He launched a charm offensive against opponents of the government.
But they remain unpersuaded by Mr Bush's charm offensive.
The new lot have thawed relations with Romania and launched a charm offensive in the West.
So far Mr Obama's charm offensive has produced plenty of warm words but few practical concessions.
Sotheby's charm offensive on sellers this year has yielded good results.
All this feeds into the neighbours' surviving suspicions about China's intentions, despite a decade-long charm offensive.
But that was resolved after a charm offensive by Radek Sikorski, the Polish foreign minister, who was once a notable hawk on Russia.
Albanese will now lead a charm offensive to try to win round individual institutions and secure the simple majority necessary to approve the deal.
CHRISTINE LAGARDE is continuing her charm offensive to win support from the major emerging-market economies for her candidacy to lead the IMF.
But until China embraces openness and pluralism at home, no charm offensive is ever going to set its neighbours' minds completely at ease.
Kroenke is making all the right noises and has launched a charm offensive by writing to the Arsenal Supporters Trust outlining his long-term interests in the club.
Intended as a charm offensive, it backfired when Mottaki insisted that even if the research reactor deal went through, Iran would continue to produce its own 20%-enriched uranium.
"Saddam sometimes likes to try everything at the same time," said Phebe Marr, a leading scholar on Iraq. "He could now come in with a charm offensive that would present a package of cosmetic concessions designed to elicit a response from the new Administration and to drive a wedge in the alliance."
