He has bought out Sotheby's New York jewellery experts en bloc, taken half its French furniture team and is seeking to seduce to Phillips the impressionist, modern picture and contemporary art expertise of Sotheby's and Christie's in London, with all the multi-million-dollar business and contacts they can bring.
If Microsoft can seduce consumers to its platform by making the social consumer experience simple and seamless, this may differentiate the company from the field.
His actual practice, as we can see from the many scenes of him at work, is consciously to shape every breath of air in his films, to dominate, terrify, seduce, and to dream and suffer for everyone.
But one little-noticed strategy is a formal ten-year plan (2010-2020) backed by the Chinese government to seduce the best and brightest Chinese who have moved abroad to return.
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Therefore, the Australian blacktips all got together and came up with a scheme to seduce unsuspecting common blacktip sharks so that they can find a way to survive in COOLER waters.
Malcolm compares the journalistic-source relationship to a romantic one, with both the journalist and the source attempted to seduce one another: The journalist wants information and the source wants to control the story.
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But from now onwards the partners' preoccupation will be to seduce as broad a swathe of the electorate as they can, which means reaching out to the middle as well as cultivating their bases.
Least of all do they want their assistance to seduce others into habits of dependency.
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Near-zero-carbon nuclear power is popular with conservatives, while unproven CCS is meant to seduce the many coal states.
Digital screens behind display stands are activated when a perfume bottle is picked up, flashing images to seduce you.
It had to have some kind of hook to seduce people into watching and seduce funders into funding it.
Now, they're cruising the States on the tail end of their U.S. tour, hoping to seduce Americans with their infectious rhythms.
His genius has been to combine this with political imagination, using his natural charm to seduce ordinary whites and blacks, Afrikaners and Zulus.
Steen's "Oyster Eater" of around the same time is clearly trying to seduce the viewer, as she steals, salts and offers the aphrodisiac bivalve.
To most guys, vampires are the monster movie equivalent of that sensitive man-sponge in college who plays acoustic guitar in order to seduce chicks.
Asked for an example of such a case, Mr. Prasad offered a tale from Hindu mythology of a woman who tries to seduce her stepson.
While many daring bar and dining concepts have centred around the food, designed to seduce a broader diversity of palates, others are experimenting with mixology.
EADS, on the other hand, are trying to seduce the Italians with an even more tempting prospect: a share (perhaps 5%) of the Airbus civil-aircraft consortium, which currently groups Britain, France, Germany and Spain.
We know, that headline makes it seem like the Plantronics Voyager Pro UC is going to seduce you, and well, after spending sometime with the headset yesterday at D: Dive Into Mobile we're thinking it may actually be pretty hard to resist.
Or maybe, despite there never having been the least spark of sexual attraction between us, despite the fact that we could have been locked in a closet for seven hours and nothing would have happened, maybe, for some reason, Jacob is trying to seduce me.
Many political analysts doubt that Honduras will remain a member of ALBA. What Honduras's membership in ALBA reveals is the power and persistence of Chavez to entice, seduce, and ultimately win over a longtime American ally in order to expand his sphere of influence in Central and South America.
Well, death and disgrace can seduce anyone that needs to believe there's judgment at hand.
Police in Singapore are reporting what appears to be a ring (or rings) of online scam artists who use attractive women to "friend" victims on social sites, seduce them into cybersex on webcams and then threaten to post images or videos of them online if they don't pay up.
It features a terminally ill British journalist (Jeremy Irons) who tries to save and seduce a bar girl (Gong Li).
One strategy is simply to persuade people to stay longer, which provides more time for employers to spot and seduce the best performers.
But their supporters claim that students work harder when they are free of the distractions of trying to impress, put down or seduce the opposite sex.
But Ford understands the lure of Giggs for the increasingly important and lucrative corporate world that the new FAW regime are desperate to tap into - and no-one would seduce potential sponsors for Welsh football than one of world football's genuine greats.
Then seduce your senses with fresh Jamaican cuisine and gorgeous sunsets during your included trip to the town of Port Antonio.
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