Wooing China s Princelings

Don't tell me you want to woo me.

Eileen, I wish you wouldnt get too friendly with him.

I thought he was just trying to get around you.

You make courtship a little more strenuous than I like it.

You'll have to wait till after the battle for your wooing.

More like good for scoring points by living near the boss.

I put him in his place. Now he makes up stories about me.

We just started the courting and next month we'll walk together, and the month after that there'll be the trashing party...

This painting shows the typical courtship during the 17th century in Europe.

I resolved to embark upon her courtship as soon as a decent period of mourning should have elapsed.

These scholars have been pilloried in the media in recent weeks for supposedly having cozied up to Qaddafi.

There may sometimes be a downside in trying to woo your opponents.

But woo her, gentle Paris, get her heart, My will to her consent is but a part

More honourable state, more courtship lives In carrion flies than Romeo they may seize

Whenever you see young people in front of the row trying to fraternize with the police or military, somebody was thinking about it before.

His strategy was designed to appeal to white Southerners who were more conservative than the leaders of the national Democratic Party.

This can be either through intimidation of same sex rivals, or wooing of the females or both.

As I passed the well remembered door, which must always be associated in my mind with my wooing, and with the dark incidents of the Study in Scarlet, I was seized with a keen desire to see Holmes again, and to know how he was employing his extraordinary powers.

Now, real sex, in contrast, is courtship, touching, being touched, smells, pheromones, emotional connection, interaction with a real person.

The exalted Prophet of Islam says that the highest state of wisdom, after faith in God, is seeking friendship with people and extending a helping hand to all fellow human beings .

Lukashenko, sensing the danger, has been making overtures to the EU to counter what he sees as a growing rift with the Kremlin.

Courtship gave way to estrangement during the second phase, as US policy for much of the 1960 s sought to isolate China.

Indeed, Uganda, where Idi Amin expelled Indian settlers in 1972, has been actively wooing them back under President Yoweri Museveni.

That would strengthen Russia s position in Ukraine, where the Kremlin constantly encourages a return to Slavic roots and warns against flirting with a West that doesn t want it.

The most famous of these studies, anthropologist Helen Fisher s The Anatomy of Love , explains the evolutionary impetus for human tendencies in courtship, marriage, adultery, divorce, and childrearing.

As I passed the well remembered door, which must always be associated in my mind with my wooing, and with the dark incidents of the Study in Scarlet, I was seized with a keen desire to see Holmes again, and to know how he was employing his extraordinary powers.

The story I wanted to do initially was just a small focus to look at the few weeks each year where these animals migrate down from the Canadian arctic to the Gulf of St. Lawrence in Canada to engage in courtship, mating and to have their pups.

Obama isn t likely to say whether he ll scale back the US military role in the region, or whether America s growing reliance on African oil is the real reason not Obama s heritage for wooing Africans. Obama s lack of candor won t hurt him in the US, where domestic political calculations take precedence.

The EU s failure to encourage Ukraine s European aspirations risks creating disillusion with the West. That would strengthen Russia s position in Ukraine, where the Kremlin constantly encourages a return to Slavic roots and warns against flirting with a West that doesn t want it.

China has essentially washed its hands of its small neighbor. Russia, challenged to court new friends, but also struggling to manage its own weakening economy, is not interested in reviving a friendship with a country that seems to have made it a point of principle never to pay anyone for anything.