Sentence examples for a firm cut from inspiring English sources

A nice square drive from Sangakkara brings another single and a firm cut for four from a short long hop takes the partnership to 53 from 99 balls.

Since interest paid on debt is tax-deductible, whereas interest earned on cash is taxable, by increasing its net debt to finance buy-backs or dividends, a firm cuts its tax bill.

And even as car firms lobby against regulating carbon, they are investing heavily in cleaner hybrid cars.Going carbon-neutral in whicarbon-neutral ins carbon output as much as possible and then offsets any left over by paying to reduce emissions elsewhich—is particularly attractive to firms that sell direcuts to the publitsand recarbonhat their custoutputwast themuch tase climate change seriously.

A few months ago, a Turkish firm cut a deal to drill in the north of Iraq.

Alcoa stock fell nearly 8percentt Wednesday after a brokerage firm cut its investment rating and profit estimate, expressing doubts that Wall Street would like the new chief executive's strategy for the aluminum company.

IDC, a market research firm, cut its shipment forecast on Nov. 10, citing the Thailand flooding.

TAUNTS from Larry Ellison of Oracle, a big Silicon Valley software firm, cut no ice with Henning Kagermann, the boss of SAP, a rival software giant based in Walldorf, Germany.

Merrill Lynch said yesterday that its earnings fell 26percentt in the first quarter as merger and underwriting fees dropped, but profit margins rose to their highest level in a year as the firm cut costs.

Business-friendly measures include making it easier to open or close a firm, a cut in the main corporate-tax rate from 30% to 25%, paid for by pruning tax breaks, and delaying a new regime for going after tax dodgers to assuage concerns about India's trigger-happy tax inspectors.

Another way for a firm to cut risk exposure is to limit its media exposure.

A. M. Best, the insurance rating firm, cut its rating of Conseco's financial strength from A to A-minus.