(n.) The act of blandishing; a word or act expressive of affection or kindness, and tending to win the heart; soft words and artful caresses; cajolery; allurement.
Example Sentences:
(1) 2.41pm BST A commenter takes issue with our characterization in the intro of Manning's Quantico confinement as being under "harsh conditions" : anairbagsavedmylife 21 August 2013 2:16pm his sentence would be shortened by 112 days as a blandishment for his illegal detention in solitary confinement and other harsh conditions at the Quantico brig in Virginia in 2010-11.
(2) Politicians' blandishments about a spell of CV-enhancing volunteering jar painfully.
(3) "It is absolutely crucial, in view of the expense run up in the search, that Mark resists every blandishment on the part of any individual newspaper to buy up his story.
(4) The idea that the NHS currently stands apart from all this – pure, unsullied, impervious to the evil blandishments of hard-headed business – the one institution that stands single-handedly between ourselves and our preventable deaths, is utterly fallacious.
(5) Now of course all kinds of blandishments are being offered to the survivors.
(6) The social sciences should resist such blandishments and, rather than act in complicity with biomedicine, be free to pursue a more critical role in exposing the theoretical and empirical inconsistencies in the biomedical model.
(7) But the mayor has resisted Cameron’s blandishments, giving the out camp a spectacular boost.
(8) His blandishments include the offer of troops to police a demilitarised zone.
(9) Is there any bribe or blandishment that the Tories will not use as the prospect of losing a quarter of their kingdom looms?
(10) These are the people who could eventually suffer and die from Cameron's blandishments to the dictators.
(11) That leaves the question: are these approaches and blandishments the tentative beginnings of a new pragmatism emerging in Obama's relations with business leaders?
(12) Listen to his blandishments during a media tour this week: "When you back up and look at Apple's effect on job creation in the United States, we estimate that we've created more than 600,000 jobs now," Cook told Brian Williams of NBC's Rock Center .
(13) It has fallen to Pius XII to denounce Communist ideology in such an implacable manner as to forfend a series of schisms on the part of Catholics tempted to yield to Communist blandishments.
(14) The form has developed - from the 18th-century English invention of child portraiture, through the mass-marketed blandishments of Kate Greenaway and Cicely Mary Barker, to cutesy cards and blushing bottom advertising.
(15) The king's speech was largely about the Saudis responding to the blandishments of the US, trying to make life a little tougher for Assad by swapping some unusually frank neighbourly criticism for a deafening regional silence.
(16) All of which explains why new parents are uniquely susceptible to the blandishments of companies looking to part them from their money.
(17) Another junta consideration is China's increasingly overbearing behaviour, which contrasts unfavourably with the attractive blandishments, real and potential, attendant on improved relations with India , Japan and others intent on curbing Beijing's ambitions.
(18) In addition, Judge Lind said his sentence would be shortened by 112 days as a blandishment for his illegal detention in solitary confinement and other harsh conditions at the Quantico brig in Virginia in 2010-11.
(19) The problem for BA is that, after months of this, passengers and agents are sceptical, and quite frankly bored, of its blandishments.
(20) There has been no "decisive blow" against the Taliban, contrary to Obama's Tuesday blandishment.
Fawning
Definition:
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Fawn
Example Sentences:
(1) Ex-players fawning over Tom Brady and Peyton Manning.
(2) The dispersion pattern of ticks on deer was aggregated, with twice and three times as many ticks collected from bucks as from does and from fawns, respectively.
(3) The Fawn-Hooded strain of rats exhibits a hemorrhagic disorder, known as platelet storage pool deficiency.
(4) Fawns and adult deer greater than or equal to 5.5 yr had a significantly (P less than or equal to 0.05) higher intensity (means = 37 and means = 68, respectively) of infection than the 1.5- and 2.5-yr-old age groups (means = 19 and means = 26, respectively).
(5) When tested in cell electrophoresis platelets from fawn hooded bleeder rats showed a significantly lower electrophoretic mobility than normal rat platelets.
(6) This study indicates that the platelet aggregation defect described for the fawn-hooded rat strain is one that does not alter the time course of the morphologic features of hyperacute cardiac allograft rejection, and thus this platelet aggregation abnormality has no essential role in the pathogenesis of this type of tissue damage.
(7) Inoculation of the ovine RSV isolate into calves and deer fawns resulted in infection in both species, and at necropsy, pneumonic lesions were present.
(8) Following treatment with the antihypertensive, debrisoquin sulfate, the blood pressure of the fawn-hooded rats decreased until it approached the levels observed in normotensive Wistar rats.
(9) Reddish-tan and fawn-colored hyperpigmentation in tinea versicolor of this type is not due to melanin pigment.
(10) Twenty mule deer fawns (Odocoileus hemionus) were removed from their dams 48 h after birth, and hand-reared.
(11) Fawn-hooded (FH) rats develop low-renin hypertension which is preceded by a decrease in urinary kallikrein.
(12) Its sheiks and warlords, the fawned-upon princes who once did as they wished – buying up most of Streatham in the morning, beheading someone for sorcery in the afternoon – well, they’re dust and shadow now.
(13) The first steps of thrombus formation, in particular the adhesion and reversible aggregation, were significantly reduced in this model in fawn-hooded bleeder rats.
(14) The present article summarizes some comparative studies of the Fawn-Hooded (FH) rat, a potential animal model of ethanol preference, and the Flinders Sensitive Line (FSL) rat, a potential animal model of depression.
(15) However, 5 (28%) of the treated does and 3 (17%) of the control does failed to maintain pregnancy and fawn in 1987.
(16) But, says Grant, British “fawning” over Donald Trump alienates many Europeans, making them doubt we share their basic values.
(17) Methoxyflurane inhalation was used a total of 58 times to anesthetize 23 hand-reared mule deer (Odocoileus hemionus) fawns ranging from 25 to 85 days of age.
(18) The effect of various doses of the 5-HT agonist m-chlorophenylpiperazine (MCPP) on neuroendocrine function (prolactin and corticosterone responses) were compared in three different rat strains: Wistar, Sprague-Dawley (SD), and Fawn-Hooded (FH) rats.
(19) Infections were significantly more prevalent among fawn and yearling deer.
(20) Free speech is also increasingly curtailed in Chinese universities , publishing houses and the fawning, party-controlled news media ; foreign NGOs have been shown the door; and even mild critics of the regime have found themselves spirited into secret detention.