| But resisting his blandishments, the German foreign minister began to fulminate for the cameras. |
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| Magnard himself was a natural contrapuntist, often seeming wilfully to shun the blandishments of orchestral colour. |
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| The main character in the novel is unable to resist the blandishments of the wicked queen who offers him the most delicious candy in the world. |
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| The detainees resisted such standard blandishments as plea bargaining, cash, or relocation in the federal witness program. |
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| No wonder the free education generations have proven so susceptible to the party's blandishments. |
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| For the moment he has been resisting the president's blandishments and coaxing on the war policy. |
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| Normally, the blandishments offered up by stars lauding their latest vehicle are just so much blah. |
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| Their own futures depend on sticking scrupulously to what the evidence will bear, whatever the political blandishments from above. |
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| It should not be enough that he was subjected to blandishments and payment in order to persuade him to give evidence. |
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| Such blandishments are difficult to catch, she said, and irresistible to rural voters. |
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| Even after topping a shortlist of four, he resisted the company's blandishments. |
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| Despite all his blandishments, threats and persuasion, he did not get his heart's desire. |
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| These made nascent officers less susceptible to blandishments from civilian projects. |
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| But please, please do not again fall for the blandishments of peer pressure without asking why. |
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| That distortion makes us susceptible to the blandishments of our current leaders. |
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| He had simply fallen to the blandishments of others to procure a drug they were asking for. |
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| A few courageous legislators have withstood the health industry's blandishments and taken at least baby steps to modify the law. |
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| Few present-day Green Party leaders seem willing to urge the Greens to forego the blandishments of a presidential campaign. |
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| We have become a nation of children, happy to surrender our judgments and our wills to political exhortations and commercial blandishments that would insult actual adults. |
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| The contestant's ingratiating blandishments are not a hit with everyone. |
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| Big deal, you can almost hear Democrats collectively say, but these are the kinds of blandishments that get deals done. |
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| However he was still able to offer blandishments to the bank. |
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| It should also enable them to resists the blandishments of the banks, brokers, and other commission agents plying them with offers of seemingly generous quantities of credit. |
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| After spending the last few years trying to understand the pull of the material world, I am far more sympathetic to its blandishments and far more forgiving of its excesses. |
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| The connection must surely at least be that the effect of those blandishments was in fact to cause Mr Sage to decide to perjure himself in the cause. |
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| The blandishments of the Orwellian Big Brothers of this world are never more seductive than when the future looks grim. |
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| As the girl walked off to try her blandishments on a more responsive onlooker, another girl glided up to Conan and tapped on his arm. |
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| Taiwan is widely believed to win friends through development aid and other economic blandishments. |
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| Are you falling already for our friendly voice and irresistible blandishments? |
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| Sean, we discover later in the first episode, is not immune to such blandishments, either, for all his priggishness, but he, at least, feels a sense of shame. |
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| The financial package remains in a fixed framework, one that can be defended to the outside world without resorting to eloquent blandishments, but it still, of course, contains a few things that we need to talk about. |
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| The president has spent the past decade steering a careful course between Serb nationalists on the one hand and western blandishments on the other. |
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| For almost eight years they refused the blandishments of power. |
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| From our own reading of the media and our own personal knowledge of people in every walk of life, we know that Canadians are generally mature enough to resist the blandishments of the groups concerned. |
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| Before long they're sharing and swapping techniques, spurred on by the fiery, beat-driven music, and the plosive blandishments of beatboxer Grace Savage. |
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