Sentences with phrase «approached by agents»

Even modestly successful self - publishers were being approached by agents with offers of representation.

It was just a matter of instant access — that stage where you get this VIP access card, and you're also having high - level meetings, you're approached by agents and managers, and when you have a conversation, people listen to you.

A source close to Djalali revealed that in 2014 he was approached by agents of the Iranian military intelligence that asked him to collect information on Western chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear sites, as well as on critical infrastructures and counter-terrorism operational plans.

I initially decided to publish with Lulu and was then approached by an agent from a minor house.

In fact, her efforts and success at building an author platform were a huge factor in getting her noticed and approached by an agent, as well as earning her the respect of many fellow indie authors and many, many happy readers.

Out of the blue, I have been approached by an agent.

The following are authors who have announced either signing a foreign deal, or being approached by an agent or publisher for foreign rights translations: David Dalglish, Shelley Stout, M.G. Scarsbrook, Tina Folsom, Melanie Nilles, Dawn McCullough White, Victorine Lieskie, Imogen Rose, Lucy Kevin, Margaret Lake, Terri Reid, and Beth Orsoff.

In most cases people didn't even think about life insurance until they were approached by an agent.

Not exact matches

One approach used by Cubist is to target the enzymes produced by drug - resistant bacteria that degrade antibiotic agents and render them useless.

Comments received by the Department and media reports also indicate that many financial institutions already had completed or largely completed work to establish policies and procedures necessary to make the business structure and practice shifts required by the Impartial Conduct Standards earlier this year (e.g., drafting and implementing training for staff, drafting client correspondence and explanations of revised product and service offerings, negotiating changes to agreements with product manufacturers as part of their approach to compliance with the PTEs, changing employee and agent compensation structures, and designing conflict - free product offerings), and the Department believes that financial institutions may use this compliance infrastructure to ensure that they meet the Impartial Conduct Standards after taking the additional Start Printed Page 16910sixty days for an orderly transition between June 9, 2017, and January 1, 2018.

He claimed his spouse was immediately approached by the gate agent, who «said it's family boarding only and got very sarcastic.»

Ken Wilcox, chairman emeritus of Silicon Valley Bank, said in the past six months he had been approached by three different Chinese state - owned enterprises about being their agent in Northern California to buy technology, though he declined.

The chairman of the Association of Sales and Merchandising Companies Australasia, Paul Meyer, said the peak body representing field agents had not been approached by Coles in regard to changes to its merchandising rules.

This summer, there are four major restricted free agents and at least one young unrestricted free agent who remain unattached as we cruise by Labor Day and approach training camp.

In just two weeks time, Jack will be legally allowed to be approached by foreign clubs about a pre-contract agreement regarding a summer move, and I am sure there will be many English clubs making discreet enquiries through his agent on the sly, especially during the transfer window when there will be myriad meetings between clubs and various agents.

«Yes we have been approached by Arsenal,» said Sadiq's agent Mohammed Lawalb.

The deal was only possible because of the one Stanton signed, too: Yelich had been approached before by Miami about an extension, but told his agent to wait to see how they handled the Stanton negotiations.

But morning reports suggest Newcastle have been approached by a top agent, who claims Carroll is available for # 15million plus add - ons.

Capped 9 times by Germany, Rudiger has also been heavily linked with Chelsea but the latest reports claim that Liverpool representatives have already approached his agent to sound him out about a possible move to Anfield.

It didn't matter how often Southampton and RB Leipzig came forward and said that their players weren't for sale, it didn't even matter that the former nearly reported Liverpool to the Premier League for their illegal approach, it didn't matter how many alternatives were drawn up by the media and agents — it was Van Dijk and Keita or nobody.

Approached by AC Milan for a long time, South Korean international defensive midfielder Sung - Yong Ki (29) might be soon losing his free - agent appeal, since Swansea City, according to Wales Online, started extension talks with him.

Republican Long Island Rep. Lee Zeldin in a statement on Thursday called for an exacting approach in the investigation by a special counsel assigned to review the 2016 presidential election and possible interference by Russian agents.

Our correspondent, who disguised as a voter, was approached by party agents with N1, 000 and a pair of rubber slippers to vote for his party.

In one instance, an immigrant living in Queens was approached by four men dressed as ICE agents who told him he was going to be detained unless he gave them all of his money, Mr. Schneiderman said.

Agents took an unusually tough approach in executing a search warrant, dealing with potential financial crimes by President Trump's former campaign chief, sources familiar with the July 25 raid, told CNN.

Aerosolizing the pathogen — so that it can be released and inhaled by a large number of people — is an obvious approach, but this is difficult to do, not least because many infectious agents can't survive long outside a host.

A similar antibody - drug conjugate approach is used by the breast cancer agent T - DM1, which attaches chemotherapy to an antibody that seeks the HER2 protein in HER2 + breast cancers.

«Development of new agents for treating neuroblastoma has been greatly hampered by the lack of efficient high - throughput screening approaches,» Dr. Du said.

The investigators noted that if the antisense approach works for ALS — by delivering therapeutic agents for neurodegenerative diseases across the highly impermeable blood - brain barrier — it would likely also work in other neurodegenerative conditions, including Alzheimer's, Parkinson's and Huntington's diseases.

Fathom Harvill (Welch) is an American skydiver touring Europe with a U.S. parachute team when she's approached by Douglas Campbell (Ronald Fraser), a Scottish agent working with American intelligence.

Richie looks like he'll be sitting pretty until he's approached by a tenacious FBI agent named Shavers (Mackie, Gangster Squad) looking to take Block down.

His aviation skills and reputation for sailing close to the wind lead to an approach from Schafer, a CIA agent (or possibly a composite of several) played by Domhnall Gleeson (whose father, actor Brendan Gleeson, resembles the stocky real Seal much more than sleek Tom Cruise does).

There, she is approached by Walter Keane (Christoph Waltz), a real estate agent, who is pursuing his own muse as a painter of Parisian street scenes.

He gets a bit of a thrill with the petty delinquency of smuggling Cuban cigars in his cockpits — I guess pilots weren't searched much in the late 1970s, when he's getting away with this — but the real fun comes after he is approached by CIA agent Monty Schafer and recruited to fly missions over South America taking spy photos (not in TWA planes, obviously).

Dominika is pressed into service to approach and weaken an American agent whose contact with a mole inside the Russian intelligence services has made her uncle's life difficult, but as one might expect in a film like this, she catches feelings for her prey, played with icy determination by Joel Edgerton, and things get complicated quickly.

With tensions brewing between the Winter Hill Gang and the Italian - American crime family that has typically claimed North Boston, Whitey is approached by FBI agent John Connolly (Joel Edgerton) about becoming an informant.

He's approached by Monty (Domhnall Gleeson), a CIA agent with a proposition for him: Fly a little propeller plane over rebel bases in Central and South America, take some pictures, and maybe drop off some secret packages for Manuel Noriega, the U.S. - supported military leader in Panama.

When sports agent Jerry Maguire (Cruise) writes an uncharacteristically idealistic manifesto suggesting his company should opt for fewer clients and a more caring approach, he's applauded by his colleagues who, as soon as he's fired, desert him - along with all but one of his clients, mouthy footballer Rod Tidwell (Gooding).

On the run for more than a decade after exposing the CIA's Operation Blackbriar, Jason Bourne (Matt Damon) is approached by former agent Nicky Parsons (Julia Stiles), who's uncovered new details about Blackbriar's connection to Bourne's past, but not before her hacking is detected by the CIA's Cyber Director, Heather Lee (Alicia Vikander).

He's later approached by secret services agent Wigram (Jeremy Northam), and the mystery begins to show itself.

However, scholars are now elaborating on the former equilibrium approach by turning to the question of how the actions of individual agents, their strategies or expectations might endogenously change while adapting to the aggregate patterns these create.

These items favor — with higher self - assessment item scores — «student - centered» over «teacher - centered,» or even «teacher - directed» or «teacher - facilitated» approaches, and technology as an agent of educational reform, as demonstrated by the possible responses listed under Item 14 («Students employ digital content to enhance learning»):

Pilon's approach has worked in thousands of schools by focusing on making students active agents in learning and teaching.

This article aims to show that behavioral multi-agent models are a suitable approach for assessing the impact of policy instruments to reduce CO2 emissions in road transport by introducing a multi agent model for the German road transport sector.

I was just approached via my wife's cell phone by Lit Fire's agent, «Adele Porter» who stated she was following up on an earlier email from a week ago.

This article will show you, step - by - step, how to find literary agent information that will let you: 1) Find the publishing agents most likely to be interested in your book, 2) Figure out which book agents are the most reputable and successful, and 3) Find out the best way to approach those book agents.

By the way, this is the same idea / approach that I used when writing pitch letters as a literary agent, and it's the same approach I use now when providing someone with a Query Letter Critique.

Self - published e-book authors are being approached by foreign rights buyers and film companies (and making lucrative, 100 % agent - free deals.)

Clifford is approached by ATF agent Simon Holly, who is aware of what the Burroughs family is up to and wants Clifford to convince his lawless elder brother (the current head of the family) to help him go after a much larger operation.

Wilkinson: I was approached by an awful lot of agents — not always a pleasant experience.