| According to Anne Smith, grandparents often prefer to buy traditional dolls and are less influenced by advertising and pester power than parents. |
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| The first is that advertising piles deliberate pressure on parents with the pester power of the child. |
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| Unscrupulous companies will instead pester you with annoying phone calls or unannounced visits. |
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| You nod absent-mindedly, hoping she will go pester someone else so you can sample the hors d' oeuvres in peace. |
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| But don't pester him about his philosophical 180 from fast-talking danger-lover to caring family man. |
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| So, the gossiping busybody that I am, I started to pester him about who he liked. |
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| Cows wander the streets, ragged children pester dogs with sticks, tailors teeter past on bicycles balancing bolts of fabric. |
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| It is painful to acknowledge, but marketers were right all along: pester power works. |
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| Those who believe that doctors do not keep up with medical developments are also using the web to pester scientists directly. |
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| Marketing to children is all about creating pester power, because advertisers know what a powerful force it can be. |
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| Pets such as dogs and cats regularly sit on your lap or pester you to be stroked or cuddled. |
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| It is advisable to check that your proposal has been received at the funder's office, but do not pester them for an immediate reply. |
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| He tried to poison us like lower animals, like the mice that pester storybook villages, the insects that fly around the heads of those that I read about. |
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| When Pierre Deligne was around 12 years of age, he would read his brother's university maths handbooks and pester him for explanations. |
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| But always have a good reason to get in touch and make yourself useful – never pester them. |
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| But are the creators exploiting the pester power of Balamory fans willing to spend vast sums of pocket money pounds on any old piece of tat with a Balamory logo? |
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| While a con artist may pester you to buy, they do not want to be noticed by the police. |
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| Let's take her words as proof that there's a creative itch hidden somewhere, anxious to pester her back into the lippy limelight in which she glowed in the first place. |
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| Some say they do not want to finance the police who pester them. A migrant's lot is often assumed to be an unhappy one. |
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| His firm operates through a network of locals who knock on doors and pester their acquaintances to buy lipstick and shampoo. |
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| Nevertheless, I undauntedly continued to repeatedly pester them. |
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| Parents try to resist pester power as they walk around supermarkets full of sugary cereal with toys inside the box or tinned spaghetti displaying pictures of a popular band. |
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| Not that the middle classes don't spoil their kids and give in to pester power too, but the level of crazed consumption is often inversely related to wealth. |
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| I don't believe for a moment they are doing any of this for her, or because of out-of-control pester power. |
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| Cann said that beating pester power involved children hearing the word no and accepting it. |
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| And resist the urge to probe or pester for reassuring answers. |
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| There are some marketing trends that one uses. Things like pester power which relates to the child pestering their parents to purchase the product. |
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| Kids are often thought of as pesterers and parents as gatekeepers working to resist the pester. |
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| Use a squirt bottle to douse your doggie should he pester your cat. |
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| Using computers, text pagers, and cell phones, students can be in touch with each other at all times and they may abuse this technology to pester, bully, and harm others. |
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| Some have said that it has been a question of obstinacy that goes hand in hand with the diabolical ingenuity that only landlubbers are capable of using in order to pester seamen. |
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| Health campaigners have long called for supermarkets to stop using the pester power of children at tills. |
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| Preschool aged kids, as young as three, are employing pester power to make sure the Spark program objective, of increasing energy efficiency literacy, finds its way home. |
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| And Pensions Minister Ros Altmann says pester power can turn that round. |
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