To win over allies, however, it may have to ditch Mr Habibie.
How would a fabulously grumpy septuagenarian cope with the humiliating demands of retail politics or win over allies in a party he had spent his career turning his back on?
As the man who controls the business on the Senate floor, Mr. Reid can swerve this way and that as he tries to negotiate with Mr. McConnell and Republicans over amendments, while also trying to corral votes among Democrats, win over allies and draw opponents into the open.
At the same time, both rulers tried to win over allies: Gelimer contacted the Visigoth king Theudis (r.
Mocking the Pakistanis' verbal shuffles, he quipped, "I can change, baby, I can change". His repartee provoked a spontaneous round of audience laughter (making it easier to imagine Kilcullen win over allies in Pakistan, Iraq, or virtually anyplace else).
Perna also has won over PeopleSoft, SAP and Siebel former allies of Ellison that spurned him when Oracle started to compete with them in applications.
The third challenge is to win over traditional allies who have expressed grave reservations.
And Hillary applied her characteristic attentiveness — sending handwritten notes to celebrate engagements and new babies, and poetry books to comfort those in mourning — to win over lifelong allies.
In the decades since, successive American administrations have played a key role in advancing the anti-corruption agenda around the world, gradually winning over valuable allies and building vital coalitions.
Your character's job is to ensure the success of the Inquisition, sometime manipulating that sense of belief to win over political allies.
They may compromise slightly now, and work to win over key allies with political incentives such as a large fiscal grant to West Bengal.
