curry favor

But behind them are ISIS fighters and sympathizers and locals eager to curry favor by selling out their neighbors.

To that end, and perhaps to curry favor with sitting leaders, Kadyrov has come down harshly against the Arab Spring.

Gilad Sharon said the resignation was designed to curry favor with hardliners.

The company has dispensed more than $42 million since 2001 trying to curry favor with lawmakers and regulators.

GOP candidates are running from their records to curry favor with conservatives.

I asked him straight out if it was to curry favor with the frat.

A certain sycophant, thinking to curry favor with Johnson, took to laughing loud and long at everything he said.

There was no attempt to curry favor with the officers of the camp, and one admired the English tremendously for that.

They have heard he isn't coming and they think to curry favor with the great man by stopping away.

Notwithstanding its disagreeable position it does its utmost to curry favor of its oppressors.