cajolement

It is a life and death game for Hamid Karzai akin to spinning the cylinder of a new Russian revolver, aiming for a cajolement by a western backed Afghan state with the Russian federation -- once its foe -- and to tie the knot for a new marriage as if there was always a sweet serenity in their past history.

Khalil Nouri: Afghanistan: The Karzai-Medvedev Russian Roulette Khalil Nouri 2011

It is a life and death game for Hamid Karzai akin to spinning the cylinder of a new Russian revolver, aiming for a cajolement by a western backed Afghan state with the Russian federation -- once its foe -- and to tie the knot for a new marriage as if there was always a sweet serenity in their past history.

Khalil Nouri: Afghanistan: The Karzai-Medvedev Russian Roulette Khalil Nouri 2011

Barkers bleated out cajolement, encouragement, and condolences in almost-equal measures.

Songs of Love & Death George R. R. Martin 2010

Barkers bleated out cajolement, encouragement, and condolences in almost-equal measures.

Songs of Love & Death George R. R. Martin 2010

Barkers bleated out cajolement, encouragement, and condolences in almost-equal measures.

Songs of Love & Death George R. R. Martin 2010

But this imperious petulance, curiously as it contrasts with the patience which, a little later, she will display, is native to Ottima; she is not the victim of her nerves this morning, though now she passes without transition to a mood of sensuous cajolement --

Browning's Heroines Ethel Colburn Mayne

And then the old lady gathers up her work and sails majestically from the room, followed by her weak, trembling daughter-in-law, bent on reconciliation, on cajolement, on laying herself down for her own sins, and her sister's as well, before the avenging genius of her life.

Vera Nevill Or, Poor Wisdom's Chance H. Lovett Cameron

Flattery, cajolement, humble supplication and the finer maneuvers of tact, all have this in mind.

The Foundations of Personality 1921

Now, if something intervenes unexpectedly during the performance of this habitual activity, especially some opposition, some superfluous cajolement, correction, or similar thing, the intoxicated actor is thrown completely out of gear, and can not be restored to it, nor is he able properly to oppose this obstacle.

Criminal Psychology: a manual for judges, practitioners, and students 1911

Against every cajolement of one who was an adept in the arts of blandishment, promise and flattery, Kościuszko had but one argument: that of the straight-forward devotion that saw his country outraged, and that would accept no compromise where duty to that country and to his own honour were concerned.

Kościuszko A Biography 1907