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Example sentences for: courted

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An article claims that Clinton "sandbagged" Jesse Jackson in 1995 and 1996 to prevent a primary challenge: The president courted black mayors, refused a budget deal with the Republicans, and steered funding to Jesse Jackson Jr.'s congressional campaign in order to forestall a Jackson Sr. presidential run.
Trial lawyers courted him and his party with tons of money.
The Chinese, especially those identifying with Mao Tse Tung’s combat against the Japanese, were at first massacred in the thousands, but later courted as middlemen for Japanese-run business operations.
Milosevic, by "his bestial behavior," had courted the disaster now befalling his country, the paper said, but it added: "The world is full of beasts.
If so, it could mean that male adulterers are now a voting bloc that must be courted!