Sentences with phrase «figure advance from»

My publisher passed on my time - travel classic sci - fi tale, and while I got a nice five - figure advance from another publisher, I decide to pass on it and instead took a much smaller advance with a company that took only the print rights.

Not exact matches

Papa, CEO of Centennial Resource Development, is a closely followed figure in the U.S. shale drilling world, where producers rely on advanced techniques to coax oil and gas from tight rock formations.

He's SOOO, like first century A.D. I figure you're right that 100 years from now everyone in the future will read your post and see what a uniquely wise, modern, advanced thinker you are.

McMahon feels like a real waste for these two to be spending their attention on, but at least Sunday's main event advanced the story and introduced stronger tensions, while opening up a space for Daniel Bryan — SmackDown's other authority figure — to get on McMahon for directly interfering in the match, twice, after what was clearly an unintended kick from Owens.

He has figured prominently since Allardyce took charge three months ago — Davies has started eight top - flight matches and appeared from the bench in a further three in that period — and is thriving in his advanced position.

In advance of today's Budget, ConservativeHome assembled an expert panel of political figures and commentators to outline what they hope to see from today's Budget in their area of interest or expertise.

To be sure, one should be cautious with celebrating the recent expansion of party membership as a sign that Labour has become the «first mass party in the advanced capitalist world this century,» for if all it takes to count as a party member is a payment of # 3, it is not entirely clear why an increase in membership figures would be a reliable indicator of public support, let alone signalling increased support from the «communities that send Labour MPs to parliament.»

To find out how average monthly temperatures had changed from 1847 to 2013, the researchers used an advanced statistical time series approach to figure out what changes in temperature were due to natural variability and what changes represented a long - term trend.

Analysis of the data reveals that 87 % of glaciers have retreated (click on the image for a more detailed figure) and that the change from advance to retreat has occurred progressively with latitude.

«We need,» said Blair appointee Estelle Morris just before resigning in 2002 as secretary of state for education, «a shift in understanding away from the old model of teaching as transmission of facts and figures towards one which captures the teacher's role as expert practitioners in advanced pedagogy.»

On issues big and small, from smarter approaches, to «differentiating instruction» so advanced kids aren't bored and struggling kids aren't left behind, to figuring out how to make recess less Lord of the Flies, to working on getting youngsters more exercise and healthier school meals, and on and on?

Figures quoted from a recent Times report state huge savings: from # 70 million saving in a consortia with a combined spending power of # 500 million, to savings of 16 per cent of travel costs by purchasing air fares weeks, rather than days in advance.

Now, with the state facing a $ 3.5 billion budget deficit, school districts still reeling from painful budget cuts last summer will have to figure out how to pay for the online and Advanced Placement courses the law mandates.

I figure the ignition system, which would be getting the octane data from the octane sensor, would advance the timing appropriately to accommodate the higher octane fuel.

It shouldn't take a Wall Street analyst to figure out that an automaker spending part of its hefty profits from pickup trucks and SUVs to develop battery electric vehicles with range and recharge times that will attract mainstream buyers has a much better future than a small upstart automaker with enviable advanced technology, but no way to pay for its development other than by raising more capital.

Its inline - 6 BMW Advanced Diesel engine with BMW TwinPower Turbo technology makes 255 horsepower at 4,000 rpm and 413 lb - ft of torque from 1,500 — 3,000 rpm (preliminary figures).

• New generation of engines with MINI TwinPower Turbo Technology; three model variants available as of market launch: MINI Cooper with 100 kW / 136 bhp 3 - cylinder engine, MINI Cooper S with 141 kW / 192 bhp 4 - cylinder petrol engine and MINI Cooper D with 3 - cylinder diesel engine (85 kW / 116 bhp); expansion of the model program to include the entry - level variants MINI One D (3 - cylinder diesel engine, 70 kW / 95 bhp) and MINI One (3 - cylinder spark - ignition engine, 75 kW / 102 bhp); 6 - speed manual transmission as standard, with optional 6 - speed automatic transmission or sports automatic transmission, also newly developed; extensive MINIMALISM technology including automatic engine start / stop function likewise in conjunction with automatic transmission and optional GREEN mode; improved driving performance figures and reduced fuel consumption; biggest efficiency advance in the MINI Cooper with automatic transmission: acceleration from zero to 100 km / h 2.6 seconds faster, average fuel consumption 27 per cent lower; lowest fuel consumption and CO2 levels in the MINI Cooper D: 3.5 — 3.6 litres / 100 km, 92 — 95 g / km (EU test cycle figures, dependent on tyre format selected).

Materials progress, always a factor in advancing the capabilities of engineering and technology, figures here too: BMW has drawn upon innovative and heat - resistant materials from space technology to facilitate the twin turbos» dramatic contribution to performance.

I'm a couple thousand bucks away from earning out my low five - figure advance.

This technique has had notable successes lately, like propelling a book from obscurity to six - figure advances, and building pre-publication buzz and momentum.

I too fantasized about that magical email dropping into my Inbox the one from The Agent who had sold my manuscript to a top - notch publishing house just moments ago for a seven - figure advance.

This column caused me to go check on my first trad published book — one that I got a very good advance for 11 years ago and pretty much figure I'll never see another penny from.

We can take advances ranging from $ 10,000 and up depending on the project and still make six figures every year without too much problem.

A false dichotomy surely, particularly from an author who is not alone in obtaining a six figure advance without signing away (digital) lifetime rights.

Stop by to purchase an exclusive advance copy with an exclusive figure from Japan and have it signed by Eiichi Shimizu and Tomohiro Shimoguchi.

They offered us money up front (confidentiality prohibits me from saying the amount)[RICK ADDS: But it certainly was NOT 5 or 6 figures], as an advance against the royalties the book was expected to earn.

For example, this calculator from Self Lender shows that a consumer with excellent credit can get a $ 5,000 loan with only 10.94 % interest - far lower than the median figure of 24 % for cash advances.

Use the advanced budget calculator to figure out how much money you need to save from each paycheck to meet your goals.

The sea creatures kept my mind so busy that I didn't even realize I was diving at nearly fifty feet.I've heard horror stories from other divers about their first experience in the water — where instructors left them to figure things out on their own or put them in situations only for advanced divers.

From there the wooden spike can be upgraded to a better wooden wall, until eventually the only way to advance is to find out how to gain access to stone, thus you set out to figure out the next step in building up the kingdom.

We want to be the first to figure out what advanced features from Korea will work in the global market, while at the same time figuring out what new and exciting elements from global gaming trends will make our portfolio of games even better.

2015 brought an immense amount of marketing to the franchise, from amiibo cards (used with the 3DS spinoff Happy Home Designer) that invoke memories of those Game Boy Advance eReader cards that were incorporated with Wild World, to its own amiibo figure line (used with the less - than - well - received amiibo Festival game on the Wii U), to an appearance in Mario Kart 8.

Through drawings and paintings of the figure, still lifes, and landscapes, the 20 artists in the exhibition draw inspiration from the art historical canon — Renaissance painting, the Hudson River School, American Modernism — and advance realism as a critical mode of painting in the 21st century.

Like DeKooning's Woman I moving away from representation, Wahlstrom advances, intentionally fusing abstraction and representation, always with methodology skimming the biomorphic, returning not to the whole figure but particularly the human face.

, Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New York, US Intervention / Decoration, Foreground Projects, Frome, Somerset, UK Ambition d'Art, Institute d'Art Contemporain, Villeurbanne - Lyon, FR Redone, Kröller - Müller Museum, Otterlo, NL A Bookcase for Onestar Press by Lawrence Weiner, Christophe Daviet - Thery, Paris, FR Mes Amis, Dvir Gallery, Tel Aviv, IL Reconstruction # 3: Artists» Playground, Sudeley Castle, Winchcombe, Gloucestershire, UK Advancing the Experience: Robert Ryman & Urs Raussmüller, Hallen für Neue Kunst, Schaffhausen, CH Art Basel, Kino Mascotte, Basel, CH Cul - de-sac, curated by Lino Polrgato, Small Dead End Courts Around Venice, IT 2008: FREEDOM - American Sculpture, curated by Marie Jeanne de Rooij, Stichting Den Haag Sculptuur, Den Haag, NL Revolutions - Forms That Turn, Biennale of Sydney, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, AU Slow Glass, Lisa Cooley, New York, US Thoughts On Democracy: Reinterpreting Norman Rockwell's «Four Freedoms» Poster, The Wolfsonian, Florida International University, Miami, Florida, US artCRUSH, Aspen Art Museum, Colorado, US NOLEFTOVERS, Kunsthalle Bern, CH Translocomotion 7th Shanghai Biennale, curated by Julian Heynan, Henk Slager, Shanghai, CN German Angst, Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin, DE TEXT drawings, Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, UK Drawings on Graph Paper, Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects, New York, US Pleinairism, curated by Kitty Scott, i8 Gallery, Reykjavik, IS Une Grosse Caisse dans un Orchestre Symphonique, Center d'art Contemporain, Saint Restitut, FR Variation 1, Wiener Konzerthaus, Vienna, AT Wall Rockets: Contemporary Art Artists and Ed Ruscha, curated by Lisa Dennison, The FLAG Art Foundation, New York, US; Albright - Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York, US XX, CAG, Vancouver, CA Wall Works, Buchmann Galerie, Lugano, CH ABC No Rio 2008 Gala & Benefit Auction, Angel Orensanz Foundation for the Arts, New York, US The Panza Collection, The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC, US 2 x -LSB-(2 x 20) + (2 x 2)-RSB- + 2 = XX (DESPERATELY) TRYING TO FIGURE OUT THE WORLD, curated by Konrad Bitterli, Part I, Mai 36 Galerie, Zurich, CH, Part II, Brook Alexander Gallery, New York, US Collected Visions Modern and Contemporary Works from the JP Morgan Chase Art Collection, Pera Museum, Istanbul, TR This is the Gallery and the Gallery is Many Things, Eastside Projects, Birmingham, UK Love Love Love, Martos Gallery, New York, US Whatever Happened to Sex in Scandinavia, curated by Marta Kuzma, Office for Contemporary Art Norway, Oslo, NO Passage To The North, screening SI Annual Benefit, Swiss Institute, New York, US Posesion, curated by Montserrat and Pablo Sigg, Petra, Mexico City, MX Now You See It, Aspen Art Museum, Colorado, US Order.

As an example of what I mean by this, consider two of the long European records shown in the figure: d'Argentiere evidently advanced from about 1820 to 1850, while Grindelwald was retreating.

Ship - based observations from the NASA Icescape cruise with USCG Healy (Perovich and Polashenski) indicate that the ice cover in the Chukchi Sea is in an advanced state of melt with melt ponds melted through in many areas and ice thicknesses on the order of 1m (Figure 3).

In advance of tomorrow's unemployment figures from the Office for National Statistics leading graduate internship provider, Inspiring Interns is calling on the Government to boost support for unemployed graduates.

You can figure on anywhere from 2 months to 6 months will be collected in advance as part of your closing costs.

u make an interesting statement sally — the idea being that 1 in 1 trillion (which, you are correct, that figure was made up & not actual, the ACTUAL incidence is much much lower) that you had 4 children dieing from natural circumstances — now, to all the ppl who have their mind made up — just say that IS true, to have that happen, be living with all that grief, & then be put in gaol... surely with that thought in mind & this books new look at the case, kathy deserves just that — a new look, & with the advantage of almost 10 years of medical advances, etc...