Sentence examples for a commercial concern from inspiring English sources

There is such energy and there was a spiritual centre which put it above being a commercial concern and made it real and special.

Arts minister Alan Howarth recently said he was "strongly opposed" to the proposal to turn the building over to a commercial concern.

Three partners from Linear, a Sao Paulo fund-management firm, tried to turn Corinthians, one of the city's top clubs, into a commercial concern backed by $30m in sponsorship from a local bank.

Formerly a commercial concern owned by The New York Times Company, the station moved to the public-broadcasting sphere in 2009, joining WNYC as part of New York Public Radio.

Back in New York, he opened the Little Galleries of the Photo-Secession (in homage to European secessionist movements) at 291 Fifth Avenue.The 291 gallery, as it came to be called, was founded more as a laboratory of art and ideas than a commercial concern.

Sir Edward runs the estate and house as a commercial concern, in order that the entire estate can be retained and maintained.

"We don't want the postdoc program impacted by any commercial concern," Dixit explains, likening his program to a mini Bell Lab.

The idea of a major commercial concern being a vehicle for such welcome change can disconcert those who appear to think the issues around industrial food production are a matter of black and white.

We highlight that social entrepreneurs can benefit from the use of this methodology to identify key stakeholders, why they matter to the firm and manage their social concerns within a commercial business model and still maintain their primary social mission.

This is after all a business that needs to sell itself, a rampant commercial concern, but there is no reason why this benevolent, educational role should not be right at the front of every decision the FA makes.

Eurostar, owned 55% by SNCF, the state-owned French national railway, is set up as an independent commercial concern, so it cannot be expected to act according to French national interests.Even so, Alstom clearly sees an opportunity to block the contract and perhaps engineer a re-tender.