Sentence examples for effort to capitalize from inspiring English sources

Citadel founded its unit in late 2008 in an effort to capitalize on the weakness of investment banks as a result of the financial crisis.

His Socialist challenger, François Hollande, at a rally in Nevers, denounced what he deemed Mr. Sarkozy's effort to capitalize on fears over the economy.

In an apparent effort to capitalize upon the lampooning of beleaguered New York City mayoral candidate Anthony Weiner, Mini has taken to Twitter with a fake account.

Others fault his decision at 18 to change his surname to Wasserman from Myers, calling it a cynical effort to capitalize on his grandfather's legacy.

"I certainly think that the re-emergence of the Arctic drilling is a direct effort to capitalize on events," Mr. Kerry said.

In an effort to capitalize on this unwelcome downtime between connecting flights, hotels and travel companies are selling what they call layover tours and stopover packages.

"It's a very meager effort to try to capitalize on green intentions, and I kind of consider that greenwashing," Mr. Ning said, using the term for representing companies or products as more environmentally friendly than they are.

But that acquisition saddled Nomura with huge personnel costs, and the task of marrying two vastly different corporate cultures undermined efforts to capitalize on Lehman's talent pool.

But, in paging through the complaint, one is struck, most of all, by the audacity of Adam's alleged efforts to capitalize on his family name.

The ad is part of Mr. Obama's efforts to capitalize on a very different profile than is typical for a Democratic president.

In the meantime, I.B.M. says its efforts to capitalize on its life-science research division are paying off in other ways.