Sentences with phrase «wooed away»

The results of a new survey conducted between April 10th and early June suggest that while plenty of Android users are moving over to iOS, there are also a significant number of iPhone users who have been wooed away by Samsung's latest flagship phone.

If so, curse you Verizon / Samsung for you have successfully wooed me away from the WiFi only version!DANG IT!!

But in a brilliant move, they wooed away many of the developers of the iphone to create a new device with an all new operating system, called WebOS.

When UCLA wooed him away from the University of California at Irvine in 1993, where he was teaching and practicing after leaving Johns Hopkins, he told his future boss about his secret passion.

After a buyout by Citigate, he was appointed MD of the merged company, where he stayed until three years ago when College Hill wooed him away to run their new public policy practice.

Some other accountant could try to woo me away with a discount or a fruit basket, but the relationship creates my loyalty to my service provider.

When he hit the free - agent market last season, he almost immediately committed to re-signing with the team despite the Lakers» attempts to woo him away from the team that originally drafted him.

Despite M. Myers Mermel's success in wooing away some of Levy's support — the most significant defection occurring in the (already fractured) Queens GOP — the county executive insisted he will easily surpass the 25 percent mark and then get the 50 - percent - plus - one necessary for a Wilson Pakula.

Jimenez, the Green Party's candidate for New York attorney general, was discussing the challenges third parties face in wooing away the Democratic Party's traditional base: blacks, Latinos, women, young people, unions, environmentalists.

So woo - woo away, baby.

12:00 N — TCM — An American in Paris Expat artist Gene Kelly in Paris, meets Leslie Caron, woos her away from rival Georges Guetarey, all set to Gershwin music and directed with panache by Vincente Minnelli.

Traditional school districts resent charters for wooing away their students, and now fear charters are hollowing out their budgets.

The design may look similar to that of the smaller XE, but the quality is not — the XF feels more expensive and better screwed together, more like the German cars it's trying to woo you away from buying.

The whole concept and mechanism is dubious since it finds weak points in the library service, and uses them to woo away patrons.

From the Jacket: It is at Walter's restaurant that the visiting governor of New Mexico tastes Greenie's coconut cake and decides to woo her away from the city to be his chef.

It is at Walter's restaurant that the visiting governor of New Mexico tastes Greenie's coconut cake and decides to woo her away from the city to be his chef.

One might notice I didn't talk as much about exclusivity here, but the fact of the matter is that when Microsoft revealed all of their draconian policies for the Xbox One, PlayStation 4 became the default choice; it was up to them to woo me away from Sony and back to their side, and they failed miserably at it, as nothing they showed could overcome their ludicrous list of ridiculous restrictions and pretentious policies.

When you want you get a new partnership off the ground, clinch an exclusive deal with a supplier, or snap up a hot recruit before a competitor woos them away, a Memorandum Agreement is a quick way to get the process rolling before you sign a formal contract.

Trust me, she won't be any less inclined to talk to you about it; lots of recruiters believe that the strongest candidates are already happily employed and that it's their job to woo you away... but you'll feel better for having been straightforward about your situation.

Not exact matches

Facebook, AOL and a new startup called Vessel have attempted to woo YouTube stars away, prompting the company to respond by offering better financial terms, according to the Wall Street Journal.

Nigeria's request reiterated its support for Beijing's «One China» policy, which demands that countries break official relations with Taiwan, as Beijing pulls economic levers in Africa and elsewhere to woo nations away from the island it regards as rebel - held territory within Chinese borders.

British Columbia's wooing of foreign tech workers turned away by the U.S. is nothing new.

At a time when Canada should be wooing foreign investment, we actively seem to be chasing it away.

For instance, Huffington managed to woo Bozoma Saint John away from Apple for a newly - created chief brand officer role at Uber.

The department suspects that Guinness may have illegally inflated its stock price to woo Distillers» shareholders away from a competing offer from the Argyll Group, a Scottish food retailer.

Brothers Jon and James Slavet were in the middle of wooing one investor for their Internet start - up when another prospect called and «wanted us to pitch to him right away,» recalls James.

«Locally owned companies have upped their game in terms of the experience, salary, and employee training and development they provide, in an effort to woo talent away from their multinational competitors,» said James Root, a partner with Bain.

When you include work flexibility in your job descriptions, you can woo potential job candidates to your company — and away from your competitors.

Not so Walmart - y Walmart's online shopping site is about to get a makeover, another sign of the company's battle to woo online shoppers away from Amazon.

This idea is eating away at a true, beautiful view of marriage that has less to do with wooing and more to do with dying.

The woo believers are loud and mean, so normal people back away from them, which, sadly, gives them power.

Nate Wright, a detention - riddled sixth grader — and drummer for the greatest garage band in the history of the galaxy, Enslave the Mollusk — hopes to woo beautiful Jenny away from her boyfriend Artur by winning first prize in his school's Battle of the Bands.

Whereas if the risky bits are unexpected, even a well trained midwife is going to have problems away from hospitals and if woo comes into it, you are sunk anyway.

That some woo - ish acquaintance confirmed the pooping part while explaining how great her tear is «almost unnoticeable» 3 years on was the last straw for me to not even try for vaginal birth and just go for CS right away.

Nigel Farage has managed to woo voters away from both parties.

Wooing businessmen who want to stay in the EU, he said: «We are clear that there is no future for Britain in walking away from our biggest market.

Ed Miliband, away on paternity leave, needs to think long and hard about how to woo back disaffected liberals who left the party and refused to vote for it in 2005 and 2010.

Following an appearance at the gleaming new UB facility the state helped build, Cuomo delved into election year politics by acknowledging that intense weekend efforts attempted to woo Hochul away from the second spot and, instead, into a rematch with Republican Rep. Chris Collins of Clarence.

Levy has worked to chip away at Lazio's support and woo the undecided county chairmen and committee leaders who will serve as convention delegates.

But this once - golden opportunity has been frittered away, GOP insiders increasingly complain, by one man: state GOP chief Ed Cox, whose failure to woo big - name candidates is matched only by his weak fund - raising, they add.

In Face / Off, Woo sweeps us away again, into a world of wild action, heroism, villainy and double faces that turn deadly.

But the divisive, highbrow movie lacks an emotional center and drives as many viewers away as it woos.

Disney's oft - delayed The Odd Life of Timothy Green will attempt to woo audiences away from the darker - tinged ParaNorman.

When Wilson isn't trying to woo Walken's daughter (Rachel McAdams) away from her boorish boyfriend, he's being sexually harassed by Walken's wife (Jane Seymour).

The last time I looked at 1989, it was just after watching The Killer as preparation for a podcast on John Woo, and blown away by that film I moved it into the # 1 spot.

Admittedly, there is a level of predictability to the plotting, as it's clear that the idealized Baxter will have an easy time wooing the despairing wife away from the macho, egotistical husband, played well by Aiello.

Woo must have figured this out at some point throughout the film, as he veers away from the drama whenever he can for seemingly endless shots of what he feels more comfortable directing, i.e. gunfire and carnage.

Despite its merits, the C70 will have a tough time wooing buyers away from competitors until it gets modern electronics and a usable infotainment interface.

Namely, what is it bringing to the class that could woo buyers away from the competition?

While the others in the game are busy wooing buyers with tech bits or the unique features that their smartwatch devices are capable of, the Kisai Rorschach stands out miles away from the rest in the way it accomplishes its most basic function, that of displaying time.