Sentence examples for wooed from from inspiring English sources

Mr. Griffin was wooed from his job leading Meredith's national media group to come to Time Inc.

Cottrell was wooed from Buffalo, where he was the defensive coordinator and had been interviewed for the Bills' head coaching job.

Mr. Taussig, whom Lehman wooed from Credit Suisse in 2005, acted as an adviser to Home Depot while Lehman also committed to finance the buyers.

He will be succeeded there by Matt Seiler, a senior media agency executive who is being wooed from the Omnicom Group, the largest advertising holding company.

"The follow-up didn't happen aggressively enough, in part because of the geographies involved," says Jeff Lynn, who now runs Compaq's services unit, after being wooed from IBM. "There were such strong cultures and pride in brand, and it didn't help that at the same time [after Mr Pfeiffer's departure].

Lynch started Neurodynamics while still in graduate school, using 2,000 he wooed from a maverick investor in a pub.

(Owens has stayed stubbornly loyal to those two middle-range dealers, and to Galerie Gisela Capitain, in Cologne, despite wooing from richer and more prestigious galleries).

New disc jockeys were hired, including Mr. Ingram and Mr. Morrow, and the station started playing rock 'n' roll hits because young listeners were the easiest ones to woo from other stations.

This, they charge, is why the draft preserves much of the administrative structure, assigns presidents majestic powers, and safeguards the military, which the Brotherhood seeks to woo, from systematic civilian oversight.

It is that success that helped Penney's stock rise 17.5 percent on Tuesday after Penney wooed Mr. Johnson from Apple.

The first director was Harold Jones, whom Mr. Schad wooed away from the George Eastman House of Photography in Rochester.