Sentences with phrase «coaxing along»

Two years ago my kiddo and I grew strawberries from seeds that we began indoors, coaxing them along and then held our breath when we planted them outdoors (in Idaho).

Coaxing along the Californian coastline, we saw the main sights we expected on Route 1: the vast ocean, the rocky cliffs, Bixby Bridge, McWay Falls and wild beaches.

She's been marvellous, coaxing me along, encouraging me, telling me that my book...

Although the less disciplined change their tack in hopes of coaxing along a success, we at Harris Associates continue to look to the horizon and stay the course, even when the winds shift or the gusts blow.

I tried soaking and dehydrating the almonds first, as one poster recommended per Nourishing Traditions, but after an hour and a half of processing AND adding raw almond oil to coax it along all I ended up with was a kind of oily almond dough (albeit tasty).

Creamy potatoes roasted between two very hot pans, coaxed along with some ghee (I used coconut oil) means for a mean roasted potato that lives somewhere between the chip and baked potato continuum.

Thus, in principle, a successful vaccine has to stimulate the first B cells in this lineage and then coax them along a fairly narrow evolutionary path until they have changed enough to provide effective protection against HIV.

Arguing «there is just no doubt that one of the central problems in improving urban schools — arguably the central problem — is the problem of teacher resistance,» he critiques the progressive expectation that teachers can eventually be coaxed along through evidence on two key counts: first, it presumes that reformers and teachers share the same aims and metrics, and second, it presumes that reformers can marshal the evidence to convince the holdouts.

He must moreover, know how to correct without wounding, contradict without discouraging, coax along without coddling.»

Combined with steering that is either a shade too light (in Comfort) or way too heavy (in Dynamic) and you end up with a car that can be coaxed along at a crazy speed but also one that feels flat - footed at times and never really settles into a rhythm.

It took a few times, and I had to really coax her along in the beginning, but now she has it figured out.

Once he is done putting up a fight, you can try to coax him along by giving a few gentle tugs on the leash, accompanied by soothing words of encouragement.

Moving prospective clients from the first stage to the final stage of hiring you is known in marketing terms as a «sales funnel,» and a good marketing strategy will comprehensively target people in each stage and coax them along to the end stage of bringing your firm on board.

Discussion in this field has centered on the degree to which temperament is inborn nature and the degree to which temperament is nurtured or coaxed along by an infant or child's environment.

Sometimes the piece you're working on doesn't want to chip so much, you can coax it along with a heat gun.

Not exact matches

You do have to coax the blender along to get anywhere close to smooth.

Carroll coaxed victories out of his players partly by using sing - alongs, juggling competitions and Punk'd - style pranks to bring them together.

Yet, he was on hand soon after to receive the squalling infant and, along with many others of his generation, to coax it toward maturity.

Jiyan Ma, a biochemist at Ohio State University in Columbus, along with colleagues there and in China, has solved these two problems by coaxing prions to misfold much like he believes they do naturally.

That's been a struggle: It took more than 70 years for researchers to coax frigid bosons — which, along with fermions, are the basic particles that comprise all known visible matter in the universe — into an arrangement dubbed a Bose - Einstein condensate, named for physicists Albert Einstein and Satyendra Nath Bose who predicted it in 1924.

Every night, for instance, they stayed in her hotel room as she slept along with several delicate orchid plants that she had coaxed into blooming.

Lanza's team figured out how to coax stem cells taken from human embryos into becoming the RPE cells that die off along with photoreceptors in macular degeneration, and in 2011 the team began injecting these manufactured cells into patients» eyes.

The Count and co take his young grandson along to try and coax out his evil vampire traits, the emphasis being on wickedly evil of course (wide grin).

He coaxed Oscar - winning performances from Katina Paxinou in «For Whom the Bell Tolls,» Robert Donat in «Goodbye, Mr. Chips» and Ginger Rogers in «Kitty Foyle,» and was nominated for the last two along with «King's Row.»

His buddies Archie (Freeman) and Sam (Kline) decide to treat him to a bachelor's party weekend in Las Vegas and they coax still - mourning homebody Paddy to come along too, not knowing the reason for the getaway or that this reunion will include Billy.

Deftly weaving fast - paced mystery with vivid, affecting flashbacks, Roehrig coaxes readers along at just the right pace and pulls the rug out from under them in the best way possible with a knockout ending.

To teach a puppy to walk on a leash, attach a cord to the buckle collar and coax him to walk along with you.

Along the way, we made a pit stop at Sea Level, where a man tried to coax us into paying him a dollar to photograph his camel.

The scene along Highway 37 as kayakers attempt to coax Tolay out into the bay.

But I feel he may not be entirely forthcoming about what we could be doing to get there — China and India can be coaxed into commitments if they know developed - nation technology will help them along the way.

Or at least, he'll try to leave: he'll put the word out among rival firms (if he hasn't already), see whether any landing spots are amenable to him, try to negotiate the best free - agent deal he can get, and walk out the door, along with any other personnel he can coax and as much business as he can stuff into his briefcase.

It's in - app purchases that Nokia is hoping will coax developers into submitting to the Nokia Store, along with the size of the potential audience for the Nokia X family.

Getting details out of them is like coaxing a cat into water and their mentality is more along the lines of: «just read my mind and work your magic».