Sentence examples for companies marathon from inspiring English sources
Among energy companies, Marathon and Schlumberger were up.
Foreign oil giants, including the American companies Marathon and Hess, certainly want to be in Libya, and the jockeying has already begun for the chance to drill new fields on profitable terms.
Newmont Mining and the oil companies Marathon, BP and Total have all lost ground this year, even as investors remain fixated on the soaring prices of the companies' products.
The oil company USX-Marathon said yesterday that it had agreed to buy CMS Energy's stakes in oil and natural-gas fields and methanol and gas-processing plants in West Africa's Equatorial Guinea for $993 million in cash.
Last weekend, both companies held a marathon of conference calls to consider withdrawing their proposal before the commission formally blocks it.
"We believe that we need companies that are marathon runners built to scale and speed [by] entrepreneurs who want to leave a legacy," Nilekani, whose personal fortune is estimated at more than $1 billion, explained in an interview.
That same year, the company featured Los Angeles marathon runner Ric Munoz, who was HIV-positive.
The huge sum is thought to be one of the most lucrative pay deals anywhere in the UK charitable sector, although the company behind the marathon is a relatively small organisation with a turnover of less than £20m.
Union and company negotiators held marathon bargaining meetings on concessions sought persistently by G.M., particularly in health care benefits, and the union's equally firm effort to limit any harm to the benefits.
Some prominent names turn up in Ensemble Studio Theater's Series B group of one-acts, part of the company's annual marathon of short plays, but it is a couple of lesser names that deserve the most attention: Rachel Bonds, whose lovely "Anniversary" concludes the program, and Julie Fitzpatrick, the actress who brings that play to life.
Cliché as it is to say, building a company is a marathon – not a sprint.
