Word: coaxing
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...woman and three men, none of them Brazilian. But despite being a domestic product, the sensual voice of leadsinger Sabina Sciubba effortlessly combines lines in French, Spanish, German, and English in a leisurely and unaffected style. Her voice floats above deep lounge beats in a way that seems to coax the dimmers on your lights to turn themselves down...
...third-deadliest month for U.S. troops since the invasion of Iraq. The U.S. has long recognized that the insurgency can't be eliminated by military means; instead it hoped that it could be defanged by a national reconciliation process pursued by the elected government, which would coax Sunnis away from the insurgency by dismantling Shi'ite militias and by giving them a greater political stake. At the same time, security duties would be transferred increasingly into the hands of Iraqi forces. But six months after the new government took office, the national reconciliation process is effectively stalled. And the reason...
...people with chronic ailments who aren't terminally ill. Dreamers tend to come from low-income families that have little money for extras after illness has depleted whatever savings they had. When approved, a case gets assigned to one of 75 volunteer "dream captains," who organize the project and coax companies into donating products and services. Foundation staff members purchase services such as hotel stays when needed to fulfill a dream...
...foreign pressure appears to have done little. On Friday, for instance, a Chinese researcher for The New York Times, who had been languishing in jail for nearly two years, was sentenced to three years' imprisonment on questionable fraud charges, despite intense global condemnation of the allegations. Other attempts to coax China into improving its human-rights record have met with little success. After all, what leverage does the international community now hold? China is the world's factory. It holds bountiful foreign-currency reserves. It will host the Olympics in 2008. The balance has shifted from China feeling like...
...despotism strict combined/ With absolute equality! "I like to bully, yell, coax them to what I know they're capable of," says Kirkman, a lecturer at the Central Queensland Conservatorium of Music. "I want them to fulfil their potential. I can't ask more than that." "Kim can be strict, but nicely so," says Martin's wife Bernice, 67. "He sets high standards, but I enjoy that." And there's no elitism here, says Oberg: "Anyone can join. You just need to love singing...