Sentence examples for becoming the wall from inspiring English sources

But The Record and Guide also said that the apartment house might soon be converted to a hotel or office building, because Montague Street was becoming "the Wall Street of Brooklyn" and office and bank construction on the east end of the street, near what was then City Hall, was beginning to encroach on the residential section toward the west.

Mary Jo White appears poised to face a Senate confirmation hearing next month, a crucial step for the former federal prosecutor on her path to becoming the top Wall Street regulator.

Citigroup started notifying hundreds of workers that their jobs were being eliminated, becoming the latest Wall Street firm to lay off employees amid the prolonged slump in the stock market.

Mr. Fuld was vilified during the crisis, becoming the face of Wall Street's excess and imprudence.

In its widely reported mission of becoming the Google of Wall Street, Goldman Sachs used this principle to create a new banking platform.

To bolster the claims that AOL Time Warner's executives misled investors about the company's prospects, the suit quotes a statement by Mr. Pittman that is becoming the stuff of Wall Street legend.

Here's something you don't expect to hear from a man who made his reputation by jailing bankers and becoming the "scourge of Wall Street": ask him if fraud existed during the mortgage crisis and his answer is "the evidence is not there".

It was the first of his many large-scale graffiti murals, and the wall on which he painted it – owned by the American University in Cairo (AUC) – was becoming the most iconic graffiti wall in the city.

Vienna benefited enormously from the fall of the Berlin Wall, becoming the gateway to eastern European countries that often have historic ties to the former Austro-Hungarian empire.

Headliners of the 1990s like Mr. Blodget, Mr. Grubman and Ms. Meeker broke out by becoming the public faces of Wall Street.

After becoming the public face of Wall Street oversight and reining in firms like Goldman Sachs, Robert S. Khuzami is walking away from the spotlight.