Sentence examples for call franchise from inspiring English sources

With "Law & Order" and its two spinoffs — "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit" and "Law & Order: Criminal Intent" — Wolf has chosen another tack, what you might call franchise television.

Horror movies have always lent themselves to what we now call franchising: the act of squeezing every last drop of box-office blood out of a popular premise.

Just as elected officials in the Selma film hid behind claims that they weren't responsible for discrimination by local officials over whom they supposedly had no control, top McDonald's executives say they can't be held accountable for racism at what they call "franchises".

IN A short story called "Franchise", Isaac Asimov dreamed up a computer that saved Americans from going to the polls.

I do perhaps make an artificial distinction between these rewritings and what I've called franchise extensions such as Bond and Wodehouse.

Pete Rozelle, the N.F.L. commissioner at the time, said the decision would ignite an era of what he called franchise free agency.

They were further irked by the operations bosses in Oak Brook, Illinois, who had issued an 80-page directive, called "Franchise 2000," that tied a lot of new and onerous regulations to mandatory store reviews.

If you hate sales calls, franchising may not be the best way to go.

Sales of compilations such as the long-running Now! That's What I Call Music franchise are up.

Inevitably the Now That's What I Call Music! franchise dominated, with nine of the 20 biggest compilations last year (and taking all top four places).

The goaltender whom some call the franchise had won a Stanley Cup to go with the one the team captured in 1995.