That has given Pakistan a special opportunity to butter up Gulf potentates.
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Additionally, Google gets to give money to charities that it likes to butter up anyway.
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President Trump – rightly or wrongly – loves to butter up his opponents, sweet talk them, even sometimes praise them.
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Presidential candidates pick them as running mates to broaden their appeal to voters, or to butter up allies.
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On the same trip Mr Xi used a refuelling stop in Alaska to butter up his hosts there, too.
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And when I used my run-of-the-mill knife to butter up the corn, it stayed on the knife perfectly fine.
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The aim was to butter up Red China, which Richard Nixon wanted as an ally in the cold war against the Soviet Union.
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The conversations were meant to butter up the mind, trigger its natural existential inquisitiveness, and create a platform conducive to the breathwork to come.
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And she has been careful to butter up the army, doubling its size over the past ten years and building it lots of new bases.
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But experts say that Beijing is trying to go the extra mile to butter up Trump during a critical time for defining their future relationship.
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Chen Min'er, Guizhou's boss until last summer when he took over as party chief of Chongqing, is another person whom companies have wanted to butter up.
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Trump's claims to a cozy relationship may reflect an effort to butter-up Kim "to make it easier to get a better deal," Florida Republican Sen.
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In a clip from an upcoming episode, the sheepish dude tries to butter up Azalea with compliments about how beautiful she is (which only makes things worse).
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Prosecutors also revealed that before Stone and Credico had their falling-out, the Republican adviser seemed to have unsuccessfully tried to butter up his liberal sparring partner.
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The mayor of Washington, D.C., made a goofy viral video in which she sought to butter up Amazon by having a faux conversation with Alexa, Amazon's intelligent assistant.
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But as long as Abe is committed to trying to butter up Trump, it's unlikely the Japanese prime minister will tell the American president that his historical references are threadbare and crude.
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Don't be afraid to have an informal interaction when there's a clear opportunity to do so, but don't try to butter up someone by bringing up personal details to no end. 2.
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Acting chief of staff Mick Mulvaney and other top White House officials have reportedly been hosting weekend getaways to butter up House Republicans as President Donald Trump remains under intense scrutiny amid the impeachment inquiry.
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President Donald Trump seemed to butter up the United Nations Monday with a mostly complimentary set of official remarks ahead of his more anticipated address to the General Assembly on the issue North Korea Tuesday.
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Because this still technically falls under the realm of politics, senators in control of the desk are known to use it to butter up home-state candymakers, as a 2016 DCist history of the desk noted.
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If indeed there will be a Note 8 on the market in 2017, there is a lot Samsung can do to butter up those users, from incentives on upgrades to limited editions to early access, etc.
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The Fox Business Network anchor on Wednesday gave a master class in how to butter up the president, who reciprocated by divulging intimate details of what it was like to order last week's strike against a Syrian airfield.
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Sometimes it is merely a face-saving excuse for freeing someone whose release could help China's diplomatic efforts (in this case a likely aim was to butter up Germany as a potential ally in China's battle with America over trade).
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Huawei knows that all they really need to do to butter up Trump is get on his good side, and they might get a reprieve, which is why the Chinese tech company clearly hasn't given up on the American market yet.
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Executives for Sprint and the company's Japanese owner Softbank spent the better part of last year trying to butter up the Trump administration by letting him claim responsibility for already-pipelined job creation plans he had absolutely nothing to do with.
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Sorry, Tucson, that cactus you sent to Jeff Bezos was never going to compete with Amazon getting a foothold in New York's Silicon Alley or the prospect of having prime placement to butter up politicians in DC. Google CEO Sundar PichaiPhoto: Getty3.
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Why it matters: The same companies that extol high-minded principles on U.S. soil are perfectly content to abide by every censorship rule set by the Chinese Communist Party — and are even happy to travel to Riyadh to butter up the murderous Saudi royal family.
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Neither Anna nor Catherine is interested in anything their sister has to say. Halfway through dinner, which consists of zucchini and kiwi, Fleur Stein invades the family conversation. Fleur works in guidance at Anna and Catherine's school, and wishes to butter up Mrs. Adams in attempt to gain a better salary.
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He mocked Shadow Chancellor John Smith's "prawn cocktail offensive" to try to butter up City opinion ("Never have so many crustaceans died in vain"). He was a leading performer in the election and it was felt that had the Conservatives lost he might well have won the party leadership and been Leader of the Opposition, while if they won he would probably be given Trade and Industry, the job he had always wanted.Crick 1997, pp. 378–9.
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Susan tries to get at Mike's early to help him but Edie has arrived unexpectedly before her. The dinner goes well and the only person Susan has failed to impress is Mike's dog, Bongo, who has taken more of an interest in Edie. Susan decides to butter up the dog by putting drops of gravy on her face. Susan successfully manages to get Bongo to like her but he accidentally swallows her earring and begins to choke.
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James Pearce is a British journalist and presenter for BBC Sport, who has reported from eight Olympic Games. Pearce was the Olympic Correspondent for the BBC at the 2012 London Olympic Games. Notable scoops by Pearce include the revelation that England were attempting to 'butter' up FIFA voters with gifts of luxury handbags in order to gain votes during their ill-fated bid for the 2018 World Cup. Pearce holds the dubious honour of scoring the first "goal" at the new Wembley Stadium during a broadcast on the BBC News channel.
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Meanwhile, the young and bumbling Probationary agent Ned Dorneget tries to butter up Gibbs in hopes of joining the team. Gibbs decides to send him and Special agent Timothy McGee to pick up the mistress, but it is revealed that she is an SVR agent, and quickly escapes custody. A disgruntled McGee accuses Dorneget of getting seduced by her, but Dorneget counters by admitting that he is gay. Gibbs and Director Leon Vance then deduce that the entire case was a DIA plot to leak faulty information to the Russians in order to sabotage their stealth communication research, using Wiley as the patsy.
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However, after Polanski's arrest, Wells recanted his statements in the film, admitting that he had lied and "tried to butter up the story to make me look better". In December 2008, Polanski's lawyer filed a request to Judge David S. Wesley to have the case dismissed on the grounds of judicial and prosecutorial misconduct. The filing claims that Judge Rittenband (deceased in 1993) violated the plea bargain by keeping in communication about the case with deputy district attorney Davis Wells, who was not involved. In January 2009, Polanski's lawyer filed a further request to have the case dismissed, and to have the case moved out of Los Angeles, as the Los Angeles courts require him to appear before the court for any sentencing or dismissal, and Polanski did not intend to appear.
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