Sentences with phrase «before landing a deal»

Mark Edwards is an author who topped Amazon's charts with the self - published thrillers he co-wrote with Louise Voss before landing a deal with HarperCollins.

John Locke sold $ 2M worth of eBooks before landing a deal with Simon & Schuster.

Not exact matches

«If it is correct that the speaker, before he resigns, has cut a deal with Nancy Pelosi to fund the Obama administration for the rest of this year, to fund Obamacare, to fund executive amnesty, to fund Planned Parenthood, to fund implementation of this Iran deal, and then presumably to land a cushy K Street job after joining with the Democrats to implement all of President Obama's priorities, that is not the behavior one would expect from a Republican speaker of the House.»

New Democrats have been seeking details of the land deal since August of 2014, and had to ask the Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner to intervene before the B.C. Liberals finally released the appraisal.

Arsene touched down and deals where done before he landed.

Reporter David Ornstein has proved to be the most in - the - know journalist when it comes to all things Arsenal, being the first with breaking news on the goings on at our club on a number of occasions, and he has now confirmed that we are very close on completing this deal, with the BVB trying to land his replacement before releasing our target.

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This swap deal has been talked up for some time, so it could be that there's still a chance for the west London giants to land this world class finisher before the deadline.

Arsene Wenger is ready to offer a club record $ 65m (# 46m) to land the 27 - year - old striker and could look to complete the deal before the transfer window slams shut.

Re: NBC, they were close to landing Pac - 12 rights before ESPN / Fox paired up & were willing to commit $ figure about what Fox / B1G deal is for

The Reds are keen to land Mamadou Sakho and hoping to wrap up a deal before the end of the transfer window

A legislative source reports two top aides to Mayor Bloomberg — Deputy Mayor Howard Wolfson and Director of Legislative Affairs Micah Lasher — are huddling with Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver in hopes of landing a charter school deal before the day is out.

He has not made any public appearances in Albany as lawmakers struggled to land deals before the session's scheduled end, though he did participate in closed door negotiations with legislative leaders.

Before voting on all the matters facing the Council today, they'll all be discussed — including land use deals in Long Island City and Willet's Point and restaurant health inspection changes.

As part of the deal, the board members were promised that the environmental contamination of the land would be remediated before the town took ownership of the property.

Public records indicate the sales took place about two weeks before a limited liability company run by Nicolla and involved in the land deal gave $ 50,000 to Gov. Andrew Cuomo's campaign fund --- among $ 150,000 in donations reported by the governor's campaign that day from LLCs tied to Columbia.

Whether dealing with historically intact or novel ecosystems — the 47 percent of Earth's ice - free land that has been altered by humans — scientists need to look at the paleobiology of the region, that is, what the ecosystem looked like before humans altered it, and seek to rebuild it to some degree toward that natural balance, Barnosky said.

Rita and Roddy strike a deal that Roddy hopes will eventually land him back in his guilded cage where he can return to driving his Barbie car and skiing on mountains of ice cream before his owners return from Holiday.

The actress also found a great deal of success on the small screen — Ivey starred in television productions of The Long, Hot Summer (1985), Dixie: Changing Habits (1985), We Are the Children (1987), and Decoration Day (1990) before landing several prominent sitcom roles.

Penguin Random House's #WriteNow program seeks writers who submit their work and then crawl their way through elimination rounds before ten are chosen to work closely with an editor for a year, hoping to land a publishing deal at the end of the process.

(Brief backstory: Lancaster was making a ton of money at a technology company before 9/11, and then she got laid off, chronicled her experiences on a blog, Jennsylvania, and landed several book deals.)

Authors who have landed traditional publishing deals include Stu Krieger, the screenwriter of The Land Before Time; Derek Loudermilk, the scientist, pro athlete, and The Art of Adventure podcaster; and Cecilia Perez - Matos, openly gay daughter of the former President of Venezuela.

Anyway, I'm surprised if people are reacting that way, because she's detailed on her blog all the previous attempts to be NY published before, and it doesn't seem like such a stretch to want to use some leverage to land a good deal, which is exactly what she did.

If you're familiar with the traditional publishing landscape, you'll know that it's really hard to land a book deal without an agent, and it's impossible to get an agent without sending dozens of query letters... There are, however, a few ways to get to know agents before you submit to them.

While some authors are able to land great book deals without having a single publishing credit, the majority of authors often have some publications listed in their author bio before they start querying.

Had to publish his works in serial form (Household Words) before he eventually landed a deal.

Then you should consult our Apple iPad guide now, which details and ranks every iPad sold today, before returning here to land a top deal on the tablet best suited to you.

Remember, if you don't have the cash in hand or great credit to land you a good loan deal, it's important that you start by shopping for the car loan before the car itself.

Your local bank or credit union will offer a range of CDs, but before you embark on a tour of nearby lending institutions, consider comparison shopping online to land the best deal.

Before the game begins, you and your opponents are dealt out equal land, which is separated and split into smaller sections.

However, with me at least, a bit part of the deal is the increased acidity reducing fish harvests, water shortages, droughts severely reducing crops (sure — more rain, but more over the ocean, less on land — and with greater evaporation before the water trickles to a dry stream bed), increased heat reducing rice production and other heat sensative crops, the heat waves, etc..

Even before international carbon markets were seen as mechanisms to support forest conservation, there were precedents for how to deal with rights to land - linked resources.

AFAIK man was certainly on the planet long before the end of the last ice age, when there was an ice cap covering a great deal of the Northern hemisphere land mass (I don't know about the Southern).

Furthermore, the law governing the obligation of the Registrar to protect the integrity of membership lists had been dealt with in Gauchier v Alberta (Metis Settlements Land Registry), 2014 ABCA 356 (CanLII) and neither of the applicants could have been parties before the Tribunal.

You need to put in a lot of effort before you can land the perfect deal.

Plus, you can get a nice night's rest before going in to land that big business deal, interview, or partnership the next day.

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I have always wondered, just how many Ontario MPPs sold their homes before The Land Speculation Tax Act and The Land Transfer Tax Act were dropped onto the Ontario people, on Friday, April 9, 1974, which caused the real estate market to collapse over night, and sold deals failed to close starting Monday.

Competition is so intense that lenders and their agents are doing much of the scouting themselves, hoping to land the good deals before someone else gets them.

The offer sets out the price the purchaser is willing to pay, the suggested date of completion, any required documents - like a land survey - which the purchaser requires, the moveable items - such as appliances and drapes - which the buyer wants included, and any particular terms or conditions which the buyer wants satisfied before closing the deal.