Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The use of personal or political pressure in an effort to persuade or to gain support.
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- noun The use of
personal pressure topersuade - noun The use of
political pressure to gainsupport
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- noun persuasion by the use of direct personal pressure
Etymologies
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Examples
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So, there was a lot of arm-twisting in Iran in the past few months, and finally Muqtada gave him his support.
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Allawi told Al Arabiya TV Saturday that Iran's behind the scenes "arm-twisting" was having a "negative effect" on Iraq's political equation.
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Sen. Charles Schumer—Wall Street's strongest Washington ally and a target of arm-twisting in the battle for the New York Stock Exchange—hasn't taken a public position on the competing bids for its parent company.
Schumer Tilts Toward Offer by Germans for Big Board Devlin Barrett 2011
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McGinn's political capital is low, and this just isn't an issue to blow it on with a veto (not to mention his very public arm-twisting of his "friend," Councilmember Mike O'Brien.)
Guess What, Establishment. McGinn is the New Licata. Except, He’s the Mayor. « PubliCola 2010
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To them that means spending billions more on repairing and building roads, bridges, and schools, pumping up manufacturing with federal funds, arm-twisting major corporations to spend more on job creation here and not in other countries, extending unemployment insurance benefits, and continuing to pound away on the rich to cough up more in tax revenues to bankroll a sweeping jobs program.
Earl Ofari Hutchinson: President Obama Caught Between the Left and Right on Jobs Earl Ofari Hutchinson 2011
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That, Burress said, hasn't taken any arm-twisting.
'Just Give Me a Playbook' Aditi Kinkhabwala 2011
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Presidential arm-twisting helped Mr. Ford narrowly win a test vote designed to force him to name his running mate in advance, and ultimately he won the delegate roll call 1,187 to 1,070.
Gingrich Aims to Conjure Spirit of '76—1976, That Is Gerald F. Seib 2012
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This at the same time that Mazziotti's very recent client, Lord Paulson III, is arm-twisting the elected officials of that lovely 'burb to build him a new minor league baseball stadium.
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Never forget that this bill only passed on the second try, and with a minority of Republican votes even after some epic arm-twisting.
The Washington Post discovers fiscal responsibility. - Moe_Lane’s blog - RedState 2009
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To them that means spending billions more on repairing and building roads, bridges, and schools, pumping up manufacturing with federal funds, arm-twisting major corporations to spend more on job creation here and not in other countries, extending unemployment insurance benefits, and continuing to pound away on the rich to cough up more in tax revenues to bankroll a sweeping jobs program.
Earl Ofari Hutchinson: President Obama Caught Between the Left and Right on Jobs Earl Ofari Hutchinson 2011
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