Sentence examples for desperate business from inspiring English sources

The search for an "intro" – a striking opening paragraph that sums up the story and tempts the reader to read on – can be a desperate business.

They have also led to lawsuits and criminal investigations, as some struggling agencies have apparently turned to more desperate business practices to stay afloat.

As a result, he says, he developed a system for helping honest but desperate business owners climb out of their financial hole.

But, let me tell you, digging for somebody's life is a desperate business, and you don't know your thoughts, you just don't.

A desperate business secretary, Vince Cable, last week wrote publicly to the prime minister and deputy prime minister pleading for the government to develop a vision of what Britain should become economically, backed by a full-throated industrial policy.

The payments were granted by Justice Huttner in a series of court orders, including one dated March 23 , 1995 that commended SAJ for changing the cemetery from a "mismanaged, financially desperate business into a successful enterprise".

The debt-laden pub group Punch Taverns has done what all desperate businesses do when their backs are to the wall... tinkered with trading names.

"The problem is, the water keeps rising, and nobody knows how bad it's going to get," said Wasan Leekmeg, a local politician in Samkhok who spent the last few days ferrying supplies to desperate businesses and families on a wooden canoe — now the only way to get around some parts of the town.

The idea behind Funding Circle is that it targets small businesses — "not startups," Desai notes pointedly, and "not desperate businesses, just good, solid operations" that might be restaurants, pharmacies or small manufacturing firms.

The mortgage industry only lowers standards when it's desperate for business – and when it's desperate for business, it tends to get sloppy.

Hoteliers and publicans are desperate for business, but other residents say frankly that visitors are unwelcome.