| The surly behaviour of the United camp to the foreign media has hardly qualified as a charm offensive on either front. |
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| The charm offensive was self-evidently in aid of something and eventually we found out what it was. |
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| Today's interview appears to mark the beginning of a charm offensive, with the company unveiling a new ad campaign tomorrow. |
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| The charm offensive is working, but there's been no exhibition on the president's part of ideological flexibility. |
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| They therefore decided to confront the problem by mounting a charm offensive. |
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| As he launches his charm offensive across Britain, the Prime Minister seems to have everything under control. |
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| The one child not entirely seduced by his charm offensive is Peter, a grave, pale lost boy overwhelmed by his father's death. |
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| In the last several months Pyongyang has launched a charm offensive directed at Moscow, Tokyo, and Seoul. |
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| I do feel, however, that on this issue too, embarking on a charm offensive is not enough. |
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| The yes and the no are sold using marketing methods that prefer a charm offensive to political persuasion. |
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| Postal and communications museums have launched an all-out charm offensive. |
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| The clipped lines and metallic austerities of modern design couldn't resist the assaults of this charm offensive inspired by tchotchkes from Mexico, India, and the Southwest. |
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| Diffident, brusque and self-effacing to the point of invisibility, he was not the first person you would choose if you wanted to mount a charm offensive. |
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| Ministers are already being instructed to relaunch a charm offensive, hitting the boardrooms and factories regularly to sell the government's achievements. |
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| The promo tour for Guardians of the Galaxy has been one massive, doofy charm offensive from Pratt. |
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| Senior ministers are already planning a nation-wide charm offensive that would see them take the message around the country that any tax cuts would require spending cuts. |
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| The ham-fisted attempt at mounting a charm offensive spoke volumes about the Prime Minister's waning powers, but his allies remained defiantly unimpressed. |
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| He left, having accomplished what I later realised was a retrospective charm offensive, aimed at persuading me that his show of aggression was an aberration. |
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| Nevertheless, we are certainly ready to try a sort of charm offensive towards Commissioner Dimas and also to admit that we were wrong if he proves to have more energy and more competence. |
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| Although the proposal remained valid, to date Iran has not accepted it and Iranian Foreign Minister Mottaki's recent charm offensive in Vienna on 22-23 April 2010 did not offer any new or encouraging prospects. |
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| Hence, it seems, the celebrity charm offensive. |
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| The whole forms a charm offensive that will turn a few heads, as an intro to a garden party, BBQ or other fiestas where the Ritmo de la Noche sounds. |
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| The bancassurance operators, who began their charm offensive with the one-stop shop, have had to take the concept to its logical conclusion and are now really beginning to diversify. |
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| Sudan refuses to recognise the court and has launched a diplomatic charm offensive to persuade the UN Security Council to invoke a one-year suspension of any legal proceedings. |
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| Let us not be blinded by the charm offensive on the part of Turkey. |
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| The German has been on a charm offensive since being appointed Reds boss a fortnight ago. |
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| Anyway, as part of my charm offensive, I once went into a Leeds bakery and ordered some breadcakes, as they are known in the north. |
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| And in what could be the start of a charm offensive, Neymar has claimed his good friend would fit in perfectly at the Nou Camp. |
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| Lucy invites her posh new neighbours over in an attempt to befriend them, but bumbling couch potato Lee fails to help her charm offensive. |
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| Once the game at Goodison Park was over, Rangers star Joey Barton went on a charm offensive by trying to lure Jelavic in to meet the QPR team. |
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| Iran's opponents, such as Netanyahu, have accused Iran of leading a charm offensive while pursuing nuclear weapons. |
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| United will step up their charm offensive to sign the Welsh wonder over the course of the next 12 months. |
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| The charm offensive appears to be working. |
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| Kraft's recent charm offensive came crashing to a halt this week with news that it plans to restructure Cadbury, shift key jobs to Switzerland, and slash its UK tax bill. |
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| The move could help facilitate business between Cyprus and the UAE as part of the government's charm offensive in seeking investors among the Gulf states. |
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| Star Trek actor Chris Pine has put on his own charm offensive while deciding not to take part in a charm battle with co-star Benedict Cumberbatch. |
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