Word: browbeat
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Britain has a tradition of collective Cabinet leadership. Whether Blair, like Thatcher, can or will browbeat his colleagues is unknown. And even if he does, to what end? Blair's career thus far suggests a capacity for ruthlessness, and he often recalls the question asked by a G.O.P. speaker at the 1984 Republican Convention: "When was the last time you heard a Democrat say no?" That, says Blair, was "too close to the truth for comfort...
...when Haynes balked at their radical agenda, they browbeat her with vicious personal attacks until she eventually resigned. The activists didn't want gender equity. All they wanted was different faces mouthing the same ideas...
...reverse psychology, Senate Democrats are thinking of demanding that Mrs. Clinton testify before the Senate, figuring that Republicans would only hurt themselves if they seemed to browbeat the President's wife. Republicans too are aware that if they move too fast they risk creating sympathy for Mrs. Clinton. And after all, that's something she finds hard to do for herself...
When a Senate panel decided to browbeat television executives about television violence this summer, most in the media pooh-poohed the proceedings as a political show. Calling the veiled threats mere posturing, the media declared that once the Senators involved had blown their rhetorical horns for the C-SPAN cameras, the issue would fade away...
...girl in the polka-dot dress." Several people remembered seeing her with Sirhan and another man at the hotel before $ the shooting. The RFK Tapes speculates that she was Sirhan's "baby-sitter," or control. The L.A.P.D., while purportedly trying to find the woman, tried harder to browbeat witnesses into changing their stories...