Sentence examples for In firm terms from inspiring English sources

Today, a spokesman for the M.T.A. said the authority's chairman, Peter S. Kalikow, "had an extensive conversation with Mr. Bauer and the chairman of the M.T.A.'s L.I.R.R. committee, Al Werner, and in firm terms wants to ensure that protocols have been put in place to make sure that an incident like this does not happen again".

"We are entitled in the letter to assert in reasonably firm terms why we contend there has been copyright infringement," he said.

For her Benjamin is only of use if he is "just a kid", and she always addresses him – with enraging superiority – in the firm terms of a mother to a child.

He speaks in milder but equally firm terms today.

In firm but fair terms, stringvestor – "a crusty fiftysomething who occasionally has to recruit people" – joined the debate beneath Emma Howard's feature on young people's struggle to find work.

To examine whether there is a synergy effect of corporate diversification in the industry, we compare electricity-specialized firms with diversified utility firms in terms of their financial performance and corporate value.

In particular, 18% of high-growth firms in terms of productivity are also high-growth firms in terms of size.

In Table 3, instead of comparing very heterogeneous types of firms in terms of size, we compare small firms (from 5 to 15 employees in our sample) with, respectively, firms of 16 35 employees (column 1), firms of 16 50 employees (column 2) and firms of 16 250 employees (column 3).

This concept can be of use in understanding women-led family firms and the attractiveness of such firms in terms of social, human, and financial capital (Carter and Rosa 1998).

Using the German KfW SME-panel, we examine to what extent micro firms are different from other firms in terms of innovativeness.

(2013) find that firms which exhibit higher productivity growth are more likely to become high-growth firms in terms of turnover and that high-growth firms are more likely to experience higher productivity growth in the future.