But thus far arm-twisting and secret diplomacy have had such limited success that perhaps such ultimatums could work.
Two of the richest guys on the planet are now in the arm-twisting business.
It refused, despite American arm-twisting, to invite Mr Lavrov to a big democracy shindig in Cracow in September.
The administration accomplished this feat by arm-twisting localities and states into participating in a dreadful program called Secure Communities.
It took Mr Holbrooke, and his fellow American mediator, Robert Gelbard, four days of arm-twisting to get dialogue going.
Nor would one occur if European banks succumbed to some arm-twisting by their own governments to agree to a swap.
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She said it took a bit of arm-twisting to convince drummer Troy Miller, who backed the late Amy Winehouse, to try it.
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Some critics say that the investigations should focus as well on the powerful major supermarket chains for arm-twisting factories on their prices.
After some arm-twisting from Saudi Arabia, Fatah and Hamas at last formed a unity government at a meeting in Mecca in February.
Hiroshi Mitsuzuka, the Japanese finance minister, denies he has been arm-twisting the banks to get them to roll over their Thai loans.
Yet despite such arm-twisting, customers are unlikely to bet solely on newcomers.
Mr Boehner and other Republican leaders spent all day Thursday arm-twisting dissident lawmakers, but they were unable to win over enough conservative hard-liners.
Five other countries joined him to resist American arm-twisting, and the United States was eventually obliged to abandon hope of a second resolution.
While the effects on some waverers of some fairly brutal arm-twisting by the government whips should not be discounted, nor should Mr Blair's persuasiveness.
With Congress almost evenly split between Democrats and Republicans, Mr Bush joked with party leaders that he might have to resort to some arm-twisting.
He counselled the president on strategy, and kept his ramshackle coalition together with a mix of blunt public criticism and private blandishment or arm-twisting.
Thanks to this kind of arm-twisting, copyright treaties that are adopted in the US and Europe are eventually foisted on the rest of the world.
First off, people resented the high estimates-it smacked of old-fashioned arm-twisting.
The GOP hierarchy plans a furious week of lobbying and arm-twisting, including a speech by Gingrich to the Republican Conference, in hopes of winning support for passage.
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But when last month it temporarily accepted Vladimiro Montesinos, Peru's disgraced intelligence chief, it did so only after much arm-twisting from Latin American presidents and the United States.
He recently rapped the knuckles of the U.S. Attorney's office pursuing the case for improper interference in arm-twisting KPMG into refusing to pay the legal fees of its employees.
While Paulson has tried to portray the Treasury's decision to buy stakes in banks as a voluntary program, there has been more than a little arm-twisting behind the scenes.
In the style of a political thriller, it depicts President Lincoln's efforts to get a ban on slavery passed in Washington, using a combination of persuasion, inspiration, horse-trading and arm-twisting.
It took months of arm-twisting to get a substitute bond issue off the ground, and even then many bonds were left in the hands of one of the lead managers.
Nor would a democratic country tolerate a government that operated through an elaborate system of secret meetings characterised by blatant arm-twisting and browbeating by the most powerful, like the World Trade Organisation.
Tom DeLay is unchallenged as majority whip both because he, too, has powers of patronage and because no one else fancies such an arm-twisting job when the Republican majority is a mere six votes.
The Europeans, in contrast, think that the voluntary approach is unfair (some banks will always get out), and relies too much on American arm-twisting (it seems to work best in countries that America cares about).
Delegate Neil Parrott, a Washington County Republican, said most state residents don't want to see the death penalty abolished, but the governor and the "Annapolis eite" used political arm-twisting to push the bill through the legislature.
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