How, exactly, to ingratiate yourself with investors (or anyone else in business, for that matter)?

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Most help ingratiate the team into the local community with appearances at functions around town.

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This is not a message that will ingratiate you with an audience.

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They have also tried to ingratiate themselves by helping out in Iraq.

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He sought to ingratiate and manipulate by subtly appealing for pity.

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He had sent it to ingratiate himself and to get intelligence.

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In fact, such moves seem to be coming not from the top but from officials acting alone, perhaps trying to ingratiate themselves with the incoming government.

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But it is Mr Obama's shift on immigration that Republicans see as the biggest affront, in part because it seems like such a naked ploy to ingratiate Mr Obama to Hispanic voters.

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True, he was helped by Mr Brown's often surreal efforts to ingratiate himself with the Lib Dem leader (his party could, after all, hold the balance of power in a hung parliament).

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To ingratiate themselves to college customers, online booksellers run ads in school newspapers and hire students to act as roving ambassadors tactics that are long on cool and less expensive than traditional marketing methods.

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