Sentence examples for executive bowed from inspiring English sources

At a news conference at Toshiba's headquarters attended by several hundred journalists and financial analysts, Hisao Tanaka, the current chief executive, bowed deeply in a show of remorse.

The project was thwarted in early June when the Erie County executive bowed to public pressure not to sell the center on the grounds that Buffalo needed conventions more than slot machines.

Hong Kong's chief executive, bowing to public pressure, announced today that he was withdrawing internal-security legislation that had provoked huge protests in July.

In May 2011 company executives bowed in public and offered users free games to show their remorse.

Mr Stringer's remarks are a change in tune from two weeks ago when senior executives bowed to apologise to the company's customers.

I arranged for Vitali to stay at the Hilton in Holland Park, London, and when he arrived, there was a welcoming committee of a dozen Hilton executives, bowing and falling over themselves to please Vitali.

Now, as Ford is bringing out the reworked, more refined line of '05 Focuses, it is admitting past sins and trumpeting quality improvements (although I have yet to see a line of Ford executives bowing to atone for mistakes, as Mitsubishi officials did recently in Japan).

She's a smaller woman with straight, silk black hair, but she manages to make some of the wealthiest lawyers and highest level executives bow down.

5 37 p.m. | Updated LONDON – When a successful chief executive finally bows out, investors often fret that his replacement won't be able to replicate past glories.

And together with Charles O. Prince III, then his boss as Citigroup's chief executive, he publicly bowed to government regulators to seek their forgiveness.

In the aftermath, the oil company has been forced to abandon hopes of drilling in the Arctic due to its tarnished reputation, and BP's chief executive, Tony Hayward, eventually bowed to pressure to resign.