pay court to in a sentence
Examples
- Over the last four years, the Clinton Administration has made over 22 trips to pay court to Syria's dictator, and come up with exactly zero.
- Parmenione, accompanied by Martino, now announces himself as Alberto and pays court to the disguised Ernestina, notwithstanding that she is not the lady in the portrait.
- Adam Novoveski, a young cavalier, arrives on the scene and pays court to Basia but she has nothing of it and rejects his eventual marriage proposal.
- Diana solicits her cousin Charles Connoldy Mershone, a ne'er-do-well and social black sheep, to pay court to Louise as a way to disrupt her romance with Arthur.
- Phil Gramm, Bob Dole, Newt Gingrich and Bennett himself have all signed up to pay court to Pat Robertson, that rare politician who makes Perot seem benign.
- Even though candidates regularly pay court to Reed and embrace the coalition's vision of family values, still Reed has been prevented from playing the role of an insider.
- Candidates have not had to pay court to Christian conservatives ( even though many believe that indifference to evangelicals came back to haunt Bob Dole at the voting booths in 1996 ).
- The man who was a major force in the success of the Reagan White House came to Virginia on Tuesday night to pay court to the man whose actions could have toppled it.
- The man often described as the most powerful person on the planet came to the San Francisco Bay Area Thursday to pay court to a group that speaks for some decidedly unpowerful people.
- The GOP undermines its own claims to national leadership by its willingness to abandon one of the palpable successes of U . S . international policy just to pay court to a new political taboo.