| His was a strict Presbyterian Scottish background, and his father just browbeat him to get him to work so he'd get into university. |
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| He impressed me then, as he does now, as someone who prefers to browbeat opponents rather than reason with them. |
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| I talk to very tough people, I don't browbeat children or old women, I browbeat people who can take it. |
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| Don't let politicians or the media browbeat you, intimidate you or lie about you. |
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| Not surprisingly, departmental inquiries inevitably favor the offenders and browbeat women into abandoning their complaints, say social workers. |
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| He used a combination of intimidation and hearsay evidence to browbeat the accused. |
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| As I was saying, if our mothers can't browbeat us into getting married, what hope has a faceless government bureaucracy? |
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| It seems that they are cracking down on just about any kind of protest lately, trying to browbeat anyone that doesn't agree with them. |
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| Secretly terrified of losing his alpha status, he will browbeat, humiliate, and punish anyone who gets in his way. |
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| I knew that if I didn't say no straight away he would browbeat me into saying yes, or make me feel so guilty that I'd be practically begging him to stay. |
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| Their comments came as the new Lord Chief Justice warned ministers not to browbeat judges over how anti-terror laws and other legislation should be applied. |
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| Don't browbeat, denigrate, insult or threaten the opposing team. |
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| In other words, he must browbeat its members, or impress them with his own popularity, which means he is constantly campaigning too. |
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| He blackmailed and browbeat provinces into signing on to a program they knew was flawed. |
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| The US has gone so fool as to try to browbeat the DPRK by brandishing a nuclear stick. |
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| The answer is not to browbeat the parties to scurry to the negotiating table. |
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| Finally, Reno began to visit Ms. Furster on a regular basis and browbeat her with accusations and promises of a life sentence unless she cooperated. |
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| This was initially controversial, and required that Henry visit the House of Lords three times to browbeat the Commons. |
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| Though the teacher browbeat all the children, they still acted out during the lesson. |
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| The refusal to browbeat an audience with a social message has accounted, more than any other factor, for the worldwide popularity of American entertainment. |
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| At the root is an increasingly destructive army chief, General V. K. Singh, trying to browbeat civilian bosses into prolonging his spell in charge. In dispute is a petty detail: the general's year of birth. |
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| This is symptomatic of how the Government of Canada has browbeat officials in every department where officials did not dare say out loud what was on their minds. |
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| And make sure the message is clear and positive: you're not trying to browbeat or nag people to do what's right, you want them to WANT to do what's right for patients and for themselves. |
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