Sentences with phrase «lure back skeptical»

Apple's revenues — which it recently forecast would grow to $ 52 billion — makes its fundamentals attractive enough to lure back skeptical investors.

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For the first time since Zohan, which rooted its silliness in a real understanding of New York life, a Happy Madison production has moments that might be called sharply observed, especially in dealing with its marginal characters: the childhood best friend who can't stop mentioning that she's already seen the bride in her dress; the old biddy who takes time to steal centerpieces during an evacuation; the skeptical grandmother who can be lured back into the fold with a threat of having to eat «white - people potato salad» if she doesn't attend Kirby's planned rehearsal dinner.

Parents, initially skeptical about school reform efforts, or accustomed to thinking of them as concessions aimed largely at luring parochial and private school students back into a low - income, black - majority system, flocked to the new schools, even lining up in pre-dawn hours to assure a child's admission.