arm-twisting

How To Use arm-twisting In A Sentence

• Paul Brown Stadium opened in 2000 after years of friendly persuasion and arm-twisting.
• The vote was won only as the result of much arm-twisting by the government.
• some gentle arm-twisting produced the desired result
• It's just that he's developed the technique of arm-twisting to its ultimate stage of refinement. THE RECYCLED CITIZEN
• no amount of arm-twisting will get me to agree
• Any arm-twisting or gentle persuasion presumably took place in corridor huddles or late-night conversations.
• It took a lot of arm-twisting for me to be persuaded to publish the script in Dream Country, which I agreed to mostly because I'd wanted so much as a young writer to see what a comics script looked like.
• In other parts of the western world, the use of force and crude political arm-twisting is delegitimized and no longer comme il faut.
• Discreet arm-twisting by President Clinton to encourage an increase in production may provide a short term solution, but with winter approaching in the rich northern countries, demand is unlikely to fall.
• Presidential arm-twisting helped Mr. Ford narrowly win a test vote designed to force him to name his running mate in advance, and ultimately he won the delegate roll call 1,187 to 1,070. Gingrich Aims to Conjure Spirit of '76—1976, That Is