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"Arm twisting" nghĩa là gì?
01 Feb, 2020
You put your left leg in, You put your left leg out. Photo courtesy John Haslam.
'Arm twisting' (= vặn cánh tay) nghĩa là thuyết phục bằng việc dùng vũ lực hay sức ép đạo đức (persuasion by the use of physical force or moral pressure).
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Although H.B. 352 was initially voted down, political arm-twisting by downstate legislators prompted a dozen lawmakers to flip-flop and secure enough votes to pass this ill-conceived bill.
... The financial crisis was global in scale, and one major decision was how to deal with it in the international arena. The turbulence came during France’s turn as head of the European Union. Nicolas Sarkozy, the dynamic French president who had run on a pro-American platform, urged me to host an international summit. I grew to like the idea. The question was which countries to invite. I heard that some European leaders preferred that we convene the G-7. But the G-7 included only about two thirds of the global economy. I decided to make the summit a gathering of the G-20, a group that included China, Russia, Brazil, Mexico, India, Australia, South Korea, Saudi Arabia, and other dynamic economies. I knew it wouldn’t be easy to forge an agreement among the twenty leaders. But with hard work and some gentle arm-twisting, we got it done.
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