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"arm-twisting" Definitions
  1. the use of a lot of pressure or even physical force to persuade somebody to do something

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The US basically arm-twisting -- its attempt to put pressure.
One was the notorious story of arm-twisting and election interference.
This was an astonishing accomplishment in the annals of congressional arm-twisting.
Whether any royal arm-twisting was involved remains a closely held secret.
Mr Cooper and his colleagues studied the necessary arm-twisting and its effects.
The All Pakistan Newspapers Society (APNS) described the proposal as institutionalized "arm-twisting".
They joked with reporters afterward about the arm-twisting on the Senate floor.
He broke bread, cracked jokes and even wedged in some Albany arm-twisting.
And there has been no visible arm-twisting or attempts to score quick deals.
With a sufficient congressional majority, and sufficient arm twisting, Republicans can pass a bill.
The best food at Hwa Yuan tries to impress through charm, not arm-twisting.
That is why some IP executives in China accept the rationale behind American arm-twisting.
She also knows how to convince holdouts, whether with incentives or some added arm-twisting.
It involved several false starts and lots of arm-twisting, and took years to complete.
She then dedicated herself to maternal arm-twisting until her son cut ties with Almena.
It took extensive arm-twisting for him to finally sign the papers consenting to my adoption.
Demanding a wage floor is the kind of straightforward arm-twisting that Mr. Trump might appreciate.
Other Russian industrialists have also quietly increased their spending plans, suggesting the arm twisting is working.
For Ryan and Trump, this is still all about arm twisting and not fixing the real problem.
"In spite of the arm twisting, more and more European companies have been coming in," he said.
"The government should not require arm-twisting by the constitutional courts," said Ritwick Dutta, an environmental lawyer.
Rather than arm-twisting, McConnell's job here entails lots of temperature-taking, hand-holding, cajoling, and bargaining.
Officials said the process of securing support for President Barack Obama's nominee Kim amounted to arm-twisting.
But it was not without a fight, and some arm-twisting from Riyadh and Moscow, OPEC sources said.
Through lots of arm-twisting and wrangling, they got it to the floor and won a major victory.
Hal doubted it had taken much arm-twisting to make Oliver share a meal with a young staffer.
But neither Boeing nor Safeway is likely to have the fearsome arm-twisting clout of this new conglomerate.
Mr. Cox is seen as having a softer edge than his boss, more prone to cajoling than arm-twisting.
Even if the president's admonition to Comey is proven, he said, it surely fell far short of arm-twisting.
Whatever the details, Mr. Trump will be using the Tuesday meeting as an opportunity for some additional arm-twisting.
It takes a little arm-twisting – well, more like an actual fracture – but soon Healy and March are partnered up.
He is like a modern-day LBJ, a wizard in the legislative dark arts of arm-twisting and favor-bestowing.
Usually there is reverence for the man elected president and not a lot of heavy convincing or arm twisting necessary.
Last week's vote came with little warning, which resulted in GOP leaders partaking in the last-minute arm-twisting. Rep.
For central bank officials and investors, though, it may be best to get used to some surreptitious presidential arm-twisting.
Then voters elected a trio of lawmakers who prevailed through a mixture of tenacity, pragmatism, arm-twisting, and sheer luck.
Still, "Deutschland 93" works hard to justify its arm-twisting by making the collateral damage of children and families a theme.
"It took a lot of arm-twisting on her part to get me to live in New York," he said, laughing.
Diaz-Canel says Cuba is willing to negotiate with the US, but not under the threats of more economic arm twisting.
Still, he is confident that Ryan — with some "arm twisting" — will have the votes to pass the bill to the Senate.
An MP in Hariri's Future Movement, Mohamed Kabara, signaled discord over the declaration, saying "partnership is not about arm twisting, or imposition".
There are 162 people who are running for those slots and many of them have received phone calls, visits and arm-twisting.
They felt that leadership wanted the bill to fail, and thus was not doing enough arm twisting to get it to 218.
Mr. Trump mixed private arm twisting with the bully pulpit of his Twitter account until he forced out Mr. Sessions in November.
But other lawmakers are skeptical of the White House's outreach, saying they're expecting more arm-twisting and less negotiating from the new administration.
It's important to understand that the market for electric cars is still driven less by corporate profit-seeking than by government arm-twisting.
He ended the war with Iraq, first gaining the military advantage, and then arm-twisting his colleagues to accept a UN-brokered ceasefire.
With the IOC and other sports bodies, a combination of bluff, bluster, arm-twisting, and brinkmanship managed to avoid a humiliation for Russia.
This time there were no visible signs of brokering: no shuttle diplomacy, no high-powered arm-twisting; neither word of carrots, or sticks.
But Ms. Pelosi has already clinched the speakership through a weekslong campaign of deal making, arm-twisting and outright auditioning for the job.
Then, multinational corporations teamed up with the Obama administration to do some arm-twisting, and it passed three days later by one vote.
But the lure of playing Cheney in "Backseat" and some arm twisting from filmmaker Adam McKay finally persuaded the actor to harness the transformation.
After some literal arm twisting, he tells Matt that what he's seeing is an uprising of gangs trying to claim what Fisk left behind.
After some gentle arm-twisting, Mr. Russo agreed to call on his Bustle buddies for an evening of Dead tunes and JRAD was born.
Cho told a parliamentary hearing on Wednesday he had found the arm-twisting wrong but he had to deliver the president's message to the conglomerate.
Thus, in states like New Hampshire, it is important for Republicans to note what their congressional candidates intend to do when the arm twisting begins.
Mr. Bolton responded by coaxing or arm-twisting as many governments as he could into pledging that they wouldn't hand Americans over to the court.
As Republicans intensified their arm-twisting, Representative Nancy Pelosi of California, the Democratic leader, panned the health care measure as "a moral monstrosity" on Thursday.
Romney has never served in a legislative role, and in the past he's shown an allergy to that kind of deal-making and arm-twisting.
Late arm-twisting and deal-sweeteners for wavering lawmakers allowed them to push through legislation that aims to slash corporate taxes and cut personal taxes.
President Richard Nixon, though, reportedly used behind-the-scenes arm-twisting to get his Fed chairman, Arthur Burns, to lower rates heading into the 1972 election.
And despite some last minute arm-twisting and deal-making, the bill appears to have the votes in both the House and Senate to win approval.
There isn't evidence yet that Trump is wielding an aggressive arm-twisting campaign for a specific piece of legislation as the Senate continues its extended vacation.
"The minister has told us that mining companies are trying to employ arm-twisting tactics but no single sector is immune from our taxation system," Chanda said.
For Mayor Bill de Blasio, it was a bare-knuckle political fight, complete with arm-twisting appeals to lawmakers and labor negotiations lasting late into the night.
Team Trump is making a bet on assertive nationalism as a way of imposing America's will on a world that can stand a bit of arm-twisting.
Lead single "Peer Pressure" is a Heathers-sampling ode to teen anxiety, pingers and the arm-twisting so-called mates who try make us follow the crowd.
Then — with the assistance of rich Wall Street donors — he engaged in the usual wheeling and dealing and arm-twisting to wrangle the bill through the Legislature.
"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.
In 2014 it was only American arm-twisting that resolved the row—but President Donald Trump makes no secret of his desire to disentangle America from Afghanistan. ■
At the imposing prime minister's office building in Addis Ababa, Arkebe Oqubay, a senior government minister, is adamant that Ethiopia hasn't seen any arm-twisting from China.
They want China to abandon its model of state capitalism, with its subsidies for local champions, arm-twisting transfers of technology, curbs on market access and politicised regulation.
All you have to do is place the rod near your ends, and voila, your hair is curled but without any extreme heat damage or arm-twisting effort.
Usually, they're soft and comfortable enough to sleep with on their own, which means I get to avoid the arm-twisting process of putting on a duvet cover.
Earlier this year, the chairman came out against the GOP's ObamaCare repeal-and-replace bill, but he flipped his position to yes after some arm-twisting by leadership.
Convening, arm-twisting, cheerleading: these, to Mr Street, are the essence of the job, as opposed to what he calls the "begging bowl", "poor us" approach of Mr Simon.
It took time and a lot of arm-twisting, but eventually cigarettes were banned from airports, restaurants, hospitals, and even the teachers' lounge in every school in the country.
Then, whether by backroom dealing, horse trading, arm twisting, or simple persuasion, they have to meld the separate House-passed and Senate-passed versions of the bill into one.
Report: Alaska threatened by Trump over Murkowski's vote Historian Doug Wead talks past presidents known for 'arm twisting' on 'Your World' In July 2017, for example, Murkowski and U.S. Sen.
Watch: Former Senator Gordon Humphrey on Stop Trump To Trump critics, this seems like an outrageous flouting of procedure, likely due to behind-the-scenes arm twisting and backroom deals.
The best possible fix was to remove the web server portion of the app altogether, and now the company has done that — although not without a lot of arm-twisting.
Frelinghuysen had initially told reporters he would oppose the American Health Care Act (AHCA), but he eventually voted for the repeal and replace legislation after some arm-twisting by leadership.
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.
Behind the scenes, where all the real stuff happens, I am told the political arm-twisting has commenced and that there are a number of joint efforts that are under way.
Still, many fear the arm-twisting tactics could make life tougher for secured financial creditors, who must make steep balance-sheet provisions for loans to borrower firms entangled in bankruptcy proceedings.
The floor vote held minimal drama, after whispers throughout the week that it could be an hours-long marathon, with aggressive arm twisting in the back caverns of the House chamber.
"We received the letter last week informing us that they want to lay off more than 1,000 workers starting in January but we think these are arm-twisting tactics," Simukoko said.
If it is the arm-twisting, head-lopping version proclaimed by Islamic State (IS), which dismisses all Muslims but its own ardent followers as shirkers and sinners, there are few takers.
In truth, though he was hardly above arm-twisting and gossip-mongering, much of his power came from more mundane sources, including his skill at promoting the F.B.I.'s nonpartisan image.
That leaves some time, if the Trump administration is motivated, to complete regulatory decisions and engage in the wooing and arm-twisting that may be necessary to draw in worried insurers.
After months of discreet arm-twisting by American Treasury officials with the power to levy huge fines, or exclude them from American markets, Chinese banks are shutting off finance to North Koreans.
The administration's arm-twisting mirrored roughly the same tactics as the deal struck with Mexico, when Trump threatened tariffs on all Mexican goods unless that country signed a safe third country agreement.
Given the EU's intention to preserve the JCPOA, Washington must complement its impending economic arm-twisting with diplomatic hand-holding to rebuild "the global consensus" that once existed about the Islamic Republic.
As I wrote in January, the introduction of a bill just kicks off a complex and convoluted legislative process involving frantic lobbying by stakeholders, proposals for amendments, arm twisting, and deal cutting.
Whether arm-twisting the competition or lighting a fire under the patrician Corning, she is the model of the cynically uncynical type who makes no distinction between dirty politics and true belief.
Editorial After imperial Japan swept into China in the 1930s, the warring Chinese Communists and Nationalists managed a semblance of unity against a common enemy, even if it took some arm twisting.
After alienating senior colleagues with legislative arm-twisting and committing his conference to a hard-line agenda that left them gravely vulnerable, Mr. Ryan announced abruptly in April that he was retiring.
By some act of God — or, more likely, behind-the-scenes arm-twisting — we found ourselves together at last, standing in his country club, staring down the gallery of early Hillcrest members.
It's possible to fantasize about arm-twisting or incredible persuasion that could have gotten one more vote for the "skinny repeal" bill back in July, from Susan Collins, Lisa Murkowski, or John McCain.
The math for the final floor vote is murky, so expect a December filled with backroom deals, arm-twisting and declarations of momentum or growing political strength among Pelosi's allies and the insurgents.
This massive coverage loss has bothered a few House Republicans — most notably Ileana Ros-Lehtinen of Florida — but the vast majority of the objections and arm twisting have focused on the conceptual issue.
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.
If you look at globalization as the main problem, you might see some Trumpian renegotiation of trade deals and arm-twisting to get companies to keep jobs at home as being in order.
"The wildcard here is whether people's unhappiness with their cable and mobile phone providers would translate into some grandstanding and arm-twisting on the part of the new administration for political benefit," he said.
Instead, said Ms. Balfour of the German Marshall Fund, an ideal forum for arm-twisting should be the European People's Party, the regional transnational grouping of center-right parties, including Mr. Kurz's People's Party.
So why, between them, couldn't they come up with something better than a ham-handed parody of macho arm-twisting and submissive toadying in the manner of third-rate David Mamet or Harold Pinter?
By contrast, Mr. Johnson mastered the details of his own legislation, and through inspiration, arm twisting and other maneuvering, pushed it through the House and Senate despite powerful opponents like the American Medical Association.
But Green lefty openness proved too difficult to reconcile with FDP pro-business conservatism, so after much arm-twisting the SPD was persuaded to reconsider in January and eventually agreed to enter another grand coalition.
The week is expected to be punctuated by behind-the-scenes arm twisting and deal making as party leaders work to allay senators' worries without exceeding their self-imposed $1.5 trillion budget for tax cuts.
But rather than take another stab at the very public lobbying and arm-twisting effort that the White House embraced twice and failed, this time the administration is keeping their private prodding out of the spotlight.
But apart from a few sales to some local carriers subject to some patriotic arm-twisting from Beijing, there have hardly been any sales as they are not as fuel efficient as Airbus and Boeing's latest planes.
Assuming no candidate clinches the nomination by winning a majority of delegates before the convention, all the herding, arm-twisting, and wooing of delegates that is expected to unfold there is now beginning on a smaller scale.
That said, some arm twisting was necessary to flip Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez of Spain, who had rather insubordinately opposed the Trump sanctions against Venezuela even prior to the trade embargo and recognition of Guaidó in January.
In recent months, the Trump administration has begun arm-twisting governments in Latin America into doing its own border work, much like the EU has done with Libya to deal with its immigrant crisis in the Mediterranean.
The administration has pointed to Trump's desire to have US allies to contribute more toward Ukraine, but the funds remained frozen even after Trump returned from the G-7 in August, a prime opportunity for diplomatic arm-twisting.
A decade ago, a similar congestion zone proposed by then-Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg had passed the City Council after much arm-twisting, only to die in Albany after Assembly leaders refused to bring it to a vote.
After a breakthrough agreement on how to proceed Tuesday -- and arm twisting by leadership -- that cut off moderates' efforts to buck leadership control of the floor, talks Wednesday centered around hammering out the details of the policy itself.
The wattage is because of the button-pushing, arm-twisting genius of its fairy godmother/mastermind, the Vogue editor Anna Wintour, who ensures that everyone Dresses to Impress in a theme that complements the exhibit it nominally heralds.
No amount of arm-twisting by his peers, Vice President Mike Pence or even President Trump could sway him from the decision that he had telegraphed to some Democrats and Republicans in the anxious buildup to the vote.
It is an obsession that has taken her to the other side of the world, one that has turned casual conversations into arm-twisting negotiations, and innocuous radio chitchat into a stealth attack on the mayor of New York.
One Republican member with direct knowledge of the negotiations said that there is no "arm twisting " at this point and no decisions have been made yet on how to amend the bill to get it passed on the House floor.
If it took the results of the most recent presidential election for you to imagine a selection of angry citizens arm-twisting and threatening presidential electors to get their way, the Framers of our Constitution were way ahead of you.
The rapid pace set out by Republican leaders is by design: They want to prevent the kind of arm-twisting that has long bedeviled previous tax overhaul efforts by leaving little time for outside groups to blitz lawmakers with concerns.
The wattage is because of the button-pushing, arm-twisting genius of its fairy godmother/mastermind, the Vogue editor Anna Wintour, who also ensures that everyone Dresses to Impress, in a theme that complements that of the exhibit it nominally heralds.
The wattage is due to the button-pushing, arm-twisting genius of its fairy godmother/mastermind, the Vogue editor Anna Wintour, who also ensures everyone Dresses To Impress, in a theme that complements that of the exhibit it nominally heralds.
And if Democrats end up brokering their nomination in the open, on the floor of the DNC, it would be a test of the Vermont senator's ability to execute the back-slapping and arm-twisting he normally seems to loathe.
Although COMAC has received more than 570 orders from 9193 customers for the C919, and more than 400 for the ARJ21, virtually all of these are from Chinese airlines and leasing companies, which presumably have been subjected to some patriotic arm-twisting.
ARM-TWISTING OPEC, the organization that triggered the oil shock of 1973 by restricting supplies to countries supporting Israel in the Yom Kippur war, once controlled 40 percent to 50 percent of the world's oil supply and commanded the full attention of markets.
There will be defectors—some from high-tax states concerned about the bill's changes to state and local tax deductions; some concerned about other deductions; none, tellingly, concerned about its effect on the budget—but there has been little arm-twisting this week.
Ultimately Kim garnered enough support from the bank's executive directors to become president, but the process of securing votes -- which people close to the bank describe as "arm-twisting" -- laid the groundwork for future challenges to the US control of the bank's presidency.
"States which previously promoted free trade with honest and open competition have started speaking the language of trade wars and sanctions, of open economic raiding using arm-twisting and scare tactics, of eliminating competitors using so-called non-market methods," said Putin.
With arm-twisting and attacks on ministers and community organizers and hints that they just might depart, the Cavaliers and their allies last year persuaded county and city governments to underwrite most of a $140 million upgrade of the team's Quicken Loans Arena.
"States which previously promoted free trade with honest and open competition have started speaking the language of trade wars and sanctions, of open economic raiding using arm-twisting and scare tactics, of eliminating competitors using so-called non-market methods," said Putin.
Fifty-five million dollars attracts a lot of high-powered influence and self-interest, including all the resources of an international auction house, the services of a gold-plated legal firm, and, news reports have hinted, possibly even some political arm-twisting.
The arm-twisting and secret surveillance were reminiscent of the tactics used by Alberto Fujimori's top adviser, Vladimiro Montesinos, a former spy chief who became infamous for filming hundreds of meetings where he handed out bribes, building pyramids of cash as he carried out negotiations.
Despite having a stranglehold on state government, Mr. Murphy and Stephen M. Sweeney, the Democratic senate president, have had a frosty relationship and never truly mounted a unified effort to do the arm twisting to secure the necessary votes until the final few days.
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.
Ford joins Carrier, Lockheed Martin and Boeing as companies that have changed investment or pricing decisions after Trumpian arm-twisting (hailing Carrier's climb-down, eased by tax breaks from the state of Indiana, Mr Trump declared that the free market had failed American workers "every time").
"Criminal defamation is usually an arm twisting tactic and works as a deterrent because nobody wants to be potentially embroiled in court for years or face a jail term," said Samudra Sarangi, a partner at Indian law firm Panag & Babu which represents clients in defamation lawsuits.
In a display of arm-twisting that would make the hapless whips of the House Republican conference envy, the GOP put down a symbolic effort to hold a roll call vote that would have revealed the extent of opposition to Donald Trump's candidacy among the delegates.
"In Light of The Machine" has a huge, robotic arm twisting within a henge-like circle of perforated walls, so visitors can only glimpse its strange dance at first, before moving to the center and seeing that it holds one bright light at the end of its body.
As producer Patterson told Business Insider, the bigwig guests are mostly a result of some friendly arm-twisting on the part of the show's cast: "'Everyone called their friends, absolutely, and it was a family affair, 100% every single person around the table, including myself'" reached out to friends, she said.
In one long original essay and a collection of his recent writing, Thrall, a senior analyst with the International Crisis Group, reinforces his central point that the only thing that has ever altered the basic contours of the conflict in any way is force — either actual violence or serious diplomatic arm-twisting with real stakes.
And we haven't even gotten to his son Donald Trump Jr., who needed no arm-twisting to accept a Russian offer of assistance during the campaign ("If it's what you say I love it, especially later in the summer"), and his son-in-law, Jared Kushner, who seemed to have his hands in everything.
RELATED: Paul Ryan accepts it's over: Obamacare is 'law of the land' It became clear during a day of intense political intrigue that despite fierce arm-twisting by Trump, Ryan and other leaders that the votes simply were not there to pass the bill and the leadership and the White House were headed for a lopsided defeat.
After some more closed-door arm-twisting, a second ballot resulted in a 30-1803 landslide: the Rams would be granted permission to move from St. Louis to a new stadium that Kroenke would build on the old Hollywood Park racetrack, with the Chargers having an option to depart San Diego and join them if Spanos so chooses.
After the months of meetings and arm-twisting, the hundreds of airline flights and the weeks in ever-changing hotels, a campaign that began last August when Morocco jumped into the race (on the final day countries could do so), ended in an instant: with a 15-second note and a brief announcement by the FIFA president, Gianni Infantino, that the combined bid had prevailed.
The Indian Foreign Affairs Ministry welcomed the decision, which came after weeks of diplomatic arm-twisting involving France, the US and the UK. "The 1267 Sanctions Committee's decision to designate the leader of Jaish-e-Mohammad, Masood Azhar, as a UN proscribed terrorist is a step in the right direction to demonstrate the international community's resolve to fight against terrorism and its enablers," said a statement by the Indian government.
Price has already weathered tough budget markup as chairman: Last year's budget resolution was fraught with concerns from defense required arm-twisting from 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) and Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) before it ultimately passed.

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