ingratiate

So it looks like I'll need to ingratiate myself to elites to be able to vote.

It would seem that Parker thinks he can ingratiate himself with promising companies simply by patting himself on the back.

I think you miss the point of The Prince, a device Machiavelli hoped would ingratiate him with the Medici and restore his place as civil servant.

French tipping practices : you tip only if the service is exceptionally good or if you are a regular and want to ingratiate the staff to yourself.

If your priority is "ingratiate yourself to your manager" then yeah, it's best to pick small superficial problems or prefer patch-job fixes.

My ridiculous mother decided to call the police department to ingratiate herself with my brother's new family.

I have seen a similar idea used where people gossip loudly in a public place saying nice things about the person they want to ingratiate themselves with who is not present but who can overhear.

Have things become so bad that companies must ingratiate themselves with 40-50% tributes to the banks?I hate investment wankers with a passion and would love to see the people involved in IPO spinning get the Paris 1793 treatment.

I'm sure there is a difference between asking idle questions or trying to ingratiate yourself and posing specific informed, research-oriented questions because you're honestly interested, though.

This is a family that is widely suspected of getting rich by gaining state contracts, with less than clean hands-they managed to ingratiate themselves with both the Mbeki and Zuma administrations, despite the fact that most supporters of the former are spurned by the latter.