Sentence examples for financial sand from inspiring English sources

He still believes that the cause of his undoing was the French corporate elite, not the financial sand on which he built his empire.

And since nearly half of all marriages end in divorce, it's dangerous to bury your head in the financial sand.

They took the cheapest space they could find in Silicon Valley's financial epicenter, Sand Hill Road: a windowless storage closet.

When, in 2008, it reduced the number of visas, revenue dropped sharply during the financial crisis; Sands stock lost ninety-nine per cent of its value, wiping out more than twenty billion dollars of Adelson's family fortune.

Labor has ramped up its attack, claiming the government has had its head in the sand on financial misadventure for the past two years.

It will also determine whether Mr Obama can deliver on his promise to build the American economy on the rock of well-educated and productive workers rather than the sand of financial speculation.

American economist James Tobin originally proposed the tax – levied at up to 1%, on foreign exchange transactions – in the 1970s, to tame damaging financial speculation, and throw "sand in the wheels" of turbo-charged capitalism.

Take your head out of the sand Whether financial or personal, avoiding the truth won't change the facts.

On Wednesday, with Jason Heyward off the board but Yoenis Cespedes, Alex Gordon and Justin Upton still available, Angels owner Arte Moreno drew his financial line in the sand.

The Dodgers drew a financial line in the sand, and the pitcher who put up the best earned-run average of the last 20 years is gone.

Barack Obama wants to tackle health-care costs and rebuild the economy on the rock of solid education and a sound infrastructure rather than the sands of financial speculation.Whether Mr Obama can deliver on his promises is open to doubt: his inspiring rhetoric is marred by a willingness to compromise with his party's free-spending establishment in Congress.