Democrats, meanwhile, have focused on currying support from Missouri's growing Latino and loyal African-American populations.
Gentle nudging and currying favour aren't areas in which Mr Summers is likely to excel.
MEPs from spending time currying favour at home, rather than working to advance Britain's agenda in Europe.
Jones, a Republican running for a U.S. Senate seat in 2012, has been currying favor with deep-pocket industry contributors.
For example, China is currying favor with emerging countries such as those in Africa by making low-cost loans for infrastructure and other projects.
Mr Clarke said 21st century governments were "totally obsessed" with newspapers but he thought "currying favour" with the press was a waste of time.
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Unfortunately, it would appear that its interest in currying favor with China and its money-men like White House coffee-clatcher Wang Jun did, as well.
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President Obama's alienating of Israel, Poland, the Czech Republic, Honduras and other allies in the vain hope of currying favor with their foes, and ours.
In Holland last year, the Dutch government effectively expelled anti-Islamist politician Ayaan Hirsi Ali in the interest of currying favor with Holland's restive Muslim minority.
But currying favor with conservatives who want the ruling to stand also is unlikely to do much to help Obama make progress on his second-term priorities.
Today, however, network computers are making a comeback as "thin clients, " and are currying favor with corporate customers worried about the escalating cost of maintaining large PC pools.
Rome is jockeying to play the role of peacemaker by participating in the coalition while not seeming overly eager to oust Gadhafi, currying favor with both the coalition and Gadhafi.
When currying favor with Washington is seen as a much easier way to make money, businesses inevitably begin to compete with rivals in securing government largess, rather than in winning customers.
Currying favors with subordinates is alien to military leadership.
Neighbouring Egypt, which long sought to impede South Sudan's quest for independence ostensibly because of fears over the White Nile's headwaters, is now also currying favour with offers of educational and technical aid.
As South and Central America come increasingly under the control of far-left America-hating dictators, as in Iran, Obama and his team have abandoned democratic dissidents in the hope of currying favor with anti-American thugs.
Debate there isn't going to wait for 2008: President Bush's authority to submit freer-trade deals to Congress for simple up or down votes--the "fast track" authority that prevents a slew of favor-currying amendments--is set to expire in June.
This complex tie extends to commercial banking, where ICBC and other state entities have attracted private global capital even absent much evidence that their loan desks are improved from when they ran up bum credits currying official favor.
Now, he seems determined to complete his tenure by once again sacrificing national security in the hope of currying favor with another special interest, Hispanic-Americans, to whom he believes the permanent cessation by the U.S. armed forces of live-fire training exercises on the Puerto Rican island of Vieques is an important priority.
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