Some cashmere brands, including high-end European ones, soften up their sweaters with repeated washings.
Senators read quotes from that report in which the military guards said they were told to "soften up" the prisoners before their interrogations.
The goal might be to soften up the Republican a bit before his 2014 re-election campaign, where he could find himself running against Hollywood actress Ashley Judd.
Dennis Ross, Mr Clinton's envoy, was shuttling between Jerusalem and Gaza this week to soften up the two leaders before the president was to make his personal pitch.
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England and her lawyers have said she was ordered both to mistreat Iraqi detainees, and to take photographs of the mistreatment, in order to soften up detainees for future interrogation by U.S. intelligence personnel.
The charitable view is that it may have been just a rhetorical device to soften up opponents to his rehabilitation and to the eventual transfer of power to his son, Lee Jae-yong, Samsung Electronics' chief operating officer.
One is to soften him up personally to kind of tarnish his reputation, make people like him less.
The Dutch, indeed, are toying with the idea of holding an earlier special summit to soften him up.
"Some of the soldiers alluded to military intelligence possibly saying to 'give them the treatment' or soften them up, " Worth said.
He voted yes to strip the Consumer Financial Protect Agency of some of its toughest rules, instead wanting to soften it up (it failed).
Mr Saran, the stone-breakers' advocate, tries to soften him up.
Simple, soften them up with a long campaign about how a pension fund deficit is threatening the future of the company - and therefore their jobs - then ask them to pay more for their pensions.
They are likely to soften prices to clear up their stocks, which may slow import activities in China.
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To fit it to a horse you warm it up to soften it, and mould it around the animal's hoof.
Besides saving money for the trust funds and helping to trim the overall budget deficit in the short run, a limit on future increases could also help build up reserves to soften the 21st century's demographic crunch.
Trusts and estates lawyers are just starting to come up with ways to soften the blow of the tax hikes on trusts.
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Interest rates have started to reverse course, ticking up from extremely low levels, and prices have started to soften.
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But I used medians to soften the impact of outlier attendances, and the Dickey effect still holds up when attendance is analyzed per day-of-the-week.
When the president pushed for crucial changes in foreign affairs or the judicial system whether to soften the anti-Americanism that distorts Iranian foreign policy or to clean up the country's arbitrary ways of handing out justice he was humiliatingly squashed by the dinosaurs.
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