Sentence examples for act of financial from inspiring English sources

He's right: the GM turnaround is ultimately an act of financial engineering.

Mr. Gladwell, however, then goes further, suggesting that the turnaround was "an act of financial engineering".

The nation has become used to punishing politicians, to seeing them flailed in public for some act of financial or sexual indiscretion.

The most obvious act of financial predation is the private finance initiative (PFI), where schools and hospitals were built with vastly lucrative private loans.

That's the way Treasury Secretary Timothy F. Geithner, chatting with me over cookies in his office across from the White House on Friday, described his thinking about the delicate balancing act of financial regulation reform.

Team Auto was engaged in an act of financial engineering: it used the power of the bankruptcy process to rid G.M. of some of the liabilities that had been holding it back.

"It is tempting to see the Ferdinand debacle as an addition to a fattening catalogue of player misdemeanours and acts of financial lunacy that expose the glossy surface of so-called New Football as a sham," Hill wrote.

And while acts of financial impropriety deserve to be criticized, is Apple alone in finding ways to goose the paychecks of its most valued employees, including its CEO?

Many other patients have had to perform similar acts of financial sacrifice, sometimes going bankrupt as a result, in order to afford drugs that are not available on the NHS.

The bond act placed a number of financial requirements on the project, including a prohibition on operating subsidies and a stipulation that it had to identify all the money to build an operating segment before it could begin construction.

Concerning surveys, a frequent point of criticism is whether and how the participants of surveys act on financial markets according to their expressed sentiment.