Sentences with phrase «headstrong ways»

But the bad mix of Koogle's disengagement and Mallett's headstrong ways kept them from anticipating vital adjustments, and this left the company vulnerable when Yahoo's world began to spin out of control.

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The problem is a board and top executive team that don't always appear to have control of its wide - ranging cast of characters, including founders who have attained near - celebrity status (another co-founder, Biz Stone, is a regular on NPR, and earlier this year Dorsey was profiled in Vanity Fair), headstrong and divisive managers, and investors used to getting their way.

And because I have some very headstrong and unique ideas about the marketing process, Id have a very difficult time finding people I could trust to do the work the way Id want it done.

A headstrong figure, the theological and ecclesiastical equivalent of a Ross Perot, might emerge and insist that the whole church follow his way or die.

Not only is he a headstrong hound, notoriously hard to train, he also only came into our lives when he was six months old and already set in his ways.

You've got three guards, all of whom are headstrong in their way and have achieved spectacular things in their careers.

Besides which, my daughter is extremely headstrong so I knew there was no way she'd ever respond to CIO anyway!

All children have a bit of this headstrong, spirited way in them at some point or in some measure.

It sounds like a gross way to go about it but she is EXTREMELY headstrong and was the only way that we got thru to her.

Bulworth is a headstrong dervish of a film, caroming this way and that from high comedy to lowbrow urban potboiler to impassioned tract.

The two actors approach the character in vastly different ways, with Burton going in a far more theatrical direction than Farrell, who instead portrays Alexander as a conflicted yet headstrong warrior.

Salvation comes in the form of Ruby (Renee Zellweger, Down With Love, Chicago), a headstrong woman who is Ada's opposite in nearly every way.

Adapted from English novelist Thomas Hardy's desperately romantic 1874 novel, this remake stars Carey Mulligan as headstrong beauty Bathsheba Everdine who rejects a marriage proposal and makes her way through a thicket of sensual encounters — all set against the wild English countryside.

At first, she seems to be just the latest in a long line of impressionable young women he molds and bend to his will, but it soon becomes clear that she is different, headstrong and self - assured in a way he has never encountered before.

One of the most discerning and revered actors in Hollywood, her public persona radiates with soft - spoken, good - humoured charm — and yet what stands out most prominently from her eclectic film career is the robust gallery of visceral, vinegary and headstrong characters who are unendingly encouraged to change their ways by those behind and in front of the camera.

She's headstrong but still a kid just trying to find her way.

For difficult or headstrong puppies, the best way to ensure that the puppy will perform the desired behavior and respond appropriately to the command is to leave a leash attached and to use a head collar for additional control.

Headstrong, independent, and more than a little quirky... the Shiba Inu is a wild and spirited breed, and we wouldn't want it any other way.

It's perverse, headstrong, and in no way at all apologetic about what it is — but that's it's strongest point.