Sentence examples for capital tying from inspiring English sources

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.

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.

Long-aged wines represent capital tied up for many years, and that is why the 1990 costs $50, whereas the 1994 costs $30.

With their capital tied up in their houses, even those who are apparently well off, tend to be thrifty day by day.

Before the 1980s, many investment banks were organized as general partnerships, with each partner's capital tied up in the partnership and each partner personally liable for debts the partnership incurred.

We need every tool we can get to help reduce the risk of having all our capital tied up in a single heavily leveraged, highly illiquid asset — that is to say, our homes.

But now they have lots of capital tied up in a mature, even declining, industry that cannot control its costs properly, it is time for them to take command.