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wooh ing

  • n  a man's courting of a woman; seeking the affections of a woman (usually with the hope of marriage)
  • v  seek someone's favor
    China is wooing Russia
  • v  make amorous advances towards

  • Are the Republicans prepared to respond in kind by wooing a Democrat across party lines? Georgia Democrat Zell Miller, who has a very conservative voting record, has been .
  • While Mondale tortured himself on the road, his computer-guided organization did its own vital work back in Washington: wooing the roughly 400 uncommitted delegates who could .
  • These days, Hung spends her time wooing advertisers for what has become one of China's most successful homegrown glossies as well as publishing Chinese versions of Seventeen and .
News & Articles

  • Cornyn emerges as key to 70-vote threshold for immigration reform
    The Texas Republican is the big prize, but the Gang of Eight is split over whether he’s worth wooing. Read more...
    June 14, 2013 - The Hill
  • Behind the WWDC Glitter
    Going into WWDC I think Apple enthusiasts were so pent up for some Apple awesomeness -- myself included -- that we let the soft and low-voiced cooing of design knight Jony Ive lull us into a receptive state more akin to the wooing of a potential partner than a critical study of design principles. It's not like we had beer goggles on going into the iOS 7 portion of the WWDC keynote, but. . .
    June 14, 2013 - TechNewsWorld.com
  • A $30 trillion missed opportunity?
    If your idea of a client-wooing event is a steak dinner and an investment lecture, you may be missing out on a very big market: the children of your clients, whose tastes differ markedly from those of ...
    June 12, 2013 - Reuters via Yahoo! Finance
Quotes

  • Ashley Cole in BBC Sport
    The club made Thierry feel wanted and special, wooing him, wining and dining him, speaking in public about how much they wanted him to stay, going on a deliberate charm offensive,stated Cole.
  • Will Smith in Mirror.co.uk
    Smith replied: "Puff (P Diddy) probably lives the most like James Bond, Jamie Foxx got the swag for James Bond. He can sing too, so he can add a new element to Bond. Wooing the ladies...... and I think I can guarantee the box office."
  • Peter Costello in Sydney Morning Herald
    We ought to be very concerned that Kevin Rudd spent so much time wooing and being wooed by Brian Burke because it means that his tentacles will reach into a Rudd government as well,Mr Costello told Southern Cross Broadcasting.

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