Sentences with phrase «make the pitch short»

So you must make the pitch short and to the point, and make sure it showcases your knowledge.

Not exact matches

It was O'Malley who made the strongest pitch to tackle immigration reform and to find a path forward to citizenship for 11 million undocumented immigrants in the U.S., though he was short on details.

If you're pitching a journalist in person, make your presentation shorter than three minutes.

In short, instead of pitching your products or services, you are delivering information that makes your buyer more intelligent.

In addition to those three elements, keep your pitch shorter than 30 seconds, and make sure it is relevant to the conference.

Pitching hasn't been a problem for them since Yu Darvish left the game, but he sure made his mark in his short start.

He then made short work of the Blue Jays, using just 81 pitches in a 4 - 1 victory.

We still want to, or are forced into playing short passes across the pitch which might get us five yards closer to the opposition goal, but when you've made 12 short range passes and are still 50 yards away, with no striker in the box.....

That's not the case, and just to make sure, the person pitching that day will wear a short that reads «I'm the ace».

He only started two league games, one Champions League fixture and six cup matches, making a further 12 substitute appearances, but he scored eight goals and has three assists in that short time on the pitch.

Joe Allen, likely the shortest player on the pitch, was allowed two attempts to score from Emre Can's cross, and made no mistake upon being given a second chance.

Giroud's stats compared to Welbeck's show just how much of a difference he made, with 16 passes compared to 19, passing accuracy of 88 percent compared to 79, three shot assists to one, 26 touches to 36 and he made the same amount of tackles as our new striker in his short time on the pitch.

As mentioned before though the wingers weren't symmetrical: Wright - Philips was repeatedly coming short towards Micah Richards, dragging the left - back up the pitch for James Milner to make a diagonal run behind, then hitting it down the line (fig. 1).

«If you can come off the pitch with clean shorts it normally means you haven't had to go to ground or make any slide tackles, which means you haven't been out of position.

In short, Arsenal built up play well but the decision - making in the final third of the pitch (particularly Walcott's) ultimately caused the play to break down

The Blaugrana look stronger defensively and seem to slowly work towards a return to what made them offensively unstoppable during the Pep Guardiola Era: short passing, triangles all over the pitch and constant movement of the attacking pieces to find and create spaces inside tight defenses.

Rochester also has a federal cheerleader in Rep. Louise Slaughter, who last week made a short pitch to an Amazon representative who was at a meeting about the city's growing photonics industry.

Nominated by his division head to take part in Fred Hutch's first - ever «Fast Pitch» competition, Taylor joined five other early - career researchers last spring in making short presentations on his research to a luncheon audience of donors.

This was the captivating premise of Darwinian American Cannibal, a short - lived program which had been successfully pitched to producers but canceled before it even made it onto the air.

Slow West will mark your third collaboration with Michael Fassbender having previously made two shorts; «Man on a Motorcycle» and the Bafta winning short «Pitch Black Heist».

But though it could be viewed as a series of short, fun, film pitches - Channing Tatum's happy sailor tap - dancing routine was a favourite - wrapped up in the larger narrative of a movie star being kidnapped, its so beautifully put together, well - performed, tightly - scripted and deliberating making fun of itself that it works.

Young and brash, Karlson described his job as «washing toilets and dishes and whatever the hell they gave me» 4 and talked his way into a number of short - lived assignments as an assistant to directors Arthur Lubin, Henry Koster, Tay Garnett, William Wyler, Stuart Walker and John Ford, and successfully pitched a story idea to Will Rogers, who unfortunately died in a plane crash before the film could be made.

That journey began in 1999, when a theme park pitched an idea to Studio Ghibli to make a 20 - minute short about cats.

A floundering movie pitch frames the anthology of shorts, satirising producer Charles B. Wessler's efforts to make the feature.

Although I could have pitched some of my books to traditional publishers, I didn't want a gatekeeper making a decision about whether readers would or would not be interested.For example, my Vanquish Writer's Block (originally titled The Visual Writer) book is fairly short but packed with tips on using images when you're stuck.

It's obviously the combination of an article / sales pitch, but I thought this could be a worthwhile short - term business for some people out there to make a few extra bucks, so I'm running it.

Pitch is able to fly as well, albeit his short stature makes it harder for him to carry Kirby's weight, making him less graceful than Coo.

To rise above the crowd, make your email subject line compelling, avoid CAPS and don't waste time typing out a huge introduction — keep your email pitch short and sweet.

Think of it as your resume «elevator pitch» — a short and simple pitch to capture the employer's attention and make him want to read on to learn more about you.

When it comes to making a pitch, you know shorter is better.

More than 35 capital providers made short «pitches» to capital seekers during three concurrent sessions which were held over two days.