Sentence examples for dyer from inspiring English sources

The best-placed firms have been those with the finances to bear a lean year or two, or those lucky or nimble enough to be in markets where quality and speed of delivery matter as well as price.Back in Yorkshire, one such is Benson Turner, a spinner and dyer of textiles in Bradford.

Other factors beyond the basic differences in the five types of fibre structures contribute to problems a dyer encounters.

For each application the dyer selects the combination of dyes best suited to the particular fibre or blend he plans to dye and best able to withstand the conditions the textile will encounter in further processing and in use in the finished article.

Although it is almost certain that his family was originally from Lucca, Tintoretto (a nickname meaning "little dyer," after his father's profession of silk dyer, or tintore) is considered a Venetian painter, not only by birth but because he always lived in Venice and because with his innumerable works he contributed to creating the face of that city.

First he worked for a dyer; two years later he went into the service of a grocer in Slatina; and then he became a domestic in a public house in Craiova, Oltenia's chief town, where he remained for several years.

Lannes, the son of a stable boy, learned to read and write from a village priest and was apprenticed to a dyer.

Last December, Steel Partners, an American-based investment fund, launched a hostile bid for Sotoh, a textile-dyer.

Wiles worked on a number of outstanding problems in number theory: the Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer conjectures, the principal conjecture of Iwasawa theory, and the Shimura-Taniyama-Weil conjecture.

Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture, in mathematics, the conjecture that an elliptic curve (a type of cubic curve, or algebraic curve of order 3, confined to a region known as a torus) has either an infinite number of rational points (solutions) or a finite number of rational points, according to whether an associated function is equal to zero or not equal to zero, respectively.

In 2000 the Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture was designated a Millennium Problem, one of seven mathematical problems selected by the Clay Mathematics Institute of Cambridge, Mass., U.S., for a special award.

The soap's ratings went into decline last year but it has been given a relaunch under new executive producer Dominic Treadwell-Collins including big name signings such as Danny Dyer, plans for a new set and an attempt to reflect the modern East End of London.