carrot and stick

In English, if someone tries to persuade us to do something using an incentive and a threat, we call it a 'carrot and stick'.

The only alternative left might then be to revert to the old " carrot and stick " bilateral approach .

Iran Monday rejected US President-elect Obama's latest call for a "carrot and stick" policy in dealing with Tehran's nuclear issue.

Music industry groups concede that too, but they insist the combination of carrot and stick is the key to changing consumer behaviour.

Dick's father used the carrot and stick when he talked about his low grades.

In contemporary painting materials selection and use, the paper advocated "carrot and stick" , "rigid and soft" .

Profit and loss is the carrot and stick of industry and commerce. The carrot is the pleasure of profit, the stick is the pain of loss.

I just have to resort to the carrot and stick approach with my children.

The loose end the wry smile not suspected child get questioned, a carrot and stick approach, still didn't ask a disorderly gathering.

Diplomats use a carrot and stick method when dealing with other nations.

The opprobrium of the world is the biggest carrot and stick to use with China.

So the Indian government is trying a new, carrot-and-stick approach.

It's mind-blowing if you're stuck in the carrot-and-stick mentality.

Using a carrot-and-stick policy, the Incas offered benefits such as power and wealth to leaders that accepted their rule.

Each of us has his carrot and stick.

It's a carrot and stick.

They applied the carrot and stick to enslave the people in the colonies.

My father believed in the carrot -and -stick approach with us , but the carrots were pretty scarce .