Some tongue-in-cheek cajolery of the legal profession recently in this space drew the usual sprinkle of humorless and vaguely menacing letters from lawyers which inevitably falls upon all who make light of the ancient profession.
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"He uses cajolery as a substitute for articulate expression of ideas, and how long that will work, we don't know, " said Henry Graff, a presidential historian at Columbia University.
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In another e-mail message, sent to a Hollinger executive in early January 2003, he wrote : " I have been exposed to Richard's full repertoire of histrionics, cajolery and utilization of fine print.
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The impatient Giuliani had tried threats, cajolery, a campaign in the press and even a compromise : offer the chancellor a one-year extension instead of two, with performance standards attached, he suggested as a last resort.
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Seeking advice on his rematch with the president, Plimpton talks to his old friend Peter Buterakos, a cemetery-plot salesman from Flint, Mich ., who specializes in inspiration speeches and " wild bursts of cajolery ."
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In previous years, he has used his powers of cajolery to organize two sprawlingly ambitious summer arts festivals in the city, and to enlarge Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, where he was chairman for six years in the 1980s.
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There will be a temptation now to sharpen the harshness of partisan politics and personal attack in Washington, a mixture of threats of retribution and uninhibited cajolery in the efforts of one side to restore its lost superiority and of the other to broaden the breach and prepare for 2002 elections.
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Futilely using diplomacy and cajolery against the terrorist threat, treating terrorist attacks as law enforcement issues rather than acts of war, asking our intelligence community to protect the nation while restricting its ability to do so-- all these factors contributed to the tragedy of Sept . 11, 2001.
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He maintains that it is not his fault that half the women he speaks to fall in love with him; and he is in full flight of cajolery when Julia Craven herself erupts on to the scene, attacks Grace, and announces her intention of staying until Charteris has given her up.
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Bevan said at a party rally in 1948 : " no amount of cajolery can eradicate from my heart a deep burning hatred for the Tory Party . . . . They are lower than vermin . " The comment inspired the creation of the Vermin Club by angry Conservatives; they attacked Bevan for years for the metaphor.
