Sentence examples for businesses first from inspiring English sources

"When businesses first started up, they operated in the communities where they existed.

Television news outfits, like their cousins in print, are businesses first.

The results for the April-to-June period of 2000 included returns from divested businesses, First Union said.

In its other Wall Street businesses, First Union has made minimal progress despite the long bull market.

Mr Benetton says family members who want to be involved in the clothing group are given managerial responsibilities in other businesses first.

He had spent most of his career overseeing pay-television businesses, first in Asia and then, for four years, as the chief executive of Sky.

3Com said that excluding sales from the exited businesses, first-quarter sales for its commercial and consumer networks business were $639.1 million, a 24percentt increase over the fourth quarter.

"We put the community first, the consumer second and businesses third," he said.

"We see ourselves as an internet technology business first, and a finance business second," Bowman says.

So business first... but have a lot of fun".

Crain's New York Business first reported the sale.