Still, being named as an acceptable alternative by Turkey was not likely to endear him to Assad or the senior figures in the military and security establishment who surround the president, Syrian and foreign observers said.
Christie's "big tent" approach did not always endear him to colleagues, particularly when it conflicted with Labour's own priorities or tactics.
Publicly eating a bacon sandwich is hardly likely to endear him further.
Massow has been a recent guest of business organisation London First, but his spectacular backstory and more novel ideas seem unlikely to endear him to the Tory top brass who will want to control things from above.
It is not immediately obvious that demanding less generous paid holidays and maternity leave in negotiations with the EU ahead of a referendum will endear the prime minister to potential working class Conservatives.
She hasn't taken the president to court or done some other huge dramatic thing, but just small political actions by a senior public official endear her to a public that is used to great cynicism and impunity with regard to corruption in high places".
Key, I'm told, had a bit of a blue with the management during the World Twenty20, which did not endear him.
The cricketing public may be split over KP – although the broader sporting public who are slowly becoming disconnected from the game appear to be largely with him – but the events of the past week will not endear those grumbling over the amount they are being asked to pay for Test tickets and TV subscriptions.
His background was hardly one to endear him to English fans, least of all if, like many of Manchester City's, they happened to be Jewish.
Hamas may let young cadres revive a morality campaign that had previously lapsed.Such actions will do little to endear the Islamists to Gazans tired of conflict, isolation and factional rivalry.
Rioting in the streets of Seattle will do little to endear the WTO to Americans, most of whom had never heard of it until now.
