Occasionally, when politicians see opportunity to curry favor and tar opponents, they manufacture sturm und drang.
Lockheed, Comcast and the high-tech association all said their moves weren't made to curry favor with Democrats.
Additionally, prosecutors contemplating a transition to a law firm may attempt to curry favor with a prospective employer.
These programs were seen as a priority for women, and the politicians wanted to curry favor with them.
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If Brodsky was seeking to curry favor with Shukhman, it doesn't appear to have satisfied Axiom co-owner Wang.
Then there is the power wielded by the gambling industry, which uses lobbying and campaign donations to curry favor.
Employees generally seek to curry favor with their employers, not piss them off.
Although these coaches may have done this to curry favor with management, they cannot perform their job without players.
Regulators feared that fund groups might compromise investors' interests to curry favor with large companies, whose retirement plans they also manage.
Politicians who had viewed squatters merely as common criminals began to see an opportunity to curry favor with these new constituents.
The traditional system allows investment bankers to use IPO shares to curry favor--legally or illegally--by dispensing shares to individuals or institutions.
Bidzina Ivanishvili, who wants to become prime minister of Georgia, renounced both his Russian and French citizenships to curry favor with voters.
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Eager to curry favor with female customers, the investment community and the press, big companies now are looking to turn the tide.
Conferences, at least, bear the patina of educational merit and an opportunity to curry favor with the officials who help pick legal counsel.
Managers pay to sponsor and attend these conferences so they can meet pension clients of the consultant and curry favor with the consultant.
Since Obama took office, he has been abandoning one US ally after another while seeking to curry favor with one US adversary after another.
Although this may appeal to lawyers and lobbyists, again consumers will lose as competition to curry favor with antitrust officials replaces competition to gain customers.
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On strategic issues, Sadadinov(ph) is worried that Azerbaijan might try to curry favor with Washington by providing bases for a potential attack on neighboring Iran.
Thomas Mann, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution in Washington, says the parties are crafting strategies to curry favor with the public to gain a political advantage.
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Cawley's former Axiom partners attempted to curry favor in another, more sinister, way, he asserts in new claims that are based on documents he uncovered in his lawsuit.
The revamp reflects a big push to prod users to spend more time on the site and curry favor with brands hoping to be noticed by Facebook's users.
Eager to curry favor with the next batch of global leaders, ensuring a future supply of investment banking fees, capital to expand abroad is now increasingly available from international sources.
But John Cook, editor-in-chief of Gawker, called the sentence "preposterous" and suggested Manhattan district attorney Cyrus Vance Jr. was trying to curry favor with Fox and its powerful chairman, Roger Ailes.
Sign those bills and safeguard his position for another run for governor or oppose them to curry favor with the more conservative Republican voters he would need to win a presidential nomination.
By contrast, Mitt Romney had favored a cap-and-trade system while he was governor of Massachusetts but he has since changed his mind and has done everything possible to curry favor with coal constituencies.
Draghi must balance an eagerness to curry favor with the German contingent at the ECB against growing financial market pressure to intervene on a bigger scale to lower the borrowing costs of Italy and Spain.
In other words, is the NFL trying to do everything in their power now to (1) tangibly enhance player safety and (2) cosmetically make it look as though they are doing everything they can to bolster player safety so that they ultimately curry favor in the courts.
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It was simply because the Republicans decided to play politics with a completely unrelated issue, in terms of the extension of the payroll tax cut, to try to I guess curry favor with some political constituency or the other when there was no way to, in accordance with tradition and regulation, to adequately and properly review a pipeline that would cross an international border.
Now, like clockwork, the banks and politicians who curry their favor are already trying to stop this fee from going into effect.
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