Sentence examples for over wary from inspiring English sources

But they must also win over wary heirs.

PAGE A23 MAUREEN DOWD In his 1960 presidential bid, John F. Kennedy managed to win over wary West Virginia voters for the primary and general elections.

The tactic aims to win over wary residents by paying them compensation for property damage or putting to work men who would otherwise look to the Taliban for support.

But Mr. Barrow, the insider-trading enforcer, knows he will be judged, not on his success in winning legal battles but on the market's success in winning over wary investors.

British forces prevailed in a 12-year campaign against "communist terrorists" not by winning over wary villagers through acts of beneficence but by forcibly relocating the rural Chinese population into fortified encampments, by deporting suspected insurgents en masse and by promising to leave once a privileged ethnically based elite had been installed.

(Its founder told me that she'd struggled to win over the wary titans of Big Log, who preferred to count the inefficient way).

URBANDALE, Iowa, Aug. 9 — Mitt Romney is undergoing the stiffest test yet of his effort to win over conservatives wary of his ideological credentials.

The manual describes the United States as facing an era of "persistent conflict" in which the American military will often operate among civilians in countries where local institutions are fragile and efforts to win over a wary population are vital.

The station had to take advantage of its reach and prevalence to try to elevate troop morale, win over a wary civil population, and, according to Mosquera, "to undermine the enemy's will".

Consumers are, if anything, even more wary over the lack of security on the Internet than are firms.

From Books editor Claire Armitstead: I used to be a reckless lender, but I've grown wary over time.