Sentence examples for To be businesslike from inspiring English sources

"I think the push for everything to be businesslike is dangerous," she says.

"If you want to be their partner you need to be businesslike," he adds.

"We have to be businesslike in a way we never had to before," Mr. Schultz said.

But colleagues in both parties found her to be businesslike, knowledgeable, intent on accomplishment, willing to work across the aisle and less focused than most on getting credit.

"Vous êtes belle," he murmurs in a low tone, shuffling his papers in her apartment, trying to be businesslike, "terriblement belle......

"Have fun, but above all else, you need to be businesslike," said Lucy Rosen, president of the Business Development Group in Garden City.

All the hospital staff members I talked to were businesslike as they described these injuries, rarely showing too much emotion, and often appearing bemused by my ignorant questions and expressions of shock.

You really have to be objective and be businesslike about it.

Be businesslike and firm; this will assure your new puppy that his new owner is prepared to protect him.

Seton Hall discovered tonight that it can be businesslike, too.

Let them set the tone of the negotiation: "If they're businesslike, be businesslike.