Sentences with phrase «overtures came»

Your overture comes at a time when the science backing global warming alarmism is crumbling, as amply demonstrated by the reports of the Nongovernmental International Panel on Climate change (NIPCC).

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But the news comes as Brussels makes positive overtures to London.

But buyers, bolstered by anecdotes and overtures from pro athletes, began to come around.

And one specific NAFTA proposal that so far hasn't sit well with Mexico and Canada - requiring automobiles to have 50 percent of parts come from the US - is a direct overture to US factory workers.

From time to time, Russell says, he would get overtures from NBA teams, one of them coming last February from an Eastern Conference team, which he won't identify, that wanted to hire him as general manager.

Twice within the last three years Ernie has had overtures from movie scouts, but so far nothing has come of them.

The latest, high - profile overture to Mr. Jeffries came from William C. Thompson Jr., a former city comptroller who in 2013 was the runner - up for the Democratic mayoral nomination.

The timing of Mr. de Blasio's overtures is no accident: The mayor and his advisers have increasingly come to see the rift between Mr. de Blasio and Mr. Bloomberg as a damaging and unnecessary political liability — especially at a time when Mr. de Blasio's clashes with Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo, a fellow Democrat, have hurt his ability to push through important pieces of his agenda.

«May we also point out that since his arrest and even up to about a week ago, our son has made several overtures to the arresting authority for him to refund the money since they now claim in court that it came from government coffers.

It plays like an overture for Grand Guignol to come, but Life primly avoids further gross - outs, declining to explore territory where Carpenter or Cronenberg — heck, even Collet - Serra or Natali — might have ventured.

TCM Movie Database, < http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/82394/Magnificent-Obsession/articles.html > The website also notes that, before up - and - coming new star Robert Taylor was borrowed from MGM for his first big leading role, unsuccessful overtures had been made to Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., to play Bobby Merrick.Coincidentally, Taylor's first feature role was as a supporting player in Too Late for Love, aka There's Always Tomorrow (1934), based on an unpublished novel by Ursula Parrott, directed by Edward Sloman, and remade by Douglas Sirk in 1956.

Following a short - winded and ordinary spring box office run, Brooklyn's Finest comes to DVD and Blu - ray next week from Overture Films and Anchor Bay Entertainment.

Four months after opening in theaters, The Crazies comes to DVD and Blu - ray next Tuesday from Overture video arm Anchor Bay Entertainment.

Fox Searchlight came back into the negotiation on a second round but was unable to close... Also bidding on An Education were The Weinstein Co., Focus Features, Lionsgate and Overture.

It's also disconcerting because Overture houses Anchor Bay, the subsidiary about to release the very good «Solitary Man» this coming Friday.

Both The Hedge Knight and The Sandman: Overture # 1 are pre-orders, so I expect we'll continue to see them on the chart for several weeks to come.

The big company that came up in conversation was Canadian based Kobo, who has made overtures to open up various European localized versions of their book store.

Slow motion gives you a chance to see that last orange peg get its come uppance before a piece of music like the 1812 Overture starts blasting from the speakers as fireworks erupt and a rainbow displays your final score.

In a recent interview with Famitsu translated by 1UP, Dragon Quest composer Koichi Sugiyama, who was already a celebrity in Japan for his TV / film work long before he began working on video games, reflected on his 24 - year history with the series and revealed that he came up with the melody for the iconic overture in just five minutes.

«It took about five minutes between getting struck with the idea and coming up with the melody [for the overture],» Sugiyama said.

The biggest promotion, perhaps, has come in the form of an anime series called Overture.

When the Wii came out, its gesture - based gaming started me thinking of existing games that would be perfect for it, like Penumbra: Overture and Space Channel 5.

I mean to me subjectively in the sense that for us, though the Spanish War was an issue of black and white, of life and death, an overture to the Second World War which we all knew was coming, and all the other things that are obviously involved, no, I don't regret doing it.

That's one reason I mused on whether truly substantial investment in an energy transformation could only come under a Republican presidency, in the same way an American overture to Communist China had to await Richard Nixon.

The lithe flutes and strings at the beginning of Mendelssohn's overture to «A Midsummer Night's Dream» came across with depth that other Bluetooth speakers struggle to equal.

I am also guessing if $ SPG really made these overtures there will be something coming from them affirming Ackman's version of events.