cajole

“These measures appear to be an attempt to cajole career officials at the Division to leave voluntarily in order to fundamentally transform its work,” the senators wrote.

It took a month of cajoling, but the script finally passed.

And given that businesses feel under pressure from National Insurance rises and a slow economy, could they really be cajoled into helping?

He teased, cajoled and vexed his listeners, daring them to explore the "devilish" contours of his mind, as he sang rash rhymes about parties, drugs and "seducing" women.

The voice could grumble and soar, scraping the deepest recesses of evil and reaching the high-pitched cajoling of a championship schemer.