carrot and stick

Our members tend to break down the universe into carrots and sticks.

Just what we need: more special interests waving carrots and sticks.

Built into the plan are stages, incentives, carrots and sticks.

A comparable analogy might be with the use of carrots and sticks.

The operational aim of the new bodies should be to use both a carrot and stick.

Selective application of economic carrots and sticks can assist this process.

You have to have a mix of carrots and sticks.

Unfortunately, the Administration seems determined to avoid anything so subtle as carrots and sticks.

That leaves groups like the insurance institute, which uses the carrot and stick of publicity.

The governor's plan includes both carrots and sticks, however.

Behind the scenes, Gingrich was playing a textbook game of carrots and sticks.

Threats alone might not move him, but if we have both carrot and stick .

Men can be manipulated with such carrots and sticks.

The reaction generally was boys will be boys, just the old carrot and stick.

Even if a deal is still possible, it will be achievable only with a strong combination of carrots and sticks.

So what can the EU do about it, in terms of both carrots and sticks?

Many a Governor had used the Designation as both carrot and stick.

They then intervene with a mix of cobbled together carrots and sticks.

'We can tell them what to do with the right combination of carrots and sticks.'

Shrewdly applied carrots and sticks might well produce further steady gains.

For a nation as poor as Haiti, withholding the money has become both carrot and stick.

Carrot and stick were used in this transformation.

"A lot of legislation is carrot and stick.

As a result, Israel needs no more pressure to say yes; it already feels unrelenting pressure from both carrot and stick.

Regime's "carrot and stick" and anti-inflation measures seem to be working.