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Pitching in sentence

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A couple of years ago, I was in New York, and I was pitching a deal, and I was in one of those fancy New York private equity offices you can picture.
So this robot is now traveling at two to three meters per second, pitching and rolling aggressively as it changes direction.
You're pitching this product to a skeptical, strictly no-nonsense manager.
What I'm pitching you today is actually not a stand-alone product.
It was at that point that I asked him, "So are you basically pitching me 'Leo versus the toxic superstorm that will destroy humanity?'"
And by the use of pitching PowerPoints to VCs, I have personally raised tens of millions of dollars from VCs through PowerPoint pitches.
So I think it's safe to say I know a little bit about the process of pitching.
So, the very first question you've got to figure out is: What is the single most important thing that a VC is looking for when you come to them pitching your new business idea?
I'm sitting at the front of the class, and they're actually pitching their ideas.
I remember meeting with investors and pitching the idea, trying to raise funds for my business, and one of them said to me, in true seriousness, "Hunger is already being solved," as if millions of people weren't going to go to bed hungry that very night, and as if there was nothing else to do.
Had the League been unknowns pitching this script, the backers would simply have turned around and said "no - you're not having the money - this is dreadful".
($40) I can see some guy pitching the film to a film company "well there's this big VOLCANO and it erupts in a CITY....pretty radical hey" If you can find it in the dollar bins, maybe worth buying as after watching this most other films would look good.
Flash forward the professor of the class (who happens to be the only male at this girls college apparently) takes a handful of his nubile students, plus girlfriend, to a remote lake in the mountains, their quests, to find ancient Indian artifacts; yeah right professor, we know what angle your pitching.
He was so colorful a personality he was probably elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame on the strength of that as opposed to his pitching statistics.
They keep changing the script to suite the person they're pitching.
I also noticed the back of the envelope calculations Atwill makes when pitching his stock market club for beggars only involved impossible amounts: millions in months.
Vic Morrow as Matthau's tightly wound coaching nemesis is excellent and Tatum O'Neal is very good as Matthau's secret pitching weapon.
While watching this film, I kept wondering how this ever made it past the pitching stage.
One of Walter Matthau's many triumphs, and Tatum O'Neal as the pitching ace is also terrific (especially in the dug-out scene where she tries involving Matthau in her life and he cracks, sending her away in tears: "You don't wanna go, fine, no big deal.").
Now it's the Gorillas against Bugs on first, Bugs on second, Bugs on third, Bugs pitching, Bugs catching; and it's no match.
This cartoon starts out with Daffy Duck in J. L.'s (Jack L. Warner's) office pitching for a dramatic role.
I get pitching a movie like a graphic novel, but why would you pitch a movie like a cartoon unless your audience was kids, and lets face it this movie series is about machines that kill humans, its given away in the title.
The story is framed by the frantic Daffy we all know and love pitching his script to unseen studio boss J.L. J.L's demanding expectations lead to the grisly and memorable finale in which a spent Daffy commits suicide by shooting himself in the head.
If Nietzsche were alive today, he might be pitching antidepressants for Pfizer.
To be sure, Cameron was not necessarily pitching Europe to an agreeable audience.
When well-meaning campaigners want us to pay attention to global warming, they often end up pitching beyond the facts.
We should also not rule out the possibility of China pitching tariff reforms to the wider international community as well.
At such a sensitive time, it is no surprise to hear politicians pitching the idea of “tax reform” – suggesting that they can simplify the system, close loopholes, and use the proceeds to reduce tax rates.
As United Nations Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra’ad al Hussein put it before stepping down last year, “When these leaders undermine human rights, and human rights law […] they are eroding the structures which can ensure the safety of their people – pitching their societies backwards into violence, destruction, exploitation, and disaster.”
We also thank our church and community leaders, non-profits, and ordinary citizens, who together are consoling the bereaved, providing emotional and mental support for those struggling to cope, and pitching in to make meals and deliver food to the elderly, the indigent, and others in need.