He delivered his wholesome inducements in a suave, limber tenor, pealing out his pleas or letting them melt into elaborate turns and glides.
His inducements included a Rolls-Royce, Persian carpets and the use of a yacht.Bob Ney, an Ohio Republican who chairs the House Administration Committee, appears to be "Representative 1" cited in the plea deal.
Some prominent New Yorkers desperately want him to play here, and they are throwing all sorts of freebies his way as inducements.
His inducement: "A haircut still looks a lot better than a beheading".
For several years, he had been trying to rouse Philip Augustus, the King of France, to invade Languedoc, and he had recently renewed his appeal, adding potent inducements.
The serial nature of his line is an inducement to his customers, who collect the shoes as Yankees fans might caps of different colors.
If Obama had held firm and let the Bush tax cuts expire for everyone, as some recommended at the time, he would now have at his disposal a powerful inducement for both parties to come together.
That same catalog of horrors and inducements also explains his political longevity.
His wife, Gwen, barely left his side, and among the inducements she gave him to recover were reminders that he had been planning to begin making woodcuts inspired by their black Labrador, Sally.
Had his devotion later been an inducement to remain with him in his house, a selfishness dressed up?
