Sentences with phrase «as traditional agents»

Because discount brokerage agents are often salaried employees who receive little (or no) commission, they aren't as motivated as traditional agents.

«I prefer calling it a non-agent transaction because we provide the same level of service as a traditional agent, yet we just have a more modern - day business model.»

Our Google Computer Agents (GCAs) don't need as much gas as the traditional agent, either.

Not exact matches

Guru.com's proposition holds that free agents (or «gurus,» as the company likes to refer to them), who lack the community and other trappings afforded workers in traditional office settings, will glom on to a site where they can create an alternative to the watercooler.

«The traditional approach of relying on a corporate - installed software agent to secure a device has significant limitations in today's world as devices are developed using a wide variety of platforms and operating systems that can not support agents.»

While traditional agents are tethered to physical location and kiosk, cryptocurrency agency is flexible, allowing anyone to become a roaming agent as long as they have a phone and e-float.

In fact, the traditional business model of a team, where the leader was the «rain - maker» and the other members acted as buyer agents, will no longer be possible in this new regime.

Agents who agree would then accept the tokens as payment in exchange for reducing their traditional commissions in U.S. dollars to as low as 1 percent, or an average of $ 225 per token used, the company claims.

This global compilation of traditional wisdom shows that none of the great, classical religious traditions conceived of God as a mere intelligent Designer, or as a First Cause within nature, or as a highly moral Personality who happens to be divine as well, or any kind of all - powerful agent that has a primus inter pares relationship with other, less powerful Superbeings and Incredibles.

I propose that the concept of relational power is an important contribution because (as Loomer points out) it blends the best of these traditional roles into a unified theory of power in which agents are sensitive and nurturing as well as effective.

Frank suggests» and he is far from alone in this» that the party's success depends on reaffirming its traditional identity as the agent of «equality and economic security.»

The true alternative to the traditional role of the masculine as the active agent who influences is not the traditional conception of the feminine as the passive recipient of the influence.

And to insist that at least the God of traditional theism should have created the world instantaneously would be, Hasker again says, to imply «that the world of nature is a bad thing, one whose existence at present must perhaps be tolerated as instrumental to the existence of moral agents,» and to hold this, Hasker continues, would be at odds with the process theism's advocacy of reverence for nature.

Just follow a traditional whipped cream recipe, but substitute Silk Almondmilk (vanilla flavor) for the heavy cream and add 2 Tbsp of corn starch (as a thickening agent).

This twist on the traditional Asian chicken dish has a very unique flavor, largely due to the use of peanut butter cups as the central flavoring agent.

Long - time Hailey, Idaho chef Chris Kastner, of CK's Real Food, braises winter root vegetables, too, and often uses vegetables as a thickening agent, instead of the traditional flour method.

Coconut oil and raw cacao butter replace the eggs of a traditional cheesecake and act as the binding and setting agents for the cheesecake filling.

Rather than use traditional animal - based «fining» or filtering agents, such as egg white, gelatin, isinglass or casein, vegan wines employ plant - based alternatives to remove bacteria and improve clarity and taste.

Examples include: • Bakery applications such as cakes, breads and muffins • Almond flour in crackers helps them stay crispy longer • Coatings applications for fish and chicken • Thickening agent for sauces and soups, adding nutrition in this growing category In addition to versatility, product longevity and nutrition, Blue Diamond Almond Flour can be easily substituted for traditional flours in existing recipes without compromising taste or texture.

Unlike traditional traffic models, which used equations to describe moving vehicles en masse as a kind of fluid, Transims modeled each vehicle and driver as an agent moving through a city's road network.

In Japan, traditional carpenters use leaves from D. scabra as a final polishing agent for mahogany.

Fusion imaging, combining traditional nuclear medicine with other imaging technologies like CT and MRI and their related contrast agents, as well as new and exciting areas like fluorescence imaging are examples of this.

Originally made in traditional Japanese cooking, glucomannan's unique properties was as all - natural thickening agent really comes in handy here.

The root is a favorite amongst traditional herbalists as it supports the healthy functioning of the liver, kidneys, spleen, and gallbladder and is considered to be a reliable detoxifying agent.»

This area could be very sophisticated, with exotic compounds such as those used in traditional weight loss treatment acting as potential performance - enhancing agents.

In separate work involving a singular traditional food or medicinal agent, the anti-inflammatory botanical Sophora flavescens, researchers, again using LPS as the inducing agent, found a more pronounced anti-inflammatory and antioxidant activity with the fermented form»

They have looked at the spice, tumeric, which was known from traditional Indian medicine as an anti-inflammatory agent effective in wound healing.

But it's also just a straight forward, traditional, albeit formulaic ansd predictable crime caper following the exploits of federal agents, or G Men as they strive to bring the major criminals across the country to justice.

Involvement with another troupe, the New York Youth Theater, provided more traditional stage experience through such productions as Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dream Coat, and it was while performing with that troupe that a talent agent recognized great potential in the burgeoning actress.

Jon Hamm and Gal Gadot form a good team as the sexy and sophisticated undercover agents (enough to make you wonder how they would fare in a more traditional spy movie), but they're mostly wasted in underwritten roles.

And when Aidan's sternly traditional Jewish father Gabe (Mandy Patinkin) announces that he's dying of lung cancer, this bombshell acts as an agent of catharsis for the entire family.

Now I could go on and on about the illusionary «support» traditional publishers and agents say they give writers, but anyone who has dealt with that system for any length of time knows that's just gotten worse as well in the last ten years.

Forums for authors with traditional publishing aspirations have long been peppered with threads about the query grind, the rejection letters and emails that pile up from agents and publishers, and the desire to quit and give up on the hopes of ever making it as a writer.

Me, when I finally have a finished novel I will write it as many times as it takes to get a traditional agent and a traditional publisher, because that's the only way I'll ever know in my heart that my writing really made the cut.

What I liked and got most out of the interview was that now agents are paying attention to books that are now being published as e-books online rather than traditional agent queries and rejections.

As we've written a number of times at GigaOM, the traditional book - publishing business continues to be disrupted, with some self - published authors such as Amanda Hocking making millions of dollars without using a traditional agent or publisher, by selling their own books through Amazon's (s amzn) Kindle platforAs we've written a number of times at GigaOM, the traditional book - publishing business continues to be disrupted, with some self - published authors such as Amanda Hocking making millions of dollars without using a traditional agent or publisher, by selling their own books through Amazon's (s amzn) Kindle platforas Amanda Hocking making millions of dollars without using a traditional agent or publisher, by selling their own books through Amazon's (s amzn) Kindle platform.

So when I wasn't at all looking for traditional any more, when I was thrilled to death with life as an indie, I find myself in the middle of the best of both worlds, with possibly the world's most perfect agent for me, falling right into my lap without ever writing a single query letter.

One other helpful piece of advice: One of the panels I sat on included a very seasoned agent who had also worked as an editor for a traditional publisher.

But just as if you don't need a buggy whip to start your car, you don't need an agent to sell a book, or a traditional publisher to make a living at fiction writing.

At the same time I see that relationship more as a partnership than a traditional agent / author agreement.

In this course, I interview CJ Lyons, NY Times bestselling author, about traditional publishing, covering everything from finding an agent, pitching, how the publishing process works, how the money works, the pros and cons, details of contracts and what to watch out for as well as the biggest mistakes people make.

Traditional publishers use editors and agents as gatekeepers.

A Twenty - Five - Question Interview Published as a Five Part Series Hosted by MM Finck Anonymously Answered By Agented Authors * with Varying Publishing Career Durations and Successes from Debut to Bestselling and Represented by Multiple Literary Agencies of Varying Sizes QUESTION ONE Why did you choose the traditional publishing track?

I knew I had a good publishable novel for it had been assessed, passed on to agents, and been short listed in two competitions, but how to beat the «Great Amazon slush pile» as the traditional publishers rudely call it?

With the introduction of desktop publishing, print - on - demand technology, and the Internet as a direct - to - consumer distribution channel, publishing became a service consumers could purchase, instead of an industry solely dependent on middlemen (agents) and buyers (traditional publishers).

But most of the time it's the writer telling me in no uncertain terms I need an agent or need to publish in traditional publishing as they did.

Do you think that the self - publishing alternative is taken seriously by the traditional actors (publishers, agents) or still widely seen as vanity publishing?

I believe that there IS an author of Traditional Publishing quality out there... maybe one as good as Peter Brett, Trudi Canvan, etc... they were probably missed by the Agents.

Approved by my agent at the time, I signed a traditional contract a few years ago with publisher Aflame Books, whose backlist (of twenty literary fiction titles in their first English translations) was about to be supplemented by a new imprint for original - English - language fiction, starting with my novel The Imagination Thief as this imprint's launch title.

Another major concern in the ebook - only representation model is that the agent would now retain all rights to the books, just as publishers in a traditional model do.