Sentences with phrase «at wooing»

Sure, some of those expenditures may have been aimed at wooing a prospective client, but come on... no one really believes that the only vehicle the rental agency had to offer was a fully loaded Cadillac Escalade!

We launched a monthly 300K Newsletter Blast giveaway aimed at wooing you to share our set.

There are side plots that are introduced, including a rival team led by an arrogant douchebag (Minghella, The Ides of March) who seems to spend an inordinate amount of time trying to sink the one team that has the least legitimate shot to win the competition, while Nick also tries his hand at wooing the 30 - year - old staffer named Dana (Byrne, I Give It a Year), who is so driven to succeed in her work that it allows for no time for romantic pursuits.

We break down the top dating sites to see who was the best at wooing on.

We break down the top dating sites to see who was the best at wooing on social this February..

BEHAVIORAL SCIENTIST - Feb 13 - A group of behavioral science Casanovas have banded together to produce poetry aimed at wooing system 1 and winning over system 2 in 140 characters or less: #behavioralvalentines.

He is a former white - shoe corporate lawyer and also a longtime critic of aggressive policing, practiced at wooing rank - and - file Democrats and city elites at the same time.

According to Mr Mahama, the NDC knew that most of the promises made by the NPP, especially the assurance of giving each constituency one million dollars, prior to the 2016 elections, were not feasible and only aimed at wooing Ghanaians to vote for them.

David Cameron claimed Suliman Gani was a supporter of Islamic State - but he was invited to a Tory meeting aimed at wooing new councillors

Yet, given David Cameron's success at wooing the likes of Mumsnet, it seems counterintuitive that the Conservatives still face a struggle to be as popular among women as they are among men.

The team had lost general manager David Griffin and, after a failed attempt at wooing former player Chauncey Billups into the job, had turned to 32 - year - old Koby Altman to steward the franchise.

I'd hazard a guess that all of these managers are more charismatic at wooing their targets and decisive to get the deal done.

Perhaps not surprisingly, Norvell has been successful at wooing receivers.

One of the most memorable meals we ate during our trip to Thailand was a vegetable red curry dish at Woo Cafe in Chiang Mai.

(Apparently Song arrived at Cannes on the 17th, but remained hidden in her hotel room until her appearance on the 20th at Woo's request.

In 2016 the artist's work will be featured in a solo exhibition at Woo Yang Museum, Gyeongju, Korea.

Not exact matches

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.

One solution would be to try and attract potential instead of the finished product, wooing thousands more international students to come and study at our educational institutions.

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.

This ad tech company is looking to woo potential clients at Advertising Week New York by sending a marketer into space on Virgin Galactic.

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.

At a time when Canada should be wooing foreign investment, we actively seem to be chasing it away.

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.

LONDON — A former senior civil servant at the Treasury has attacked the government's decision to backstop a $ 2 billion (# 1.5 billion) loan to Saudi Arabia's state oil company in an apparent bid to woo the company to list in London.

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.

For instance, Huffington managed to woo Bozoma Saint John away from Apple for a newly - created chief brand officer role at Uber.

Woo counters that Maastricht University in the Netherlands is currently conducting a clinical trial studying his company's supplements, which will publish at ClinicalTrials.gov.

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.

Manshoory scored big when he managed to woo Adam Chapnick, a former principal and employee of the leading crowdfunding platform Indiegogo, into leaving his position to come on board at AssetAvenue.

Donald Trump Jr.'s comments, at the start of a trip to woo buyers for his luxury residential projects in several Indian cities, appeared aimed at blunting criticism that there could be a possible conflict of interest in pushing the Trump brand name.

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.

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.

At that point, the real trick is to woo them into becoming regulars.

Woo, J. Y. L. & Kilburn, C. R. J. Intrusion and deformation at Campi Flegrei, southern Italy: sills, dikes, and regional extension.

Woo, J. Y. L. Ground Deformation at Campi Flegrei, Southern Italy: An Indicator for the Magmatic Feeding System.

Winnie Wong and Derek Woo, students at Simon Fraser University in Burnaby, British Columbia, spent the fall 2017 term in Hong Kong on a study - abroad program and an internship, respectively.

So it is no surprise that as Zuckerberg took the stage at the f8 conference this week to woo developers back to the platform, his intended audience wondered if they really needed Facebook.

Yuen Pau Woo is Vice-President and Senior Economist and Madhavee Inamdar is a Junior Analysts at the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada.

Airport commission spokeswoman Melissa Scovronski said the commission has been wooing the New York - based carrier for at least a decade.

Blue Apron Holdings Inc. said it has started selling meal kits at Costco Wholesale Corp. stores as the delivery company seeks to fight rising competition and woo back customers after operational challenges.

The move on the part of Citigroup to woo a top player in digital commerce comes at a time when banks are trying to lure younger customers who are way more comfortable with technology than their older peers.

Subscription dinner pioneer eyes retail sales as competition picks up

Blue Apron Holdings Inc. said it has started selling meal kits at Costco Wholesale Corp. stores as the food delivery company seeks to fight rising competition and woo back customers after operational challenges.

@ GFreas... how ironic that at the very time the RCC is making a great effort to woo the Episcopalians back into the RCC, they're doing their best to create a new schism in the American church.

And for a young girl, who at times, had a hard time knowing her worth and was looking for acceptance at every turn, this love letter, this wooing of the beloved, was exactly what she needed.

This is the devil at his best as he traps and woos these women into bondage.

This idea is eating away at a true, beautiful view of marriage that has less to do with wooing and more to do with dying.

There is a demonic message at the core of every sin that is «socially acceptable» Satan's wooing method, or demonology, has become ever so subtle.

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The OT corresponding wooing is at the beginning of the Song.