Sentence examples for first businessman from inspiring English sources
He was, in some respects, the city's first businessman, and its first fixer.
Adelson would hardly be the first businessman to want to expand his political influence in this country by owning a newspaper.
Prokhorov, a Russian and the first businessman from outside the United States to own an N.B.A. team, expressed interest in establishing a link between the Nets and Russia before he bought a majority stake in the organization in May.
He had a "good relationship" with President Boris Yeltsin's powerful daughter Tatyana, as well as with other members of Yeltsin's inner circle, and was the first businessman to join the president's exclusive Moscow tennis club.
After voting unanimously to make Harold O. Levy the first businessman and noneducator to be named chancellor of the New York City school system in its 102-year history, Board of Education officials said yesterday that they expected to award Mr. Levy a two-year contract to manage the country's largest school system.
If this is the case, Silverstein certainly would not be the first businessman who has used the best legal minds to press his advantage.
Mr. Lee — a former star executive at several subsidiaries of Hyundai, the best known among the nation's chaebol, or family-controlled industrial conglomerates — would be the first businessman-turned-president in South Korea.
Mr. Ferkauf was one of the first businessmen to grasp the emergence of a new breed of postwar consumer.
The first businessmen here were 16th-century pirates, who sacked the Spanish galleons coming from the Philippines.
Mr Racamier sought to satisfy the needs of his new Asian customers in the same joyous spirit.He was among the first businessmen in the expansive 1980s to recognise the value of the logo: that however well made the article, it was the initials LV that created its extra value.
In 1957, Haefner was among the first businessmen to bring IBM computers into Switzerland and by the early 1960s, Haefner had his handful of Volkswagen dealerships linked with systems accounting software.
