Somehow in my interview he wheedled the golf stuff out of me.
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"Might we bring this conference to order?" wheedled Labour's leader, lapping it up.
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The boy refused, and the man wheedled and cajoled and then he just insisted.
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She wheedled Lakshman's mother, pressing her to visit, even though there was no wedding coming up.
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The Spanos clan wheedled and threatened, and San Diego politicians and fans kept shaking their heads.
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She also wheedled her way into my sibling's good graces and began turning my sibling against my husband.
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The statuette was in the 1881 exhibition of the Impressionists, a group that Gauguin wheedled his way into as a collector.
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We wheedled hints out of the black-sweatshirted assistants running around the room with glowing LED Navi fairies stuck to their chests.
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Roosevelt and Perkins weren't able to implement a universal health-care system, as they'd hoped, so auto unions wheedled medical benefits out of automakers.
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These attracted molecules, which formed dust particles, which formed rocks, which attracted gases that got so dense they combusted, wheedled, spun, orbited … you know the rest.
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The first bit of information he wheedled out of the witnesses concerned Votel's assessment that about 80 percent of the "good guys" in Syria are Kurds.
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Fund-raising methods may involve an element of manipulation, but there are worse things than being wheedled into making a second gift to an institution you're enthusiastic about.
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As someone who wheedled his grandmother into taking him to see Hitchcock's "Frenzy" at age 13, I can both relate, and think I have him beat in the awkwardness department.
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No pressure, the little boxes on Facebook and everywhere else wheedled, but you can watch two of the most depressing teams in the NBA play each other, on a weekday.
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" And earlier on Monday, Trump sent this tweet: "Anthony Scaramucci is a highly unstable 'nut job' who was with other candidates in the primary who got shellacked, & then unfortunately wheedled his way into my campaign.
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Danny (Callum Turner), who reluctantly helps his mother run a proxy bookie's office for her fellow Polish immigrants in their New York kitchen, is wheedled by his incarcerated brother into running a (probably) illegal errand.
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Sensible Americans worry that voters are shrugging off what should be career-shattering details about Trump's background, like the fact that he ran a sleazy continuing-education school that wheedled senior citizens out of their savings.
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First, his co-star Emilia Clarke — the Mother of Dragons herself — unsuccessfully wheedled him for a few details, then teased him about their climactic sex scene in last season's finale: "Did you know they filmed that?" she asked incredulously.
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Adem's initiative, funded by dollars cajoled out of his medical students and donations wheedled from businessmen, highlights how private citizens in Somalia, Syria and Pakistan can provide lifesaving social services in countries abandoned by their governments and devastated by violence.
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Letter of Recommendation When I was 8, I wheedled my parents into buying me a dollhouse: a regal Gothic Revival mansion with a turret, spindly porch posts and hundreds of mock-wood shingles, each the size of a pinkie nail.
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By the time he was caught and jailed for tax fraud in Russia in 2000, his racket had wheedled investors of at least $1.5 billion, while some estimates put the number at 10 times that amount (it's impossible to verify, due to MMM's opaque nature).
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Doherty breakfast truthers have already wheedled out of the woodwork with their theories and debunks: There is no way Doherty could've eaten the breakfast, they say; this is a PR stunt, they allege; either Doherty or the Dalby Café are profiting from this in some way.
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My friend and former New York Times colleague Todd Purdum was there too, reporting for Politico and Vanity Fair, and together we wheedled and bullied our way into a tiny nursing station where pool photographers were sending their pictures; I filed from the sink, Todd from the floor.
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It's how Gamergate harassers wheedled the games industry and many of its journalists into distracted chin-stroking over disingenuous claims about ethical concerns rather than full-throated condemnation; it's how Trump managed to reframe a neo-Nazi rally where a woman was murdered by a white supremacist into a conflict with "some very fine people on both sides"; it's how Twitter itself managed to cling to the swaying, decaying mast of free speech at all costs for so very long — even when the cost was persistent brutalization, often of its most vulnerable users.
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Even some U.S. Army officers observed that the chiefs "had been wheedled and bullied into signing." Furthermore, "there is evidence of trickery by the whites in the way the treaty is phrased."Milton Meltzer. "Hunted Like A Wolf". p. 76.
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Maria wheedled her way into both Clint and Viki's confidences, pretending to be just an 'old friend' to Clint. But she secretly conspired to break up their marriage. Maria had two overwhelming desires - to win Clint's love once again, and to break up Tina and Cord. Maria brought Tom Dennison to Llanview, hoping Viki would leave Clint for him.
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Berger, Dan, Wines and Vines (October 1989). Bob Thompson: wine writer of the year On the subject of Pinot noir, Thompson has stated, "Even where it prospers, [Pinot noir] needs to be coaxed, wheedled, flattered, cajoled, cursed and (or) prayed over almost ounce by ounce through a series of crises that starts at the fermenters and lasts beyond bottling".
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The story moved up to a crescendo with the Russian prince being hidden in the country home of the Waldens. Yet again, Feliks, the assassin, wheedled this piece information from Charlotte. With her active support, Feliks hid himself right in the Walden home while the Special Branch was combing the entire village for him. At this point, Feliks decided it was time to make his move.
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In childhood he sang for the Hazzan, Borekh David. Having no interest in education, he was sent to learn a trade, but soon he ran away and began to play small roles in a Russian theaters in Bobruysk, Minsk and other towns. When the Russian troupe fell apart, he went back to Homel, taking part in amateur theatre and opening a dance club. When Leyzer Bernshtein's troupe arrived, he wheedled a place in it.
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Stuart, pp. 102–103, 116–117 Consuelo Vanderbilt had no interest in the duke, being secretly engaged to an American, Winthrop Rutherfurd.Stuart, pp. 112–115 Her mother cajoled, wheedled, begged, and then, ultimately, ordered her daughter to marry Marlborough. When Consuelo – a docile teenager whose only notable characteristic at the time was abject obedience to her fearsome mother – made plans to elope, she was locked in her room as Alva threatened to murder Rutherfurd.Stuart, p.
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The poet's great-uncle, William, 5th Baron Byron had virtually ruined their ancestral estate at Newstead Abbey thanks to his constant spending, and had been tried for murder after a violent encounter in a London tavern. Byron's own father Jack was the sixth child and eldest boy of nine. Having attended school, and a military academy, he enlisted into the army. Even before he turned 21 he had developed a habit for spending, and constantly wheedled money out of his parents.
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They celebrate Stan's victory by sacrificing Rabbitty the Rabbit, devouring his flesh and having an orgy in his blood. Stan tries to ignore the impending apocalypse, only to be wheedled by the narrator into trying to stop it. Unfortunately, the Critters are able to rebuff him with their Satanic powers, which will apparently grow stronger as the Antichrist's birth approaches. Since the Critters claim that only a mountain lion can prevent that, Stan (heeding the narrator's instructions) returns to the mountain to enlist the orphaned cubs.
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Santa Cruz had made surprise appearances for Manchester City during the club's pre-season tour and friendlies. On 31 July 2012, he scored in the 53rd minute of a 2–1 friendly loss against Oldham Athletic when he rounded goalkeeper Alex Cisak with ease and scored after a loose ball fell kindly. On 5 August 2012, he played 73 minutes in the City's 4–0 friendly victory over Limerick. On 10 August 2012, it was reported that Werder Bremen had been wheedled to within an inch of making a bid for him.
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Clement confirms the licentiousness of the Carpocratians, claiming that at their Agape (meaning an early Christian gathering) they "have intercourse where they will and with whom they will". According to Clement, Carpocrates was from Alexandria although his sect was primarily located in Cephallenia. Carpocrates is again mentioned in the controversial Mar Saba letter, purportedly also by Clement of Alexandria, which Morton Smith claimed to have discovered in 1958. The letter mentions and quotes from a previously unsuspected Secret Gospel of Mark, saying that Carpocrates had wheedled an opportunity to copy it in Alexandria.
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Finally in 1738 she arranged to become a companion to the duchesse de Richelieu; this lady had been Marie-Élisabeth-Sophie de Lorraine, princesse de Guise, before her marriage in April 1734.Showalter, Françoise de Graffigny, p. 32. Françoise de Graffigny planned to join them in Paris in spring 1739, but she needed to bridge the winter months, and wheedled an invitation to Cirey, the château where Émilie, marquise du Châtelet, had been living since 1734 with her lover, Voltaire.René Vaillot, Avec Mme Du Châtelet, Oxford: Voltaire Foundation, 1988, pp. 93-115.
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Clorinde desires power as much as Rougon does but, because she is a woman, she is forced to act behind the scenes. Rougon refuses to marry her because he believes two such dominant personalities would inevitably destroy each other. Instead, he encourages her to marry M. Delestang, a man of great wealth who can easily be wheedled, while he himself takes a respectable nonentity of a wife who will not hinder his ambition. Rougon learns of an assassination plot against the Emperor, but decides to do nothing about it.
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Wynekoop said of her admission that it had been "wheedled" out by her interrogators, who had assured her that Earle would be released. Wynekoop testified, also, that she was told that the shooting of Rheta would not be considered a crime and that "the worst I'd be guilty of… was an indiscretion—bad judgement" and would not result in any indictment. Later, Wynekoop testified, she was told that Earle had confessed. When asked to describe the moment she found Rheta, Wynekoop's voice "choked" with sobs, a show of emotion which sent reporters abruptly leaving the room to communicate with their offices.
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In the 1980s, Brannen spent time in New York City and Nashville before being wheedled into a move to the West Coast by Joe Walsh, guitarist for the Eagles, who had become a friend and mentor of Brannen's. The move to Los Angeles quickly paid off, as Brannen landed an artist deal at the Capitol Records imprint, Apache Records. His Apache debut, Mystery Street found its way into the Top 20, and the music video for his first single "Desolation Angel" garnered considerable attention as an MTV Hip Clip. By 1993, in the wake of the success of Mystery Street, Brannen was signed by the recently renamed Mercury Nashville Records.
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From London, Wild had obtained an assistant research officer job with the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research at the Radiophysics Laboratory near Sydney. He described the position as "a humble one": to maintain and develop test equipment. But within a year he had, as he put it, "wheedled his way" into the new science of radio astronomy, and he described 1948–50 as > a tremendously exciting time.... The only two really powerful groups in > radio astronomy were the Australian one and Cambridge; and... we all thought > we had the edge over the Cambridge group. [Australian wartime radio expert] > Joe Pawsey was the sort of father of radio astronomy in Australia.
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They inform the audience that Cleon has wheedled his way into Demos's confidence and they accuse him of misusing his privileged position for the purpose of extortion and corruption. They advise us that even the mask-makers are afraid of Cleon and not one of them could be persuaded to make a caricature of him for this play. They assure us however that we are clever enough to recognize him even without a mask. Having no idea how to solve their problems, they pilfer some wine from the house, the taste of which inspires them to an even bolder theft – a set of oracles that Cleon has always refused to let anyone else see.
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He escaped, got a job in New York, saved his money, > and legalized his status in late 1965. The Ibogaine Story also reports the following: > Inspired by a VOICE article on the Dutch Provos, he started the New York > Provos with two friends, and called a smoke-in for Tompkins Square Park. The > smoke-ins got bigger and bigger, and after a judge ruled a roll-your-own > cigarette seen from a distance wasn't grounds for arrest, the Feds moved in > an informer who wheedled Dana's personal acid stash out of him. When he was > busted in late August 1967, 3,000 people marched from a Fugs concert, across > Fourteenth Street, to the federal holding pen on West Street.
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" In 1910, journalist M. J. Landa reviewed Litman's performance in Lemberg, Poland as part of a "Zydowska Kabaretu" [Polish: "Jewish Cabaret"]. Landa wrote: "She was the 'star' of the program.....The moment she stepped on the stage, dressed as a Galician youth, with skull cap and ringlets, the whole atmosphere of the room was different. It was dominated by a personality.....Frankly, I do not think I have heard a female comic singer with a voice of greater power and possibility. I preferred it to the cultured voice of the lady in a black evening dress who crooned operatic airs with ease and effect, and afterward wheedled members of the audience into buying her portrait postcards.
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As Mavis had saved his job, Harry asked her out to dinner at a place in the Precinct. Mavis tried to refuse but he wheedled a yes out of her. The evening was made awkward by the fact that Mavis thought Harry was spending what little money he had on her and tried to cut costs by suggesting they split the bill (which he refused) and then ordering an omelette and water (which Harry asked was for religious reasons). Harry told Mavis that he'd taken early retirement from his position as Senior at the Rates Office as his wife was ill but she died six months later, and so a job delivering newspapers coupled with his pension suited him very well.
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The PDU was originally equipped with Bristol Blenheims, but Cotton considered these quite unsuitable, being far too slow, and he consequently "wheedled" a couple of Supermarine Spitfires. These Spitfires, later augmented by de Havilland Mosquitos, were steadily adapted to fly higher and faster, with a highly polished surface, a special blue – "PRU Blue" – camouflage scheme developed by Cotton himself, and a series of modifications to the engines to produce more power at high altitudes. In 1940, Cotton also personally made another important reconnaissance flight with his Lockheed 12A over Azerbaijan via Iraq as part of Operation Pike. Under his leadership, the 1 PDU acquired the nicknames, "Cotton's Club" or the less flattering "Cotton's Crooks" (mainly due to Cotton's propensity to flout regulations).
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Additional funding for the erection of a further 5000 cottages was won under the follow-on Labourers (Ireland) Act (1911), Sheehan making the concluding speech during the passage of the bill. Although he retired from the LLA in 1910, Sheehan remained active in the labour movement as its leader in Munster. Around 1912, Ireland was economically one of the prosperous small countries of Europe. D. D. Sheehan maintained in 1921, that the labourers, as a result of these housing acts (particularly the landmark 1906 bill), > "were no longer a people to be kicked and cuffed and ordered about by the > schoneens and squireens of the district; they became a very worthy class > indeed, to be courted and flattered at election times and wheedled with all > sorts of fair promises of what could be done for them".
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