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Coddled in sentence

15 examples of Coddled in a sentence

Do you look at the current generation of kids coming up and think they're too coddled, they don't know what they've got, we're going to raise a generation of privileged ... RB: No, I think if you're bringing up kids, you just want to smother them with love and praise and enthusiasm.
If anyone remembers, LV wasn't exactly London... the city coddled the mob and codger gamblers in those days.
Her mother coddled her and she has regressed into a shy, pathetic young woman.
But then, this movie is not about them, but 2 middle-aged men who have been coddled by their parents and not only still live at home, are waited on hand and foot.
After three years in which his administration coddled corporate lobbyists, he has finally begun to emphasize the need for the rich to pay more taxes.
In reality, the talks collapsed because nobody – not Europe, not the United States, China, India, or the other main developing countries – was willing to take the political short-term hit by offending inefficient farmers and coddled domestic industries in order to create greater long-term benefits for virtually everyone.
To be sure, the US government has coddled too many brutal dictators over the last half-century.
Dismissing complaints, Zuma insists, “There’s no cloud around me.”His defenders, meanwhile, point to two benefits that he has already delivered: an end to Mbeki’s ambivalent approach to fighting HIV/AIDS, the country’s major public health threat, and a refreshing willingness to move against Zimbabwe’s aged dictator, Robert Mugabe, whom Mbeki coddled out of a misguided sense of loyalty for his support during the struggle against apartheid.
It is by no means clear, for example, that Kim’s coddled youngest son, Kim Jong-un – now hailed as the “Great Successor,” but singularly unprepared to lead – will ultimately succeed his father in anything but name.
These unfair trade practices have a devastating impact on the income and living standards of farmers in South America, Africa, and Asia, who are unable to compete with their richer, coddled rivals.
India needed no ethical lessons from a United States and a Britain that have long coddled military dictators in India’s South Asian neighborhood, notably in Pakistan.
Even after Wall Street nearly wrecked the world economy, the US government coddled and protected it, enabling its return to huge profits – perhaps $50 billion – last year.
When coddled too much, they grow weaker.
If history is any guide, the current US approach to trade will result in deteriorating US economic performance, because it implies that yesterday’s industries will be coddled while the industries of tomorrow will be starved of investment.
So he nursed and coddled himself and accepted the consolations that were offered him.