Sentences with phrase «as woo»

But ornamental design elements that aren't used to convey information — «chart junk» as Woo calls it — and overly complex charts or anything that would require the hiring manager to spend a lot of time figuring out what you're trying to convey will repel hiring managers.

However, it's often marginalized and pooh - poohed and relegated to being seen as some woo - woo hippie belief system or cultish fad, which is a shame, considering the potential positive impact that applying permaculture principles can have at home, in the city, on the farm, and in business.

I suspect part of the reason why global warming isn't getting more serious political debate is that, unfortunately, for a long time it was the sole province of left - leaning environmentalists, who were so easily tagged as woo - woo space cadets.

New characters such as Mad Dog and Mr. Woo were introduced, while the original plotline of a baby poisoning psychopath was cut.The film was released in Hong Kong in 1992 to generally positive audience reception, but it was not as commercially successful as Woo's previous action films, such as A Better Tomorrow and The Killer.

Between this and the balanced approach Tsui gives to the woman's point of view in many of his romantic films (Working Class, The Lovers, Love in the Time of Twilight, Green Snake, etc) as well as the brilliant job he and Carina Lau do in re-envisioning the notorious Empress Wu in the Detective Dee films, I wonder if Tsui should be getting more credit for progressiveness in his depictions of women, especially relative to such macho directors as Woo, Sammo Hung, Jackie Chan, Ringo Lam, Wong Kar - wai and others of that generation.

As Woo lists them himself, his themes are «tragic friendship, loyalty, betrayal, and honor» — to which he gives campy and mannerist inflections (in contrast, Melville's «chamber» pieces are underplayed and relatively ironic).

He befriends a miserable millionaire played by Bill Murray, and together they sabotage each other, and themselves, as they woo a remarkable teacher played by Olivia Williams.

The success of Tinder has encouraged several Indian entrepreneurs to launch dating app such as Woo or TrulyMadly.

And as Woo CEO Sumesh Menon said in our recent interview, over 50 % of India's population is below the age of 25, and the country's urban population is expected to rise to 40 % by 2030.

Yep, this is about as woo - woo as it gets.

If only these tools were accepted and not disregarded as woo - woo, I think people would be better able to heal.

«Republican candidates have even more to gain by taking green positions on climate,» the study said, because they may attract Independents as well as woo Democratic voters in general elections, especially if their Democratic opponents remain silent on climate.

It currently polls at 14 %, above Plaid Cymru, and while it's not set to win any parliamentary seats this time around, it could cream off a proportion of Labour votes, as well as woo some nationalist supporters.

As far as wooing venture capitalists is concerned, More informs that Finzy's investors were following developments at the startup ever since the time of inception.

Trump, who attaches great importance to the optics of pageantry and ceremony, chose to honor Macron with the first state visit of his administration as he woos the French president.

But preaching to the converted is not the same thing as wooing new converts.

The challenge for Khan now is to hold on to at least some of the left wing support he has already amassed at the same time as wooing more conservative voters.

But the divisive, highbrow movie lacks an emotional center and drives as many viewers away as it woos.

As they wooed states out of as much money as they could (not much, it turns out) to reduce the burden on their subsidizers — mainly the Rockefeller Brothers Fund — they peddled incompetent economics (Green jobs!

Not exact matches

As Zynga becomes the latest adopter of the digital currency, the move highlights a budding trend: businesses adopting bitcoin to woo a key consumer demographic.

Typically, to win big headquarters deals, states and cities have to grant tax breaks and other concessions as Boston and Massachusetts did to woo General Electric's (ge) headquarters from Connecticut to Boston.

So even as Tesla woos middle - class buyers in the U.S. (the Model 3, due to arrive this fall, will start at about $ 35,000) buyers in China have mostly resembled Vanessa Zhu: wealthy drivers who view Teslas as luxury vehicles, or at least as the coolest new piece of tech since the iPhone.

But Lyft's reputation as a friendlier company goes a long way toward wooing drivers — and this GM partnership would only seem to help.

But it's not the firms wooing young talent that dominate the news — it's the ones using interns as slave labour.

The U.S. Small Business Administration, widely considered near useless to high - tech startups, has made two efforts in as many weeks to woo this innovative group of entrepreneurs.

But as creative as those attempts are to woo Amazon for its second headquarters, it's far more likely that the big dollars that Amazon has asked for will be a major deciding factor in its location.

The term can sound a little woo - woo at first, but as Li, a doctor and chairman of the Japanese Society for Forest Medicine, explains, the idea is anything but New Age nonsense.

To woo these iconic companies — among them P&G PG, Estée Lauder EL, and Macy's M — Alibaba is pitching itself as a shortcut to the world's most populous market.

«As the economic tides change, the Bay Area, with its entrenched tech workforce, is the perfect place to take the pulse of worker expectations and how they are shifting over time,» Woo CEO Liran Kotzer told the Business Times.

Nigeria's request reiterated its support for Beijing's «One China» policy, which demands that countries break official relations with Taiwan, as Beijing pulls economic levers in Africa and elsewhere to woo nations away from the island it regards as rebel - held territory within Chinese borders.

A Columbia law professor, Richman was previously quoted in The New York Times as a «close friend of Mr. Comey's who helped woo him to Columbia in 2013.»

Woo disputed this, saying that the company was testing «a couple different variants» of SPRINT, and while this one is «very similar» to the product now sold as the third iteration, it is not identical.

At one point, CEO Geoffrey Woo went as far as to describe HVMN's products as unlocking «next - level thinking» that will be key to humanity's evolution.

Amazon (amzn) has said it plans to invest over $ 5 billion in construction and produce many as 50,000 high - paying jobs at HQ2, with the further promise of «tens of thousands of additional jobs» as well as billions of dollars more in additional investment in the host city — prompting a flurry of (sometimes outlandish) bids from cities and states to woo CEO Jeff Bezos and company.

Managing expectations is as important for the employees you recruit as it is for the customers you woo.

However, as the feds sought tax harmonization deals with other provinces in ensuing decades, it wooed them with rich compensation packages.

Hopes have been high in the game industry that the arrival of the three consoles will revitalize the sector, which has lagged from competition from smartphones and other mobile devices, wooing users with their own games, as well as social networking and other pastimes.

Executives at Amazon and Netflix have said in the past that winning major Hollywood awards are good for business, as they lend even more credibility to streaming players looking to woo viewers to their services while also helping to attract high - profile talent, such as actors, writers, and directors.

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It allowed her to woo NDP supporters who feared a slash - and - burn Tory government, while also exploiting the Conservative plan to cut 100,000 public sector jobs to balance the budget as an economic apocalypse only she could stop.

Amazon's moves should help Whole Foods, long derided as «Whole Paycheck» for its high prices, to woo customers beyond its upper middle class clientele, as well as counter the discount chains such as Walmart and even Aldi as they vie for more of the organic and natural foods markets.

This is no coincidence; Facebook has reportedly been wooing small - business owners as of late as it seeks to compete with Foursquare and other companies whose apps help users interact with businesses in their area.

As the labor market has tightened dramatically, and with employers trying to figure out restless millennial workers, HR's focus has shifted to the warm and fuzzy matter of wooing and winning talent.

A Google artificial intelligence program defeated a Chinese grand master at the ancient board game Go on Tuesday, a major feather in the cap for the firm's AI ambitions as it looks to woo Beijing to gain re-entry into the country.

The relationship between Huffington and Armstrong has been an uneasy one at times, with Huffington expecting Armstrong to deliver on all the lofty promises he wooed her with, even as Armstrong increasingly came to see that ad tech, not content, was the way forward for AOL.

So, as the UK woos India, India is playing to its own electorate and interests.

That's a dig at Spotify's $ 3 billion valuation, which it garnered by wooing investment from the likes of Goldman Sachs, despite its inability as yet to post a profit.

As the CEO of Alteon WebSystems, a Silicon Valley data - networking company that was poised to go public, he spent months on the road meeting with business partners and wooing clients.

When Weston took control of his family's chain of Loblaw's grocery stores — now helmed by his son Galen G. — he saved the floundering company by closing dozens of stores, upgrading the remaining locations and wooing new talent, such as future marketing legend Dave Nichol.

And it's now applying its marketing prowess to woo the Canadian consumers, just as it has in previous expansion campaigns.