• Mr Zha urges America to refrain from browbeating China into accepting distant targets for future reductions.

    ECONOMIST: America and China talk climate change

  • Sold shares in airline in favor of stake in broadcaster TV Tokyo, latest target of his online browbeating.

    FORBES: Japan's 40 Richest

  • Even had Washington succeeded in browbeating Baghdad into accepting a continuing occupation, the Iraqi people would have been hostile.

    FORBES: Death, Misery And Debt: Iraq's Unintended Conquest Of America

  • Dr Shipman was accused of "browbeating" and "bludgeoning" relatives of his alleged victims to persuade them against demanding post-mortems.

    BBC: GP denies 'means and opportunity' to kill

  • But one government official said the U.S. should be careful about browbeating a nuclear power such as Pakistan even if it is an ally.

    NPR: Taliban Tightens Grip Near Northern Pakistan Border

  • There was none of the individual browbeating of recalcitrant congressmen that Mr Obama exercised with recent bills on financial reform or the extension of unemployment benefits.

    ECONOMIST: Climate-change policy

  • But it's what you don ' t see--the relentless tinkering with merchandising, the browbeating of suppliers, the exploitation of technology--that makes Home Depot such a terrifying competitor.

    FORBES: Profit in a Big Orange Box

  • At the corporate level, the browbeating takes a different form.

    WSJ: McGurn: The Chick-fil-A War Is Back On

  • For these critics certain chord progressions are browbeating and fascistic.

    ECONOMIST: Banned music

  • Rather than browbeating them into a strict, regimented passenger-servicing procedure, we give them the flexibility to adjust to customers based on their varying demands, which are not always part of our playbook.

    FORBES

  • Nor would a democratic country tolerate a government that operated through an elaborate system of secret meetings characterised by blatant arm-twisting and browbeating by the most powerful, like the World Trade Organisation.

    ECONOMIST: The world trade system

  • Thabo Mbeki, a former South African president mandated as mediator by SADC, reacted with a scathing letter, browbeating Mr Tsvangirai's lot for rejecting the ministry-sharing idea and accusing it of being a Western stooge.

    ECONOMIST: Zimbabwe asks for help as hundreds die from cholera

  • The head of Icahn Enterprises has spent decades hunting for smug management teams, taking a stake in their companies, and then browbeating them into selling off assets, firing employees and whatever else it takes to jab a stock upward.

    FORBES: Stalking The Yahoo!s

  • Instead of browbeating Goldman executives for 11 hours, a spectacle worthy of Soviet Russia, the Senate subcommittee could have performed a genuine public service by illuminating the still murky aspects of the deal at the heart of the SEC's case.

    WSJ: COMMON SENSE: Buffett May Know More About Derivatives Than Securities Law

  • On his visits to Rome he so pleaded for a family policy, browbeating the future Pope John Paul II even as they waited in the rain for a car, that John Paul in 1990 asked him to run that pontifical office for him, not knowing it would soon become a war room.

    ECONOMIST: Alfonso L��pez Trujillo

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