Politicians are happy to pander.
But pander the politicians feel they must.
They tend to pander to base instincts.
He was forced to pander to her every whim.
They can pander to or influence cultural contempt or hatred.
The girl: I will not go until you pay because I have to pay my pander.
More and more newspapers are trying to pander to people's vulgar tastes.
I treasure restaurants that do not pander as long as they succeed on their own terms.
Politicians all too often pander to the envious tendencies among the electorate.
Dubbed the Pander Express, the sketch mocked how far Hollywood studios are willing to go in modifying their movies to pander to national pride and curry favour with Chinese officials.
The 'Capital' is pander to the historic wrong trend of thought: 'rob the rich to give to the poor'.
Heavy pressures are mounting on the presidential candidates in both parties to pander to protectionist and even isolationist sentiments.
But even if hate is what many want to hear, that doesn't excuse those who pander to that desire.
The most important difference between bribery-pander and taking bribes together is that whether people who take bribes together have joint intent and act of bribery.
Politicians often say that they want a sensible debate about immigration; but too often they pander to voters’ fears of immigrants rather than attempting to allay them.
By the same token, Mr Obama is less likely to pander to his party's protectionist wing than his primary rhetoric suggests.
Mr Erdogan is wary of providing ammunition to Turkey's (admittedly marginal) Islamist radicals by appearing to pander further to the West.
Some will suspect that the main reason for delay is to pander to the Liberal Democrats, who are generally much less keen on maintaining the deterrent than their Conservative coalition partners.
This month, for example, the CSU tried to pander to Bavaria's family-values voters by pushing through a new subsidy to parents who care for toddlers at home rather than sending them to a creche.
