Sentence examples for arid business from inspiring English sources

Alongside experiments with roast beef and buttermilk fried chicken ($8.95 each), MELT SHOP, 601 Lexington Avenue (53rd Street), (212) 759-6358, meltshopnyc.com, set into the wall of an arid business plaza, offers the real deal ($4.99).

Maybe it is a way to tame a fearsome subject by Hollywoodizing it, or maybe it is a way to drive home the dreadful stakes in the arid-sounding business of nonproliferation, but in several weeks of talking to specialists here and in Russia about the threats an amateur evildoer might pose to the homeland, I found an unnerving abundance of such morbid creativity.

Another is that her job is carefully presented as pointless and arid: her brutally exhausting business trips are not really necessary, and what's the point of it all except to make money for people who already have lots of it?

In addition to impeding the natural movements of dolphins and other aquatic organisms, dams in southern Asia divert water to irrigate farm fields and supply homes and businesses in an arid landscape, reducing directly the amount of habitat available to the dolphins.

The paradox of writing about housing issues in London is that they concern basic human needs and deep human feelings while the business of addressing them involves arid technical terms and terrifying maths.

Thus our universities' economics departments and business schools have become a spiritually arid, barren wasteland.

In a swampy patch of arid Indian landscape, a Bengali brothel is open for business as clients arrive to exploit the perfumed prostitutes.

And let's face it, even in business class, you're still flying in an arid aluminum can.

PAGE B1 Brazil Water Plan Is Opposed A plan to divert water from the São Francisco River basin in Brazil to the most arid parts of the interior has been opposed by environmental and business interests.

Their primary argument, that their businesses are inherently impossible to regulate, is intellectually arid.

At the climax of her first great anthem of self-assertion, "Some People," Rose hits upon the innocuous dessert as a symbol of all she does not want, the arid life she hopes to escape for the plusher pastures of show business success.