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

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

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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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