How, exactly, to ingratiate yourself with investors (or anyone else in business, for that matter)?
And they go further in charging that he has engaged in "self-protective attacks" to ingratiate himself with Republicans.
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.
The only outsiders happy with the new regime are the foreign mining companies, which fall over each other to ingratiate themselves with ministers and officials.
He had sent it to ingratiate himself and to get intelligence.
Rather than clean up their act, Abbas and his Fatah colleagues have sought to ingratiate themselves with their public by ratcheting up their incitement against Israel.
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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Gun rights groups scoffed at what they called clumsy and obvious attempts by Biden and Obama to ingratiate themselves with firearm owners even while trying to limit their rights.
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.
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).
There are serious worries that, underlying the Dutch prosecution, is a wish to silence someone who is embarrassing governing politicians wishing to ingratiate themselves with the increasing numbers of fundamentalist Dutch Muslims and mosques.
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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.
Like other Saudi-backed Islamist organizations, Hamas has long used educational, religious, medical and other social-support services to ingratiate itself with local populations and to proselytize a virulent brand of radical Islam most closely associated with the state religion of Saudi Arabia, Wahhabism.
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He makes "humorous" remarks about Hitler in an effort to ingratiate himself with his new friends -- a ploy that works quite well, actually -- and liberally distributes what he calls "little envelopes of happiness" to smooth the way for his business proposal, a plan to build a match factory staffed by the country's pygmy tribe.
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