Sentences with phrase «who coaxed»

In a specialty still dominated by men, she made particular note of the women who've been a guiding force in her career — from Chicago living legend Goldie Wolfe Miller to retail specialists Sharon Kahn and Jacqueline Hayes to Lauren Mitrick, a 2010 30 Under 30 honoree, who coaxed her to serve as president of the Women's Council of REALTORS ®» Chicago chapter.

With Harper's return, it was his sister Sadie who coaxed him back to their owners, by helping remind Harper that he would be safe with them.

By now, it's not surprising to see Stiller play up the serio end of seriocomic for Baumbach, who coaxed a richly dramatic performance out of him in Greenberg.

He was the new saviour, the miracle worker, who coaxed every ounce of every players ability, heart and fight, to battle back against the odds and claim victory, against his beloved former club.

If the personality divide is breached by kids themselves, perhaps with a touch of encouragement from parents and teachers, the shy child can befriend a sensitive extrovert who coaxes her into new situations, and the aggressive kid can attach himself to a patient soul who teaches emotional regulation by example.

This debut feature from writer - director David Veloz, based on a 1995 autobiography, starkly retells Stahl's rise and fall in LA - LA - land over the course of a multi-day shack - up with ex-addict Kitty (E.R.'s Maria Bello), a sucker for rehab patients who coaxes him away from a dead - end job (in, appropriately, Phoenix) in favor of sex (initially as frigid as the frozen chicken he was hacking at only hours earlier at his fast - food outpost) and conversation.

The disc comes with a Tim Burton commentary track, this time moderated by a journalist who coaxes the sometimes reticent Burton through.

In the film, Deutch and Powell play overworked, undervalued assistants who coax (read: trap) their bosses into a romantic relationship in order to score a little free time for themselves.

Tarek isn't far removed from Joe Oramos (Bobby Cannavale), the outgoing Italian hot dog vendor who coaxes Fin out of his shell.

But without his mother to teach him how, he needs the help of our volunteers, who coax him into chasing fish around the pool by tying string on a herring and dragging it through the water.

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He knew that in order to make it a true general - purpose computer, it would need to inspire programmers who could coax various tasks out of the hardware.

After a little coaxing we heard from plenty of introverts who are making their way just fine in an extroverted world.

«Watch if he doesn't do exactly what he says he will do,» says Dean Young, a longtime Moore friend and adviser, who helped coax him into the Senate race.

Well, specific details are thin, but as The New York Times reports, citing sources who didn't want to be named, CEO Dara Khosrowshahi worked to coax Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin, letting them know Uber had turned over a new leaf.

He's one of the few stars in show business who can coax audiences to show up to the theater regardless of whether the critics love it (Jurassic World) or throw hate all over a project (Passengers).

A prophet and teacher who never nagged at them, never flattered or coaxed or patronized; who never made arch jokes about them, never treated them either as «The women, God help us!»

During the 1950s and 1960s, when Pete Seeger and Malvina Reynolds coaxed classrooms full of kids to join them in the singing of folk songs, no one paid much attention, not even those who, in the middle of the Cold War, saw America's «singing left» as a threat to the republic....

I WOULD ENCOURAGE EVERYONE TO CONSIDER, NOT WHO HOLDS THE REINS IN THE CHURCH STRUCTURE, BUT WHO ARE THE PEOPLE WHO COULD COAX YOU BACK ON TRACK SHOULD YOU NEED IT.

«When he first started out he showed quite a bit of potential,» said James Frazier, who said his path to the high jump also originated from being coaxed off the basketball court.

Like (some of you youngsters may never have heard about Bertha Butt, who is one of the Butt sisters) doin the bump, coaxing the puck to fly into the net, with a resolute abduction of the hip joint off to one side, thus striking the puck with the buttocks in the intended direction.

That's the lesson the Bruins learned last season when new coach Pat Burns, who was brought in to oversee a rebuilding project, coaxed 39 wins and a playoff appearance from a group of players who looked as if they should have spent their time watching Teletubbies rather than video of their opponents.

He is excited about being with the Clippers — with the extraordinary shooter Lloyd Free and with his old friend Greg Lee and with Gene Shue, the coach who tried to coax him out of the Presidential Suite in St. Louis.

Daniel Parejo and Sergio Canales, the 22 year old who has started to show glimpses of the form that took him to Real Madrid in 2010, have shown promise for the future, but it will be up to a new man, just like it was Valverde last year, to find a way of coaxing it out of them on a consistent basis.

Since then things have gone sour for Adrian; he's started just 6 games this season and scored only three goals, making him a prime target for Arsene Wenger who is renowned for coaxing the best from youngsters.

I know that once people are dead - set against something, no amount of evidence or coaxing will sway them, but I did want to put this information out there for anyone else who may be on the fence about circumcision.

A bit of me thinks the kids should learn to peel oranges myself but I'd just rather they ate them given that the kids who had to be coaxed hadn't eaten that much on their plate anyway.

So while the local ER was blessed with the sweet faces of dehydrated little ones who could not be coaxed with a sippy cup, the Potamus house went low tech.

For those who haven't heard of the parenting gods, they're the ones moms and dads mutter curses and prayers to as we go through our days, desperately attempting to get toddlers to brush their teeth, coax resistant children into their car seats, prying them off of our legs at daycare or during playgroup, and while attempting to put children to sleep.

Of course, there are lapsed members who might be coaxed to rejoin, plus tens of thousands of people who've moved to the region in the year since Obama was reelected and who might be recruitable.

Carvalho will replace Carmen Fariña, who has spent the last four years at the helm of America's largest school system after de Blasio coaxed her out of retirement in late 2013.

The announcement by the three Democrats, just days from the scheduled end of the legislative session next Monday, signifies the first clear advance in months for advocates of same - sex marriage and a victory for John L. Sampson, the Democratic minority leader, who has spent weeks coaxing a consensus out of his oft - fractious conference.

This sort of work makes a big impact: chemists who work in product development touch every aspect of daily life, such as transforming natural gas into plastic packaging, creating sparkly toothpaste that coaxes kids to brush their teeth and developing the nation's favourite chocolate bar.

But critics accuse the drug's manufacturers of quietly coaxing doctors and parents to use the drug on short children who have no hormonal abnormalities (This Week, 20 August).

And he just had a way of coaxing creativity out of people and inspiring people; and when I say people, I mean they ranged from those who are simply lovers of mathematics without necessarily having world class talent to world class mathematicians such as Don Knuth and John Conway and Ron Graham, who was the president of the American Mathematical Society, and a great juggler incidentally; and also I think Ron may be a magician although I am not positive of that.

«The chemistry of boron truly is different from the chemistry of all other elements,» says Braunschweig, who built his career coaxing boron into strange bonds.

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.

Sasai, who worked at the RIKEN Center for Developmental Biology (CDB) in Kobe, Japan, was famous for his ability to coax embryonic stem cells to differentiate into other cell types.

The trial is based on work from University of California at Irvine neuroscientist Hans Keirstead, who enabled paralyzed rats to walk again by coaxing embryonic stem cells to differentiate into the spinal cord cells that the rats had lost during injury.

There was smiling Oleg, the guide who supported many of us on perilous paths; Sasha our driver, who managed to coax life out of an amazing red devil of a Russian 4 wheel drive vehicle that had seen better days.

«Drugs that block the effects of myofibroblasts on the electrical or mechanical properties of heart tissue or that coax them to revert to fibroblasts might be more effective than current therapies,» says Guy M. Genin, PhD, associate professor of mechanical engineering and materials science in WUSTL's School of Engineering & Applied Science, who is one of three co-primary investigators (PI) on the grant.

In two studies published in Science and Cell Stem Cell, the team of scientists, who were led by Gladstone senior investigator Sheng Ding, PhD, and are part of the Roddenberry Center for Stem Cell Biology and Medicine at Gladstone, used chemical cocktails to gradually coax skin cells to change into organ - specific stem cell - like cells and, ultimately, into heart or brain cells.

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Tracy plays veteran mountain guide Zachary Wheeler, who is coaxed out of retirement when a passenger plane crashes on high mountain.

Ana Ofelia Murguia coaxes some genuinely earned tears as Miguel's fading great - grandmother Mama Coco (the de facto title character); over in the Land of the Dead, Gael Garcia Bernal amuses as the seemingly carefree Hector, who serves as Miguel's resourceful tour guide.

But it proves that Beauvois still masters his uniquely classical brand of filmmaking, coaxing strong performances out of veteran Nathalie Baye and newbie Iris Bry, who makes an impressive screen debut.

The movie opens with Isabelle and Vincent mid-sex, the former coaxing a climax out of her partner with such patience you almost wonder if it isn't she who ought to be leaving him.

The story revolves around retired boxers Billy «The Kid» McGuigan and Henry «Razor» Sharp, lifelong bitter rivals who are coaxed out of retirement and into the ring for one final grudge match — 50 years after their last title fight.

OPENING THIS WEEK by Kam Williams For movies opening August 31, 2007 BIG BUDGET FILMS Balls of Fury (PG - 13 for profanity, crude behavior and sex - related humor) Dan Fogler stars in this revenge comedy as a washed - up ping - pong champion coaxed out of retirement by an FBI Agent (George Lopez) to enter a tournament hosted by the Asian crime lord (Christopher Walken) who murdered his father.