Sentence examples for were immediately signed from inspiring English sources

Of these 20, ten were immediately signed to Major League contracts, and one player who drew no bids on his first posting was signed to a Major League contract on his second posting.

Guène was immediately signed up.

After a brief stint at college, MacDowell moved to New York and was immediately signed by the Elite modelling agency.

Wainwright was immediately signed to DreamWorks, flew to LA and lived there for three years making his first album.

Pietri, despite speaking not a word of English, is immediately signed up by an enterprising promoter and sent on a tour of London music halls.

Andersen, a free agent who played for Atlanta the past six seasons, auditioned for the Giants last Wednesday and was immediately signed afterward.

She was immediately signed up to be the bubbly Maurice Chevalier's petulant, coy co-star in Ernst Lubitsch's "The Love Parade;" he was rejected, because he had a thick neck and bowlegs.

The bill, which passed 74 to 26, was immediately signed by President Obama, who took a final shot at his Republican opposition for what he called a manufactured — and avoidable — crisis.

An MGM talent scout saw Rainer performing in a Viennese production of An American Tragedy in 1934, and she was immediately signed to a seven-year contract as the studio's secret weapon to keep Greta Garbo in line.

The bill was immediately signed into law by President Obama.

At the news conference Columbia gave the day we won, I stated I was immediately signing a petition of Nobel laureates supporting Barack Obama for president; this was only a few weeks before the election.