curry favor

There's no doubt that the titans of industry who hang around Mar-a-Lago attempting to curry favor with the president-elect have pointed to the potential of harvesting Greenland's rich natural resources.

These ideas conflicted with the donor class, and the Democratic Party establishment, which abandoned such policies in the 1990s to curry favor with corporate America.

"The cartoon that was killed criticizes the billionaire tech and media chief executives who have been doing their best to curry favor with incoming President-elect Trump," Ms Telnaes wrote in her resignation announcement.

“The cartoon that was killed criticizes the billionaire tech and media chief executives who have been doing their best to curry favor with incoming President-elect Trump.”

Lim said he wasn’t surprised to hear about the indictment, noting a flood of headlines recently about the People’s Republic of China trying to curry favor with local politicians across the world.