Word: coax
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...turn around behind me and tap another girl on the shoulder. She is busy watching a Chem 7 review. "Why don't you come watch Bloodsport instead?" I coax...
...military confrontation with Taiwan and the U.S. would be disastrous for China's economic reforms and the goal of attracting investment, and Beijing's reformists had hoped that their efforts, and the fact that Hong Kong has kept its economic system despite being ruled from the mainland, would coax Taipei toward reunification. But the slowdown of China's reforming economy over the past two years has raised the threat of massive unemployment and social instability, and that has led to a political resurgence of hard-liners grouped around National People's Congress chairman Li Peng, China's number two leader...
...recent Thursday afternoon, Wise left behind his twins, his "companion animals" and his wife and law partner Debi in their colonial house in Needham, Mass., and drove to begin work as a lecturer at Harvard Law School, teaching the rights of animals. What's necessary, Wise thinks, is to coax what he calls a paradigm shift in people's understanding of the human place, and animals' place, in nature. If--hypothetically--a certain nonhuman animal has a conscious mind, with faculties of self-awareness, language, emotional bonds and social skills, is not the animal entitled at least to legal protections...
...Wise hopes to coax what he calls a paradigm shift in people's understanding of the place of humans and animals in nature. If it is proved that a certain nonhuman animal has a conscious mind, with faculties of self-awareness, language, memory, emotional bonds and social skills, is not the animal entitled at least to legal protection against imprisonment, torture, vivisection and other horrors regularly visited on creatures that, legally speaking, have only the status of things...
...Soon after I discovered these guitar heroes, I realized that I wanted the powerful ability to play windmill guitar like Townshend on a turnthatracketdown classic like "My Generation," and I wanted the versatility to coax the most melodic notes out of my axe like Clapton on "Layla...