Sentence examples for defensive business from inspiring English sources
On Monday, just one of its stocks rose and that was supermarket group Morrisons, a defensive business with a bit of recovery potential.
A company needs to have a defensive business that allows for durable performance over the long run.
The company has a strong management team, relatively defensive business model, exposure to infrastructure spending, and healthy free cash flow generation.
Instead of being defensive, business, economic and political leaders should take Pope Francis' critique as a challenge to do better.
If a recession were on its way, he said, he would put money into large defensive businesses like Coca-Cola, PepsiCo, the British liquor company Diageo, Verizon, AT&T, the tobacco seller Altria, and two makers of household and personal-care products, Procter & Gamble and Clorox.
"Defensive" stocks (businesses like utilities and food retailers, where consumer demand is relatively resilient) started to outperform cyclical businesses in February (see chart).
"Now they are on the defensive, with their business undermined especially by Apple.
Topics range from copyright in private letters to defensive patenting of business methods, from moral rights in the visual arts to the banking of trademarks, from the impact of the court of patent appeals to the management of Mickey Mouse.
In briefings, Democratic strategists working with the group have argued that Priorities USA's relatively modest advertising buys had helped weaken Mr. Romney and have put him on the defensive over his business record.
