What's the difference between cajoling and caroling?
Cajoling
Definition:
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Cajole
Example Sentences:
(1) In platform shoes to emulate Johnson's height, and with the aid of prosthetic earlobes, Cranston becomes the 36th president: he bullies and cajoles, flatters and snarls and barks, tells dirty jokes or glows with idealism as required, and delivers the famous "Johnson treatment" to everyone from Martin Luther King to the racist Alabama governor George Wallace.
(2) It would still need to work with government funded national anti-doping organisations where they exist (though even those considered an example to others, such as UK Anti Doping, are facing swingeing cuts) and bully as well as cajole sports into testing properly with rigour and independence.
(3) The Paris climate accord, the first comprehensive deal to lower emissions across 196 nations, was made possible through Obama’s cajoling of China to come on board.
(4) Further, in a vain attempt for a boost in the Hoosier State, Cruz unveiled former rival Carly Fiorina as his running mate if he receives the nomination and was able to cajole the state’s sitting governor, Mike Pence, into an endorsement.
(5) Kenyan human rights lawyers described how potential witnesses have been cajoled and bullied into withholding their testimony.
(6) Cameron’s EU deal: the verdict from our panel | Matthew d’Ancona, Daniel Hannan, Tom Clark and Natalie Nougayrède Read more There was still a long way to go and the deal was far from sealed, Dave soothingly cajoled, but “what we’ve got is what I basically asked for”.
(7) "Governments whether right or left have become commissioners in chief, nudging and cajoling networks into preferred business models without the slightest sensitivity or awareness of what the public wants or the TV industry is capable of," said Iannucci.
(8) The lobbying industry is free to continue secretly cajoling politicians while charities and trade unions will be silenced.
(9) Like a bandit who has cajoled his way in, the parasite now forces his host to prepare a banquet for him.
(10) It says: Usually hawkish Republicans questioned Obama’s Syria strategy and the GOP’s rising isolationist wing suggested that no amount of cajoling would persuade them to authorize another Middle Eastern military intervention.
(11) The summit delivered robust language on new measures aimed at shoring up the EU’s external borders, detention of refugees and migrants while their asylum claims are being processed, attempts to replace national powers over frontiers by new European agencies, and a drive to cajole countries outside the EU into keeping migrants at home and hosting those from elsewhere in transit to Europe.
(12) Whatever the technology, the decisions to go to war or make peace are made by people, and people are best judged and cajoled in the flesh.
(13) The organisation should be championing a global growth pact and cajoling countries such as Germany to sign up to it.
(14) He was “cajoled” into starting a Twitter account for publicity purposes, “but did not have warm feelings about it so I used it to satirize the self-important celebrity Twitter voice”.
(15) Twenty years after Nelson Mandela cajoled, threatened and shouted down even his own comrades and led us down the path of freedom, his successor Jacob Zuma has been crisscrossing the country campaigning to be re-elected .
(16) Bully me, cajole me, love me This year, the audience were the stars.
(17) The commissioners will have to put more work into establishing relationships with key talent, cajoling, encouraging them to feel confident that once again they've found a home for their work.
(18) They are going after the fossil fuel companies directly as opposed to just trying to go into business with them and gently cajole them into doing the right thing,” she says.
(19) The same gift of the gab that a good hotel manager deploys to schmooze an irate guest complaining about draughts made the difference between life and death; he cajoled and coaxed, flattered and deceived, lied and bribed.
(20) Pleading, shouting, wheedling, cajoling: none made any difference whatsoever.
Caroling
Definition:
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Carol
(n.) A song of joy or devotion; a singing, as of carols.
Example Sentences:
(1) In some ways, the Gandolfini performance that his fans may savour most is his voice work in Spike Jonze's Where the Wild Things Are (2009), the cult screen version of Maurice Sendak 's picture book classic – he voiced Carol, one of the wild things, an untamed, foul-mouthed figure.
(2) Belfast in Odd Man Out Released in 1947, directed by Carol Reed Facebook Twitter Pinterest Carol Reed is a brilliant director of cities in films.
(3) Along the way, he fathered a child at 20 and immediately turned his back on her (they are now reunited), had a brief and unhappy marriage to the broadcaster Carol McGiffin and a series of frenetically unsatisfying relationships.
(4) Carole Berry, of Rollingsons Solicitors, said: "I had a simultaneous exchange of contracts on the 23 December to make sure the deal went through in time.
(5) Last week the president of the US-based National Organisation on Disability, Carol Glazer, was quoted as describing the use of disability in his murder defence as “exploitation”.
(6) (Hampstead Norreys, Berkshire) Ms Carol Ann Duffy, CBE.
(7) Ritesh Singh – who got three As in geography, biology and chemistry and a C in extended project science – is going to Carol Divila University in Bucharest to study medicine.
(8) Carol Long : "It seems important to find a way to disseminate the learning in ways that are accessible for those with busy caseloads."
(9) He must also decide whether to resurrect the post of White House climate adviser, which has been empty since early 2011 when Carol Browner stepped down .
(10) Dr Carol Kerven counts the human cost: goat herders in Inner Mongolia are shortchanged, selling their goat hair for as little as $2.30 a kilo.
(11) Prof Carole Longson, director of the centre for health technology evaluation at Nice, said: “We know that people with cancer place great importance on drugs that can increase their life expectancy.
(12) As Carol J Adams, author of the acclaimed The Sexual Politics of Meat, once said: "People say 'sex sells'.
(13) In an article for the Guardian two days later , Bate wrote that no reason had been given and that he understood that Carol Hughes, who controls her husband’s estate, had been happy with how he planned to research and present the work.
(14) The publication of the letters and the sale of the second archive by the poet's widow Carol suggested that she might be relaxing the position made clear by Hughes's publisher, Faber, soon after his death: that there would never be an "authorised biography" of this most controversial poet.
(15) We hope this integrity will not be lost in the formation of the new organisation.” Dr Carol Homden, CBE, Coram’s CEO, said in a statement: “Coram is the oldest children’s charity and has been delivering fostering and adoption services for 275 years.
(16) At a meeting with Ms Dhu’s mother, Della Roe, grandmother, Carol Roe, and sister in Port Hedland this week, Barnett said the inquest would be held in the middle of the year.
(17) Among the protesters were Duggan’s mother, Pamela, and his aunt Carole, who marched alongside Baker’s mother.
(18) One read: “In such troubled and troubling times it is so important that we respect each other and stand together.” It was signed: “Carol, a local resident.” Another, signed “Geraldine Adams (local white British non-Muslim)”, was addressed to “the Muslim community of Finsbury Park”.
(19) August 4, 2014 Carol Gilchrist (@CarolGilchrist) @GdnVoluntary keeping it simple and 'real life' ...
(20) Off stage, I think the material is justified, because it is about intent: ultimately, Carol Thatcher thinks she has done nothing wrong, while I am aware of which lines I have overstepped and why.