Sentence examples for do normal business from inspiring English sources
One side contended that the filibuster is unconstitutional because the Constitution, by mandating supermajorities in some cases, implicitly forbids them in others; because the Constitution requires only fifty-one senators to be in the room to do normal business; and because requiring sixty votes makes nonsense of the Vice-President's constitutional role as a Senate tie-breaker.
"This only shows that North Korea is not an entity with which one can do normal commercial deals and business," the South Korean government said Friday in a statement, referring to the confiscations.
One is told that although staff will seek to promote American business interests and do normal political and economic reporting, the office's main mission is to further the search for the remains of Americans.
"It's football, it's a crazy game and we don't do things they do in normal businesses," he said.
For Democrats, as Hertzberg put it, it was a "Catch-XXII": It's true that the framers did not specify that the Senate would do its normal business by simple majority vote, but that's because it didn't occur to them that they had to specify it, any more than it occurred to them to specify that senators should not dunk each other's powdered wigs in the inkwells.
"The news of third-quarter profit is not as positive as it may appear at first glance because the gains UBS booked have nothing to do with normal business," he told Bloomberg News.
Instead, most of the records would have stayed in the hands of the phone companies, which would not have been required to hold them any longer than they already do for normal business purposes, which in some cases is 18 months.
If employees need to stay late in order to curry favor with the boss, what motivation do they have to get work done during normal business hours?
The dot-com mantra -- 24/7/365 -- speaks either to a constancy of purpose or the inability to get one's work done during normal business hours.
I'm no economist, but personally anything over 15% sounds more like usury than it does a normal business transaction.
