The boss browbeat me into taking on all this extra work.
The soldierly approach dates from Napoleonic times, when such forces browbeat conquered peasants into accepting the physical and symbolic power of the French state.
Mr Angelides was a perennial thorn in the side of Business, using California’s state pension plan to browbeat bosses of firms he disapproved of, and he retains a dim view of Wall Street.
In 1985 the U.S. browbeat Japan at the Plaza Accord meetings into letting the yen rise.
In the meantime, I'm going downstairs to browbeat a scared, dying teenage girl until she breaks down like a scared, dying teenage girl.
They can browbeat and cajole.
But it is the responsibility of doctors to inform patients and allow them to make a decision based on this knowledge, not browbeat them into submission.
In response, Mr Obama dispatched negotiators to Tegucigalpa, Honduras's capital, to browbeat the feuding leaders into a deal.
That does not deter China, which still seethes about the way in which the Bush administration in 2008 browbeat other NSG members into exempting America's friend India from the group's rules.
The answer for Americans is not to browbeat Europeans for this, but to accept it and adjust to it.
