Cajoling

His screen-presence, his knack of humour, and his cajoling of people to perform whacky acts.

Regarding Russia, Narendra Modi has maintained a steadfast independence from Washington’s cajoling to condemn Moscow over its Ukraine military intervention.

U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres had spent much of Friday cajoling wealthy countries to raise the number they were promising.

Andrew Cuomo, most apparently: New York’s governor has been blunt and forceful, pushing, cajoling and even praising the President on CNN, his desperation for his state abundantly clear.

He seemed to be everywhere—helping, cajoling, inspiring.

Instead of cajoling allies to join us in expeditionary wars abroad, the U.S. increasingly appears reluctant to intervene, especially in the Middle East.

It was only after some gentle but persistent cajoling from Carolyn that Tamara agreed to meet me here in New York, where she has lived for 20 years, now with a partner and young son.

I’ve tried talking, cajoling, “sneaking” spinach into smoothies, and everything under the sun, and all that results in is a sullen partner who tried some broccoli and sulked for hours afterward.

September makes it her business always to be there, right at the heart of her sister’s existence, cajoling, comforting, shielding her where necessary.

One Alan is bad enough, but we are left with two, voices teasing, adjusting, cajoling each other like lingering lovers.

Pushing updates to users and cajoling participants to agree on changes can disrupt a network and quickly erode confidence in a cryptocurrency, resulting in price declines.

They hedged, and Ingrid spent more time than she’d planned cajoling them from the fire escape.

It took a decade and a half of cajoling, $25 million in cash, 25 million acres of land and an embarrassing political scandal before Macdonald was able to scrounge up enough interest to complete his national dream.

Later, she discovers him going down on another woman, they breakup, and after much cajoling, the typically self-possessed Samantha returns to the relationship where she’s constantly wracked with anxiety that he might cheat again.

NEW YORK (AP) — When four of Zach Hendrix’s staffers couldn’t get along or even speak to one another, he tried talking, cajoling and negotiating with them.

She thinks she wrote her first song at age 3; she recalls cajoling fourth-grade classmates into checking out her latest songs.

This can be unsettling for the politician at first, as his usual antics and cajoling no longer elicit the same effect.

Three years after the first book, on her friends’ cajoling, she decided to pen down her non-vegetarian recipes in Cooking for All Seasons (Penguin, 2003).

We have been cajoling and threatening them to get some information on when a plane is coming.

Burke picked up the dagger and continued: When they smile, I see blood trickling down their faces; I see their insidious purposes; I see that the object of all their cajoling is—blood!