Sentence examples for firm at a time from inspiring English sources

"The firms don't think of it as a movement, because it is happening in isolation, one firm at a time.

Daniel Andersen has hit on a potentially good subject for his debut play: a financial recruitment firm at a time of corporate meltdown in 2011.

The deep pockets of its new owner, executives said, would help bolster the firm at a time when bigger rivals were facing tougher regulatory pressure that could limit their profitability.

As an American financial services firm, at a time when Fifa officials are being actively pursued by the American FBI and IRS, Visa will find the the developments acutely embarrassing.

But he soon lost interest in structural change, returning to fight the managerial morons one firm at a time, and his movement, which corporate America still badly needs, has got nowhere.Mr Icahn, backed by Seneca, successfully fought to frustrate Blackstone's bid for Dynegy because they felt the company was being sold on the cheap.

Timing clearly played a part too - Mr Houston launched the firm at a time when users were migrating towards multiple devices, from netbooks to mobile phones (and later tablets).

Excellence, which started as an internal project at McKinsey, the consulting firm, caught fire at a time when there was a widespread view that American business could do nothing right and that Japan was the fount of management wisdom.

In addition, the building is being marketed primarily to law firms at a time when that business is contracting.

Such a big check would require a club deal of several buyout firms, at a time when private equity deals of late have rarely exceeded three partners.

"Since activists tend to invest in several firms at a time, they can achieve superior portfolio performance even if only a few of their targets outperform substantially.

We would come up with a new product, but it was soon copied by rivals in the Middle East or eastern Europe who could supply the same thing for less money.' The business historian Geoffrey Owen has suggested that Britain's failure to join the Common Market deprived ICI of the kind of growth enjoyed by European firms at a time when continental trade was going through the roof.