He cultivated their trust with his longstanding reputation as a prominent art dealer and endeared them with a smile, backslapping charm and firm reassurances.
China has truly won the hearts of the populace, if not minds; this, in turn, has cultivated trust between the two countries.
Self-taught as a businessman, Mr. Levy cultivated bonds of trust with his clients, preferring a handshake to a formal contract.
Alf Arne Ramslien, a senior Norwegian diplomat who had cultivated relationships and trust within the Taliban for years, was meeting with a confidant of Mullah Muhammad Omar, the movement's reclusive founder, who was directing the insurgency from exile in Pakistan.
So cultivating honesty, trust, dignity, and respect becomes the job of the leaders.
The facts and appearances of this case strongly suggest that The Times should redouble its efforts to strengthen the boundaries that are so essential to cultivating reader trust.
Civic belonging refers to the embodied social practices by which immigrant youth cultivate social trust and construct an emotional connection to particular communities and places.
Foreign correspondents can burrow into a society, cultivate strangers' trust, follow meandering trails and dig beneath layers of diplomatic spin and government propaganda.
A new report by Human Rights Watch and Columbia Law School's Human Rights Institute, issued Monday, indicates that while federal law-enforcement agencies have tried to cultivate the trust of Muslim communities, they have undermined their own efforts by aggressively investigating and prosecuting community members.
Not least, there is the need for Facebook to cultivate the trust of its users, amid growing competition from Google's nascent social networking service, Google Plus, which emphasizes more compartmentalized communications with different sets of friends and acquaintances.
Being honest, open and transparent is a great way to cultivate mutual trust and respect.
