blandishments

He was offered many blandishments which is to say:

NPR Topics: News 2010

Arguably none exist this year, at least as regards large states; the possibility that Virginia, which like Texas and a few others still has greater-than-average sense of itself as a state, might be subject to such blandishments is undoubtedly why Tim Kaine’s name gets mooted about.

Discourse.net: Veepstakes: I'll Guess Sebelius 2008

America is a country that is high on fantasy -- that's why our political discussions denigrate so rapidly into accusations and one-word blandishments ... because it's convenient.

Mike Ragogna: From D.C.'s Kennedy Center to East Of Angel Town: Conversations with Branford Marsalis and Peter Cincotti Mike Ragogna 2010

America is a country that is high on fantasy -- that's why our political discussions denigrate so rapidly into accusations and one-word blandishments ... because it's convenient.

Mike Ragogna: From D.C.'s Kennedy Center to East of Angel Town : Conversations with Branford Marsalis and Peter Cincotti Mike Ragogna 2010

America is a country that is high on fantasy -- that's why our political discussions denigrate so rapidly into accusations and one-word blandishments ... because it's convenient.

Mike Ragogna: From D.C.'s Kennedy Center to East Of Angel Town: Conversations with Branford Marsalis and Peter Cincotti Mike Ragogna 2010

At various times during the fifteen years preceding the war, they had seen men of strong anti-slavery professions, with strong anti-slavery constituencies, "palter in a double sense" when intrusted with the duties of a representative in Congress, and fall from the faith, influenced by what were termed the blandishments of power, or as was sometimes more plainly said, corrupted by the gifts of patronage.

Twenty Years of Congress, Volume 2 (of 2) From Lincoln to Garfield, with a Review of the Events Which Led to the Political Revolution of 1860 James Gillespie Blaine 1861

The law, the church, letters, art, and politics all enticed him; but he could not decide of which mistress the blandishments were the sweetest.

The Bertrams Anthony Trollope 1848

One of these jokes, a customary one, was that his wife was neither pretty nor young; one of the "blandishments," I suppose, was an epigram by Sir

The Age of the Reformation Preserved Smith 1910

At the time of the deal, Japan was impoverished, flattened by the war, and Americans harbored a lot of Cold War fears that the Japanese could be susceptible to Communist blandishments.

The Good Fight Walter F. Mondale 2010

At the time of the deal, Japan was impoverished, flattened by the war, and Americans harbored a lot of Cold War fears that the Japanese could be susceptible to Communist blandishments.

The Good Fight Walter F. Mondale 2010