Sentence examples for called selling from inspiring English sources

When Connaughton first passed through "the revolving door," the practice was still called "selling out".

Outside, he declared that he would not join the fund, which he called "selling yourself out cheap".

He was opposed to what he called "selling citizenships" — the practice whereby countries including Canada and the U.S. grant residency in exchange for investment.

A bear is an investor who expects prices to decline and, on this assumption, sells a borrowed security or commodity in the hope of buying it back later at a lower price, a speculative transaction called selling short.

Goldman was not the only firm that peddled these complex securities — known as synthetic collateralized debt obligations, or C.D.O.'s — and then made financial bets against them, called selling short in Wall Street parlance.

He wrote a manifesto laying out his justifications for what might be called selling out and made his way into Britain's Top 10 with the 1984 release "Wood Beez (Pray Like Aretha Franklin)." The hit album that followed spun off a No. 11 single in the United States, "Perfect Way".

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"We," as the book was called, sold more than 600,000 copies in its first year.

"Dark cutters," as they're called, sell at a deep discount.

The "Builders", as the big property developers are called, sold land to each other at spiralling prices.

So my days are full with work, my meals are all what the gallerist calls "selling opportunities".