Sentence examples for failed enterprise from inspiring English sources

His coming-of-age progresses, often hilariously, through one failed enterprise after another: Sports.

In one of his own novels a few years ago, Donald Westlake wrote, "John Dortmunder and a failed enterprise always recognized one another".

It falls into that gray zone of restaurants trying to make a go of it with some of the same staff, and in the same space, that belonged to a failed enterprise — in this case Grayz, an awkward hybrid of lounge and restaurant.

I'll even go out on a limb and say that poor design also leads to failed enterprise software applications, silverware, and airplanes.

Dominic Chappell, its new owner, has twice between declared bankrupt and had millions of pounds of debts after a failed enterprise to build a marina on the Isle of Wight.

It sounds like a justification for a failed enterprise, but the store had its best summer of sales ever.

They "are inferior goods and failed enterprises, representing received opinion, simplifying complicated views, marshaling an individualistic hall of fame, usually of great men in a fraternity".

When onlookers demanded numbers, I offered these: 70 percent of all restaurants fail or change hands within their first three years, and according to my best guess, 98 percent of those failed enterprises had what they considered excellent business plans.

Maqroll is in midlife; his consciousness is a web of past adventures, of old loves and tortuously failed enterprises, and his dreams figure as importantly as his present perils.

If it looks as if he is flying blind — a novice businessman diving into an industry that is plagued by contractions, mergers and failed enterprises — Mr. Eyerly views his fledgling Surf Air as an opportunity to fundamentally change the way business travelers fly.

Clearly, not all American factories are run by the kind of boobs who governed General Motors and other failed enterprises.