The guy was plenty tough, all right, but you can't browbeat your team down a mountain.
In response, Mr Obama dispatched negotiators to Tegucigalpa, Honduras's capital, to browbeat the feuding leaders into a deal.
K. Singh, trying to browbeat civilian bosses into prolonging his spell in charge.
Weiner is often accused of having a tendency to swear, browbeat and even throw things at staff (telephones are allegedly a favorite).
The soldierly approach dates from Napoleonic times, when such forces browbeat conquered peasants into accepting the physical and symbolic power of the French state.
In the face of Democratic criticism, Mr. Obama showed a rare flash of anger, choosing to browbeat opponents in his party rather than cajole them.
The MDC opposition control the parliament, Mugabe couldn't govern without them unless he browbeat or bullied them, or bribed them, some of them into joining him.
At a recent meeting, Defense Secretary Orlando Mercado, the first civilian to hold the portfolio, tried to browbeat top brass into handing over confidential pension documents.
When the magazine browbeat singer Axl Rose over his attempts to control media coverage by demanding journalists sign contracts prior to interviews, Rose challenged Guccione to a public fight (then backed down).
That does not deter China, which still seethes about the way in which the Bush administration in 2008 browbeat other NSG members into exempting America's friend India from the group's rules.
In spite of John McCain's past record of open-mindedness on the climate crisis, he has apparently now allowed his party to browbeat him into abandoning his support of mandatory caps on global warming pollution.
There's no question that Rumsfeld browbeat senior officers into his views, including how many troops should be sent to Iraq, particularly after major combat was over, and issues of how big the Army should be.
In spite of John McCain's past record of open-mindedness and leadership on the climate crisis, he has now apparently allowed his party to browbeat him into abandoning his support of mandatory caps on global warming pollution.
In the U.S., any success will only encourage China-basherss to redouble their attempts to browbeat China intto reform on a wide range of issues--and especially ahead of next year's Beijing's Olympic Games, which are seen as an Achilles' heel.
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