Sentences with phrase «wooing more»

Every HarperCollins digital experiment is intended to contribute to the bottom line, according to Restivo - Alessi, whether through direct sales or indirectly by retaining and wooing more authors, but some of that might be wishful thinking.

It's no wonder Don considers her his secret weapon when it comes to wooing his more difficult clients.

The challenge for Khan now is to hold on to at least some of the left wing support he has already amassed at the same time as wooing more conservative voters.

When the purchasing decision chain is full of doubters, these tips can help you woo more customers.

Later this month, the executive chairman of e-commerce giant Alibaba will decamp to Detroit, hoping to woo more American businesses to use his company's services.

But they would also like to woo the more «militant and faithful» into the fundamentalist camp.

Andrew Cuomo is back on the campaign trail today, with a scheduled book - ended by religion - related stops to woo more of the key traditional Democratic voting blocs.

The pair allegedly wooed more than a dozen NYPD officers with free food, cash and lavish international trips.

Reichberg and Rechnitz allegedly wooed more than a dozen NYPD officers with free food, cash and lavish international trips, which are departmental and possibly legal violations.

When asked for the purpose of his three - day official visit to Germany, Buhari said his aim was to woo more investors from the country.

It's arguably way too late for Street Fighter V to woo more casual fighting game fans with Arcade Mode, but, nevertheless, it's nice to see it finally happening.

The ultimate hope is that more people will jump ship to Amazon from Google Play, allowing Amazon to generate more profit and in turn woo more developers to put their apps on their platform for free.

Amazon's Kindle 2 and Barnes and Noble's Nook may not typically be fighting for shelf space but are sure battling it out to woo more e-Book readers in its realm.

In order to woo more clients there are special discounts on offer.

Some longtime fans may consider the changes — such as no timer or story co-op — to be a bridge too far, and to that line of thinking we must concede DR4's lack of difficulty feels like an obvious concession to woo a more casual audience.

Turnberry co-chairman Jackie Soffer told Bloomberg that she hopes the lakes will help woo more active home buyers in a market saturated with golf courses.

Not exact matches

The company saw six times more orders over the past weekend than it did over a weekend one month prior, according to Woo.

But as creative as those attempts are to woo Amazon for its second headquarters, it's far more likely that the big dollars that Amazon has asked for will be a major deciding factor in its location.

One solution would be to try and attract potential instead of the finished product, wooing thousands more international students to come and study at our educational institutions.

As far as wooing venture capitalists is concerned, More informs that Finzy's investors were following developments at the startup ever since the time of inception.

For instance, Microsoft is wooing new customers through software called Microsoft 365 F1, and is introducing more cloud services.

Woo also said the tested compound had more Vitamin B12, but the lab test did not show this difference.

Amazon (amzn) has said it plans to invest over $ 5 billion in construction and produce many as 50,000 high - paying jobs at HQ2, with the further promise of «tens of thousands of additional jobs» as well as billions of dollars more in additional investment in the host city — prompting a flurry of (sometimes outlandish) bids from cities and states to woo CEO Jeff Bezos and company.

And in January, Britain launched a new, two - year, multiple - entry visa in a bid to woo even more Chinese visitors to its shores, following changes made in 2015 that allowed tourists and business travelers to apply for both British and European visas in a single process.

But each brand is still doing more and more to woo prospective drivers with extra deals on the side.

Executives at Amazon and Netflix have said in the past that winning major Hollywood awards are good for business, as they lend even more credibility to streaming players looking to woo viewers to their services while also helping to attract high - profile talent, such as actors, writers, and directors.

The chain is wooing higher - spending customers, meanwhile, with a revamped loyalty program that lavishes the top 10 % of its customers, people who spend an average of $ 1,200 a year, with more goodies like exclusive sales and beauty - salon pampering.

Amazon's moves should help Whole Foods, long derided as «Whole Paycheck» for its high prices, to woo customers beyond its upper middle class clientele, as well as counter the discount chains such as Walmart and even Aldi as they vie for more of the organic and natural foods markets.

We also noted that the best players in the industry were adapting quickly to combat the looming threat from Airbnb, adding more customized touches and amenities to woo younger guests.

How fast a country's broadband connections are is about more than just bragging rights (woo hoo, Canada is faster than Monaco!).

The U.S. icon kicks off a year - long campaign to woo Canadians with a temporary store, and promises more to follow soon.

These organizational strategies have helped Macy's woo and energize technology stars, increase its e-commerce revenue growth to more than 30 % a year over the past two years, and attain the top spot on the 2011 L2 Digital IQ Index for specialty retailers.

Additional Travel Funds - The Yuen Pau Woo Travel Award Established in 2015 through a donation from former Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada President, Senator Yuen Pau Woo, the Yuen Pau Woo Travel Award is awarded annually in the amount of up to $ 2,000 to one or more outstanding Post-Graduate Research Fellows.

The move on the part of Citigroup to woo a top player in digital commerce comes at a time when banks are trying to lure younger customers who are way more comfortable with technology than their older peers.

Clearly if there was any evidence for such things, it would be science — and not religion (woo) and we could do real tests to learn more.

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.

In communication, conviction is generated by more than logic, and sometimes by less — as everyone who has wooed and won a wife knows.

I became obsessed with those personality tests that tell you more about yourself (ESFJ, 2 wing 3, Woo and Maximizer, and Leslie Knope with a pinch of Donna).

I'm embarrassed much more by its choice to aggrandize itself through the machinations of power and power - mongering and politicking and wooing and buying of voice and authority.

Dorothy Sayers, around the same time, penned the lines, «This is the war we always knew,... / When no allies are left, no help to count upon from alien hands, / No waverers remain to woo, no more advice to listen to, / And only England stands.»

It all makes Moscow look more exotic, more like a great prize to be wooed at all costs.

God is constantly revealing more of Himself to us, and wooing us, drawing us, etc. and as we come to believe what He reveals, we then are able to move on to the next area of faith He wants to win us to.

When my husband and I first met, he wooed me with dancing — even though both of us have two left feet and moves that win more points for sympathy than grace.

Yet more research bringing this woo - like term in from the scientific cold (see here).

I am posting more than once this week, woo hoo!

Describing himself as «satisfied with the market response» to this first foray into the wine trade, Woo Swee Lian, president of Perfect (China), said: «I am I believe through our network of Perfect (China), we can offer more top quality wine.

I'd hazard a guess that all of these managers are more charismatic at wooing their targets and decisive to get the deal done.

When a triumphant Esposito was asked how he wooed the investors, he cracked, «The more we drank, the more it made sense.

You don't need to woo me with $ 5 burgers; I would pay much more to eat lunch with my dear friends, but I secretly couldn't wait to go because Chessie's was a place that I remember going once with my mom when she lived here years ago.

If women were more fully in charge of how their relationships transpired, we'd be seeing, on average, more impressive wooing efforts, longer relationships, fewer premarital sexual partners, shorter cohabitations, and more marrying going on.