1.   They tried to sweeten the pill.

2.   To sweeten the pill, the government will try to boost the flagging economy in various ways.

3.   He sweetened the pill by increasing wages, although by slightly less than he raised prices.

4.   The Clinton administration had hoped that a bit of Western aid to Russia would sweeten the pill of NATO enlargement.

5.   To make matters worse, attempts are being made to sweeten the pill that she is being forced to swallow.

6.   To help the medicine go down, NATO has sweetened the pill with something called the NATO-Russia Founding Act, to be signed in Paris Tuesday.

7.   Britain tried to sweeten the pill when it explored ways to improve its relations with its colonies earlier this year.

8.   He sweetened the pill, taking Kozyrev along and saying halfheartedly that the minister could stay on if a good deputy was found.

9.   Albright also tried to sweeten the pill this week by offering the creation of a joint NATO-Russian peacekeeping brigade.

10.   Albright tried to sweeten the pill this week by offering the creation of a joint NATO-Russian peacekeeping brigade.