Sentence examples for failing venture from inspiring English sources

The failing venture strained her relationship with Friedman.

Mr. Catucci said that he had transformed a failing venture into a thriving one and that he could do even more if he had the chance.

Now, the economy is slowing, dot-coms are failing, venture capital has dried up, fortunes are lost, as is a goodly portion of retirement savings, and doubters are rising from the woodwork.

And it is unclear how long the Chinese will support failing ventures.

Enron, the energy giant, filed for bankruptcy in December 2001 after years of accounting tricks could no longer hide billions in debt or make failing ventures appear profitable.

The prosecution contended that executives set up a bogus sale of an interest in a failing joint venture with Blockbuster to provide video-on-demand.

Those failing to venture farther than the lobby of their five-star hotel in Sandton (the northern suburb that attracts most business visitors) will leave with the mistaken impression that Johannesburg is all about soulless shopping malls.

The Bergen County prosecutor said yesterday that a failing business venture and financial concerns might have led a man to shoot and kill his two sons early Monday before turning the gun on himself.

It will continue to be run by the chief executive, Jeff Kwatinetz, who rose to prominence as a manager of music acts like Korn and Limp Bizkit and made a splash in Hollywood two years ago when he acquired the failing management venture of Michael Ovitz, Artists Management Group, for $12.7 million.

Two large television monitors on either side of Dido's office (the only set) show CNN-style reports — complete with a news crawl and stock prices — about a prospective merger between Dido's successful company and Aeneas' failing Troy Venture Capital.

His targets are the myriad public-sector companies, called special corporations, whose business interests have spread into everything from mortgage loans to motorways.Mr Koizumi has already claimed one scalp, the Japan National Oil Corporation, whose accumulated losses, from financing nearly 300 failed or failing oil-exploration ventures, may run to $10 billion or more.