jawboned

• “Did we overlook when you "jawboned" the medical establishment (with private, sweetheart deals) or when top aides, invariably representing the "fortunate few," offered blarney but no job creation to "hardworking people" no longer working, hard or otherwise.”

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• “Halladay, who jawboned his way into being traded to a contending team so he finally could pitch in the playoffs, made a stunning debut, culminating with a dribbler in front of home plate that catcher Carlos Ruiz pounced on and threw to first for the final out.”

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• “To his detractors, Gideon was dangerous—a pie-in-the-sky slave to political correctness who thought the enemies of Western civilization could be jawboned into holding hands and singing “Kumbaya.””

  Simon & Schuster: Gideon’s war

• “Big oil will make more money and like we saw when Dubbyah ‘jawboned’ the price of gas down to 4 bucks a gallon [snark] the oil companies made a record profit.”

  Think Progress » Bush Official Dan Bartlett Admits Authorizing Offshore Oil Drilling Will Be Unlikely To Win Over Any GOP Votes

• “Yet unlike the systemic risk problem, which is endlessly jawboned in Washington today, no one is really talking about the dispersion of responsibility problem.”

  Newsweek: Legislating a Conscience on Wall Street

• “Lyndon Johnson, a veteran of Senate arm-twisting and cajoling, jawboned to forestall airline and railroad strikes and such.”

  The Washington Post: Other presidents 'jawbone,' but Obama 'extorts'

• “So after President Obama jawboned BP into setting aside that $20 billion, Republicans decided it was time to come up with sharper, evocative descriptions.”

  The Washington Post: Other presidents 'jawbone,' but Obama 'extorts'

• “President Hoover jawboned employers to keep wages at unsustainable levels and refused to consider easing or abandoning the Gold Standard.”

  2008 ≠ 1932

• “For example, in 1962 John F. Kennedy "jawboned" the steel industry into reducing its prices even as its labor costs were rising sharply.”

  Forbes: The Futility Of Price Controls

• “We need more leadership from the White House and Treasury, which have jawboned China's government, but have not laid out any consequences.”

  The Huffington Post: Scott Paul: Appeasing China on Currency Will Doom Our Economy

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