coax

That threat, along with U.S. conciliations that followed, coaxed Qatar to demand its Hamas client sign on the dotted line.

In the opening tale, “Welcome to the Club,” a suicidal mother is being coaxed by a creepy next-door neighbor to kill her daughters’ pet rabbit.

He writes of how, “like hungry street cats,” they coax from their captors “a wedge of clementine, a single popcorn.”

“We weren’t able to free it by just coaxing it out.”

Staff working on the project start early in the morning, walking around the docks and coaxing workers off the boats with promises of free health screenings and physio.