Sentence examples for ailing businessman from inspiring English sources

James Rebhorn as the ailing businessman, Samantha Soule as his headstrong daughter, Enid Graham as a romantic parlor maid and John Dossett as a philandering doctor all give perfectly credible performances.

IN "THE MAGIC MOUNTAIN" by Thomas Mann, a young businessman visits his ailing cousin in a sanatorium in Davos, in the Swiss Alps.

"And if it hasn't, how can you honestly find a cure for the economic problems of the common people if you have no experience in what's ailing them?" Perot, a billionaire businessman, talked about how the rocky economy had pushed him to run for president.

Brazilian businessman Germán Efromovich tried to buy ailing national airline TAP for €36m last week, but his offer, which reportedly included a further €315m in capital for the airline, was turned down after the government said his financing was not solid enough.

If Taiwan-based businessmen came home every quarter instead of every six months, it could boost ailing consumption.

The long search for a buyer of the ailing Dallas Stars may be nearing an end, solving another financial headache for the N.H.L. Tom Gaglardi, a businessman from Vancouver, British Columbia, is expected to pay roughly $250 million for the team and half of the lease to the American Airlines Arena, according to a person with direct knowledge of the deal.

The president, General Lansana Conté, aged 71, is an ailing diabetic, rarely seen in public.What is certain is that he surrounds himself with a shady coterie of businessmen and religious advisers and that Guinea is undemocratic; after the death in 1984 of his tyrannical predecessor, Ahmed Sékou Touré, Mr Conté seized power in a coup.

"The culture was ailing.

BAE is ailing.

"All its organs are ailing".

The infant Hercules is ailing.