast, hitting notes squarely and staying comfortably buckled to a variety of swing feels (on originals, jazz standards and French pop classics), while Mr. Moutin played with a fierce, lunging intensity, jittering and thwacking and cajoling the bass.
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That network and allied groups are working to kill the measure, with at least 18 right-leaning organizations in the region — some of them merely Koch front groups — blitzing newspapers with letters and cajoling motorists to badger politicians to stop the effort.
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This was a vital skill for a man who frequently found himself racing about Petrograd, cajoling disgruntled workers into returning to their machines, promising wage or ration increases, and convincing them that sacrifices in the present would be repaid in the future.
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Cajoling the South Korean leader to agree in print to "promote balanced economic growth and co-prosperity of the [Korean] nation" and end "all hostile acts and eliminating their means, including broadcasting through loudspeakers and distribution of leaflets" were Kim's two most valuable takeaways.
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But in one of the world's most unequal cities, where apartheid's legacy separates mostly rich and white suburbs from largely poor and black shantytowns, the efforts to avoid Day Zero have involved cajoling a divided society into thinking of water as a common problem.
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QUEBRADILLAS, P.R. — Far from the bustle of the capital, San Juan, in places where time walks slowly, jobs are scarce and colonial history dates to the era of pirates, some of Puerto Rico's most powerful figures — municipal mayors — spend their days obliging, cajoling and demanding.
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Through wheeling and dealing, shaming and cajoling, Mr. Sanders, an independent who caucuses with Democrats, got his wish, and his favored provision was grafted incongruously onto a tough-minded Republican border security amendment and paid for by higher visa fees for some foreign travelers.
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One former aide speaks, again By frightening, cajoling, threatening, bullying and just generally seeking to diminish the people who speak out against him, Trump has managed to muzzle the very long list of former aides and Cabinet secretaries he fired, pushed out or wore out.
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Supporters of the Affordable Care Act achieved a major victory this past week when, thanks to cajoling and arm-twisting by state regulators, the last "bare" county in America — in rural Ohio — found an insurer willing to sell health coverage through the law's marketplace there.
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Charting the line gets mighty complicated: there are so many men playing together, so many more behind the scenes, coaching and cajoling and sometimes sabotaging the game's progress, pulling the line until it goes bonkers, more like a dance chart than any sort of arrow.
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The filing signals a ratcheting-up in the size of the corporate targets of activist investors, who through behind-the-scenes cajoling or sometimes high-profile public proxy wars try to force companies to change their strategies with an eye toward profits for themselves.
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With third quarter economic growth slowing to crisis-era lows, no let-up in Washington's trade rhetoric and a stock market that's lost 20183 percent since February, China has been forced to ease monetary conditions and is cajoling banks to lend to small firms.
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If lots of senators really are in the dark on the health care bill, it means that leadership will need to do a lot of convincing, cajoling, and bargaining over the next week in order to get the 50 votes necessary to pass it.
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Scenes like this contrast sharply with those in which Earn is shooting the shit with Alfred and Darius (the ever-enigmatic Lakeith Stanfield), trying to relax with his erstwhile partner Van (Zazie Beetz), or even cajoling his wild-card uncle (Katt Williams) out of his house.
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The characters have revelations about themselves that occur at a glacial pace (it took 12 years of hints and cajoling for Mac to finally admit he was gay), and they're terrible at expressing their feelings of pain, resentment, and loneliness, which ends up manifesting as sociopathy.
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In particular, prosecutors showed jurors chains of messages in which Mr. Percoco — through a mix of cajoling, bargaining and outright aggression — worked both directly and behind the scenes to stall the resignations of certain staff members if he felt their departures would hamstring the governor's agenda.
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While the audiotape has been widely circulated, for example, it's still jarring to hear Weinstein cajoling and pleading with Italian model Ambra Gutierrez -- who wore a wire to a second meeting with him -- and then see the tabloid headlines that were carefully planted to discredit her.
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" The tactic worked back when he was cajoling banks into giving him giant loans for casinos that would later collapse in bankruptcy, or trying to convince people that his 58-story skyscraper was actually 68 stories, or claiming that his reality show, "The Apprentice," was the "No.
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For years, rosewood gavel in hand, she presided over the sale of hundreds of millions of dollars' worth of treasures — teasing, cajoling, seducing and ever so genteelly shaming in the unimpeachable diction of her native England: "I'll wait," she might tell a recalcitrant bidder in her foremost schoolmarm tones.
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To understand this decision, it helps to remember that Donald Trump built his career in real estate in the 1970s and '80s in New York City by cultivating, cajoling, threatening, buying up, and manipulating politicians and public officials to obtain tax breaks and public subsidies for his construction projects.
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And then, I follow my pif, often adding spices, nuts or extracts to batters, cajoling dough into new forms, making cupcakes from recipes designed for towering layer cakes, doubling up on frosting or going heavy on chocolate chunks in just about anything, because I now know I can.
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Trump has spent weeks wooing, prodding, cajoling and personally calling Republican lawmakers to pass sweeping tax legislation in time for Christmas – a deadline Trump himself set months ago – but he and his staff have left many of the policy decisions up to Republican lawmakers and top congressional staffers.
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After much "begging, pleading, and cajoling" on McConnell's part — a private meeting with staff and the senator, with Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, with Republican leadership, plus a floor fight and even a phone call to House Speaker Paul Ryan — the Senate finally voted without removing the provision.
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It's not unheard of for presidents to try to push the Fed to act one way or another — Lyndon Johnson and Harry Truman publicly clashed with the central bank — but over the past few decades, most of the cajoling, if there has been any, has taken place behind closed doors.
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Thus any editor, "of genius" or otherwise, had to work on his list as a whole, shuttling between a wide range of projects in different stages of development: marking up page proofs, cajoling authors, reading stacks of manuscripts and letters of introduction, and occasionally making offers that could change a life.
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Cajoling the countries of the western Balkans along a path towards closer European integration is a major goal for the EU, which sees the promise of membership as a guarantor of peace in a region that is still scarred by the wars that followed the collapse of Yugoslavia in the early 1990s.
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Concluding a transition deal by March was supposed to be an easy part of Brexit negotiations after months spent last year cajoling London into committing to pay tens of billions of euros in outstanding commitments to Brussels and hammering out a deal to give lifetime rights to three million EU citizens in Britain.
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The accusations depict behavior said to have occurred mostly in the 1990s and that followed a similar pattern: Mr. Roma started relationships with young women he taught at Columbia and at the School of Visual Arts, flattering and cajoling them, making sexual advances — and, one woman said, placing his penis in her mouth.
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From the historic Sweet Auburn market not far from Martin Luther King's Ebenezer Baptist Church, in beauty parlors and black-owned restaurants, every black woman who spoke to me had somehow tried to turn out votes, whether by canvassing, texting, rousting their voting-age children or cajoling their employees and co-workers.
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With an indefatigable quarterback and the most thrilling of game-winning touchdown passes; with a host of slinky, stretchy wide receivers and an unbending will; with a goal-line leap from a bull of a running back; and with Swinney in the middle of it all, screaming and shouting and cajoling and inspiring.
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Through charisma and cajoling, he assembles a team (Jared Abrahamson and Blake Jenner play Bosuk and Allen) and what starts as a hypothetical lark turns into a genuine if poorly considered plot, predicated on disabling the middle-aged librarian (Ann Dowd) and dressing up as elderly men in costumes that mostly resemble 1970s Dick Van Dykes.
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It should not matter whether you believe, as I do, that Trump's ingratiating campaign posture toward Vladimir Putin's murderous anti-American regime was detestable, and that the Trump orbit's cajoling of WikiLeaks — a cat's paw of the GRU, Russia's largest foreign intelligence agency, that has done immense damage to U.S. intelligence and national security — was reprehensible.
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There was no calling on UN for lengthy discussion, no cajoling the Senate to agree or disagree; no threats, no deceptions but a direct action precise and of deadly consequence while the world's heart still bled with indignation at the sight of children on the evening news choking to death from poison gas delivered by a mass murderer.
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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. The dispute can be traced to remarks by Mayor Bill de Blasio 10 days ago.
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To do that, Hayes, then based in Tokyo as a trader for UBS, the big Swiss bank, decides that he can put himself into the Wall Street elite — in terms of pay and recognition — by cajoling a diverse group of clerks and brokers to falsify their Libor submissions in ways that benefited his large interest-rate bets.
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Having spent more than 15 years at the helm of her party and been demonized by Republicans during the midterm congressional elections as the face of far-left radicalism, Ms. Pelosi, 78, spent the weeks after Democrats won putting down a rebellion over her leadership in Democratic ranks and consolidating support through a combination of deal-cutting and cajoling.
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Because North Korea's leaders are ideologically dependent on maintaining a hyper-paranoid state of war, feel they will be safer with nuclear weapons than without them, and have a long and consistent history of non-compliance with arms reduction agreements they have signed, no amount of cajoling or engagement is likely to convince Pyongyang to give up its nuclear weapons.
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On at least three occasions, according to a senior US government official familiar with the matter, Trump brought up the issue personally with Attorney General Jeff Sessions, variously asking, cajoling, and demanding either that he investigate the purported spy or appoint a special counsel to more broadly look at alleged wrongdoing by DOJ and FBI officials who had pursued the Russia interference inquiry.
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But as far as I can recall, I was both attracted by his soft magnetism — he treated me as if I were the center of the universe, as if he cared intensely about my well-being and dilemmas — and also disquieted by something in the flash of his cajoling eyes and the sensual enjoyment with which his lips pronounced each syllable.
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And during the course of the quasi-affair he actually wasn't a shit: He acted like a real person and put up with a fair amount of crap from Monica who, by her own account, could be a pushy brat — cajoling him to help her find a better job, wanting more attention, and getting mad when he was preoccupied with other things, like Congress.
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Without the impetus of a tax penalty cajoling younger, healthier people to sign up, the insurance risk pool will naturally begin to skew towards those individuals with complex, expensive conditions, driving premiums, copays, and deductibles through the roof and very likely triggering a premium "death spiral" as the few remaining healthy people are driven from their plans due to cost increases, leaving only the sick and old.
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Though they are unlikely to block Kavanaugh's confirmation in the GOP-held Senate, Democrats set the pace for the hearing by sparring, cajoling and pleading with Republicans to delay the hearing or reject President TrumpDonald John TrumpFacebook releases audit on conservative bias claims Harry Reid: 'Decriminalizing border crossings is not something that should be at the top of the list' Recessions happen when presidents overlook key problems MORE's nominee outright.
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After much cajoling, Ryan reluctantly was sworn into the top job in Congress just one year ago Saturday after then-Speaker John BoehnerJohn Andrew BoehnerLobbyists race to cash in on cannabis boom Rising star Ratcliffe faces battle to become Trump's intel chief This little engine delivers results for DC children MORE (R-Ohio) suddenly resigned and Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) dropped out of the race to succeed him.
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"My good friend from Tennessee knows that my principal responsibility is begging, pleading and cajoling, and I've been in continuous discussions, shall I say, with some of our members who are legitimately unhappy about one aspect or another, and spent a lot of time thinking over whether or not they wanted to expedite the process, and I must say after a long and intense day of such discussions with several of our members who had legitimate concerns, I'm relieved rather than depressed that we might be able to actually finish tonight," McConnell said.
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Though I cannot tell why it was exactly that my employer, Vox Media, put me down for this shabby part of a whale video, when others were set down for magnificent reports on high tragedies, and short and easy blog post on genteel YouTube celebrities, and jolly tweets with embedded GIFs —though I cannot tell why this was exactly; yet, now that I recall all the circumstances, I think I can see a little into the springs and motives which being cunningly presented to me under various disguises, induced me to set about performing the part I did, besides cajoling me into the delusion that it was a choice resulting from my own unbiased freewill and discriminating judgment.
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