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Yet the top army officers now in charge in Cairo have broken with Mubarak's softly-softly approach.

Analysis: Row over killings shows Egypt-Israel ties cooling Reuters 2011

This is a true statement, though Erbakan did not take Mr. Erdogan's current softly-softly approach to Islamist Turkey.

Turkey's Islamist Presidents 2011

Obama gambled that the outcome of the Honduran election in November 2009 would be accepted by the majority of Hondurans, and that rest of the region would eventually come to accept the result of the coup, but a consequence of the softly-softly approach has been continued limbo for Honduras.

Daniel Wagner: Obama's Unfinished Business Daniel Wagner 2011

Obama gambled that the outcome of the Honduran election in November 2009 would be accepted by the majority of Hondurans, and that rest of the region would eventually come to accept the result of the coup, but a consequence of the softly-softly approach has been continued limbo for Honduras.

Daniel Wagner: Obama's Unfinished Business Daniel Wagner 2011

We need to engage with mothers but also we need to take a softly-softly approach.

Breastfeeding aids child brain development, study finds 2011

Yet the top army officers now in charge in Cairo have broken with Mubarak's softly-softly approach.

Analysis: Row over killings shows Egypt-Israel ties cooling Reuters 2011

•Britain suffers from more than 27,000 crimes per day, or more than ten million crimes per year – the direct result of decades of softly-softly politically correct policing and a failed social engineering policy which has put the rights of yobs and criminals above that of victims.

‘Rent A Mob’ Attack Police At BBC TV Centre « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2009

Obama appears to have finally understood that his softly-softly approach, while laudable, was beginning to set up both the Democrats and himself for major losses come November.

Chris Dalby: Obama Finally Toughens Up - About Time! Chris Dalby 2010

Any move by China to allow some yuan appreciation would be more a vindication of the Treasury's softly-softly approach than the gun-barrel diplomacy coming from elsewhere in Washington.

Patient Diplomacy Will Bring Yuan Appreciation Andrew Peaple 2010

Any move by China to allow some yuan appreciation would be more a vindication of the Treasury's softly-softly approach than the gun-barrel diplomacy coming from elsewhere in Washington.

Patient Diplomacy Will Bring Yuan Appreciation Andrew Peaple 2010