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It sounded heartfelt and returned him to the good graces of GLAAD, the gay-rights group that had originally called for his firing.

They won't roll over and do what the Governor wants just because he asks them to do so and they want to stay in his good graces.

The sharp rhetoric may be necessary for leaders on both sides to stay in the good graces of their respective parties.

Geraldo Rivera, so the story goes, had to work himself back into Kaufman's good graces after one such incident in the 1970s.

The movie shows him repeatedly seeking to get back into her good graces.

He is simply hanging around here to try and work his way into the good graces of your daughter.

In order to win a place in the good graces of the daughter I must please the father, or at least attract his favorable notice.

Then I shall make you change your note; which will help me in the good graces of the dauphiness, whom you have offended.

The young assistant's bashfulness commended him to his mother-in-law's good graces.

To get into the good graces of Lisbeth Fargus you had to know her ways and humour them.

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