Sentences with phrase «take pitches from»

The first two days play host to CraftFest, a time for writers to learn from the greats on topics pertaining to suspense writing, as well as AgentFest, in which over sixty agents and editors attended to take pitches from aspiring authors, a rare head count of talent for writing conferences.

It's a place where publishing industry professionals casually take pitches from unpublished authors over drinks, while new authors and fans hang out and talk with their favorite writers.

As Utah's Alex Smith took a shotgun snap and began running an option to his left, defensive end Keith Hill, linebacker Malcolm Postell and safety Tez Morris swarmed toward receiver Paris Warren, who'd gone in motion and, the Panthers figured, was about to take a pitch from Smith.

Early in the third quarter receiver Kendall Wright took a pitch from Griffin and raced for a 37 - yard touchdown that put Baylor up 17 — 7.

While this was never confirmed, reports surfaced that Sony was taking pitches from various filmmakers for Robocop 2.

She is also taking pitches from attending writers.

She will also be taking pitches from attending writers.

He will also be taking pitches from attending writers.

She is also taking pitches from attendees.

At the 2018 workshop, she will be taking pitches from writers as well as teaching a speech on writing query letters to agents.

Not exact matches

Along with Harris, the two pitched the idea of a standalone political news and commentary site to the Washington Post in 2006 but were ultimately disillusioned with the response, so they took the idea to Allbritton — and eventually hired more than a few senior reporters and editors away from both the Washington Post and other newspapers.

The inventors will be given the resources and help they need to take their products from concept to reality, building, testing, and perfecting their products for the biggest pitch of their lives.

As the crisis over Catalonia's independence reached fever pitch this weekend, a small team from the region took on La Liga titan Real Madrid — and won.

Amazon took in 238 proposals from cities vying to host its second headquarters, and many turned to video to hammer their pitches home.

If you are strapped for cash, but pumped full of dreams and ideas, take a look at these steps for starting your own business, from getting a domain name to developing a pitch deck to jumping off the deep end and launching your business.

But Facebook changed its pitch: A 30 - minute video was scrapped and the company took more questions from analysts and potential investors.

Go running (or in my case, biking) around town chasing down investors and startups all at the same time, simultaneously pitching your strategy and executing it, taking money from one hand and putting in the other as you both fundraise and prove out your strategy by deploying capital... and forget having an income for at least a year.

While there are rumors that this is not an official policy of Google anymore, as a manager, encouraging employees to take some time to work on an innovative new project they've pitched can bring you great products and loyalty from motivated employees.

It takes guts — perhaps even a touch of madness — to pitch the region, especially now when, from all appearances, every other Arab country is in the throes of yet another heartbreak.

Because they are the people at the receiving end who get pitched all the time from entrepreneurs, here are five top venture capitalists baring all about what will make them sit up and take notice.

If you're serious about taking on investment, you should be strategic about who you pursue and how you can benefit from working together, not just pitch to any and every investor you come across.

Following five women over two years as they pitch VCs, build teams, bring products to market, fail and start again, SHE STARTED IT takes viewers on a global roller coaster ride from San Francisco to Mississippi, France and Vietnam.

After all, lots of companies can put up a website and make a sales pitch and offer big promises for what kinds of results they can deliver, but to truly stand out from the crowd in this industry, it takes hard work, a smart strategy, a consistent process, and rock - solid integrity to do business the right way.

On a lazy day, I like to place a large bowl twenty feet from my back porch, take a seat in my porch rocking chair and pitch a deck of playing cards one at a time to see how many will spin just right and go into the bowl.

To hear him sing the aria «Great Bear and the Pleiades» from Peter Grimes» the text suspended on a single pitch as Benjamin Britten's harmonies spin around it like constellations» was to be taken to some height from which the whole miserable panorama of human suffering was for a moment laid bare to our view.

«My advice, as I said earlier, is: First, that their synagogues be burned down, and that all who are able toss sulphur and pitch; it would be good if someone could also throw in some hellfire... Second, that all their books — their prayer books, their Talmudic writings, also the entire Bible — be taken from them, not leaving them one leaf, and that these be preserved for those who may be converted... Third, that they be forbidden on pain of death to praise God, to give thanks, to pray, and to teach publicly among us and in our country... Fourth, that they be forbidden to utter the name of God within our hearing.

if i get a caution from np for my behaviour i'll certainly think again, but i take the pitch of his posts as a guide and i pitch my responses accordingly.

Dr. Paris Sabo, co-founder and COO of natural oral care product company Dr. Brite, took home the prize at the Natural Products Expo West 2018 Pitch - Slam, valued at over $ 40K in services from New Hope Network.

we've been patient with these guys and others for a very long time now and there seems to be no improvement on the pitch of play... fans have always listed players they believe are not good to take the club to the next height but Mr potato head will continue to have faith till those guys retire from football without achieving anything for themselves.

i really hope that he takes over from the tall slow guy who has been soooo helpful to us...... we need a more energetic defense and not to play many small players on the pitch so how that works out i don't know....

AW clearly loves the club and has given it 20 years of his life, he has, as already mentioned, taken us from being a lower top tier club to being at one point a team who's footballing prowess and skills on the pitch were the model and envy of all around us.

You turn up on the pitch and you give a minimum of 100 %... I have yet to see this from our team this season and they should take some responsibility for this as well as the manager for IMHO poor team selection.

Cashner will be 30 in September somehow, so it's probably time to stop thinking of him like he's a phenom who's going to emerge from a pitching chrysalis and take over the National League.

American League took on familiar look as New York Yankees, with airtight pitching from vets Don Larsen, Johnny Kucks, Whitey Ford and Bob Turley, won five out of six from Boston and Baltimore, assumed expected perch at top of standings.

Liverpool's strong start to the season is on the verge of being put to the back burner once again as contract talks continue to take away from the play on the pitch.

As Wenger said in response to the protests: «We live in a society of total opinion but we live off not what we say but what we do — and what we do is on the pitch,» Tomorrow night, Arsenal desperately need to «do what they do» and take all three points from high - flying Southampton to take some pressure off the manager and the players....

Also the new guy with Jesse felt rough, can't find his name (did like the fact he drove in from Ottawa with his mother), and really hated in 6th that it took a while to find out if Diaz was still pitching.

Houston's 3 — 1 start was triggered by the top gun in Penders's four - juco - player recruiting class, junior two guard Oliver Lafayette, whom the coach lured from Brown - Mackie College in Kansas with this pitch: «If you're afraid to take 20 shots a game, don't come here.»

What we need in that part of the pitch is (a) Cazorla back, and (b) Somebody younger to take - over from Cazorla in the long - term.

no one ordered the man to build a strike force around walcott and giroud or to put a quid on suarez «s asking price or to bring in nogo and park (or perez for that matter) or to sell gnabry and play iwobi regularly or to have ramsey playing in every position bar goalkeeper or to take 7 years to work out how to get the best from Ox or to believe merteshaker was alright for the epl when he was way past his international sell by date or to forego a world class DM for 5 years and then plonk down 30 odd mill on an average swiss international or try out a series of makeshift right backs and hope bellerin would maintain his earlier form and fitness... stan n`chips and co are certainly a shocking example of contemporary football ownership but on the pitch its all down to wenger and his delusions

To prevent the base coaches from picking up the pitch, grip must be taken deep in glove (as at left) and glove must continue to shield ball throughout wind - up.

Bellerin and Monreal is always almost on the corner line crossing ball's, we are always leaving defense bankrupt and vulnerable for a take over, by the time Monreal and Bellerin return to their station they have just sprinted the whole of the pitch to make a defensive tackle sometimes coming in from behind the player in our box without giving a penalty or just outside for a free kick which we can not defend set peaces, if we are to use them some midfield players have to drop back which is not happening at the moment

New York (4 - 3) took a doubleheader from Philadelphia — 6 - 5 in 10 innings as Tom Underwood threw a bases - jammed wild pitch and 3 - 2 as Dave Kingman homered for the first time in 21 games.

The matter relates back to an incident at the start of last season during a game against Swansea City at Stamford Bridge, with the Chelsea doctor and head physio Jon Fearn taking to the pitch to treat Eden Hazard which in turn led to a furious reaction from Mourinho on the sidelines.

We have to fight on the pitch and we have to think from game to game, not that we can win eight games in a row and take the points.

He is deployed by AW as a striker — jeez, look at his heat map, watch him play and take note of his 16 goals by New Year and where he has scored those goals from on the pitch.

Sanchez just keeps losing the ball, I mean he loses the ball too often and he tries to do too much with the ball instead of making a decent pass, when it works out it is quality but when it doesn't it just disgusts me, I am not taking anything from his performance today, but he is our best player on the pitch, its high time he started acting like it... and Rosicky for MOTM

Monreal is a left back, Hector is a very good right back in fact the best we have right now and flamini is not a foot baller to me then wenger was just lucky he had a very good squad back then otherwise he is too clueless of what takes place on the pitch and what to do so as to achhieve a certain goal like say; keep a lead in 20minutes or win a game from nothing.

«All of those things took me from four pitches to maybe 12.

LP9 two beautifully taken shots denied but still showed what yo made of, chamberlain was fine today too, i think second best player on the pitch and two assists and a goal from the full backs whooooooooooooooo perfect winding up of what i» de already declared my worst day