Apart from his 2011 staging of Bach's St Matthew Passion – which "I managed to bully them into allowing me to do" – he feels that he has been "conspicuously ignored".
"They managed to bully me while I was in California by sending me mean letters," she said.
Yet over the years, a small group of cranky right-wingers and xenophobic activists have managed to bully Senate leaders into inaction.
Chris Huhne, however, doubts whether he was ever set on the leadership: "If Steve Lotinga managed to bully Vince out of it, it suggests his heart wasn't in it".
Her lawyer was impressed when — in the dimly lit bar of the Pierre Hotel in 1967 — she managed to bully her husband's American publisher into making unprecedented concessions.
Hitler managed to bully these countries into accepting the passage of German troops, but on March 27 a coup in Yugoslavia overthrew the government, and the new rulers reneged on the agreement.
Russia has not quite managed to bully Moldova into accepting a confederation; and the West, only fitfully attentive, and handicapped by Moldova's erratic behaviour, cannot dislodge the regime in Transdniestria.
That smart-mouthed lion, it seems, was only the beginning of a long parade of inanimate creatures that managed to bully Jaye into performing some sort of baffling task.
Chavez, lauded as a socialist liberator by his supporters but dismissed as an authoritarian demagogue by his detractors, has managed to bully most foreign oil firms into agreeing to hand over a controlling stake of their oil interests to the Venezuela, which boasts the planet's largest petroleum reserves and is the world's fifth-largest oil exporter.
While his messages may be written in the terse, disinterested and non-descript style of a sociopath, at no point does he say "fuck off and leave me alone forever", so it's already going better than the last guy I was seeing, who was a sociopath who I managed to bully into feeling an emotion about me (clue: it wasn't love :.
