Sentence examples for firm embroiled from inspiring English sources
With the world's biggest soft-drinks firm embroiled in one of the greatest crises of its 121-year history, its directors looked for an outsider to fix things.
But a Bowne senior vice president, Joseph O. Miles, said the jobs involved working on a temporary, confidential assignment with Arthur Andersen, the accounting firm embroiled in the Enron scandal.
In 1991, as a director of Salomon Brothers, a brokerage firm embroiled in a scandal as a result of violating the rules on Treasury bond auctions, Mr. Buffett took control of the company after top management resigned and directed Salomon until it was eventually sold.
However, it is not the only major electronics firm embroiled in such action.
An engineer from one firm embroiled in the Petrobras scandal, Odebrecht, has told the Brazilian press that he carried out work on the Atibaia property, reportedly frequented by Lula and his family, at the request of a senior company executive.
City Manager Jim Starbird acknowledged this week that there were signs that not all was as it seemed with Advanced Development & Investment Inc. — the affordable-housing firm embroiled in a federal fraud investigation that, in the past five years, has received nearly $34 million in city assistance.
Some other firms embroiled in the price-fixing agreements have also had their OFT penalties cut.
The inventor Sir James Dyson is an investor in three different film schemes run by firms embroiled in tax-avoidance scandals, The Sunday Times can reveal.
A New York Times analysis of donors who wrote checks of $25,000 or more to the candidates' main joint fund-raising committees found, for example, the biggest portion of money for both candidates came from the securities and investments industry, including executives at various firms embroiled in the recent financial crisis like Bear Stearns, Lehman Brothers and AIG.
Facebook now joins a growing number of firms embroiled in a trust deficit with a case of reputation risk whiplash.
Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg of New York has decided to remove his fortune from a private equity firm founded by his longtime friend, 10 months after that firm became embroiled in a scandal involving the state pension fund.
