Sentence examples for a favored customer from inspiring English sources

She also infuses the dining room with a warm graciousness, stopping here to mother a favored customer, or there to initiate a newcomer to her specialties.

News of the profits was overshadowed by the government's charges that Goldman Sachs created securities that were secretly designed to fail, so that a favored customer could bet against them.

That advice got laughs, but the folks at Bank of America found a way to help a favored customer do just that when it came to buying mutual funds.

Some of his tips -- know your subject, do not read woodenly from notes, hold important lunches at restaurants where past tipping has made you a favored customer -- are pretty obvious.

But note that you usually can't participate in the first-day runup unless you are a favored customer of the broker.

The joke about Aston Martin was that a favored customer asked owner David Brown (the "DB" in the model names) if he could buy a DB4, at the time selling for £4,000, at cost.

BET YOU DIDN'T KNOW THIS It is believed this vehicle was built at Henry Ford's request for a friend or favored customer.

Because most negotiators understand such appeals to fairness, monetary benchmarks, such as "most favored nation" or "most favored customer" clauses in business contracts, can be an effective means of holding firm on price and closing a negotiation.

To hold a defense thus pleaded to be valid would open the door to the grossest frauds upon the law, and practically enable the railroad company to avail itself of any consideration for a rebate which it considers sufficient, and to agree with the favored customer upon some fabricated claim for damages which it would be difficult, if not impossible, to disprove.

Under terms of the settlement, Apple and the publishers agreed to immediately end their preferred agency agreements, the legal pacts that contained "most favored customer" clauses effectively blocking sales to price discounters.

The deal with IBM is not exclusive, but since Dell enjoys favored customer status with IBM, analysts were not surprised by Dell's decision not to join the consortium.