Sentences with phrase «making a pitch for»

Here's what she says needs to happen before you make a pitch for capital.

«I feel like these worlds are so merged over the past few years,» she said of Hollywood and Silicon Valley while making her pitch for tech investors to hit up her business associates with ideas.

America Online co-founder and former chief executive Steve Case made a pitch for stronger, less - divisive leadership, citing the example of Franklin D. Roosevelt:

Trump made another pitch for Democratic support on Capitol Hill, where his top aides met with about a dozen Senate Democrats and Trump himself phoned in from his Asia trip.

But what I'm trying to say is that I make a pitch for why I think it's important for people to understand it and to try to learn more about it.

She is obviously making a pitch for those «values...

She is obviously making a pitch for those «values voters».

Reggie makes his pitch for the NASCAR cards, suggesting that he and Herb talk further at the Hall of Fame induction ceremony.

I still can not believe how small we made the pitch for Milan!

July 3: Durant talked to Warriors Executive Board member Jerry West, who made a pitch for Golden State

We've made a pitch for the West Coast audience, but the West Coast still isn't tuning in, while the East Coast fan who was a loyal viewer can't watch because he's got stuff to do with his family.»

After the 2010 season, he went on Sirius XM and made his pitch for openings with the Mets and Yankees, to no avail.

Sources: Among the conversations b / w Tennessee & Mike Gundy before today included a call from Peyton Manning making a pitch for Gundy to come to UT

Indeed, Wenger was making a pitch for Jamie, stretching the resources of his team.

The discussion began Monday night at the village's Recreation Committee when basketball and soccer coaches from the community made their pitch for a new recreational building.

Energy efficiency arguments — Conduct energy audits to obtain data and make the pitch for new equipment.

Finally, Ms. Rowe made a pitch for San Francisco to apply for the «grant» that comes with achieving the gold standard of the Healthier US Schools program.

Make your pitch for better school food, but make sure your target understands that you are not asking (at this point) for a complete overhaul of school food, but rather for the one thing that your group decided upon — our hypothetical is «Fresh fruit instead of canned 3 days a week at lunch.»

Here's one of the first in a new series of ads from the Human Rights Campaign that feature prominent New Yorkers in politics and theater / movies making a pitch for the passage of a same - sex marriage bill, which failed in the Senate last December.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo made a pitch for down - ballot Democratic candidates at a local fundraiser in Suffolk County last night, singling out state Senate hopeful Jim Gaughran as being particularly needed in Albany.

Ed Miliband made a pitch for office that was so forgettable he forgot it himself.

And he made a pitch for a slot on Thursday, the final night of the convention.

As appropriators work to craft an omnibus spending package to fund the federal government, one of them is making a pitch for additional funding to combat heroin.

And [Louisiana Gov.] Bobby Jindal has been to New York to make the pitch for his state,» he said.

He'll make his pitch for financial reform in the heart of lower Manhattan Thursday — even as his team make hay of the Goldman Sachs fiasco with a tech savvy appeal to Democratic donors.

The rhetoric, which President Sarkozy also employed when he was first running four years ago, is partly a result of France's two - part electoral system, which forces candidates to appeal to voters on the extremes of their political wing in the first round before making a pitch for the centre in the second round run - off.

His decision comes only days after a crowded field of Democratic contenders, including Kaiman, made their pitches for the nomination before the party leaders of Nassau, Suffolk and Queens.

President Trump, speaking to a group of Hispanic business owners on Wednesday, touted his tax cuts, made a pitch for immigration reform and slammed Democrats for not doing more to...

Trump and Gov. Andrew Cuomo met at Trump Tower, where Cuomo made his pitch for the state to receive federal infrastructure dollars for state projects and voiced concerns about Republican - led efforts to repeal the Affordable Care Act.

In making his pitch for Paid Family Leave and a $ 15 - an - hour minimum wage on Long Island today, Cuomo said voter anger in the presidential primaries comes from frustrated middle class voters who are dealing with stagnant wages and rising property taxes.

Back in 2008, David Miliband wrote a similarly ambiguous, cryptic article that was widely interpreted as making a pitch for Gordon Brown's job.

But the campaigns are limited in how directly they can make their pitch for independent expenditures.

The McDonnells have encouraged Virginia's health secretary and one of his advisers to meet with Williams so he could make a pitch for his product.

Leanne Wood has made a pitch for the votes of former Labour supporters against a backdrop of Ukip by - election victories and the possibility of a hung parliament at Westminster in May.

President - elect Donald Trump and Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo met at Trump Tower Wednesday morning, where Cuomo made his pitch for the state to receive federal infrastructure dollars for state projects and voiced concerns about Republican - led efforts to repeal the Affordable Care Act.

Ed Balls has called on his party to offer a clear «Labour alternative» to the coalition government's programme of spending cuts, as he made his pitch for a senior job in the shadow Cabinet.

The Chancellor will this year sit in a Star Chamber to hear Secretaries of State make their pitches for cash.

Leaders in Saratoga Springs have made their pitch for three workforce housing proposals that aim to provide more apartments in a city desperate for workers and satisfy federal requirements for affordable housing.

But Mr. Najmi is going to make a pitch for county support in the nonpartisan special election, his backers say.

In making the pitch for additional toll relief on the Verrazano, the governor said it «will allow Staten Islanders to keep more of their money on the island.»

If team members find that there is a true market, they can then make a «go» decision and, for example, start a company, submit a small business innovation research (commonly referred to as SBIR) grant proposal, or make a pitch for venture capital funding.

Other groups representing physicians have made a pitch for clinical science, and the NIH has responded with small - scale assistance programs.

When 250 scientists descended on Washington, D.C., last month to urge federal legislators to boost funding for the physical sciences and engineering, they also made a pitch for training more scientists.

And a prominent CEO in the rare disease field stepped into Trump's high powered spotlight to urge a change in the way the agency handles orphan drugs while making a pitch for a speedy reversal of a painful setback handed to him by regulators last year.

But hey, let me seize this moment to make my pitch for Casting JonBenet, the No. 1 film on my top 10.

If you see a movie here that you're feeling good about but it's getting neglected in the voting, you can make a pitch for its latent greatness in the comments.

January 30, 2018 • President Trump made his pitch for the nation's agenda in Tuesday night's address.

That leaves plenty of room for action, which Ratner obliges, including a fine scene where Magneto springs Mystique from an armored fleet, and another sequence where Xavier and Magneto each make a pitch for Phoenix's allegiance.

Just as the wonderful Whiplash wrings terrific drama and tension from the unlikely world of jazz drumming, you'd be hard - pressed to make a pitch for a thrilling movie to be made about the cut - throat world of the domestic heating oil business, but JC Chandor has done just that with his third feature.

In a delightful parody of Apple's icon «1984» Macintosh commercial, Cumberbatch made the pitch for the Koohl Toilet by Kohler, «a sleek, reverse - bowl toilet you sit on the cool way: backwards, with your arms casually draped over the top.»