The same applies to Bulgaria, while Serbia, the Serbian half of Bosnia and Macedonia are all being wooed or intimidated by the Russians.
Grainge took over Universal in the UK when it was level pegging with EMI; one company invested steadily, the other didn't, and Universal launched the better acts, whether Amy Winehouse or Girls Aloud, or wooed them, from the Rolling Stones to Take That.
It is conservative still, but it is wooed by two men.
The first minister openly wooed English Labour MPs by committing the Scottish National party to backing key Labour tax policies, pledging that her party would "hold out a hand of friendship" rather than seek division at Westminster.
Consumers juggling credit and store card debts built up before Christmas are being wooed with balance transfer deals offering 0% interest for almost three years.
Mississippi wooed Nissan in the same way; South Carolina lured BMW; the list goes on.
Repeatedly, city fathers, banks and locals wooed employers with free land, buildings and grants.
Mr Booker was a reformer who promoted charter schools and wooed businesses to invest in Brick City.
But the president has also wooed more profit-driven investors by claiming to have provided stability to Egypt.
In the gala's closing moments, one of Mr Gergiev's favourite singers, Anna Netrebko, as Zerlina, was wooed by four Don Giovannis, each carrying an ever larger bouquet of roses before she was swept away by the maestro himself.Yet, it would not have been Mr Gergiev if he stopped then; the party carried on for another two days.
This may have been true in the 1960s and 1970s, when the Republicans energetically wooed southern white Democrats who were outraged by Lyndon Johnson's civil-rights laws.
