The phrase "as a bottom line" is correct and usable in written English.
It is typically used to summarize the most important point or conclusion of a discussion or argument.
Example: "The project faced many challenges, but as a bottom line, we successfully met our deadline."
Alternatives: "in summary" or "ultimately".
Memphis, which has just over a million residents and is still scarred from the 1968 assassination of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., is one of several cities that have come to see hip as a bottom line issue.
Mr. Giuliani has said that neither he nor any of his aides can recall being briefed about the Interstate matter, and that, as a bottom line, Mr. Kuriansky had cleared Mr. Kerik's appointment.
The first step might well be to not only admit what has already been admitted, but to finally make some material compensation, which as a bottom line may well have been the reason for Japan's resistance all along.
"As a bottom line, millions would not be alive without Pepfar, while, at the same time, millions more in their families have been saved from poverty because mothers and fathers are productive again," notes Dr. Peter Piot, the former executive director of the United Nations program against AIDS and the author of a sparkling new memoir, "No Time to Lose".
"The clubs need to realise - just as NFL teams have realised - that as a bottom line matter they want to win," says Professor Duru.
As a bottom line, the leaders of the scientific enterprise must accept full responsibility for thoughtfully analyzing the scientific contributions of other researchers.
Vice President Dick Cheney finally offered the job to Paul H. O'Neill, the chairman of Alcoa, who is seen on Wall Street as a bottom line-obsessed truth-teller whose habit for popping off -- Mr. O'Neill said a month ago that there should be public hangings of corrupt corporate executives -- has not been reassuring to the markets.
The "Good" casting news keeps on coming, CBS has announced Nathan Lane will appear in "The Good Wife" Season 4. Lane will have a recurring role as a "bottom line-obsessed manager imposed on Lockhart & Gardner by the bank to cut costs and get the firm back to fiscal health".
Appreciating the value of an 'Intellectual Bank' and what it brings to your business is not just forward-thinking on a theoretical level, it's a bottom line positive as well.
As a bottom-line-oriented dealmaker, Zell is indifferent to the fate of the Tribune's television stations.
The moderate weirdness that puts a Focus movie in the sweet spot bespeaks an ethos as well as a bottom-line strategy.
