Sentences with phrase «as a reporter trying»

What followed was a whole lot of awkward banter as the reporter tried to get the conference back on track, but Johnson wouldn't let him until he finally relented.

He had a recorder with him and caught on tape Livingstone turning to Finegold as the reporter tried to put his questions.

He then repeated some variation of that first quote over — and over, and over — as reporters tried in vain to get him to admit that he won't have enough votes to make anything happen tomorrow.

I had done some work as a reporter trying to wade through the mounds of paperwork that the soul singer's estate has generated since his death in 2006, and I really appreciated McBride's research.

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Strikes me as quite bizarre that reporters would try to cover up the gross atrocities perpetrated by smugglers and coyotes.»

So it's no surprise that Uber's Khosrowshahi told reporters this week that his company wanted to partner with other players than Toyota, as it tries to «make sure we have access to leading autonomous technology.»

«We see this as a big issue for China Airlines,» Steve Chang, senior vice president of the Taiwanese firm told reporters on Wednesday, adding the airline was trying to consult with the American Institute in the country over the issue.

I have lost count of the number of times rivals, reporters, bankers and even my own finance directors have told me that our time was up — but every time, I kept going and tried another angle, thinking that our situation was not as dire as it appeared.

A senior executive said in a conference call with reporters Tuesday that if the government found the method did not work and tried to force Apple to help break into the phone, Apple would have questions about what was tried, in order to keep its products as secure as possible.

I would rather have forward guidance used as a tool when you are trying to do something extra, beyond explaining your forecast,» he told reporters in November.

«There are people that want to try to paint the United States and its allies like Australia as being against China in some sort of rerun of the Cold War,» Turnbull told reporters.

«At the start of the tournament,» Arnold said, «I told all the reporters what score I thought would win, somewhere between 276 and 278, and I had tried to set that as my point of aim.

As always, Angell is mainly concerned with major league players, but there are some rewarding side trips, notably to the playing fields of Yale in the company of Smokey Joe Wood, the 91 - year - old former Yale coach who won 34 games as a Red Sox pitcher in 1912, and to the big league locker rooms (or the corridors just outside them) with several bright female reporters who were trying to breach that journalistic barrier in 197As always, Angell is mainly concerned with major league players, but there are some rewarding side trips, notably to the playing fields of Yale in the company of Smokey Joe Wood, the 91 - year - old former Yale coach who won 34 games as a Red Sox pitcher in 1912, and to the big league locker rooms (or the corridors just outside them) with several bright female reporters who were trying to breach that journalistic barrier in 197as a Red Sox pitcher in 1912, and to the big league locker rooms (or the corridors just outside them) with several bright female reporters who were trying to breach that journalistic barrier in 1979.

As you might recall, Crowley was less than forthcoming earlier this week when asked by reporters about Lancman's claim the party is trying to siphon Jewish voters away from him by running Gottlieb — a late add to the NY - 6 field who has well - documented (thanks to Chris Bragg) ties to Meng and also (oddly) certain elements of the Queens GOP.

As the reporter continued trying to...

«At the moment, the most important thing for the emergency services is try to get London to a state of normality as soon as possible,» a Metropolitan police officer told reporters by the late morning.

The Conservative MP said: «My dad was rung up by a reporter from the Guardian who tried to put words into his mouth, but my dad has been clear — he was clear to the BBC on Sunday night, he was clear to me when I was a boy — that the business that he invested so much care and time in had to close as a result of the Common Fisheries Policy.

«I don't think any of that matters for the job that I'm trying to get,» he told reporters at Brooklyn Borough Hall, urging them to look to his record and the votes he's cast as a councilman.

As reporters and attendees filmed the disturbance from iPhones, like an episode of Black Mirror, the club's president Debbie Coughlin tried to mediate the situation, only to be accosted by a Trump supporter blaming her for lack of oversight.

A Manhattan lawyer who threatened to call immigration enforcement on workers at a Midtown cafe when he heard them speaking in Spanish is apparently trying to flee the backlash against his racist rant — as he was captured on video running from an NBC News reporter on Thursday.

As the results trickled in, reporters in Ohio desperately tried to learn more about this mystery candidate who seemingly came out of nowhere and appeared to be on the verge of determining the outcome of one of the country's most closely - watched and competitive Senate races.

Cuomo said as much on Monday with reporters in New York City trying to pry details out of him on how he'll propose a system of fees for driving at peak hours in order to relieve congestion and help bolster mass transit.

Mr. Recchia, meanwhile, has tried to present Mr. Grimm as an embarrassment to the Staten Island and Brooklyn district for his legal troubles and well - reported on - air threats to a NY1 reporter.

At the Baruch rally his aides brushed aside a reporter trying to pose a question as the Mayor departed.

Yeo, who was caught in a Sunday Times sting operation by reporters posing as lobbyists, will temporarily relinquish the role while he tries to clear his name.

(He noted that he was not comfortable paraphrasing the mayor's remarks, but after Republicans won control over the State Senate, the mayor told reporters he will still try to achieve his left - leaning goals, such as increasing the minimum wage in New York City above the state level and passing the DREAM Act, which provides tuition assistance for immigrant children.)

Gubernatorial candidate Bridgeport Mayor Joe Ganim listens as WTNH reporter Mark Davis scolds him for what Davis saw as Ganim trying to restricting press access while he met with delegates on the floor of the Connecticut Democratic convention.

The press conference finished somewhat awkwardly as his staff tried to end it after about 17 minutes of questions from the four reporters present.

When reporters on Thursday tried to pin down the evasive Weiner as to the number of women with whom he had exchanged illicit messages, he delivered a rambling response before settling on «six to 10, I suppose.»

Rather than try to directly detect your gene of interest, scientists have instead developed novel methods to co-express your gene along with a reporter, such as a fluorescence gene or a resistance gene.

Small, incidental scenes contribute nifty insights and shading: the Post sends a young reporter up to New York to sneak into the Times offices to try to find out what Sheehan is up to; an elite dinner at Graham's home concludes when the men and women retire to different rooms, as if it were still 19th century England; when Sheehan's first Pentagon Papers story is set to break in the Times the next morning, it's none other than McNamara (Bruce Greenwood) himself who calls his old friend Graham to alert her.

The most prominent characters include Haven Hamilton (Henry Gibson), a socially conservative, arrogant country music star; Linnea Reese (Lily Tomlin), a gospel singer and mother of two deaf children; Del Reese (Ned Beatty), her lawyer husband and Hamilton's legal representative, who works as the local political organizer for the Tea Party - like Hal Philip Walker Presidential campaign; Opal (Geraldine Chaplin), an insufferably garrulous and pretentious BBC Radio reporter on assignment in Nashville, or so she claims; talented but self - involved sex - addict Tom Frank (Keith Carradine), one - third of a moderately successful folk trio who's anxious to launch a solo career; John Triplette (Michael Murphy), the duplicitous campaign consultant who condescendingly tries to secure top Nashville stars to perform at a nationally - syndicated campaign rally; Barbara Jean (Ronee Blakley), the emotionally - fragile, beloved Loretta Lynn - like country star recovering from a burn accident; Barnett (Allen Garfield), Barbara Jean's overwhelmed manager - husband; Mr. Green (Keenan Wynn), whose never - seen ailing wife is on the same hospital ward as Barbara Jean; groupie Martha (Shelley Duvall), Green's niece, ostensibly there to visit her ailing aunt but so personally irresponsible that she instead spends all her time picking up men; Pfc. Glenn Kelly (Scott Glenn), who claims his mother saved Barbara Jean's life but who mostly seems obsessed with the country music star; Sueleen Gay (Gwen Welles), a waitress longing for country music fame, despite her vacuous talent; Bill and Mary (Allan F. Nicholls and Cristina Raines), the other two - thirds of Tom's folk act, whose ambition overrides constant personal rancor; Winifred (Barbara Harris), another would - be singer - songwriter, fleeing to Nashville from her working - class husband, Star (Bert Remsen); Kenny Frasier (David Hayward), a loner who rents a room from Mr. Green and carries around a violin case; Bud Hamilton (Dave Peel), the gentle, loyal son of the abrasive Hamilton; Connie White (Karen Black), a glamorous country star who is a last - minute substitute for Barbara Jean at the Grand Old Opry; Wade Cooley (Robert DoQui), a cook at the airport restaurant where Sueleen works as a waitress and who tries unsuccessfully to convince her that she has no talent; and the eccentric Tricycle Man (Jeff Goldblum), who rides around in a three - wheel motorcycle, occasionally interacting with the other characters, showing off his amateur magic tricks, but who has no dialogue.

The meat of the film is the resurrecion of the reporter, who is trying to live with the ghost of his famous father, as he deals with not only that, but professional ethics.

The Hollywood Reporter said last month that, as they have in the past with «Crazy Heart» and «Hitchcock,» the studio might try the so - called «sneak attack» with one of their slate, and «Belle» seems like a much more natural fit for that than the studio's other potential: Jude Law crime comedy «Dom Hemingway» (also at TIFF, but not obviously Oscar material unless it's transcendently good) and Wes Anderson «s «Grand Budapest Hotel» (which we're assuming will be held for Cannes, or at least a «Moonrise Kingdom «- style summer release).

John Hillerman has a recurring role as radio detective Simon Brimmer always attempting to match wits with Ellery (and always getting it wrong) and Ken Swofford is a hard - boiled reporter who also tries (and fails) to beat Ellery at his game in numerous episodes.

As she tries to give him the slip, the duo bicker incessantly and work through some of the problems that ended t (more...) Bounty hunter Milo tries to bring his reporter ex-wife Nicole to justice after she skips bail in order to investigate the cover - up of a murder.

We just looked at the landscape and saw it as a chance to try them together,» NBC Entertainment chairman Bob Greenblatt told reporters Sunday.

While some publications, such as The Hollywood Reporter, have opted to break down the film, plot point by plot point, publicists involved in its distribution have been diligently trying to put perhaps excessive boundaries on what gets written.

Johnny Depp stars as L.A.P.D. detective Russell Poole (played by Jimmi Simpson in the USA series), who spent years trying to solve the death of Notorious B.I.G.. Two decades after the murder, Poole teams up with a reporter desperate to save his career (Forest Whitaker) to not only try to solve the mystery behind the rapper's death but also to figure out the truth as to why it never got solved in the first place.

Elizabeth Banks is great as a 24 - year - old reporter named Lindsay who tries to go undercover at the camp and find an elusive rock star (Chris Pine) who may be hiding out there.

At Sundance, one reporter tried to convince her that women don't want to direct action films, which she dismissed as nonsense.

Language: English Genre: Comedy / Romance MPAA rating: PG Director: George Cukor Actors: Cary Grant, James Stewart, John Howard Plot: A women who is about to remarry encounters her rich ex-husband and a reporter who try and woo her as she finds out her true self.

Maybe the director's greatest trick is turning reporters and fans into Dark Knight Detectives as they try to figure out what's happening with the movie.

The Reporter states: «The instalments began as a stunt for charity, but Gervais hopes they will be the basis for a movie about Brent trying to make it in the music industry.»

The film tells the story of a young reporter named Erik Kernan (Josh Hartnett) who was trying to make a career for himself and struggle out from under his father's shadow as one of the greatest sports journalists of the last century.

By this time, of course, no one cares any more as even this reporter (and I'm sure the readers themselves) has grown tired of trying to find something — ANYTHING — even remotely interesting to continue writing about Baywatch, which makes «Snatched» seem like «Citizen Kane» and any Adam Sandler comedy look lucid, coherent and intelligent by comparison.

Soon, he attracts a crowd, as well as police (his buddy Mike played by Anthony Mackie and the cynical Jack played by Edward Burns), along with a vain, callous TV news reporter Suzie Morales (Kyra Sedgwick), and a lusty but conscientious crisis negotiator, Lydia Mercer (Elizabeth Banks), who tries a little harder than Jack to talk Nick back inside.

tracks a day in the life of Capitol Pictures producer / fixer Edward Mannix (Josh Brolin) as he single handedly tries to keep the massive studio from careening off the rails, whether that amounts to replacing the lead actor of a particularly particular director (Ralph Fiennes), covering up the single motherhood of one of his young starlets (Scarlett Johansson), keeping at bay a set of twin sister reporters (Tilda Swinton and Tilda Swinton) obsessed with digging up dirt to sell their rags, or, perhaps most significantly, solving the mysterious disappearance of the superstar lead actor (George Clooney) of their biggest picture of the year (the eponymous epic

It is hard to be a reporter in America for very long, including as one trying to fathom our richly diverse public education system, without having to deal with a Constitutional issue.

As a reporter, try to find individuals who represent all sides of this story, not just the few lucky ones who qualify for the best, «gold - plated» pensions.