But the rest of the country is unlikely to be as easy to win over.
Conversely, complimenting someone on their business acumen in front of their colleagues is an easy way to win brownie points.
But the fortunes of the Cup holders have been transformed since that defeat, and Vickery says there is no easy way to win the ultimate prize.
But how easy is it to win back the people's favor, and thus the press', once you've lost it?
Drawing an analogy with the originality of Steve Jobs, Xu tells how he and his co-founders huddled in a meeting room of the loft for two months, thinking up new mobile apps that would be easy to use and win over lots of users.
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And persuading a jury to give the benefit of the doubt to a multi-millionaire banker is exceedingly difficult, making it easy for the government to win a case on thin evidence.
And on this evidence of this, it is easy to see why City have failed to win more frequently.
After sailing through the House and Senate in 1972, observers expected it to win easy ratification by the states.
Sure enough, Denmark leapt out to an early lead, followed by Azerbaijan and Ukraine, and cruised to an easy win.
Brooklyn led by as many as 20 in the second quarter and 33 in the third before cruising to the easy win.
Brooklyn led by as many as 20 points in the second quarter and 33 in the third before cruising to the easy win.
Having knocked out many of the elements that Triple Town alleged Yeti Town copied, the opinion seemingly points to an easy win for Yeti Town.
Andy Sutton took 3-20 before Nathan Newport (55) and Gavin Shephard (50) shared an opening partnership of 77 to steer Barnt Green to an easy win.
Meanwhile in the Bundesliga, Bayern Munich are almost home and dry in their bid for a 23rd title after coasting to another easy win on Friday.
Fellow Briton Huff was able to drive away to a fairly easy win against the Seat of Gabriele Tarquini.
With that level of responsibility on their shoulders, playing to win is easy.
Mario Mandzukic scored twice after Bastian Schweinsteiger's opener to secure an easy win for the Bavarian giants in the Allianz Arena.
Pettini, with 66 off 35 balls, and Ravi Bopara then put on a rapid 82 to set up an easy win for Essex.
"It was not an easy putt, but any putt to win is something I would like to have, " Casey told Press Association Sport.
Dean Ashton soon added a third to wrap up an easy win against a Blues side who did not seriously test Shaka Hislop.
Stephenson and Shane Berne looked to have sealed an easy win but tries from Hefin O'Hare and Ruaridh Jackson set up a grandstand finish.
The drama started at Headingley with the visitors on the verge of wrapping up an easy win within four days to go 2-0 up.
World No.3 Murray looked set to wrap up an easy win over Wawrinka, one of his victims as he won Olympic gold in London, when he took the first set with two breaks of service.
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Of course it is not easy to race when everybody expects you to win.
It is easy to find some attributes on which you win, but the customer is the final decision-maker and more are voting for Android than iOS right now.
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"It's not easy but the main thing for me is to win our games, " said Benitez, whose side face Middlesbrough away and Sunderland at home in their next two league contests.
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