Sentence examples for firm stone from inspiring English sources
Yet his firm, Stone Age, foundered, and he leaned on city contractors to prop it up.
His father retired as a mechanical engineer at the New York engineering firm Stone & Webster.
Prices in London and Bath have recovered from the dip induced by the global economic crisis, said Philip Ryder, a partner at the law firm Stone King who works in both its London and Bath offices.
About 425 bc a firm stone basis was laid for an elaborate building, called a stoa, consisting of a long front wall interrupted at the sides by projecting wings, or paraskēnia.
LIPA has hired a consulting firm, Stone & Webster, to coordinate the plan, which a utility spokesman said would be a more detailed version of a plan that already exists.
BUYING BASICS There are no restrictions; until recently most foreigners chose to buy through offshore companies based in places like the British Virgin Islands or the Caymans, said Philip Ryder, a partner in the law firm Stone King in London.
When it comes to prestigious central London locations, the interior design firm Janine Stone calculates that additional space could increase a property's value by £2,000 to £3,000 per square foot.
This ensures that the new kilogram will be a truly universal and immutable standard, set in something much firmer than stone, or even platinum: the fundamental laws of nature.
It is commonly noted that the first venture-backed startup was Fairchild Semiconductor (which produced the first commercially practicable integrated circuit), funded in late 1957 by a loan from Sherman Fairchild's Fairchild Camera with the help Arthur Rock, an early venture capitalist with the firm of Hayden Stone in New York (which received 20% of the equity of the newly formed company).
Stone and Manafort have known each other for years, and worked together in the legendary D.C. lobbying firm Black, Manafort, Stone and Kelly in the 1980s.
Not wishing to be unkind, the more commercial varieties of plums have an uncanny knack of never ripening, remaining firm, impossible to stone and, well, jam very badly.
