Sentence examples for coax over from inspiring English sources

Hardened sceptics include Iain Duncan Smith, Owen Paterson and Bernard Jenkin, whom the prime minister had hoped to coax over to her side by promising to pursue technological solutions to the Irish border.

He was a devoted husband to Miriam – his awesome wife who he managed to coax over from Los Angeles: first to Bristol, then up to Edinburgh with him when he obtained a lectureship at Napier University.

She glanced about her, turning up her cheek to the mellow, sinking light, then bent to coax over the bundle's head another layer, some coverlet or shawl: in this weather?

But most of the foreign acts coming to the country remain a grab-bag of smaller, interesting acts, coaxed over by passionate expats.

Here, a series of walkways and ramps force visitors to interact with the topography, coaxing them over, around, under and into Mr. Zaccagnino's world.

Mr. Romney, ever well coiffed, had an unusually stubborn cowlick that had refused to lie flat despite serious coaxing over more than a few minutes in his room.

On Saturday, one of this year's conference participants was coaxed over to the security fence as he returned from an afternoon jog.

If that exchange was a mark of how closed - even to his generals - Saddam's intentions were, now the former dictator has been coaxed over the months into a kind of confessional intimacy.

Wright's long-term, though failed, intention has been to capture much higher listening figures by making daytime Radio 3 a far lower-brow service – emulating Classic FM's style and coaxing over some of its listeners.

For all the tough talk about cracking down on water wasters, Los Angeles and other California cities are choosing gentle coaxing over costly fines.

And the notion that this is something that the United States can just coax along over the next three or four years seems to me implausible.