This, the first date of their latest UK tour in support of the recent fourth album Battle Born, managed to be all of these things at once, a generally pleasing but only rarely inspiring odyssey into the shallow waters of epic heartland Americana.
Elise, by all accounts a born sparkplug, managed the Obama side in a pre-election debate in the auditorium.
Robina came to visit when Natasha was born, and managed to persuade their mother to go, too.
5 Pick of the replacements – Monoa Vosawai : Fijian born flanker managed to wake up the watching public with some eye-catching ball carries and powerful running.
By showing George what Bedford Falls and numerous loved ones would have been like if George had never been born, Clarence manages to turn him around.
A big, bearded, bespectacled man, Mr. Balagun (born Keith Alexander Mitchell) manages to be both bashful and effusive as he greets visitors in his sunny way.
She was a teenager when her first child was born, but managed as a single mother to pull herself from a trailer park to Harvard Law School to a hard-fought seat in the Texas Senate, a rare liberal representing conservative Tarrant County.
Although Nadal, a Spaniard who is a born competitor, managed to wrestle the third set his way, he could not find the form or the solutions — to borrow one of his favorite English words — to keep Djokovic from fulfilling his boyhood quest and winning the men's Wimbledon final, 6-4, 6-1, 1-6, 6-3.
Notoriously unstable (his 2008 disappearing act, for one example), the Harlem born rapper manages to stay ever relevant in the New York hip hop scene with a consistently fun and pleasing output and patient fans.
At his best, the producer born Alec Koone manages to amalgamate golden moments from disparate corners of our sonic experience the rainforest, the symphony hall, the club into something dreamlike.
My keynotes and workshops have recently covered how to sell to Gen Y, the importance of feedback, how to coach employees rather than manage them, emotional intelligence, our country's ever present gender bias, listening skills, energy management, managing Generation X (born between 1965-1980), and Generation Y (born between 1981 and 2001), and the four major workforce trends headed our way.
