How To Use Browbeat In A Sentence
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Alan seemed so intense about it that she was feeling browbeaten, and she didn't want to give in just because of that.
AFTERMATH
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As I was saying, if our mothers can't browbeat us into getting married, what hope has a faceless government bureaucracy?
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Vote your conscience even if other jurors browbeat you.
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The judge browbeat the witness.
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I talk to very tough people, I don't browbeat children or old women, I browbeat people who can take it.
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The privacy of the voting booth is a check on bribery and intimidation, for there is no way to be sure that bought or browbeaten votes will be cast as directed.
Election Reform
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Hence, the commander had to beg, cajole, and browbeat authorities of three nations to get what he needed.
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British television screens are once more hosting the talking heads - patronising, confident and ultra-informed - that have so often browbeaten us into following them along the path to social catastrophe.
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Tony Woodley, joint leader of Unite, also mounted another attack on the company for trying to "browbeat" its staff into accepting worse pay and conditions.
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After all, what sort of conspiracy is it when the victim has to browbeat his supposed aggressors into taking part?
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If she pulls out too quickly, she will fall prey to the usual browbeating from the right — the same theme that has played relentlessly since 1968.
Goodbye to All That: Why Obama Matters
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And you can bet that 37% reflects a lot of women who are browbeaten by their swinish husbands into liking Limbaugh.
Think Progress » Rush Limbaugh: ‘I love the women’s movement — especially when walking behind it.’
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In other words, it was browbeaten and the institute was denied what was agreed under that deed of settlement.
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Not surprisingly, departmental inquiries inevitably favor the offenders and browbeat women into abandoning their complaints, say social workers.
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He was also a foregoer of a controversial prosperity gospel which has come to browbeat televangelism.
Evangelist Oral Roberts, pioneer of televangelism who founded ...
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After all, part of “making life livable for ourselves” means not turning into the sort of noodge who browbeats friends and acquaintances about their dietary choices.
Vegan Envy
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Though he can still make the militantes in their Che Guevara T-shirts swoon with talk about throwing speculators in jail, standing up to Uncle Sam and browbeating the "egoistic" Brazilian elite, off the stump he has been quietly networking among bankers, factory owners, and CEOs.
Lula's Long Road
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They're condemning and browbeating anyone who questions any of this, branding dissenters as unpatriotic and treasonous.
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He used a combination of intimidation and hearsay evidence to browbeat the accused.
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It seems that they are cracking down on just about any kind of protest lately, trying to browbeat anyone that doesn't agree with them.
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This young woman who is probably your age has been browbeaten into thinking she's ignorant.
DREAMS OF INNOCENCE
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The book was for many days snubbed, buffeted, browbeaten; and the care fully-woven tapestry was torn into shreds and trampled upon; and it seemed that the patiently sculptured shrine was overtured and despised and desecrated.
St. Elmo
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Don't let politicians or the media browbeat you, intimidate you or lie about you.
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Now Waxman is going to browbeat and berate them for it on national TV, as if they had done something wrong, because these earlier “nudges” conflict with the PR of the Health Care Deform.
The Volokh Conspiracy » More on Behavioral Economics and Regulatory Policy:
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Funk disputed the contention of prosecutors that Zabawa confessed to the crimes, saying jurors would instead hear tapes of a "browbeating" at the hands of law enforcement that went on for hours.
News
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Eve had to call Barker's Electronics in Torrington and browbeat them into delivering a new one tomorrow.
DOLL'S EYES
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If they treat Richardson this way, in public, what kind of browbeating, threats and general nastiness are they using more quietly with the uncommitted supers?
Clinton Camp Source: Richardson Said Obama Can't Win
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‘They were the browbeaters,’ said a former defense intelligence official who attended some of the meetings in which Wolfowitz and others pressed for a different approach to the assessments they were receiving.
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He impressed me then, as he does now, as someone who prefers to browbeat opponents rather than reason with them.
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Their comments came as the new Lord Chief Justice warned ministers not to browbeat judges over how anti-terror laws and other legislation should be applied.
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Don't browbeat, denigrate, insult or threaten the opposing team.
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And his bottom-of-the-table Forest side looked similarly browbeaten after slipping to their ninth defeat of the season.
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The boss browbeat me into taking on all this extra work.
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When I backed out of the 100 metres, an older kid tried to browbeat me into it.
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Miami, is attempting "browbeat" deep-pocketed targets in the media in an attempt to force settlements in the RRA bankruptcy.
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Give the people a break and fix the government first then you might have the right to go after other companies. browbeater
Obama touts financial reform, says GOP stance 'deceptive'
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In several congressional contests Republicans are making mischief over the administration's recent relative firmness towards Israel, with one candidate accusing Obama of "browbeating" the Jewish state, and others suggesting the Democratic administration is fraying the historic ties that have bound the two countries.
Mail & Guardian Online
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Collins seems to be settling into the role of Collins the jester, the anti-Glück, the establishment browbeater, in the gentlest of ways, of course.
Anis Shivani: Philip Levine and Other Mediocrities: What it Takes to Ascend to the Poet Laureateship
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Finally, Reno began to visit Ms. Furster on a regular basis and browbeat her with accusations and promises of a life sentence unless she cooperated (that is, told the jury what Reno wanted her to say).
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* Also in that link: Republican candidates across the country begin using Obama's efforts to pressure Israel as a weapon against Dems, with one alleging an "alarming pattern" in the mideast and another accusing Obama of "browbeating" Israel.
The Morning Plum
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Spitzer thought the voters had given him a mandate to deliver his agenda, and he tried quickly and publicly to browbeat the legislature into submission.
Dan Collins: Andrew Cuomo Has a Good Thing Going
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He said: ‘I definitely did not browbeat her, it was a misunderstanding of my sense of humour.’
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Ramsay is the browbeater on Fox's reality series "Hell's Kitchen," unleashing torrents of F-bombs on his fragile flock of quivering culinary contestants.
The Seattle Times
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It's not that I'm not proud of my junk, it's just that I'm already sick of being scrutinized, frisked, questioned, herded around, bullyragged and browbeaten at each leg of a flight.
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In a platoon of hard-nosed execs, few have a snout quite as strong as Irish budget carrier Ryanair's Chief Executive Michael O'Leary: a harrier of behemoth flagship airlines, a browbeater of trade unions, a bugbear of the European Union and an unhesitant user of the "f" word--and we don't mean "flying.
U.K. Faces Of The Week, May 15-19, 2006
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I frankly don't think the Quebec people will stand for that kind of browbeating, or should I say, "drilling.
The Referendum: Everyone's Business
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He had joined the ship just as we sailed, somehow browbeating the mate into letting him board.
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The punctilious playwright is no issue-driven browbeater; he simply loves an exchange of dialogue regardless of the subject matter's latitude.
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Such dogged, browbeating miserabilism, slathered in extra helpings of implausibility, is very far from true tragedy indeed.
Times, Sunday Times
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They “browbeat and discouraged” the militia and presented “an example of all manner of debauchery, vice, and idleness when they lie skulking in forts,” while the country was “ravaged in their very neighborhood.”
George Washington’s First War
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The people at Scottish Racing do not seem to be browbeating ministers, civil servants and enterprise companies, so I will do it for them.
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A harrier of behemoth flagship airlines, a browbeater of trade unions, a bugbear of the European Union and an unhesitant user of the "f" word--and we don't mean "flying.
Ryanair's O'Leary Offers England's Soccer Enemy A Bone
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Eve had to call Barker's Electronics in Torrington and browbeat them into delivering a new one tomorrow.
DOLL'S EYES
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Don't let politicians or the media browbeat you, intimidate you or lie about you.
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There, barring a few bad eggs whom you rarely get to hear about, most students are interested in education rather than browbeating other students.
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After all, what sort of conspiracy is it when the victim has to browbeat his supposed aggressors into taking part?
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Are they staying schtum, hanging on the coat tails of the belligerent ones until they feel that we've been browbeaten into submission, then make the play?
Tony Blair: The Next Labour Prime Minister?
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Earlier this week the Ministry tried to browbeat the teachers into compliance by instructing principals to send round a memo ‘requiring’ staff to perform all their duties.
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The very fact they have held hundreds of dharnas, hunger-fasts and demonstrations before the Supreme Court, and have never been browbeaten by the worst of adversity, speaks of their indomitable spirit.
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Q Mike, this statement says that "browbeat" and "badger," those two words, what the prosecutor tried to do.
Press Briefing By Mike Mccurry
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They browbeat him into signing the document.
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[157] It said that there was no evidence of "browbeating" or a verbal attack to the extent that the Standard was threatened.
ScreenTalk
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But part of “making life livable for ourselves” means not turning into the sort of noodge who browbeats friends and acquaintances about their dietary choices — at least until they start ordering the Flipper Tempura Roll at Nobu.
Vegan Envy
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The boss browbeat me into taking on all this extra work.
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And Allen West, a Republican running against Democratic Rep. Ron Klein in Florida's 22nd District, said Obama was "browbeating" Israel.
Obama, Netanyahu meet again
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They browbeat my sister to order my execution, virtually to the moment of her final breath.
Secret History of Elizabeth Tudor, Vampire Slayer
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And, to believe that ‘fighting back’ consists of browbeating our elected politicians into standing up and denouncing Republican badness and wrongness is infantile.
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Hence, the commander had to beg, cajole, and browbeat authorities of three nations to get what he needed.
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The Volokh Conspiracy » Prude fact of the day:
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It may work in a rough-and-ready way, since the governments represented on the security council will be bribed, blackmailed, browbeaten and bludgeoned into submission over the next fortnight.
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Collins seems to be settling into the role of Collins the jester, the anti-Glück, the establishment browbeater, in the gentlest of ways, of course.
Anis Shivani: Philip Levine and Other Mediocrities: What it Takes to Ascend to the Poet Laureateship
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Hence, the commander had to beg, cajole, and browbeat authorities of three nations to get what he needed.
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Instead, they browbeat her, repeatedly cut her off in mid-answer, accused her of ‘filibustering’ and said she was lying…
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‘Laurie can be effective, but also heavy-handed and a browbeater,’ said one politically active Hollywood insider, who spoke on condition of anonymity.
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Now, instead of browbeating his chosen boys into submission, he let them do whatever they wanted.
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But his record shows he's anything but an inflexible browbeater, and there's a fine line between not standing for something and standing for nothing.
Sahil Kapur: Obama Cannot Afford to Lose Progressives
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His was a strict Presbyterian Scottish background, and his father just browbeat him to get him to work so he'd get into university.
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I knew that if I didn't say no straight away he would browbeat me into saying yes, or make me feel so guilty that I'd be practically begging him to stay.
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Eve had to call Barker's Electronics in Torrington and browbeat them into delivering a new one tomorrow.
DOLL'S EYES
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If your point held any weight, which it does ot, it would work the other way, and I coudl argue that anyonewho arguues their position in opposition to what I believe are somehow browbeating me and doing somethign wrong – and I dont hold that.
Survivor Season 8: the Hockey Team – the Mann Overboard Episode « Climate Audit
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If the Scripps Spelling Bee had been a Mark Burnett-style production, we'd have been treated to behind-the-scenes footage of players forming alliances, strategizing to trip up the frontrunners; Isabel Jacobson, the last female speller standing (you go, girl!), pitting the boys against each other by stage-whispering invitations to clandestine trysts; We'd "overhear" overstressed kids being browbeaten by parents who'd caught them peaking at comic books rather than practicing Croatian conjugation.
Brenda Scott Royce: Last Speller Standing
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Inactive one side is, unemployment browbeats merely no longer manufacturing company, and also browbeat high - tech domain.
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* The White House-versus-left battle continues: Glenn Greenwald makes the case that the White House has every right to push back on lefty critics -- but he adds, and I agree, that pillorying or browbeating them isn't going to do jack to help Dem among base voters who are disaffected with Obama policies.
The Morning Plum
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He drank only when browbeaten by his peers, stopping the moment he felt his hold over the machine slipping; drugs were unthinkable.
THE GREAT AND SECRET SHOW
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The judge browbeat the witness.
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Such dogged, browbeating miserabilism, slathered in extra helpings of implausibility, is very far from true tragedy indeed.
Times, Sunday Times
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We shall never allow our police to browbeat prisoners into admitting their guilt.