Sentences with phrase «charm offensive»

Except I think they might just be aware already of the confusion caused by their «First 1,000 Days» global charm offensive.

It was the latest chapter in a 15 - year charm offensive from one of only two bank brands on this list.

It can summon its reserves for one final charm offensive, one last - ditch attempt to convince the world it still deserves to live.

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Cuomo was scheduled to breakfast this morning with the Assembly GOP as part of his ongoing charm offensive in hopes of winning state lawmakers over to his way of thinking, following the age - old adage that the best way to a man's heart — and perhaps his «yes» vote — is through his stomach.

Modi will visit Washington in September, and this week's two - punch charm offensive by Kerry and Pritzker sought to soften any tensions between the U.S. and India before his trip.

Citizens Advice Budget Cut — Labour will force council vote to stop it whilst the admin launch charm offensive

She's managed a months - long charm offensive for «Room,» a film adaptation that has changed the course of her career and made her the...

The prime minister's personal EU charm offensive continues on Friday night as he welcomes Angela...

>> Beyonce and sister Solange Knowles continued their social media «move along, nothing to see here» charm offensive with a pic of themselves hugging in New Orleans.

Furthermore, the speech emphasized the importance of First Nations» participation in these benefits — is this perhaps a nod to the ongoing charm offensive in B.C. to persuade First Nations on the merits of Northern Gateway?

The prime minister's personal EU charm offensive continues on Friday night as he welcomes Angela Merkel to Chequers.

How about a personal apology from you, Ed Balls, for nearly bankrupting the country after you went on a prawn cocktail charm offensive in the City of London to let the banks off the hook?

Will she and the son melt before Danny's relentless charm offensive?

It's yet another change that probably should have been made before but wasn't until Facebook needed to throw up a public charm offensive, like its announcement today it will be rolling its web of privacy settings into one screen.

We don't get to pick the U.S. President any more than we pick our own parents, so Trudeau's tactical charm offensive is a legitimate response.

The Prince and Duchess faced criticism earlier this year for booking the jet for their European charm offensive, following the triggering of Article 50.

So far, however, Rubio's charm offensive doesn't appear to have done much to blunt the backlash.

Although still far smaller than Uber, Lyft is running a successful charm offensive to brand itself the kinder, gentler version of Uber, whose hyper - competitive tactics have crossed the line several times, as our business ethics blogger Chris MacDonald wrote recently:

Dating back to the mid-1950's, the term charm offensive is commonly referred to as a concentrated attempt to gain favor or respectability by conspicuously cooperative or obliging behavior.

Currently, a nation's president (Hassan Rouhani), a country (China) and a business leader (Vernon W. Hill II of Metro Bank) are using charm offensives to win over a particular constituency.

But that's not keeping hizzoner from bringing his election - year charm offensive to the Lower East Side.

Alibaba has fared slightly better, thanks in part to Ma's tireless charm offensive.

While Canadians have tended to notice so - called charm offensive trips to the U.S. by their prime minister, premiers and cabinet members, there are several reminders this week that influential American politicians are also working the file.

He has used a sustained charm offensive in an attempt to sway Trump and bolster his own goal of establishing his and France's place in the global order.

While much of the focus has been about Ryanair's charm offensive t...

Trump was convinced to sell lethal weapons to Ukraine thanks in part to a savvy charm offensive from Kiev — but the deal may be more bark than bite.

In an apparent charm offensive, he addressed Labour MPs and promised to bring the party and country together.

I raise a sceptical eyebrow, but it's clear Boris» charm offensive works on either side of the Atlantic, and possibly further afield.

He has recently visited a number of European countries in what has been seen as a pre-Brexit charm offensive orchestrated by the Foreign Office.

I suppose this the beginning of a new GOP charm offensive, the goal of course being to solidify the GOP in power.

French President Emmanuel Macron says his glamorous Paris charm offensive on Donald Trump was carefully calculated — and may have changed the U.S. president's mind about climate change.

The coalition looked to take a different approach, launching an early charm offensive, with David Cameron, Baroness Warsi and Eric Pickles all making warm and supportive noises.

As one of the undecided votes, he received an invitation to play basketball with President Obama as part of a White House charm offensive.

He invited groups of legislators to the governor's mansion for bagels and policy chitchats, part of his multipronged charm offensive.

CCHQ has calculated that Executives are more malleable and they may well receive the kind of charm offensive described in the memo leaked from David Cameron's office in April:

His post-Olympics charm offensive has seen him make Ellen DeGeneres laugh, Stephen Colbert swoon and Reese Witherspoon quote back his own tweets to him.

Not only has she nabbed pretty much every major award this season, but she has also pulled off a pitch perfect charm offensive.

Is it doomed by its very ambiguity to become a front for other agendas, as was the case in the 1950s when the State Department promoted Abstract Expressionism worldwide as a Cold War charm offensive?

We've recently covered Huawei's charm offensive into the North American market, where the manufacturer currently has less than one percent of the smartphone market.

If you think the whole process is just going to exhaust you, concentrate your biggest charm offensive on the first five and the last five minutes.

But Zuckerberg's global charm offensive goes beyond China's borders.

Facebook's ongoing charm offensive following the Cambridge Analytica scandal took a hit this week as the company revealed in a blog post that far more users than originally reported may have been affected...

He attacked Labour's record on the economy, and spoke of a «prawn cocktail charm offensive» to win support from the City in the 1990s.

And Rory's relentless charm offensive is working.

Tomorrow he will hold talks with Polish President Andrzej Duda in the latest leg of his EU charm offensive.

Sandra Jansen (NDP — Calgary - North West): Appointed to cabinet in 2017, the former PC MLA plays a big role in Notley's charm offensive in Calgary.