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That involved argument, cajolement and, in the end, tough political bargaining.

From Time Magazine Archive

Rumania was resisting every effort whether by threat or force or cajolement to lead her into war.

From The Story of the Great War, Volume IV (of 8) Champagne, Artois, Grodno; Fall of Nish; Caucasus; Mesopotamia; Development of Air Strategy; United States and the War by Miller, Francis Trevelyan

Flattery, cajolement, humble supplication and the finer maneuvers of tact, all have this in mind.

From The Foundations of Personality by Myerson, Abraham