Sentence examples for are trying to lock from inspiring English sources

Bernard Goldberg, whose Gotham Hospitality Group developed five boutique hotels before selling them in 1998, said some owners are trying to lock in their gains by selling hotels.

Corporate finance chiefs, caught off-guard by the credit crisis, are trying to lock in new borrowing arrangements in case the market worsens in the future.

Companies are trying to lock in relatively low long-term interest rates now, Dr. Cumming said, while the going is good.

"That may be an indication that the market is peaking and that owners are trying to lock in the top profit".

Turner speaks to corporate customers every day, and reports that many are trying to "lock" themselves into the prevailing currency rates today.

While some candidates (Rand Paul) are trying to lock in the libertarian vote, and others (Bush, Rubio) are wooing the reform-minded, all are playing to the anti-Clinton caucus (none more insistently than Carly Fiorina, the former C.E.O. of H.P., whose belligerence toward Clinton is approaching self-parody).

And they are nervous enough, apparently, that they are trying to lock-in as much money as possible as early as they can.

"What we are concerned about is the dark side, which is trying to lock everything up".

This man was trying to lock the door of his car.

In the past, customers who sought such agreements were trying to lock in low prices.

By now, Ms. Summers said, she was trying to lock the restroom.