| Obsequiousness tends to refer to a desire to ingratiate oneself, and to win benefits through flattery. |
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| Counsel will do anything to ingratiate themselves with the Court, Mr Jackson. |
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| But it wasn't long before she got in with the wrong crowd, keen to ingratiate herself with her peers, and befriended the bullies themselves. |
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| He was accused of organising the press conference without the say-so of others in an effort to further ingratiate himself with the media. |
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| Those of us who live in the provinces wonder at the obsessive efforts of some Tory politicians to ingratiate themselves with that lobby. |
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| They publish and broadcast fluffy, weak, and uncritical stories in a transparent attempt to ingratiate themselves to communities. |
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| He's a sycophant social climber who's not beyond using a little groveling to ingratiate himself with someone who advance his opportunities. |
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| Also, better yet, ingratiate your gaming buddies big time by handing bunches of them out. |
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| Analysts who make sell recommendations for shares that have been underwritten by the company they work for certainly do not usually ingratiate themselves with their employer. |
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| If that mission advances with the same devotion to futebol-arte, Santos will persevere to ingratiate the purists. |
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| Democrats, who sense military misgivings, try to fudge the differences in order to ingratiate themselves. |
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| Perhaps he hopes to ingratiate himself with the Taliban as US and Western influence wanes. |
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| What motivated that leak though was a need to ingratiate himself to the people of Hong Kong and China. |
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| They ingratiate themselves with the Nationalists instead of supporting their own. |
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| Patricia Kluge tried to ingratiate herself with her neighbor the queen, but was continually snubbed. |
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| Make contacts, ingratiate yourself to people, impress them, charm them. |
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| You could even be advised by the presiding judge to try and sell your efforts to barristers-at-law in any future court appearances and ingratiate yourself with the judiciary. |
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| It seems the sure-fire way to ingratiate yourself with the people who buy singles is to sing a cover. |
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| You are likely to find yourself feigning interest in and enthusiasm for a lot of things to ingratiate yourself with your peers. |
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| Guys from his social background, sucking up to power – he'd do anything to ingratiate himself with some military officer. |
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| Far from doing that this time, both Labour and the Tories seem keen to ingratiate themselves with minority voters. |
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| These comments will no doubt not ingratiate me with some of my former colleagues. |
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| He readily paid bribes to some soldiers at checkpoints to further ingratiate himself to them, easing his journey to the base. |
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| Advice given by a lawyer to his client has no value if it is given only to ingratiate himself, to serve his personal interests or in response to outside pressure. |
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| Distributing teaching among casual staff is often a grace and favour affair – you have to ingratiate yourself to be given teaching the following year. |
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| What is striking is how assiduously, even recklessly, Tory leaders sought to ingratiate themselves with executives of a particular mass media company. |
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| If you ingratiate yourself with the community, you will halfway there. |
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| Russian and foreign energy companies such as TNK-BP and Italy's Eni and Enel took part to ingratiate themselves with Rosneft and Gazprom, the gatekeepers of Russian resources. |
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| Cicero's taunt that the populist politician Publius Clodius Pulcher had changed his name from Claudius to ingratiate himself with the masses. |
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| As an interviewer, i quickly grasped that the key was to ingratiate myself with the subject, to be admiring, even humble, but not Heepish. |
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| The Isaac minisaga closes with a parting look at Esau's efforts to ingratiate himself with his parents. |
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| Wishing to ingratiate himself with his new employer and with the musicians of his orchestra, Haydn incorporated a large number of solo passages into the music, giving nearly every principal player time in the spotlight. |
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| He had decided to ingratiate himself with Morphou campaigners such as mayor Charalambos Pittas and DIKO MEP Antigoni Papadopoulou and resorted to sloganeering. |
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