Sentence examples for derivative from inspiring English sources

In November the retailer entered into another derivative agreement relating to shares in Debenhams, which took its interest in the department store group to 12.7%.

In a statement filed on Thursday, Sports Direct said it had made a £23.3m downwards adjustment to the value of the two derivative financial instruments at its half-year end in October.

The $66bn sovereign wealth fund is suing Goldman in the high court in London after it lost $1bn from investing in complex derivative investments that collapsed in value during the 2008 financial crisis.

Four "fucks" – or its derivative – were broadcast during the Black Eyed Peas' performance at Radio 1's Big Weekend in 2011.

And that makes it hard to articulate the idea that while the medium is thrilling, exciting and innovative, individual titles can too often be derivative, nasty and riddled with stereotypes.

After methoxetamine – a ketamine derivative – was banned, a distant, inbred cousin from a far-flung branch of the chemical family tree, diphenidine, has come on sale.

These derivative investments were essentially bets on the future share price of a host of western companies, such as financial firm Citigroup and the energy group EDF.

In September Sports Direct took a £43m option out on Tesco shares and in November entered into another derivative agreement relating to shares in Debenhams which took its interest in the department store group to 12.7%.

It was derivative of US rap culture, but it had an unmistakable, British sound; although it rejoiced in the transgressions of the world it came out of, it also expressed its problems.

Whole literatures could flourish, mature, and grow decadent before the first article got properly published – this happened to me with target zones back in the late 1980s, where my original 1988 working paper had spawned a large derivative literature by the time it actually got published.

This is a derivative of testosterone that is found in men's sweat and is known, from brain-scanning studies, to promote activity in parts of women's brains.