Sentence examples for capital tied from inspiring English sources

ChevronTexaco has less than 5percentt of its capital tied up in Dynegy.

The planters, with all their capital tied up in slaves, had little incentive to invest in labour-saving technology.

These are good times, and Honeywell still has "$3.5 billion in working capital tied up in inventory," Mr. Bonsignore said.

But it allows the bank to release capital tied up in property and redeploy it in its core operating business.

The supermarket will help fill the new facility faster than Ocado could have done on its own, while cutting the capital tied up in it.

The reason is that for higher oil prices, more capital tied up in cargo may give cargo owners an interest in speeding up, partly counteracting the impulse from fuel costs that tends to slow vessels down.

About 6 miles (10 km) out from the centre of the city, a belt highway describes a huge circle around the capital, tying together the antique viae (roads)—among them the Via Appia (known in English as the Appian Way), the Via Aurelia, and the Via Flaminia that led to ancient Rome.

Yet, the text in silver minuscule and rubrics in gold capitals tie it to the school of Charlemagne's court.

Sumitomo Mitsui invested $745 million in the British bank Barclays last year and has had capital ties with Goldman Sachs since 1986.

One reason cultural capital ties literary novelists in knots is its abolition, in Bourdieu's words, of "the sacred frontier which makes legitimate culture a separate universe".

If the capital tie-up is realized, Dongfeng, one of China's largest automakers, would gain access to Peugeot's technology and European distribution network.