Sentence examples for failed small from inspiring English sources

TCI's stake in Royal Mail came to light under stock market rules obliging investors to report holdings greater than 5%, and was seized on by government critics who argue that the business secretary failed small investors by selling the shares off to "big money" in the City and failing to live up to his promise to sell them to long-term investors.

But he said where big companies had failed, small ones had succeeded by listening to customers.

Others of his 800 staff deal with the "hundreds of mandates", sometimes involving big companies, others just failed small businesses.

It's the minimum-wage employees and those in failed small businesses who have suffered most in the recession.Ms Coakley's father worked in insurance.

Figure 3 Four failed small molecules with the bond types beyond the rules in our algorithm (the unfixed bonds are colored in red).

Typically, a failed small bank is acquired by a larger bank, usually through a deal brokered by the FDIC.

Everyone knows you have to make some moral compromises to get ahead in politics, but failed small-town politician Jack Northworthy – bourbon enthusiast and ineffectual snow-blower salesman – is so desperate to make himself electable, he cuts a deal with the devil.

This is why the majority of new game designs of late come from indies – they can live with the risk as they iterate faster and fail smaller.

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"Government scheme after government scheme designed to boost finance for small firms has failed, and small business lending has fallen by £500m in the last three months.

Most of the 140 banks that failed were small, and regulators expect more to follow.